The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-04-07
The Orga of l. Dor.


It is not true, what some politicians affirm, that
Republican governments, more than any other,
secure the rights of man and the fruits of labor
to the laborer. 1t only secures the right of voting
and of fighting for these. But voters may. be
brlbed, and fighters beaten, and the more cunning
animal will win, and the stronger beast rule, in
spite of the exercise of their constitutional rights
and the most ardent struggle of the aborng
1t Is just as little true, what Jefferson tells u.s. that
In monarchies alone laboring men are considered
as born with saddles their backs,' to be king
ridden or priestridden by the Grace of God, under
the saving faith of the church. Under every form
of government we find beasts of prey beasts of
burden; beasts dressed to slaughter and 10 be
slaughtered beasts of active and idle cunning,
thriving by the labor of all the Others 1t is true
tyrants sometimes wear Cro,ons, but it is truer,
that they always wear Spurs. Republican France
is neither king nor prest-riddeD, but worse it is
fop-rdden, and always will be, unless its laboring
men assert their dignity, by organizing themselves
into laboTmg corporations, and teach their riders
to ride the goosequlll, or the street-sweep. That
they have not done so until now, may appear from
the following extract taken from French paper
A guest'-I must beg the reader to observe well
what kind of things those guests invited to
the Hotel de Vile, presents himself at the newly
established express office, where the services are
executed by relays Of men, g l want" says he,
"one of your porters a stout, able bodied feliow''
Every well-here's one. Where is your load %
The load p" exclaims the fop-" the load its
L, myself" You, sill! " Yes, l. What mat
tiers to you the kind of load you carry, provided
pay? Come, let's START So saying he jumps on
the back of the porter, who sets off at measured
pace. Wrapped up in his cloak, sheltered under
his umbrella, the fop rides on, till he reaches the
next relay; jumps on the back of another porter.
without touching the ground In three-quarters of
an hour, and with three relays, he gets his jour
ney's end, and is deposited safe and sound in the
vestibule Of the Hotel de Vile. And there You
see him, his fopship, perfectly dry, and without a
speck Of mud"-the king of fashion of republican
France. Now, let us suppose for a moment, the
offer from the flop to the porter, made TO of
darkies, would he not, for the honor o. human ma
ture have spit in the fops face; or if Consented to
riding, ridden him over the wharf. Do you know
the reason of that! An able bodied negro will
fetch about the same price one of Louis PhiIippes
race horses !; while Partisan porter may be had
for the bare cost of maintenance little above the
starving point. Men in disorganzied state have
less than no value; hence June massacre becomes
a feast to those who survive it. Nay, the rabble
VIII always idolize him who is merciful enough to
INN with grape-shot their starving numbers. 1t is
tnefeiore just as foolish to attempt the organiza
uon OF labor with such organizers as fop-ridden
france oilers, as it TO attempt with such organs
which require tops for riders 1t is to be hoped that
our brethren who now have made the first iudicious
effort for the organization of body of mechanics
and producers, will keep this fact in view. That
the character Of every Individual member must
form constituent part of their organization for
good evil, and as the laboring organs are, so the
organization of labor will be.
CHRIsI1AF BuRGHALpER.