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The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], An explanation of the affair at Union city, Tenn. (search)
tted from generation to generation. In some portions they are not permitted even to marry without the consent of the proprietor of the estates on which they labor, for fear of increasing the dense population beyond the means of subsistence. In Great Britain, where there is so much wealth, civilization, and liberty, the condition of the manufacturing and mining classes, and of the multitudinous poor in the great cities, is worse than that in any other portion of the world. Let any man read Mayhew's account of the London poor, of the awful destitution, misery, and crime in which they exist, and examine the Parliamentary reports of the condition of the mining and manufacturing people of the kingdom, and then wonder at the self-delusion which, with such a beam in its own eye, can concern itself about the mote in the eyes of others.--Whilst the Duchess of Sutherland is sorely exercised upon the subject of African slavery, she coolly depopulates her estates in Scotland, that sheep may liv