The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-11

Our resoers may form some, though, we be.
iteve, an inadequate, idea Of the dismal state
OF things n the North and West, by carefully
Pefusing the annexed editorial article, which,
unoer the above title, appeared in the st.
Louis Republican, Of the 2nd instant:
meeting Of I'VE thousand people thrown
out OF employment In Philadelphis, was held
IN mat city on the 27th. They were princi-
they wanted was to obtain an honest Mveli.
mood. Some of them had been out OF employ
ment -FOUR, hve and six months, and their
means OF support were exhausted. 1t was
represented that there were men In their
midst who had not tasted meat for months ::
men VINO had not received two meals a day for
months others had lived on one meal dav !;
one man died from starvation. Mr. Mi
chael Ward said, mo one need tell him that
ne 10 In the midst Of doleful misery; that star
walton abounds In every district. Starvation
had sent some to their final ting place alrea-
dy. There were some few cases Of this kind but
many are actually starving by degrees they
are dying-sacrihces to those political movers
who have destroyed the happy Union that
used TO furnish ns plenty Of employment, and
ov That employment a suficiency TO purchase
the necessaries Of existence. These creatures,
the cateIpiilars upon the cabbages Of society,
after eating away the best portion of it, were
dissatisfied that there was not another for
them TO destroy.
Our property has been wrung from us, at
least the means by which we derived our pro
perty, which lies in our ten fingers. each of
them bearing the marks Of toll. They have
been been covered with elisters. although they are
now wearing Off for want of employ
ment, and we are growing weak and puny.-
We are not possessed Of that spirit Of turbu-
ience that may be attributed to the working
Glasses We are the producers of wealth. and
we should be protec ted"
Let no one suppose that the case of Phila-
delphia differs from that Of any other city or
town in the Union. They are all alike, and
4 - arYrNy hoG f14~N
and intended for better fate, it is because
they have been driven to it by the despera ton
brought on the country by this unnatural
war. What do we see here in ST. Louis ? A
complete blockade Of all trade, not for any
crime committed by us-Eot for any thing the
people Of Illinois, or Iowa, or Missouri, or
Kansas, or Minnesota, may have done, for
they have done nothing disloyal to the Union
but blockade which Furnishes us, starves US,
under the foolish and ridiculous idea that It
may Go some harm to the revolving States
All trade Is at An end and as consequence
the products Of the farm are no longer OF
yaine, and with the immense crop which
God, more mindful of US than we have
been OF ourselves, has given US, we are al
most doomed to see it rot in the fields, for
the want OF means TO garner 1t, or Of a market
after IT has been saved. What man is there,
in either of our neighboring States, who can
hope to get fifty cents for his wheat, or ten
cents per bushel for his corn, or like values
for the products of his farm How are they
to pay onerOus debts cOntrac ted in more pros
porous times. with such prices as the re ward
OF their labor ? But the calamity is not con-
| most intensely, but still they have at com
mand meat and bread, and the necessaries OF
! life, for they raise them all. They may not
| starve. But it issfar different with those who
| live in cities and towns, and who depend upon
| their daily labor for the support of them
| selves and families. What has become OF the
great steamb oat in terest, once our boast and
| main reliance, and which, with a capital OF
oayNl<
directly and indirectly, to a fifth of the popu-
lation Of st. Louis? Gone, all gone, in con-
sequence OF the blockade of our trade by the
Lincoln Admins tration and those who were
living happily and comfortably and yearly
putting by something for old age, are on the
point of starvation. Where are our mech anics
the men who took pride in the advancement of
St. Louis, and who, as they poin ted with sat
| isfaction to the work of their own hands, felt
| solaced by the reflection that they them selves
| We're growing rich by their industry and had
| a prosperous future for them? Where are
| they-shriIk king, it may be, from the observ-
| ance Of those who may have known them un
| der better circ ums tances-their families pinch
ed for bread and deprived Of the comforts 10
which they had been accustomed Where
are the men employed in our machine shops
aud foundries and manufacturing establish
ments How do they prosper, now that their
| employers have closed their establishments IS,
| or are working only few men to save APP
pearances Do they receive any wages at all :
| Even with all their frugality, do they not ind
! their little store of means for a rainy day ex
| hausted and their families in want3
| But if We look to tina day. laborers-that
large class who, after all, contribute SO niue h
| to the wealth OF a city and State-what do
| we seer Two thousand men, heads of fami-
| lies for 70 others would be rec eived-have
| been employed by this city at fifty cents per
| day, and gladly have they worked for it, TO,
| by such means they We're able to save their
| wives and little ones from starvation II
| were hcon TO them in the present deranged
/ tFayr
| fifty cents a day for months to come, OF until
| this unnatural and causeless war is brough,
| to a termination. But they cannot The CITY
| is as poor as the people, the same causes ope.
| rating to deprive her of her revenues and
compelling suspension of all improvements
| What is TO become of them, we know not
| should this struggle be prolonged Until tn,
| winter comes; and it is right that those who
| have the management of public affairs shoulc
look to the future, should take some interest il
seeing that the war is closed before tina thine
| that there is some return of prosperity to al
classes of society. The principle of self. preser
| walton, if nothing else, ought to determine ey
| cry man who has anything al stake, to put al
| end to this warfare, and that in the speeches
manner possible. 1t can, at best, only lead te
| universal bankruptcy-the bankruptcy of the
| nation and the bankruptcy of every individual
| in i!-and what sort of a Government will
that be, of which this is the prac ticai and only
| RESULT
The Congress of the United States. instead
Of making appropriations of three hundred
| millions of dollars to carry on the WARM
stead of responding to the illegal, unconstitu
| tional and unwarrantable demands of Mr.
| Lincoln, whereby he may be able to pursu,
his object until the last vestige Of constitu
tional liberty is merged in military despotism
instead of contributing to the beggary of tn,
whole nation-should at once, in a spirit O
| patriotism, take measures to put an end Il
this struggle, marked as it has been by wick
| sdness, weakness, imbeciiity and corruption
| disgraceful to all concerned in it,