The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-11-02
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Our Washington Correspondence.
WAsurNorou Novemhsr 1870

WASHINGTON, November l, 1850.
The NeW Yrk Union Msstiwg-7M Irish and
German Tofers-7he Worlds FUR.
The news from New York and the account of
the great Union mass meeting held at Castle Gar
den, have filled the hearts of every patriot with
joy and gratitude. The capital of the Union is
safe, and the metropolitan spirit will, no doubt,
in due time penetrate into the provinces The
anti Union men are very much disappointed, on
both sides. They agree with the Tribune, that if
a Union meeting was to be held in New York, it
ought to have been held on the sixth of Novem-
berthe day after the election-not in advance of
i-so as by any possibiliyto influence the elections
Then, if the elections had gone with rush for the
Sewardites, the meeting might have been called
mceung OF condolence-a great jeremiadu-that
might have added to the briliancy of the victory
OF revolution, riot and disunion, the laws aud
constitution OF the country. As it is, New York
all New YoIk-has spoken boldly, openly and
without reserve. "The great ball has been set in
motion, not SOLITARY and Alone" as Col Benton
started his; but by tens of thousands, who have
acted like one man, and who will yet drive the
hiding places.
The slavery agitation in the North is far from be-
ing correctly understood and its consequences are
not yet fully realized by the laboring men of the
North. What else do the agtators contemplate
than the degradation of labor by raising the negro
else can be the consequence of political equality
DeVween the white laborer and the black but
tAe delseciaton of labor and of the laboring man
The white laborer being once associated with the
negro and mulatto, the aristOcracy of capital will
lord over him, in spite of the hypocritical and
stupid cant of Horace Greeley and his Fourerite
associates. The aristocracy Of New York and Bos-
tonIweaith, with Its most arrogant pretensions-
could not have devised more certain and unfail-
ing means OF eating an artificial distance between
the upper tens" and the honest, producing laborng
man than to associate him with the runaway slave,
the African, the mere accidental Ingredient of our
civilization. The negro is to become the competi.
tor OF the white mans labor, for the sole benefit of
the capitalist who employs it he is to reduce the
price OF laber in trades and manufactures, and he
Is, IN the end, to share the public domain with eur
sturdy agricultural population. There never was
better means devised, in any country, for the
systematic degradation of the laboring classes than
this same negro agitation which is now going on
at the North, under the cloak of philanthropy phi
losophy and political equality.
There Is yet another consideration which must
not be lost sight Of and which ought to b. ponder
OF the wing party have always complained of the
undue influence of the Irish aad Germans at our
elections, and the degree of independence shown
by them, on all occasions where they were called
upon to exercise the rights Of citizens. They now
mean to amalgamate the adopted citizens with the
negroes, who, they intend, shall hold the balance
Of power, on that well known principle in chems-
try by which body is first dissolved by an agent.
shape. And what is worse, our adopted citizens
are constantly appealed to- through the Tribune and
the Evening P0ss-the two kindred spirits of aboli-
ton and anal gamation-to help in this work of
degrs dalton OF the whole white race as far as that
race is employed in its great mission oflabor. Were
their efforts TO be successful, the adopted citizen
would even rank behind the negro, as not "Ame-
ricsn born" The descendant of the African slave
would claim superior merit over the martyr of
European liberty, or the descendants OF those who
have sacrificed property and position to great
cause, which. as mighty movement OF Provi-
dence, is sweeping the whole civilized world.
We still live in hope that the Secretary of the
Navy will send first class frgate, the line of
battle ship Ohio. or the Pennsylvania, to the
Worlds Exhibition in London, instead of, as he
was advised TO do by the ghosts of the bureaux, a
storeshp. The best thing we can exhibit there is
one Of our model ships, with picked crew and Of
hcers, that are likely TO make proper impression
on our seafaring relatives, and not tub with
broom in IL, unless Ito borrow idea from Punch)
emblematc of the heads of come of our bureaux,
always excepting that of docks and yards. ID.