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Freedom to Perish.

About thirty thousand weavers in one manufacturing town of England alone are said to be at the point of starvation. In London, five thousand persons applied at one of the stations for relief. Three thousand of these were women, poor and thinly clad, and having no bread except that given them by the hand of charity. In Lancashire, many workmen, who are generally provident and have been enabled to save something for a rainy day, have exhausted their all, and are now literally without a crust. The New York Herald speaks of one building alone in that city in which six hundred poor wretches are crowded. Many of these men would rejoice to be fed with the offal which the slaves of the South throw to their dogs.

The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 7, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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