Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-17
wealth, PaupsrIsm and Crime in the
NOTIh-Facis Revealed By the Census.

! ~ eaAEng RGup8FlSm ana crime the
| NOTth-Facis Revealed By the Census.
from the New York Herald April J, 1851,
A view extending come fifty miles, having New
York city a focus Of observation, presents much
that is gratifying snd much that is to be regretted.
Before the free labOur Of the North should boast OF
its advantages over the slave labour Of the South,
On principles Of humanity Gn1 philanthropy, it
should esrefuIly consider the pauperism and crime
existing among rs. There are about two millions
Of people inhabiting extending fifty miles
from New York. The Metropolitan district con-
tains about 500 900 people, who possess an aRgre-
gate wealth in real and personal estate Of about
Thousand millions Of dollars. The assessors valued
this property for 1859 at little over $50 600 0O0 and
the census mSrshals added to this ABOUT twenty-five
per cent rs the true or cash vslue, thus making
| about 81 900 100000. This amount, divided among
| 1900 600 people, gives to each man, woman and
/ child about 1888, or TO each person tWenty-one
| years of age about 81 500, or to each head Of
1 family about S. coo. Here find an aggregate
and an Individual wealth nowhere else to be found
/ on the continent Of America in territory embrac,
/ ing the same area.
But glance at the pauperism and crime existing
in the same area will astOund Us. The census mar
shsls return ia 936 paupers in the Metropolitan
district wholly or partially supported at the public
| expense during the year. Thus we see that about
| one in every ten Of our population were either
wholly or In part supported st the public expense
This is independent Of large number supported BY
private charity, Tor which our citizens are proven
the year ia the Metropolitan district was so 95S-
thus showing that crime is natural attendant upon
poverty.
This magnitude Of pauperi4m and crime should
be locked squrely in the face as { ing we 90 not
fad to any great extent in the slave labor StsteG.
Though freedom is the normal condition OF the white
man, he drags at every step the CALLING chains OF IN
feriorIty in social life Here, among one million
two hundred thousand people, enc Perssn IN every
ten Is wholly, or in part, aided By pubhe charity
You'd mt Ia refia act anFfOu8lV fhr9
condition Of sscial life before We make war on the
institution under which the physical comforts OF
the labOring classes are well provided Tor! Ths
fact that within the last quarter OF century the
slave population has about aoubled-inereasedf from
two to four milIiOns-shOHs 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 Tor IN sickness,
have more of the necessaries Of life than the great
body Of the Iaborng white class in the free States
is equally evident
what 1he yankees are Fighting Fer.
We shall publish in our next paper most able
aoticIs FROM IN. psn of the Hon A. D. p Nicholson
late United States Senator and formerly editor Of
the Washington onion. THIS srtlcle SHOWS the
,l e7elessIpo ieyIwh TIE South as pursued in per-
mitiDg the Yankees so long TO eDtreneh themselves
at her expgpse. Il shows that Whda tbs Unien was
nrosperoua "a q Uson, that the nOn-prSduelng p0r-
ton of it. J. e. the North, derived infinitely more Of
its benefits than the producing pornon-tns south.
This vast inedusljgy IN the ApporuonGsnts OF the
beneats ef the Union, the writer RScFIbes 20 the
Commercial dependenee on the North, 70 which the
south az ld,g submitted The North Bought South
ern produoe shipDed it to Eurspe exchanged it for
European merchandise which It shipped 20 NORTH
ern markets there TO be sold on profit TO Southern
customers-thus trading on and mlkiEg large profits
upon Southern capital Cotton Is capital as Wen as
money! and at the same time ouil1lng up and sus>
tanning a large commercial marine. again, By
TariF lawr Nortbern manufactures we're sustained
aud enabled to mOnopoliZs the Southern market for
its Ia fit Thus in these three Says besides sthsrs
10 winch the writer refers the lrLh has grownr en-
mon SoutLsrn 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
inc towards the relief Of the South from the inc
oralItv in commercial and business operations to
Which she has so long submitted, unless it s follo"
ed by dissolution 4 commercial dependence on
the North. The writer's statistics demonstrste De-
vond all contradiction the truth Of every position ne
takes. and hire Is aOt an intelligent Tdnees 'oao W
not eDncr ipilA him And this brings US 20 our cap
tion-EWhat are the Yankees fighting for 1nsy
are fighting for the recovery Of the nlAs'sly 1870
recently hsld over Southern proeass, .,-cS.d bS-
-. go TTheg know that without the South they
,-o,Id bsv, been now what they were Wnen the
TTnion was formed, miserable nSuOu u hucAs.es
snd .snotiort1 vendors Tney know, "yI sOFeF sntb
,v;tbont re reconstructOn Of that Union which
~ mon them sach great and unequal i'd
~.,.,s tsev will relapse into their original con-
49, ~ miserable poor people, whose lot has
,ss1 cast noon soil too poverty-stricken TO sup
,ort them Fighting. then, on the part Of the Yam
- ffoy tha re-establiShment Of the Union. means
1890 FOR the re-essa bliAhneBt Of the commercial
1910, under which the North once held the
;o5th, and urder which the South will never be
Eli again, unless madness rules her counsels-
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