The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-21
New EngIand,g r.sttle Game.


81 New England's Little Came. S..
we uttsriy repudiate single or any
number ofprejudices against New Englaad
We can readily admire al that is admirable
and comniendable i'm its public characssr,
and we can with alaerity welcome q New
Englander who comes here TO settle and
take " pot luck'' with. us; for he win give
us the benefit Of his shrewdness and appli-
cability, and we viii assist him to slough off
much that ne is better without J II 49, i
But it cannot be denied that New Eng
anders are peculiar peoples very pecu-
liar people. BY concentration of circuin-
stances, which 1t Is needless to enumerate,
they are ,heset with rnoralities and ideas
that the rest of mankind do not admire,
and which have swelled their gains in pro-
portion'to the extent to which their claim
upon the esteem Of the world has been
diminished til. .-.sE ~ =
Avarice is the great sin that Is the father
of the flock that has so many colors. All
the strange moral and social systems which
have infested this continent have had their
birth east of the Hudson river, and every
one of them has been, employed for decep-
ton and money making The only slave
ships ever known in this land went from
New England-and we believe the only
dealers in slaves upon the African coast,
the swappers Of New England rum for cap
tured Africans, were New Engianders.
And who has made SO much fuss over
slavery and so much political capital out of
1t Us the descendant of the, slaye-trader
upon the high seas who sailed from o New
England port Who riots In the persecu-
tions of the Seeth on account of slavery SO
much As the men who now inherit the gains
OF the trade in slaves and New England
rum? ~ .......'.. .s..f5
That is question we should like to see
answered. .'.' y. .'.,..- ~.
But to the real theme Of this article: e.
Recently the journeymen sloemakers of
Massachusetts, md their employers have had
cold works" The former wanted a larger
share of the gains which have made SO many
miilionaires, with their fine establishments
and whited sepulchres in the shade and on
the hills of Massachusetts. And the latter
wouldn't give an inch. Nay, they de-
manded a reduction during the summer
season in the pay Of the jorrneyman from
$50 a case to So case.' The journeymen
took the studs, and so work stopped and
shops were shut. But employers couldn't
stand that. They hit upon an expedient.
Cinnamon could be had, and for China men
they Immediately sent, and tn ey got them.
The iourneymen-now derisively called
3" Knights of Crispin " in the New England
held meetings, as our readers
lnow, and inyeighed against the introduce
ton of Chinese as degradation Of labor
and an outrage upon the country. ..-
But what they say only creates little fun
in New England. The manufacturers see
that they have got them, and nobody enjoys
a triumph in a struggle for the mastery
more than they in New England, and Tho tri-
umph is income eivably enhanced when it
brings financial advantage with it.
A messenger was sent to California, and
forthwith brought to New England the
Cinnamon. Their arrival created bright
like that amongst the little
people Of the homestead upon the Matching
of a brood of young ducks. They were
sea nned with delight by everybody but the
shoemakers. Their smooth,
be ardless faces, their long tails, their fans,
and their little shoes! Oh, my And, above
all, their little hands, which would peg and
sew shoes so nicely! They were exquisite.
They were Immediately "inducted into
office" at Il low price for a term Of years,
with their foreman and their cook to keep
their accounts and defend their rights.
Enthusiastic accounts are given in the
papers Of these new recruits in the war with
the Crispins. We observe in an elaborate
description of their mode of living charac-
teristic pleasure in explaining how cheaply
they live, and how little expense attends
their personal economy. They sleep in
hunks like those in a ship, and so, under the
same roof under which they work, they all
speedily "tumble in" and draw their cur
tains before them to sleep. And this econ
omy of space and grouping of very many
within the narrow-space of single room is
with delight by those who
have exhausted columns of abuse of the
southern planters for giving to one or two
negroes, or family, u comfortable log cabin,
with plenty Of wood, in gentle climate.
We observe another thing in the news
paper outgivings concerning this army of
Chinese brought in to overcome the white
Iaborers. There is the old disposition to
praise and make the most Of the animal or
thing that subserves the present purpose OF
economy or gain. The Chinese are repre-
sented as exceedingly smart and gentle, as
not being engaged in " smoking nor drink
g ing, talking obscenity nor quarrelling, as
So some classes of immigrants I wot of
I" would likely to be,"' says correspondent
of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Exactly
Of course this New Highlander means that
these Chinese are not thus engaged, like
Irish and Germans! .... .s;.
The same correspondent, interviewing
the: new shoe-making recruits, continues
theicomparison to the disparagemeut of the
white race !: . =. g..
't' Your people can all read,' observed
to All Sing. I'VE have some immigrants
come here who can't read -,
g 1t is edifying to watch the Chinaman's'
anlazement. ~ s"
g NO read English, you mean p
'f' Some who cannot read at all, in their
own language ~...#.