Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-01-07

standing used his influence in behalf of his
old men and measures Election came,
and the Wing party had its accustomed
number OF votes. And this is American
freedom the fruits Of our glorious RICH,
OF suffrage. Native Americans ye need
no new party. Our country is safe while
the hired system Of labor prevails.
Hired slavery has also its attrocious pun
'shmen,s. IT'S rarely SO brutaly barbara
an as 10 inflct physical fortunes with the
Cnin-.ike bludgeon or the cory lash;-
though on the decks Of our naval and mer-
chant vessels the degrading practice OF
'fogging' is still; kept up. And in Fall Ri.
yer, and some few factorys of our country
the operatives are beaten and bruised and
kicked about like vicious dogs; but if the
servile whip is not generally used, the lash
is applied in another way.
With the majority Of the laboring popu-
iation, the command to work aud work
for the wages the employer is pleased to
pay. must be obeye under penalty of see
ing loved ones condemned to mise, and
want. Monopoly has 'aken the right O
labor away from the people, and m de
them dependant, for the means of subsis
,ence on the caprice Of the lordly few At
any day they may be turned out of employ
ment, out Of the houses they rent, out
the stoles where they purchase their living
and out Of the world. There is no secur-
ty for the future; Life hangs in doubt be-
fore Them And, Heaven knows, would
sooner welcome the iiay:"s scourge, till tn.
blood runs down in pool a, my heels
than see those whom | love piniug In wan:
and wre,chedneSs. Such ara the means o.
tyranny in the hands Of individual and Ger
pora,e employers. Theirs Is lash tina
may be laid upon the soul, till the hear
bleeds in very anguish, and till the eye,
are fountain Of tears,
Hired men and women generally are de-
spised as slaves and treated as slaves. They
are considered unfit to associate with the
do-noihings who live upon the fruits ofthei
industry. The miss OF the parlor and pia
10 would feel herself degraded by the soci
ETY. of the mechanic or farmer upon whose
labor she lived.
A plebian Governor Of this Common
wealth in old Republican times, (long si:.ce
passed was visited by cer,a n exquisites from
the city, whom he invited 10 dine with h 4
family. They were very much offended
because his hired men were permitted &c
sit at the table with them, and bitterly
complained of their ill-treatment to the
good woman OF the house. She acknow
lodged the wrong, and remarked, that she
and her husband had conversed upon the
subject and came to the conclusion, that il
strict justice, the saborer who had earne'
his living should eat first, and be served a
the table by the non producers; -and tina
the next time they, come Justice should b
done them.
Now, however, governors, ministers
lawyers, 5ankrupts, gamblers, and loaiers
don't often disgrace themselves by permit
ting their help to eat at their tables. Tn
domestic eats alone in the kitchen, whsr'
she is imprisoned. She never enters TIT
parlor un!ess it is in the capacity Of waiter
She is denied all social intercourses will
the family. and is considered the Lawful
prey of every graceless llberiine. She il
slave. She is criminally gully Of labor
ing for her bread, and is therefore despised
Truly, this is free country. All mer
are created equal, and endowed with GER
tain inalienable rights, among which are
death, slavery and the pursuit Of wretched
LeSs.
The system Of wages is false in other
respects. 1t processes to pay the laboreI
an equivalent Cor his industry. And il
what man creates is his own against the
universe, the aborer should have the
wealth Of the country in his own hands
So far from this, idleness has waxed fat
and Industry begs for lis daily bread. The
employer who sits at ease with his family
feeds on the fatted calf, and is clothed ia
purple and fine linen, and heaps up his
piles Of shining dust. The employed, who
toll SO early and late, that they scarcely
see and know their own children, are pur-
sued with lean and bony Phantoms Of want,
and logged with anxious fears Of penny
less, homeless future. The laborer does
not receive tine equivalent for his produc-
ton. Wages are therefore ialsehood, a
cheat, robbery. 'Twere better 10 work
for nothing, TO refuse altogether the mise
rable pi.tance called pay, and to demand
support as an inaliennble right, than to &C.
cept under the name Of wages mere no.
minal equivalent for industry, scarcely suf-
fcient to feed one comfortably from day to
day. 1t matters not though hired laborer
may have produced for his employer thou
sands Of dollars more than his wages
amount to, if he had been paid @? every
Saturday night, It's thought all responsible
i:y is discharged. The ider who has de-
frauded him OF the productions Of life.
could conscisntiousy see him die Of star
walton, or his family driven 10 the poor
house. Away with your system Of wages
The wealth Of tho country belongs to those
who do the country's work, and the lazy
monopolist who claims it is robber and q
pirate.-Social Reformer,
NORTH CAROLINA AND TExAs-In the
House of Representatives of the State Of
North Carolina, whose Legislature is now
in session, the following resolution was
moved: -
"Resolved, That in our opinion the
Territory Of Texas ought to be annexed to
the United States as speedily as possible,
provided the same can be effected without