The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-10

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pf society, and the oyerturn Of existing institu-
ions and now it win not harbor It's most
PRACTICAL workers, who have the courage to
raintain by force the principles, which the
casters only preach in safe places and in per-
fect safety. w
The whole community of New York are fully
sognizant Of these facts--ths whole country is
EQUALLY familiar with them--the conductors of
he Tribune know this full WELL Why, then, do
hey put themselves to the trouble ofpractising
his gratuitous hypocrisys
The next paragraph explains the true reason
t is not repentance or remorse--not sympathy
with the sufferers, nor desire to screen the
iupes from punishment-but dread that the
consequences of this Labor Movement" may
cover with Odium the preachers Of Progress,
and their organ; therefore the act is 1acr-ime,'
for, says the Tribune:
The enemies of Labor Reform will OF course
seek to turn these outrages to their own account,
and thereby cover the entire Labor Movement
with odium. In this we trust they will fail
We do not believe the crime of the law-breakers
will be more heartily deplorcd, nor more point
eddy condemned anywhere, than By the origina-
tors and chief supporters Of me movement IN o'sr
city looking TO The general elevation of labor
In the eye of the Reformers, the acts of violence
lin question are not merely criminal but calami-
tous to their enemies they are, however, de-
plored, an advantage which they will not fail to
make the most Of"
Never did aculprit arragned at the public
bar turn States evidence against himself more
satisfactorily. Well may the CALLED jades
vince.
But another twinge is felt in another sore
place. The Reformers will never consent to
sweeping strietures--the censure must be soft
ened, and a doubt artfully interposed to benefit
the offenders who have erred through an excess
Of zeal Observe how artfully this delicate duty
is performed
aAssuming the facts to be as represented by
the police-that the premises assailed and dam
aged were those of persons who saw fit to work
or aid others to work for employers inimical to
the strike and its list Of prices, and that they
were assaulted by persons engaged in or fayoring
the strike for this cause, or with purpose Of
coercing or intimidating these opposers into con-
currence in the strike, we pronounce those who
instigated originated and carried on the riot
not merely yiolators of law but the deadliest
enemies of the elevation Of labor
What terrific denunciation from print
which habitually uses the most violent language
on the most ordinary occasions guarded too
with qualifications which is further embraced
lin brackets) in the ensuing sentence, the oil
being poured on the bruise as soon as inflicted :
:. We do not PREJUDICE the facts; further deyel-
opments may somewhat change their aspect !;
but we speak Of the case as It is generally re-
ported and understood And we rest in faith
that the wrong committed by these benighted, de-
graded rioters will not be permitted to blast the
general movement for the elevation OF labor
whereof SO forcibly exhibits the necessity
Such outrages could never have been committed
by men educated, recompensed and treated gen
orally as all human beings ought to be. A system
under which such confused ideas of right and
wrong were generated ought never to have ex-
listed, and ought now'to be suppressed by a bet
ter, as early as possible "l3a ~
Strong indeed must be the faith Of the writer
in the power of effrontery, and the gullibility
even Of his own deluded votaries, when he dares
to insult their intelligence by such monstrous
proposition as that with which he coses-the
.bsurdity of which is too gross and glaring to
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