Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-05-22


The myrads who a lew years ago were reading with
tears tie tragic tale OF negro suffering and wrong, ltla
thought that they would one day exchange eentime1
tai or actual partic patton that story. be Amer
lean abOiti0nss, having preached to them in vain
en!0rcas reluctant consistency, and denies them slave
grown Gotten. be result is national d;sast3c, Il
does not seem 10 abate aud 40 o02 can = what pass
it will come to- For time there was hope, founded
chiefly on the difficulty ot surprising that strange
state OF things could last long. The 10 end
by the process ct exhaustion. he blockade
Was 10 be set ut u&ught There 20 be o European
intervention. There might be g crcuitoas traffic
ferh3p9 tho calculations wrong, Perhaps the
stocks were larger, or India productive. But s
these expectations have had their day, AID tie result
nov before Us There IS q dear,h Of cot Oh. he nils
passing Gay b. day hom iUil time t. Short lime
from short time TO closing. he mill o@nets are tired
of working their machinery TO pref, Of ajnaining
those who give ro.ufn The amount of the suf
fering 0yerwhems private benovoierce he operatives
haVe+xlau8ted their Savings out their credit, sold
Lher furniture and at last suak their pride atd pre-
Ileyng officers. This, however is not the most mser
able result. letter pub shed vs. ago IRON
"a Lancashire Lad described the sad straits to which
the poor factory gil5 reduced, and the appeals to
which they are driven. There cannot be heart in
ths islands that Will not fe Tor group Of gls want
Ing nothing but days work, and reduced 10 breathe
IN under tore TO The casual passerby" Cannot you
d. something to help So Cannot we do something to
help them Were there the least hope OF that miser-
able war il the States ending. within the few months
that assigned to it, shou!d be only TOO glad
to let things take their course But we see no such
hope and have to lock the calamity in the face.
X
| IN the Union OF Ashton-under-Lyne there are now
about FIVE thousand receiving rlic compared with hlt
that number il the bad times four years ago. ard little
more than q third lsss year Il the Union of Black,
burn there than ten thousand receiving relief
compared with less h2D half that number four years
ago. and little more than quarter last year. The Boil
ton Union IS somewhat less dependent cotton, and
matters only about % per cent. than last
year. Ia Burnley Union more than twice as many are
recsiving relief last year, aud good many than
ia he bad times four years ago. In Bury Union there
are nearly twice IS many paupars IS there were
year ago; in C0fey Uaion half as many again in
Cbcrlton Union q third more il Harrington Union
about twice many IN Liverpool % 000, against IA,
1000 last year IN Manchester township coo, or
more than twice many rs last year in Oldham Un.
IoG thgeeqGarters than last year ; in Preston
Union about II 800 between two and three times as
many a8 last year ; in B0chdae UaOn twce as many
as last year 10 Stafford Union three quarters more
Stockport U0on three Zines many. II these Unions
alone thfe not less than 10000 more persons re
ceiVing relief than there this time last year
when manufacturers were already reducing their pro
duce, and Ieepng their mills open for kindness
than profit These $4,000 persons have been driven
from thef only employment TO the hard ssy Of de
manning relief over and above the applicants CT peri
cd which might be called of anxiety and approach
iDg distress. Yet we are assured those $4,000 add
tonal paupers do not at all represent tae number made
absolutely destitute by the dearth OF cotton and there
are behind them many thousands badly :of, whom
nothing will induce to forward and parade the
misery to the world
Now, what is to be done2 Leeds suffers Sheffield
suffers Birmingham suders-there three t1ous
and more paupers there tan last year at tbs time
At Coventry there are near three times as many sucI
Unions as Stoke-upon-Trent ard Eccesa Bierlow ar
suffering considerably. Enterprise is tagging at many
oher places for the people do not know how soon th