New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-11
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In all the great cites, whether OIL the North
or Of the South, thousands of persons find their
means of subsistence cut or by this most wanon,
atrocous Rebellion and the commissions and dis
ruptions inevitably caused by it. They are
wiling (tbey say to work, but no work is to
be had. Each of them knows how TO do some
thing or other; but no one wishes is able to
pay them for doing that thing. In other words
Cities are the product Of peace, of civilization,
of freedom and facility of intercourse; aud this
Rebellion annihila!es all these aud carried us
back long stride toward barbarian. Four
centuries ago, that portion OF the population Of
ChristendUm who dwelt 10 cities and were en-
gagged in other pursuits than those Of Agricul.
ture, Grazing and the Fisheries, was probably
less than u teuth; now it is probably q fourth,
and perhaps more At the close of our RevOlu-
tiODary War, probably nineteeB-twentieths of our
people were farmers or farm-labOrers so far as
they had any definite pursuit; now at least
third OF the Whites and fourth Of our entire
population live by Trade, Mining and Manutac.
tures-or did so live few months ago.
1t is very natural that one educated 10 Trade,
and to 10 other means Of making livelihood,
should wish to continue III his old pursuit; but
how can he i? The entire Commerce of the coun-
try is shrubk at least half, while ts channels
are broken up aud distorted; 30 that ii il no
longer possible to employ half the statesmen, book
keepers, accountants, carmen p0rters, &C., &c,
Of last year. The merchants who did employ
them, robbed by their debtors, have failed: or
they are barely able to avoid bankruptcy by sub
uniting to the natural retrenchment Of their bust
mesa aud restricting their expenditures within the
narrowed channels Houses that sold So, goo, 900
worth of dry goods last year will hardly sell
$500, 900 worth this year, while they may think
last years goods were rot sold to customers who
have let their notes 60 10 protest and Will never
pay twenty-five per cent. Of Their face. To cut
the matter short-we have Five or Six Millions
of people who we're living by the employnents
which can be advantageously prosecuted Gully IN
cities ard villages, and the Trade Of the cOun,y
mas suddenly shrunk and changed its channels so
that not half 50 many can low find employ
ment in those pursuits, and there is no present
prospect of improvement. On the contrary,
should the War continue through the ensuing
Winter, the staenation is likely to be more CON-
plee, and the consequent distress greater than at
present.
We will not ask whether it is manly for those
who can find no work in cities to cling to them
and trust to begging in some shape for q living
that question answers itself. Doubtless, there are
persons who really can't get away, though their
number is much smaller than is commonly sup.
posed. Watchers by the bedside of relatives too
sick to be removed-the decrepit, infirm and
paralytic-Dust here remain and be somehow
slbsisted But the robust, sane man who saws.
81 have been idle for the last three months. and
"am furnishing for want of work, +" cOnftsses HIM
self an imbecile aud coward He ought to
know that the failure of work in the city of his
residence for even one month is Divine admo-
milton that ii is his duty to seek work elsewhere
that his failure for 80 long to find work as
clerk or artisan is Gods summons to him to find
some place where work is still wanted and some
work for which there is still a demand. Human
needs have not ceased in consequence Of the Re.
bellion; they have simply changed. We want,
not only rnsd cannon, firearms of all effective
kinds, powder, cartridges, &c, &C., but uni
forms, equipments, army wagons, ambulances,
blankets, flannels, bandages, lint, &C., &c. The
daily and weekly consumption of the country has
not ceased, nor even shruuk it has only changed.
We are doing little at constructing new railroads,
but much vt repairing old ones hat the Rebels