Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-11

Whilst we sympsthise with the sufeFings Of the
! unemployed laborers Of the North, as depicted in
the proceedings Of meeting recently held in Phil
adelphia, we cannot but congratulate ourselves,
says the Richmond Examiner, that no such distress
is felt anywhere in the South. With US the neces-
sariss and comforts Of life were never more abuxdl
ant and never so readily obtained by the poor, be-
cause the poor never had so much employment
We are making within ourselves our OWE clothes,
| our own shoes, and thousand other things which
we have heretofore purchased from abroad This,
with the fact that large number of our working
men are engaged as soldiers in the war, secures
remuneratiTe employment to almost every man,
woman and child who is capable Of working and
chooses to work. Especially does the war benefit
very large class who most deserve and most
elicit our sympathies we mean poor fe-
males. We were, before the var, flooded
with ready-made clothirg from the North,
and thus our women were deprived OF that en-
ployment and that source of prUds which right.ully
belongs to them. The demand fOF clothing was
so great, and cLiefy for the cheap aad plain
uniforms Of soldiers, which our women readily
make. Thousands Of them, too, employed in
knitting and spinning and weaving, who had no en-
ployment before the began. In fine, there is
distress anoDg cur poor, and il is probable that
there will be none, but, the contrary, that war
will better their condition, by giving them more
constant employment. Our wheat crop is harvest
ed, and is unusually large. We are cultivating a
larger corn crop than ever before, which promises
well; and, whilst we have curtaied our cotton and
tobacco crops, have increased all the crops and
growths which constitute human food. 1t may be
safely asserted that there will be larger produe
ton of the comforts and neCcssares of life this year
than ever bsiore.
There are none suffering from want among us,
or at least none whose suferings are known TO the
public for the war has frightened the bonds Of aztec
ton that bind US together, and made charity more
than ever open-handed,
Had not Secession been followed BY war, the con-
ditiOn Of ogr poor would have been deplorabe. |
The Northern laborers, finding no employment at |
home, would have rushed by thousands down upon
the South, and offered to work for any price But |
for the war, the scene Of suffering might have been
transferred from the North to the South.
Want Of employment is the curse of society eve
rywhere. Labor is not organized and associated !
Three-fourths Of mankind, in such societies, know
not to-day how they are to live week or a month
hence. Starvation is everywhere staring them in
the face. There poor people, it is true, in the
South, but none who feel or fear starvation.
Little, little do we know how happily we are ex-
smpt from the thousand ills and sufFerIngs that be-
set the poor whites wherever negro slavery does
not exist Our social institutions are certainly the
best in the world, because in practice as well as
theory they secure the necessaries, and very gen>
orally the comforts Of life, to all.