Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-03-11
The Right OF the Workingman to
Live ~ q Man. and not m r Slave.

Live as . Man, and not a. = Slave.
The protection and encouragement of labor
is the only solid foundation of national pros
perity. AS it is in family, so with peo-
ple-indastry cherished, brings peace and
happiness -idleness, whether engendered
by corrupt public opinion, or proceeding
from ignorance, brings with it the seeds of
dissolution. Thus, when country forgets
its duties to the working classes-nurses,
pets, and pampers capital, whilst it becomes
more Indifferent to individual toil-encour-
ages the accumulation of immense fortunes
by the few, while the condition Of the many
grows worse and worse-looks to the COM
bination Of the monied classes for producing
national prosperity, and permits honest labor
to degenerate into manufacturing, or COM
mercial ssalage-countenances debased
public sentiment that respects only those
potic arbitrer frowns down upon such as
earn their bread by the sweat of their brows:
when q country arrives at such position,
it is not difficult to predict its fate.
The past has many forewarnings. Even
the present state of Europe should be a eau
ton, to beware of following in the same
track which has reduced labor to SO de-
graded condition. There thousands of the
laboring classes roam from factory to facto-
ry-from shop to shop-from town to town,
to obtain bare subsistence, and they are so
drilled into submission that they have be-
come mere labor machines
If we are to be on exception-if this
country is to be the home of industry-if
We desire to preserve and perpetuate our
institutions-it must be the protection and
encouragement of labor.
And admitting all this, what is done for
the working classes? Legislatively, social
ly, politically, what is done for their eleva-
ton? Shall we find the Senate at Wash
ington occupied in debating about their
condition or requirements Shall we dis
cover at our legislature in Columbus, the
attention of members directed to enquire
about questions of direct import to the la
boring classes? Do we see our city Coun-
Gil display any feeling for them, or any de-
sire to ameliorate their positions! The
demands of capital must have attention, but
the requirements of labor-pooh, pooh, re-
spectability will take its time, and is too
much occupied about banks and railroads,
etc, to be able to devote its attention to
the claims Of those who placed it in q posi-
ton to tamper with the toiliDg millions.
We have no desire to set labor against
Sopi'"i, VI thO pun dS1IuSt luc IlCu Uut
We believe the doing all for the one, and
nothing for the other, is the surest means
of creating the prejudices that may at fu-
ture day inspire revenge We wish to be
prudent in tine, lest the want of precaution
may engender the feeling we desire most to
avoid. And prudence points to the work
ing classes, tells us to do our duty in time,
or they will be reduced in this country to a
state of commercial feudality, the same as
ia Europe, and from which nothing but the
most sad consequences can result.-Cinci1-
natl Sun.
NATIONAL MEDICAL COLLIE an.
nual commencement of the National Medical
College took place at the Smithsonian In
stitution, on Saturday last, at noon. There
: was present on the occasion q large and