The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-20

build its own houses. to manufacture its own household
furniture TO clear Its own land to build its ships. to
cut down its own timber &c All these things have
been done In Europe; and, while the capitalists inherit
the blessings and products of labor OF two thousand
labor has produced all this wealth inds himself deserted
his labor uncaed for and lis wages reduced TO starving
prices
Some time ago the London Times, in speaking of the
condition OF the aborng classes avowed their hopeless
condition, and that there was no means OF improving IT.
twoud be better for them said the Times, "if they
at the bottom OF the sea but the difficulty consisted In
getting them there" Now, Mr. G. was democrat, and
it necessary to drive any portion OF the people OF
England into the sea, he would prefer that the mi
nority should go there Ii is very well to have wages
regulated by the accident of demand and supply
but, unfortunately the la6orng mans stomach does mol
expand and contract in the same ratio IL demands ITS
daily ood according 10 the principles OF human nature
and it time that political economists should not cas
SHY men with things, and make them dependent solely
on external circumstances Well, the French provisional
government had thought OF that and he hoped that they
would be successful in their humane and philosophical
enterprise. There nothing that teach, in
morals or politics. that not equally well expressed in
the Old and New TESTAMENT and the whole doctrine OF
political economy eptomlsed in these few words 1.-THE
LABoRER Is WORTHY OF HIS HIRE Let the laboer once
take the rank in society which is due him, and he will
be object OF terror the Of wealth 1t is
the injustice OF the called upper classes which spes
them with in regard to the laborer 1t is their evil
conscience which upbraids them. Look at Paris,
acknowedgedly in the hands and the mercy OF the la
boring classes WE'LL what do behold! There is city
with thousand years labor treasured up within
walls. he wealth. OF OF beings all
safe and secure because guarded by who in return
for eleven hours labor ask nothing but enough bread to
themselves and their wives and children from sarva
ton The spectacle was sublime. 1t was morals and
religion POLITICALLY Observation-Disclosures Christianity car
ried into practical democracy; and to doubt the
pacity of such people for sell government was to
doubt the political capacity OF the people IN every coun
trywas to despair OF humanity, and to renounce the
belief in God
AS the destiny Of is to labor, SO il is the duty of
the government to bestow its care the aborng class
es that they may fulfil their destiny. The mission OF re-
lgon and civilization is render labor respectable and
this country itsef--,he United Sates--is untrue to its
historical mission, if it do assist to render labor re-
spectacle and respected throughout the world
Gentlemen were not aware that labor, even in this
country, all The badges of its teuda origin and
degradation. The OF wealth (whether it consisted
of few dollars few thousands) patronised" the
mechanic when he orders him TO make pair OF boots or
piece of furniture The term is English term which
ought to be known in American vocabulary. The
man that sells pair OF boots or table, or char,
wishes merely to exchange it for something else he needs
The purchaser and vender merely exchange commodities
which both stand in need Of and there patron
the one SIDE and no cllenr on the other Mechanics
may in England be patrouzed by 'the nobility and gem
uy but here equivalents exchanged and there is no
obligation either side In Europe, prices are some.
times in proportion the rank OF the customers but not
so here, where no is willing pay for his real or
assumed dignity What the French people-what the
Germans ana lfaians--wanted, the regulation OF
the minimum OF wages, and the Dsl1tnum of time OF
labor by law This was unnecessary in this country
because here, as Mr.. Golden, OF the British ParIa-
ment Justly observed, "two or three employers after
one workman while in Europe esons of working men
solicit labor from employer, and thereby compete
Dh each other for their daily bread. But we must not
imagine that social system and our social laws are,
for the greater part still those OF England, and conse
quently faulty though the peculiar eIictous circum-
stances in which are placed nation, render that
! fault less apparent.
Mr. Grund then went on to show that even our society
that is, social ntercourse-bears the same mark OF
eudasm as the descent OF property. The terms sr in
English, monsieur in French. herr in German, sgno,
in atiun Or Comm
eudal origin They originally meant knight lord, CON.
mander When labor acquired rights, and wealth. and
on the commoner because his right recognised
but simply in order put him, for the time being
equality with the nobleman, in order that the latter might
be degraded by his company This corresponds to the
cons OF law, by which real property and is yet,
alienaed in England the purchaser being supposed to
have inherited t from his ancestor who had been forci-
bly, dispossessed by the vendors ancestors All these c
tons presuppose the naenabe right OF property to exist
class of society only and though invented for the
alienation of property go to support the theory as the
exception proves the rule.
The fact u.s. (said Mr. Grund) our respectable Saxon and
Norman ancestors, the elite OF which Che meant the
nobes) were highway robbers found the laws of Rome,
on the destruction OF the Roman empire, admirably cal
cuaed support conquerors in their assumed upon
the lives and property, and consequently also, upon the
tolls of the conquered and adopted the major part of their
provisions in one form another. The Roman law itself
was written by conquerors; and conquerors and van
pushed" in those days correspond to "patron" and
q client" of the present day: in other words, with
Z" wealth" and " labor" The cotton lord has taken
the place of the on horseback the bourgeois has
epaced the noble But it is mmateral under what form
people are oppressed they have right, at all times and
under all circumstances. to throw Oft the yoke and assert
their rights. the people of France have DONE
When heather ancestors were converted to Chris
tiany they still cherished affection for the Roman
laws of property and marched conquest with the Bible
in one hand and Jusinian and the Pandects in the
other They separated the Christian from the proprietor
And now Mr. Grund called upon the crowd below, and
asked them whether there was clergyman among
hem who could testify that in matters relating to prop
erty-that is, in things relating to "mlne and thine"
between Christian neghbors-he had been asked to
on the subject Mr. g. knew he would not come for
ward for, though men 60 to church on Sunday in mat
OF property during the week they merely consulted
their lawyers Well, what the French people wanted,
and what the provisional government had promised them,
Jesus CHRIST not only the sabbath but during the
of the New Testament and Mr. G. hoped it would soon
be preached in every country and in every cline.
Our Democratic Exchanges will confer great favor
on no hu mn hi ishinw he following