Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-18
Showing that crime is a natural attendant upon

thus showing that crime is natural attendant upOl
poverty.
Tbs magnitude Of psuperism and crime should
oe locked squrely in the face, as a ing we do moi
mad to any great extent in the slave labor States
notge freedom the normal condition of the white
man ne drags at every step the CALLING chains of In
feriorlty in social life. Here among one million.
/ TWO nnndred thousand people, one person in every
ten is wholly, or in part, aided by public CHARITY
Would 1t not be better to reflect seriously on this
condition Of social life before we make war on the
institution under which the physical comforts Of
the laboring classes are well provided for? The
fact that within the last quarter of century the
slave population has about doubled from
two to four milons-shOws that in physical COM
forts and general good treatment they have little to
complain Of That they are happier than the free
blacks, both north and South, no one can truthfuly
deny; that they are better cared for in sickness,
nave more Of the necessares of life, than the great
BODY OF the aboring white class In the free States
is equally evident.
What the Yankees are Fighting For.
We shall publish in our next paper a most able
actlele from the pen of the Hon A 0. P. Nicholson
late United States Senator and formerly editor of
the Washington Union. This article shows the
seeVelessp policy (which tie South las pursued in
hitting the Yankees long to entrench themselves
at her expense. 1t shows that while the Unien WAS
prosperous as Union, that the nOn-producing por-
ton of it, e., the North, derived infinitely more of
its benefits than the producing pOrtiou-the South
This vast inequality IN the appointments Of the
benefits of the Union, the writer ascribes to the
commercial dependence On the North to which the
South so long submitted. The North bought South
ern produce, shipped it to Europe exchanged it for
European merchandise, which it shipped TO North
ern markets, there to be sold profit TO Southern
custOmers-thus trading on and making large profits
upon Southern capital Cotton is capital as well as
money! and at the same time building up and sus>
tanning a large commercial marine. Again by
Tariff laws Northern manufactures were sustained
and enabled to monopolize the Southern market fer
its benefit. Thus, in these three ways besides others
to which the writer refers the North has grOwnPeh
upon Southern labor and capital The writer says the
dissolution Of the political Union which enriched the
North at the expense of the South, will do moths
ing towards the relief of the South from the inc
quallIy IN commercial and business operations to
which she has long submitted unless it Is follow
ed by dissolution sof commercial dependence on
the North Tho writer's statistics demOnstrate be-
yOnd all contradiction the truth Of every position be
takes, and hfre IS mot Intelligent Yankee toIO l1U
not Nth him. And this brinCs Us to our CAD
are the Yankees fighting for ?? They
are fighting for the recovery of the mastery they so
recently held over Southern produce, trade and |
commerce. They know that they were enriched BY |
the South. They know that without the South they
would have been now what they were when the |
Union was formed, miserable nation of hucksters /
and motion" vendors. They know, moreover that |
without the reconstruction of that Union which /
conferred upon them such great and unequal ad-
Tantages, they will relapse into their original
iltlon OF a miserable poor people, whose lot has /
been cast upon soil too pOyerty-strIcken to sup
port them. Fighting then, on the part of the Yam
rees for the re-establishment of the Union. means
lighting for the re-esa blishment of the commercial
espOtIsm under which the North once held the
'outh, and uEder which the South will never be
eld sgaiH. unless madness rules her counsels.-
Raleigh Register.