Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-04

mere are in the State nearly 200. 900
saves. What proportion Of these slaves
s'he mo competitor with white lahorers cam
nov with any accuracy be stated. If one
nall are able-bodied men, they are more
numerous than the white laborers of the
State. That this large body Of degraded
and ignorant laborers being in our mlds hoes
anec'' In some way, the free labor of the
STALE, VIII at once he admitted by all-and
we hold that this effect is injurious in every
respect.
The wages Of a slave being only sufficient
10 Keep him physically comfortable, must,
w"eh lte slave comes into direct COMPETE
non WIN the free laborer, have a tendency
to reduce the wages of the freeman. unless
Inc freeman is willing to come down 10 the
degraded ignorance, and The coarse food and
clothing Of the slave. 1t may be answered
that the slave being ignorant, and irresponsi.
pie, cannot IN many Instances come into COM
petition with the free laborer. In all employ
inenis requiring a fair education and a high
IDEA oil intellectual atlainmenis this is true.
Ihe Professions Clerks, statesmen, Prin-
lers, and some others are of course exempt
from tie direct competition Of slave labor
Dut ms cannot be said Of Farmers, Brick
layers, Carpenters, Plasterers, Blacksmiths,
l%ahorers, and others which need not be men.
toned.
II the Printing Offices Of Kentucky were
oveHun with BLACK RATS, as are several of
the mechanic shops in the inferior towns. we
should not see the great body of the news
papers Of the State in opposition to Emanci.
patlon-and if all others who live BY labor
could feel the direct competition of slave Ia.
Dor, as severely as it is felt in some less ia.
voTed branches of productive industry, this
question would soon be settled.
Every man acquainted practically with the
condition Of the ldboring classes of the State,
knows that a great portion Of cur cheap asti-
%cnltuFal labor is performed by white men,
There are also mIny slaves employed as
mechanics in the country, and the small
towns Of the interior. We know of slaves
that are good Blacksmilhs, Iron Moulders,
Bficklayers, Plasterers, Carpenters, and
Painters, and We suppose ttere are other
branches of mechanical industry in which
they are employed.
There are instances within The knowledge
Of all Of us in which master mechanics have
become rich by the labor of their slaves
This must always be the case under the pre-
sent order Of Wings, and we know of no rea-
son why it should not be so. If the law
should prescribe TO the STAKEHOLDER the oc-
cupsion in which the slave should be en-
sfpk Is2AhsKelMeu usaon.be a~n.endieaslase.
~. II, therefore, slavery is 10 be perpetual
IN kentucky, every man in the State who
earns his bread by any occupation that slaves
can be taught TO perform. must erpect Ia tcork
for wages bRi slightly in Advance Of M,se re.
ceirsd Jy s!ares.
This is a law of slavery from which there
is no possibility Of escape. and one that
should be well considered by every intelli.
gent voter.
In any country where a large portion OIL
the labore!s are held as slaves, the hours oil
labor must necessarily be increased. The
loss arising from sickness. bld weather, OIL
any other unavoidable accident, must fall or
the sldve-nwner. or the observation-disclosures
when the labUter is a freeman it falls on him.
self. Consequently it is The interest Of those
who employ slave labor 10 work The slave as
many hours as possible, consistent with hi;
physical strength.
In all those branches Of mechanical and
manufacturing industry in which the Joint
Labor Of slaves and freemen is employed,
The freeman must rOrk as many hours as Ml
Stare, or the capitalist suffers the loss. When
the Journeynen BricklIyers of Louisville
were struggling for the ten hour system, the
employment of slave labor. was the great
practical difficulty in the way of the accom-
pllshment Of their object. II the free white
mechanic was DESTROYS Of a little time for
intellectual improvement, after ten hours OF
hard and faithful labor in the broiling sun,
he was told that the consequence would be a
heavy loss TO his employer, by reason Of the
laborlng slaves being hired by tue year.-
The journeymen Bdcklayer was thereupor
compelled either to do injustice TO his EN-
pIoyer, work as many hours as were necessa
ry for the profitable employment Of slave la,
Dor, or leave the State.
In the spring Of 1896. period when Their,
was a great demand for building mechanics
the iourneymen Slonecuiters of the city o.
Louisville struck for the establishment of tn
ten hour system.
There ,pere no sioges employed in Mqf bust
ness. In a single day the employers accedeC
TO the request of the iourneymen, and in that
branch Of business, both with iourneymeI
and laborers, ten hours labor has been a days
work from that period TO this.
10 the succeeding spring, the Carpenters
: and Painters asked their employers to estab-
lish the ten hour system, and gave as a rea,
son, that their fellow-workmen in Cincinna.
ii had enjoyed that right for years. The EN-,
ployers in these branches declined acceeding
to the demands Of the journeymen. The
journeymen stopped work, but slaves were
? employed in both these branches of business
by a portion of the employers, ard ultimate
ly slavery ~triumphed over fTecmeE.
The journeymen, after a few weeks of use.
less effort, were compelled to go to work on
the old score-but many Of the m5S. high
minded men, and the best workmen left the
State. For ten years, the journeymen Car,
penters Of Louisville, (the largest and most
, influential body of journeymen in the city, J
I were compelled TO struggle for a right which
their brethren in Cincinnati have enjoyed
+, since 1882.
During the past few years the hours OF
labor have been regulated and shortened in
some of the free States by legislative author.