Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-23
TREATMENT OF LABoRERs IN VIRGINIA.

I'll it will require years tor the negro 70 ieain
the art of citizenship, we tear 1t would also re-
ouire years for the people OF the South TO learn
how to treat white servants AM employees;
TEey will not stand the usage he negro Il useu
to. but NUT have all the comforts they nave
been accustomed to have at h"'iir leiofe;
it is not to be wt ndeiei at Ina; they shoulo
murmur at pork and corn meal, blanket TOT
hea and a small negro cabin tor dwelling
place.
One whould suppose, from reading the above
extrac. from he Richmond Register, that the
Iaboriug class of Eag land aud OF Europe gen
e,ally, was accustomed to 'co,niotts at home
which they did not epjoy in the South. In
isc.. Il is 80 stated But the reverse IS tru',
especially in Eogiand, and the condition OF this
class is not liter in Ireland and Germany
whence we derive chiefly, indeed almost exc;u-
sively QUIZ foreign laror Immigration lhe
article in the Register was Written tor the por-
nose Of Encouraging immigration. to Virginia,
and that will be its tendency; 80.
The Register writes a. If The condition OF the
European laboring classes was Tar above that
which has existed in the South. We know
| what it is in Ireland and Germany. and we
have only to refer to the London Quarterly
| Review, il that wtr" necessary, tor an account
| OF their condition in Eag'a1d Wo give some
extracts
Little girls urc tnployel 10 bellows blowing
tor fourteen hours dry, STA :iiuK Oh rla'loI1m,s
| TO enable them TO reuch the handles or the Del
lows. The children who work at home In the
various domestic manufactures, are SO injured
by premature labor, ,'t:i commencing from
the age ofseven, that, as rue, they are stunt
ed, dwarfed, ADD dsfor.hed. -.
In the agricultural districts it is said
THE situation OF the cot ages in some OF the
rural districts il moss lamentable. Ihelr mar
row dwellings barely suffice sheIterto inmates
and in cases of large families they. crowd TO,
gether 80 closely that imperfect ventilation ana
Insufficient food, prove fruitful resources of
pestilence and disease In such cases, the mar
row tenement forbids the possibility of separat-
log the sick from the we'll, the parents from
the children, or the children from each other;
that miserable economy in fitting up the cot
taga, which to- generally has denied the only
bed-r either FIRE place or window to ven
tilate the air, the noise Of querulous children,
che stencil Of confined air, rendered epidemic
by morbid efflnva; the vernln too frequently
swarming on the bodies and rags of the wretch
ed inhabitants; all these causes acting TO-
gether porcrastinate aff1lction, prevent re-
turn to health, and indicate depth Of misery
which it is hardly possible to endure. Such,
with few exceptions, is the state OF more
than million of hunlu beings in England
alone. "
Again:
aud this distress arises lit so much from
sickness iileness, or prodg aty, as from the
absolute impossibility which a day laborer
finds in supporting his family by his daily
wages. The poor Sc rcely kno 3 what it is tc
eat meat and yet dispensing with that materla
requisite for comfort, i res not enable them tc
keep their families together in such hut a:
| we have described,
When Was the usage OF laborers at the South
such as this? PORK and corn meal, blanke
Tor bed, and small negro clbin for a dwell
ling place" quotha If such misery and des
titution 'of more than million OF human be
ings in England alone" are to be characterized
as ''tbe comforts they have been accustomed t.
at home,' no wonder the emigrant ships arr
filled with laborers seeking our shores Nor
torE Journal .sE.@<.
n LoUDoUN County ORGANIZATION Agree
ably to cali previously made, meeting of Con
servative citizens of Loudoun assembled at thu
{ Courthous on Monday last, for the purpose o
effecting an organization Of the Conservative
voters Of the county, under the plan proposed
by the late State Convention. The object o
the meeting was stated by Major Chas. B. Ball
and upon his motion, Benz. F. Taylor, esq.
was called to the Chair and VIM. B. Lynch
and B. +. Sheetz, appointed Secretaries.
The meeting having b-en organized, Major
Ball offered the following resolution, which wa:
adopted:
| Resolved That Committee Of twenty, com
posed OF two from each Magisterial District. BE-
appointed by the Chair, whose duty it shall be
to carry into effect in Loudoun county, the
plan of organization proposed by the late Con
seryatiye State Convention of Virginia.
The following is the Committee called for il
the above resolution:
Leesburg. George X. Fox, Thos. W. Ed
wards.
Gum Spring Beverly Hutchinson, Jas Ii
Palmer
Aide and Middleburg VIM Berkley, A
L, Rogers.
,. Jones Newton Keene, Benz Bridges.
Union.- Fur, 81. Frazier.
Snickersville. D eshack Silcott, TOWNSEND
Osburn.
Hilsboroush Josiah B. Taylor, Jas. Xii
gQur.
Lovettsrile William Wenner, A. II. Nj
Filler.
Purcellvil!e George W. holland, Rodne
' Purcell.
Waterford. A. NJ Fandevanter, VIM. G
i, Paxson. ......
Mt. Gilead. Sam. Simpson, Thomas h
Taylor.
The Committee is requested to meet in Lees
burg on Monday the lst day Of Februar
, Court, for the purpose Of selecting committee
, for the several districts of the county.
WASHINGTON ITEMS In the Senate yestel
t day, the bill presented by Mr.. Harlan to pre-
D q Il l.c. L. Z Il,