New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-20
slOthfal Southernevs.
The Richmond Wing, of the tenth instant,
gives the people of Virginia little sensible

Tne RlchmOnd Whig, OF the tenth instant
gives the people of Virginia little sensible
| advice, AZ follows:
The Southern States arc aot only strewn
with the wrecks of political, social and in.
dustrial systems, but also with the wrecks
Of the good and great old families that came
down from colonial times and contributed
80 many high, historic characters to illus
trate and adern the annals of the aev
world. Broken. down families! They are
in every city, county and neighberhood of
the South. The descendants of statesmen,
warriors, and notable old colonial and rev
dictionary patriots and gentlemen are,
in numerous instances, reduced almost to
beggary. Take Virginia. 1t is melancholy
to trace the decadence of those many grand
old families which have made her social life
the admiration of all-the synonym of
honor, refinement, hospitality. B-oken
OF many Of the best people are in absolute
want. New people nouiomines-lord it
over them and they feel deeply humiliated.
Human nature is human nature and these :
people feel that they are in . fal>e position;
that hose who are socially over them ought
to be under them. There are young ladies
Of the best blood in the land who have to
exert their wits and exercise all their &C.
Invites and energies to find tho means 10
keep up barely respectable wardrobe.
School teaching and sewing machines! These
are what they are reduced to. and it IL
noble in them TO avail of those resources.
We should be thankful to those occupations
for giving the opportunity Of such honor.
able Developments Of character.
But what shall we say Of tho young mehs
Some of them are talented, mettlesome,
high spirited lads, who feel that they can
not work, and that to beg il shame, and
go they sit down and do nothing. They
dream away the active period Of life. For
tunately there are others who have . more
practical turn, and do not rest until they
lind something to do. They start cut With
the determination to find some occupation,
and every youlh Who does that vill sue
coed sooner or later.
One thing is certain, If the brOkeh-dovn
families of Virginia, and indeed of the whole !
South, are ever to be recruited and restored,
the result is. to be brought about by tho
industry Of the vOung-thOse from fifteen
to thirty. They can do this if they will. !
and surely there can be ne higher duty.
We have IN Virginia . population. old |
and young, male and female, rich and Door, |
white and black, of more than q million and \
> quarter. We have eur lands, our climate,
The memories and traditions that have I
from the settlement of tho coun.
Try. We have in every county of the COM
.ure True. they are poor and broken down.
The question Is, how are their fortunes to
% mended! How are they to be restoredl [
Jne thing is certain, railing at their hard |
OF is not going to restore them. Railing at
ne stirring and industrious people who
rave got above them will do them no good, !
ioing back to the past and summoning M
he shades OF illustriOus ancestors will be Of
10 avail. The Renaissance, can Only be &C. !
nv EunRk-a<ooA. /
work.
1t ap0pulatiOn of million and . quarter
q an old established commonwealth like
firginia, who own the lands, who have farm !
nimals and utensils. who have cities to
rade with, railroads, rivers and canals. to
transport their products to market; who
ave churches and schools; who have all the !
overs OF government-if such a popula-
ion, with such advantages, do not rise. I ,
hey deserve like Milton's angels, to be "for.
YER fallen" ,
10 the hundreds Of thousands of these
escendants OF high but brOken-down fam.
les that are now bewailing their hard LOT. 4
q say, 60 to work! To recruit and restore 4
our fortunes, and your rank and prestige.
what your ancestors did to establish
lem-go to work: In these days all honest
Ork is respectable.
Senator BrOwDlow is talking very bluntlv. {
Is his manner, to the idle young Teupes. =
cans. In q recent issue Of his paper. the
knoxville Chronicle, he says: III our vaat
my Of worthless, lazy idfers, we're mt tn 8
me useful work, the difference in our pro.
lets would be so great that We would
on cease to crOak over our State debt. but b
ouid 60 to work like men and pay it. We 2
ould soon hear the last about hard times. 81
Q would have money abundant to meet q
our wants, and would become an en- A
ely different people. We vOuld increaea Ia
Q facilities of our common school system.
Ving every child in the State q good Eng 81
a education, Few people, Y fear, fully Il
preciate what q curse to our State the "
ones are. There are thousands of vouno Ia
N IN tennessee who loiter away their "a
ne on street corners, in bar rooms. bs
IN places Of public resort. who NJ
gnt 70 De producing not only enough to Of
pport themselves, but who ought 10 be
'un9iatiDg q eurplus every year They to
rleht here in Knoxville, and thew are in ",
ny Town and city in the State They are til
s as Nc s;s might term respectable Migrants. no
mes OF their ancestors, and subsisf bv 30
iTacting debts they never mean tn nav We
y VIII hang around the courthouse a
ek IN order to get on the iury one dav Al
ey will talk politics Q whole DECADE r. thi
little Office that an enterprisino vonno NO.
would scorn to fill. They manage te hh
appointed sometimes to trusts where AL
nave the handling of sums of money "a;
On they fail to account for. They 20 on 23l
q lazinese to dissipation, and from dissi. mn
ION to dishonesty, and probably land in mu
. again that idleness 10 the erest cnrse St.
'or Southern country, and it viii CON 3i6
e 20 be 90 until these drones in society
mich We have nlfu1o1 ara driven o;thc. | I'm.