Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-05-10
Gbc National Crisis.
Disposing of their surplus Population

Disp0sing of their Surplus Population.
New York, Pennsylvania and the New
England States have now large surplus
population, of which they must in some
way dispose, or else, sooner than starve,
they will begin at home the work of agra
rianism. The rich must employ and
support this population, and the loss of
the Southern market, leaving them no.
thing to do at home, it has become ne
ccssary to employ them abroad. They
promise them the lands of Virginia and
Maryland, well knowing they can never
acquire them--but, in truth, all they
want is to get rid of them. and the faster
We kill this proletoriat, the more the pro-
perty holders of the North will be pleas
ed. They know full well they cannot
conquer the South, but if they spend
one-fourth of their wealth in sending
Germans to be shot and fill bitches, or
to die of fever in the South, they will be
great gamers. Defeat is as desirable as
victery, for defeat cleans them of ;ntes-
tine enemies. If the North could loan a
million or SO Of its rufians to the South
and get them all killed up, the North
would be herself again. The mob would
be cleaned out, and men of property
might 60 to bed at night without fear of
being killed or plundered ere morning.
IT'S matter of life or death with them.
They must get one-half of their labor-
ing population to invade the South or
they will sack their cities at home. 1t
is dangerous experiment to put arms
in their hands; ten times more DANCE
rous than it would be to arm our slaves.
for the negroes love and respect their
masters; the operatives hate aud despise
their ulgar, parvenue bosses. Aiming
the laboring class at the North is fraught
with danger, but men driven to extremi-
ties will try the experiment
If boldly and at once we meet these
foreign paupers, and drive them back
among their masters, who have sent them
among us, in truth, to be shot, whilst
pretending they should conquer farms !;
if we drive them back, they will turn
upon their masters, and sack and pillage
the cities of the North, which is an easy
thing to do, rather than again attempt
the conquest of the South.
Yet the South has had bloody work
before it. There are at least bali
million of surplus male laborers in the
Northeast who cannot be provided with
collins, bitches or farms in the South. -
Property holders would make a good bar
gain to give hundred dollars head to
have them shot, or in some manner got
ten out Of the way. There is no open
ing now for such an operation except by
descent upon the South If we give
the first corners a prompt and warm re-
ception if we prove to them that invad-
ing the South is bad speculation-we
shall soon end the war; but partial sue
cess in the beginning may deludo these
poor foreigners into the belief that they
can ultimately drive both whites and
blacks from the South, and divide its
fair fields among themselves. The ma.
tives of the North have no idea of fight
ing us themselves, but will send at any
cost hundreds of thousands of foreigners
to be shot by us. Let us recollect, then,
that if this war be matter of lifo OF
death business with us, it is equally SC
with the North. We are in no danger
of scrvile insurrection, but they are sure
to have bloody and relentless war Of
labor against capital, unless they can
find homes or hospitable graves for a
million or so of operatives. Rich. Eg.