The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-12
MANCHESTER, Thursday night

Gratitude is virtue. Not to exercise
it when We are the recipients Of benefits Is
crime. Hence beg pardon for express.
ing thus publicly my sense Of obligation to
those whose generous and encouraging let.
ters have this evening reached me. will
not disguise the qualification which expe-
riencc in learning that there are gentlemen
and ladies of discrimination and influence
who set so favorable an estimate upon my
views, and watch so affectionately my ca
reer. Their appreciation is all the more
pleasing to me that it is given freely and
without the least ignoble criDging on my
part.
1t is true, as mentioned in several Of
these communications, that there arc some
who clamor for my destruction. know
my enemies by name. Their malice ]
loathe, and their schemes to betray and
silence me proudly defy. Snarling, sense
less croakcrs! They would dance with
vindictiye gladness over the grave of my
reputation. / heed them not. / declare
that would not wave my hand to trans
form the entire tribe of them into my
friends. I'd sooner brook their spite than
endure their smile.
One of my correspondents suggests the
propriety of my deyotibg letter to " I'll,
Causes Of Maachester's DecAne.". To this
most cheerfully consent, and now under.
take the task.
First of all, name as one Of the causes
of the dwarfish and stunted condition o
Manchester lack of energy among tn
people. They are lazy. When dwelt q
H Chestnut Lawn there was one Lodfer iI
the neighborhood. His name was Jerry
Jones, but everybody called him "Idlt
Jerry" He lounged lazily around the
post office, the mill, and the store, ant
picked here and there the crumbs of a mig
gard subsistence. He was an object o
general ridicule and detestation. In thi
virtuops town the case is different. Herr
"Idle Jerrys" do much abound. Idlenes'
is most honorable and influential state
The Wind-ester Is perpetual hero.
Besides these inevitable lOafers, We hay'
o seedy, threadbare, forlorn set Of men wh'
modestly claim to be in pursuit Of bust
ness. Some Of them, I am told, have
been seeking employment ever sine
the war ended. Away, ye moping slug
glards! you may fatter yourselves will
the charming delusion that you really de
sire something TO do, but people Of sens
will recognize you only as genuine vsgs
bonds, richly meriting consignment TO th
chain. gang. ~
We have also class of men who dc
pend exclusively upon their wives, mother
or little children for support. kno,
no language vigorous enough TO portray th
infamy OF such. No doom 8 dreadft
enough for them. Slow starvation woul
be entirely too mild.
| OF corrse most Of our people are On
ployed. The proportion or idIefs b on,
rageously large, but the majority are prs
scouting some calling; yet, do loudly d
sist that even among those who work ther
| is distressing lack Of energy. They Y
Dor, It ID true, but not In ths right spiril
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