Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-07-04

ousr.,v deuress white men. Wise men viii legisis'e
for free negroes as a distinct ignorant ana in'
ferior class of human beIrgs.
Let Il not be supposed that we do not reaoiiy
accent negro emancipation as an inevitable Al S0'
eomplisled fact. Although it operates gross,
hesrt-rending wrong aud injury to thousands o.
individuals, especially to helpless women ehli'
dreu and old men, yet tho aggregate wealth OF
virginia will be increased by the PROCEDURE
The negroes, like the poor emanciPated sefis oi
Europe, have already became the slaves OF SSH
and capital in lieu Of being the slaves OF indVlu'
ual masters. They will have 10 work inueh
harder than before, and their labor will be more Ju'
diciously directed. The negro slaves belonged 10
women, 10 infants, TO over.indulgent masters 10
drunkards and Others incompetent to manage them
and direct properly their labor. They consumed e'-
erything they mace, and nothing was left lie
suits of their labors TO build up private or public
wealth. Now, they will be employed only by men
who know how to make them work. and Know
how also to exploit, tax, or squeeze out Of Ihen
the proceeds Of their labor. All material progress
Il but the exploitation of labor by skill ana eapi-
tai. That country is most prosperous that has
most paupers, for men Of property do not laOor,
but live by taxing or exploiting lsborers' All
improvements, public and private, line houses
dne equipages, paiatal ships and steamers canals
railroads public buildings everything that e'l'
depces and constitutes human progress, are hut
the accumulated results OF the taxation and ex-
uloitation of working men, by the rich and skill
ful, The Juggernaut car OF material progr'T
moves fastest when the lahOring poor are most
defraudtd. Free sOcie is driving system, that
eompels working men 10 labor the most possible
number of hours Tor the least possible allowance
We accept the new institution shall try to get 3
good seat in its Juggerlaut car, aud TO admire
most when the number Of is victims, condemned
10 graves or p.or houses, is greatest at all
events, Virginia will rapidly improve and prosper
wheu the earnings Of the poor are taxed and ex-
NOTED 10 build up the fortunes of the rich and
to erect internal improvements by the State.
Such winnings and repinlngs as We lind in the
November number 1850 Of Blackwood's Maya
zine in a review OF Alton Locke are decidedly
old fashioned aud out OF place in this age OF pru-
gress. Had not the Reviewer sense enough TO
see that the state OF facts which be deplOres fur
pishes the most conclusive evidence that Great
Britain was never so prosperous as now, because
abe never had heretofore so many paupers as
now Would the Pyramids Of Egypt her cata.
combs her obelishs. her sphynx, her lsbyrintils,
ever have been built by voluntary. labor Is there
a single existing monument of architecture which
was not erected by mea who were derauded OF
the results of their own labor That il the most
progressive State of society where the working
man Iabors for least allowance, and, as in slave
society he consumes, pretty much, all that he
makes Save society should be abolished. But,
10 return TO the old.togyish extract from Black
wood WATCH VIC promised the reader. Here il
is -1ur civil history daring tho last thirty years
" Of peace resembles nothing which the world has
vet seen. or VIII Oh can be found in the records
~ Of civilization. The progress which has been
Sc made in the mechanical sciences il OF itself al
most equivalent TO a revolution. The whole
q. face of society has been altered old empOyments
q. have become obsolete, old custom7 have been
a altered or rcmolrei, and old institutions have
. undergone innovation. The modern citizen
a thinks and acts differently rrCin his fathers
Is What 10 tbem was object Of reverence, is to
~ him subject Of riirule; what they were accus'
. TONED 10 p-i1e and honor, ne regards With IN
o. ai.snisrd Contempt All this We call im.
~ movement, taking no heed the while whether
,1rh improvement has fulfilled the phi.
mary condition Ct contributing 20 and lncsca-
sing thu welfare aud prosperity Of the people.
" Statistical books ere wIi:sen TO ? owe how en-
&. ormously We have inIIesHed in wealth. and yet,
~ side by side with Mr.. Porler's bulky tones, you
30 y m fud pamphlets coa,aining ample and dis'
% tiact evidence that hundreds of thousands Of
our Industrious fellow-cOuntrymen are at this
moment fami,hiug for lack Of employment, or
c9mpglle3 10 SCI their labor for such wretcbed
compensation, that the psuper's dole is By many
regarded with absolute envy. Dives and La.
zarus elbow one another in tue street. and our
90 po,itical economists select Dives al the sole
.tyUe of the nation Now, as the descendants
of the liberated white slaves still occupy in Eng
land the social position of Lazarus, can we be.
lieye Il at the black freed mel of America will
ever DO bstter Indeed, ought we to hope they
will ever do better; since most Of mankind NEST
ever be destitute, common lsborprs; and if ne.
groes rise from that position, whites must fall
down to al up the ranhs from which they (the
negrOes) have risen.