The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-08-07
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and took it and read it, and then read i, again,
and then called in three four neighbors like
me, and We read il, and We all said il was right
and that il was a shame that could not all be
talked TO that way. / told them who YOU were
and that YOU was nv friend, and that when in
Carolina YOU had stood by us, and that nv YOU
and we had sent petition TO the
Legislature to help us, and that YOU had gone
there 10 get it through. IL is worse here
than il was in The bir ,l,n-
tiers have carpenters, blacksmiths, sc. &C.,
and more of them coming IN. and
we white mechanics have no chance. fo,
the slave mechanics cost next To nothing 10 live,
| and their masters can hire them out as 10 cut
us out and leave us with nothing TO do-starving
almost. We have made fuss | reckon. and
we have got things to look little brighter-but
| wish We had you TO talk for us--for the law
yers and big men are afraid-but we have got
the paper TO come out. and send YOU a copy,
and the editor has done us a heap of good. But
we poor whites have poor chance and wish |
had never left ., or had gone nm
North where you are. for they tell me Carpen-
ters and the like get along better. But do send
me your paper, and let me know there is some
thing doing for the poor whites in the South,
and believe me until death.
Your true friend, s.ss ss..-.
Poor old townsrnan Thy wish shall be
granted, you shall have the paper: would that
We could do more for you We remember You
we'll in boyhood days: how checrfully you ould
whistle your tune as YOU piled your plane at your
carpenters bench, and how merrily sing, when
care hung heavily upon you, and YOU labored
like brave man to breast, and bear il off You
are before us now, with sunburnt face, but with
bright and Joyous look, you talked of better
days, and hoped the time would be. when Caro-
lima would remember the poor white laborer.
and give him a"chance." Neither of us saw then
the root Of the evil. You do not yet. But, towns-
man, We sympathise with you, as a sufferer, and
feel that you nearer to us now. than ever,
as in far off sunny cline, YOU feel the
pinchings of want from the compittion OF
slave labor, and feel, without knowing the
cause, mere bitterly than you can express. the
gloom Of social degradation.
But we must forget personal feeling. and turn
TO the Florida paper sent us by our mechanic
friend, and the difficulty to which he refers
The Richmond case 1--WE referred to this las,
week, in detail) has excited a very general de-
bate, it would seem, among the laboring classes
| in the South At Apelaehieoia Florida it had
well nigh brought things to head. White me-
chanics, there, insisted upon two things. first,
the employing of no slaves in the trades,
second, the prohibition Of the introduction Of
| slavc-citzens az such into the State. And the
press upholds them The Commercial Adrer,i.
ser, of that city, referring to one division of the
white laborcrs protest, says
ave have advocated, and We shall continue
| to urge, the passage Of law to prevent the mi
grafton Of slaves to work as laberers, taking the
bread out Of the mouths Of the whites No de-
| sire TO encourage the honest, industrious whites
from the interior of the State, to come and set
! tie i'm our city, and perform the labor done by
| foreign negroes, many of whom are a curse to
the community. II is an evidence of a want Of
| that feeling Of sympathy which we should pos.
sess for our own color, that while many honest,
| industrious white men and women, in our CITY,
are unable to buy decent raiment, and can
scarcely make two ends meet in the matter OF
bread and meat, there are in the city negro men
and women revealing in plenty, who fiaunt by
us on Sunday. shining in their gaieties, turning
up their noses as they say poor white folks.
We have had application made to us, and
through us to others, for work, by white men
and women, to he enabled to get food for theil
children, which they had sought in vain, willis,
we could look oulpfrom our windows upon the
habitations Of negroes who were surrounded by
every comfort, and whose dress surpasses that
of almost any white laborer, or white lsborer's
wife, in the CITY,"
| Remember, this in spoken in Florida. We
have heard the Same language in South Carroll.
ma; and it must be uttered in wiser, or harshel
terms, or like spirit, wherever there is cause to
call it forth. The Commercial Adp.rfiser con-
demns, without stint, the action of the Rich.
mond manufacturers, the course Of the press a,
Richmond, and the policy advocated by both
1t says: .-...
ITO adopt the course proposed that is, "min.
Cling the two races, white and black, as labor.
ers'N would be moro suicidal to our native State
Virginia, than to any other Of the slaveholdns
portion of the confederacy. 1t would check
the immigration that Is now peopling her worn
out lands, with an educated and intelligent body
Of farmers, and would defer indefinitely tha