Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-07-04
WING.
TUESDAY MoRNING.......JULY 4, 1865.
Effects Of Emancipation of English
SerfS.

numerous rigid and Vigilant police, and oil many
and severe peaal laws, We believe our liberated
negroes would IA oil respects behave worse and
become q more intOlerable social and political
nuisance, than did the emancipated white slaves
Of England for they arc more ignorant than
we're those white freedmen, sni by nature far less
honest, less pgovidsnt and less Intellectual To
this hour England has not been gniliy Of the al
surdity Of attempting 70 govern tie descendants
Of her white slaves By the same code that suthces
to govern tie rest Of her people. The history OF
her DOOR laws, the most cruel code or record, suf
hcienty establishes this fact for her poor are the
ysritable descendants OF her once happy well
protected and conten,ei serts. We call attention
70 this most interesting portion OF English histO-
rs, in order TO put our rulers State aud National
on their guard agains. allowing too large lib
srty 10 the freed negroes. They must be govern
q by a separate and distinct code just As the
white freedmen Of England have ever been.
In the Pictorial History Of England vol H. p.
962-3. we find the following passage TO the
period Immediately preceding the present, he
longs the origin OF English paupersn, as well
Of The legislation on the subject OF the poor.
. So long as the system Of villeinage was main
q. tanned in is integrity rHENE COULD Be No PAU
8 yERs N rHE LAND; tina. is 20 say, no ptrsoDs
.. Isft destitute Of the means OF Subsistence, ey
4. ,e,t begging or public alus. The principle Oi
q. that institution was, that every individual Who
q. had nothing else had at least right oi food
e. and shelter ircm the landed proprietor, whose
d. boudsmaa he WAS. The master Was not nore
e. entitled u .hs labor OF his ylleiu than the vii.
q, lsiu was 10 TIE maintenance of himself and his
- family at the expense Of lis master. his has
o. Of absolute ueces sity, been the law in every
s.. country in which slavery has existed.
q. Bpt A soon as the original slavery of the Eng
. lish labcr.ng population began 20 he exchanged
q. f'- freedom, AMI yil.emage gIatusiiy' and al
q. last generally passed away ia the manner
. .,,,sd in the last book, the working man. now
..lisovn MASTER, was Of couNc LETT in all cir
81. curastances 70 hrs ovn resources sud when
Z. either want OF employment or sickness, or the
a. helplessness Ut old age came upon him II he
g had no. saved something IRON his FORMER earn
q. iprs. aud had no one 20 take care OF hin NON
q. motive, OF affection or comPs-siJni his condi-
e. ton was as uaproyided for as that Of the fowls
e. the heavens. Bot men will not starye whilst
. they can either beg or steal hence The fins. aP
g. psarance inst the destitute poor as class oi
d. the community, make in our ema.s, Is As
q. thieves sid ueId.clnts, sometimes enforcing
&. their demands Ly threats or violence
To the ike eject IS the following passage from
.,. Anil number. 1854, OF the Westminster Re
-,,,v 2 rericdi,sl which Is The peculiar friend OF
Ale lalor!ng classes. Alter treating 0: the break
j,,. nm Of tie ierla sycem, and dissolution Of
,bs Catholic Church. the writer thus proceeds
o. These interests having gone down, and another
0. Ass having e4en, is there any other 70 he
.. considered Yes. an enormous One-sn ap
q. Mailing oue-,ae suler iutcres'. Long bc,o.e
o. ,,e dissolution OF the mouls'gy.es, the pSGpcr.
,,n OF the country, had become an almost IN.
4. ,,ss,res7.e evil. Il began With tie sbcltior
= or s-yta.e. aud the mouas;eries absorbed a.
q, -,uch IS they could Of IA existing evil increas-
q. f,.. IL all the while. From the fourteenth cen
OIL. ,gry thsrs had teva laws % restrain ylgylncy'
4. "a in tle sixteenth. il had increased TO the
O. -,srvellous disturbance o, the common veal OF
o. ,bIs realm Beggars went about valiant and
.. sturdy 10 great 'r'uts and companies The
o. yacrauts were to X put IN prison, branded and
.. vbipued TIE clergy we're 10 press all good CT.
y tlzens 10 give aims, and ali who were able were
, 81, ind employment Tor these who could work
=. Than came tie compulsory tax. and then the
q. ,.stratsd 43d Elizabeth; and all apparently in
q, ain Ihs lower class had not risen. generally
.,s,kino. with the middle and there vas as
: ID an interval between that middle class and
. the pArgEs BANDITrl OF the realm, as there
e. once vss bstreea tie landed class and the
o. ssyis
Cr.ms AID psuper!zm ars The peculiSr ont
ero-zth s of .ier society aud ve Rust get ready
!, meet them. The Romans had no poor houses
~ poor laws. aud scarce any criminal code, for
there could be 40 paGprrism and httir criUle in
soc,stv where 81 were either masters or slaves
patr5ns Oh clients. Everybody was taken care
Of ana progiisf for, and hence there was little
rsmptatiou 10 commit crime.
Nothing would grove us 20 much, as the aPPr'.
g. sDsion that the telaty social condition OF the
80 would be improved b. emancipation, lo-
vbsrs one nan rises In society, another must tall
20 take the position OF labore' or proletaue. In
8sat. psuuerism in a., prosperous and progressive
s,...sfes. ia rapidly on the increase and We may
.,f.l,. assert that where oLe negro shall become
..,,rsrty holder, two white men must. Of necessity
..,.or,s paurers. We know that il is paupers, and
CAMPERS alone. who pr5psl the Juggernaut car of
human progress for they produce everything
whilst property holders live on income exploited
from their labor yet we would far rather see ns-
croes. every one Of them, continue in the condi-
ton Of pauperism, 10 which they are accustomed,
and for wh,chthey were intended, than to see them
,;sipo and white men ia ling. But there is no
3onosr. whatever. that the negro, set free, will
improve his social status. On the contrary, he
viii he ten times more vicious, ignorant degra-
sed and contemplate than he was before eman
ripation. The white slaves Of England, since
they were liberated have become very inferior
class 20 their ancestry, the ancient yillens, and
can We hope that negroes Will fare better than
thew. We quote from the February number 1851,
or the North British Review, from its article on
II literature and the Labor Question" the follow
NO language Servants Of this class, and con-
o. sti,uting by far the INST numerous potion Of
avery community, are the pToetaires or speak.
ing more restrictedly, the working men, who
., earn to-day's bread by to.days labor. They are
q the yeritabls descendants OF those who, in. an
g. Gent times, were the slaves, and with but few
.. differences, their social position Is the same
e. Despite Savings Banks, Temperance Societies
a. and institutions for mutual improvement the
characteristics Of this class, like that OF tse lit
=, era-y class, Is aud probably ever will be- pecn'
a. mary INsoUcIASCE. From week to week these
"a thousands live nov in work. AMI nov out Of
q. work As careless of tomorrow as Il Benjamin
q. rankin had never lived, entering at one end Of
q. The Journey Of life, and issuing At the other,
q. ,vitbont having, at any one moment accumuls-
. ted ave superauous shillings'
The negroes will be our 'PaoLErArSLs, our IA
boring class the substratum Of our social nu PO'
lItcal sdlhee il Is the position for which nature
a II A. y =