The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-30

cosnincn enemy. Whilst the majority bf
them, like themsjority of I'll armies sre
not rich men, mors rich men hage en-
tered the Contederate ranks than any
army Of which We have any knowledge.
Il IS true enough, there are some ric6
men who have never shouldered mus.
kct snd never will. But they arc mostly
those who we're poor at the beginning Of
the war, and have made fortunes since
by extortion and speculation. II they.
could be taken by tho pape Of the neck
and thrust into the front Of the battle, 1t
would give universal satisfaction. Many
men who were rich before the war have
become utterly impoverished, snd would
consider the1z ~ lortunsts no nov Il
they could be assured Of soldiers fare
and soldiers clothing.
And now, suppose the work Of subju-
CATION complete, and that institution Of
slavery, in which VIC are told mono but
Shareholders have any interest, abolished,
how are the poor to be benefited? What
is the condition Of the poor in England, in
France, in the North Is it not an inccs.
SAINT and painful struggle for the bare
ncccssaries Of life by the performance Of
labors which are here performed BY
slaves? Is it not rigid exclusion from
all social sympathies and considerations,
so that the foreigner and Northern
employer treats his employee with less.
Indulgence and civility than the South
ern master treats his slaves? Here, color
is the only real distinction of classes.
| No one, whatever his circumstances, is de-
MED the name and the treatment Of a
gentleman, unless he forfeits it by his
| own bad conduct. We should like to see
| the poor man in the North who is called
| a gentleman, or invited to sit down at
the tables Of the rich. A Southern slave
| would scarcely be more astonished at
such compliment. There is not under
the canopy of Heaven a land in which
the poor are as exempt from physical
want, and as free from the rich mans
contumely," as in these Southern States.
What would be the result of Northern
success in this war? The STAKEHOLDER,
it is true, would be driven of, and in his
place would be Yankee landholders, who
would, of course, buy up the forfeited
estates of the original proprietors, and
then the deluded poor man Of the South
would learn, for the first time, what it
is to be poor under race which never
even pretended to have compassion for
poor aehite men. The slaves would dis
appear and who would take their place !
Who would plough the Yankee nabob's
farm, who would drive his carriage. who
would be his butler, and his dining room
and body servant, who would be his
wife's cook, washer>woman and chamber
maid, who would black the boots and
shoes of the family? The poor of the
South, who would have to live, and, in
order to live, would be compelled to de-
grade themselves to the condition Of
white negroes to Yankee taskmasters.-
And again: :" 1t is" as has been justly
remarked, "a matter of very great i'm
portance to the poor Of any country
that the value of labor be kept at
the highest price possible. It is the con-
slant interest Of the laboring man to
use every fair and honorable means to
keep the price of labor up. In the South,
the poor have the cooperation of the
rich in estimating the worth Of labor, be-
cause it is also the interest of the rich that
the price Of a day, or week, or months
work, stands at the highest possible
figure. The rich man wants high esti-
mate placed upon the labor Of his SER
wants, and the poar man desires similar
estimate to be fixed for his labor; thus
they cooperate to keep up the price q
labor, while there is no considerable part
Of our people who have any reason to
wish its worth reduced. With Us, ~
classes conspire for the constanti increase
of the value Of labor because il is then
interest to do 80. But remove the insti