The delicacy of the early republic was exposed through the ever increasing, and consequently more apparent, impecunious people. Young America was in the midst of an agrarian lifestyle, which shifted into the preference of a metropolitan invested one. This metropolitan preference is said, according to Seth Rockman, to be what led families to become reliant on “government assistance to stay afloat” (2). However, officials, and government reliant citizens, hastily discerned that aid was not enough. Along with this recognition, many people were confused and by the poor as Mathew Carey stated, “…poverty out of place ‘in a country furnished like ours, with such an abundance of the fruits of the earth, and such ample means of comfortable livelihood’”
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Proportionally, with this hamper on the community established, there was a robust awareness of a dawning threat (4). In 1818, John Griscom discusses the “misguided benevolence, and imprudent systems of relief” which subsequently led to the rise in poverty to The New York’s Society for the Prevention of Pauperism (49). Griscom continues to discuss the causes of poverty listing ignorance, idleness, intemperance in drinking, hasty marriages, lotteries, pawnbrokers, houses of ill fame, and the abundance of charitable institutions within a city as the characteristics promoting poverty (51-53). Upon reviewing the article, the semantics entails animosity as Griscom explains that these are seemingly the only reasons as to why one would lack wealth. Moreover, in Philadelphia a committee examines poverty only to conclude that outdoor aid, which is less regulated, to be condemned and if the poor wants aid then they must submit themselves to heavily regulated almshouses …show more content…
Several principles were considered, including that the punishment of a crime does not strongly defer an individual from said crime but rather the individual’s own morality (84). Furthermore, within the early republic it is deemed that “vices” are the unequivocal reasons for poverty; the way to fix this would be to “instruct the ignorant, to encourage industry, and to restrain from the most noxious vices” (84). Through this article the society of Boston has definitively found that having a strong moral backbone, through religion, coincides with affluence. The aforementioned documents reveal the impressions the prosperous have of the impoverished. Altogether, reformers were under economic pressures and knew that the name of their beloved nation was at risk. These pressures eventually led to frustration hence leading to the wealthy to take their frustrations out on the less fortunate. The well-off then sought for common variables between the lower class in order to blame the people directly and to avoid the criticism of what should be a burgeoning economy. For the upper class, to blame the eyesore of society, the sufferers, was solely the meekest
Proportionally, with this hamper on the community established, there was a robust awareness of a dawning threat (4). In 1818, John Griscom discusses the “misguided benevolence, and imprudent systems of relief” which subsequently led to the rise in poverty to The New York’s Society for the Prevention of Pauperism (49). Griscom continues to discuss the causes of poverty listing ignorance, idleness, intemperance in drinking, hasty marriages, lotteries, pawnbrokers, houses of ill fame, and the abundance of charitable institutions within a city as the characteristics promoting poverty (51-53). Upon reviewing the article, the semantics entails animosity as Griscom explains that these are seemingly the only reasons as to why one would lack wealth. Moreover, in Philadelphia a committee examines poverty only to conclude that outdoor aid, which is less regulated, to be condemned and if the poor wants aid then they must submit themselves to heavily regulated almshouses …show more content…
Several principles were considered, including that the punishment of a crime does not strongly defer an individual from said crime but rather the individual’s own morality (84). Furthermore, within the early republic it is deemed that “vices” are the unequivocal reasons for poverty; the way to fix this would be to “instruct the ignorant, to encourage industry, and to restrain from the most noxious vices” (84). Through this article the society of Boston has definitively found that having a strong moral backbone, through religion, coincides with affluence. The aforementioned documents reveal the impressions the prosperous have of the impoverished. Altogether, reformers were under economic pressures and knew that the name of their beloved nation was at risk. These pressures eventually led to frustration hence leading to the wealthy to take their frustrations out on the less fortunate. The well-off then sought for common variables between the lower class in order to blame the people directly and to avoid the criticism of what should be a burgeoning economy. For the upper class, to blame the eyesore of society, the sufferers, was solely the meekest