Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-08
A NEW AGITATION. THE RIGHTS OF
LABOR.

II thcres ono subject the discussion ofwhich every
STAKEHOLDER should always avoid with srictest care
1t is the Rights ofLabOr;" for any discussion Of
those rights is but an exposure OF the injustice and
falsehood his own tyrant claim. But if this be
true and who will doubt it, how shall we account
for such inccndiary sentiments rs the following
from the Washington Cotton Plant, a paper estab-
lshed and upheld solely to promote the interests of
slavery? Such agitator for liberty, equality and
full justice to the laborng class in the very citadel
of slavery, is alarming fact. is il possible that
the most radical ab0litOnism can find utterance in
the slarcholding organ, and acceptance even toll
GRAFTON from its slayeholdng readers? Are there
no vigilance or Safety Committees, no Lynch Clubs,
no censors of thought and speech in Washington or
the whole South, that are alive to the peril of the
free propagation of such opinions in the households
of Shareholders? When such treachery to their
cause appears in their midst, in the guise offriend
ship not only with impunity but without detection
it is time for Shareholders to be alarmed. The rea-
der will notice how adrotly the Cotton Plant thrusts
its pognard into the very heart of slavery, while
seemingt to aim at other evils. But if any one
doubts the real direction of the blow, let him ask
himself, Where does capital utterly swallow
the rights of labor or rank the laboring man so
completely its own tool. whose existence has no
higher end than it, advantage as in the slave sys-
tenn"
Where in the columns Of the Libcrator itself
can be found more "fanatcal' or 'agrarian" doe
trinos than these which iolow?-Pd. Froeman.
The capitalist sits in his easy chair, and learns
10 regard labor in its aggregate-to value it rs n
productive result That labor is alone valuable to
him which produces, and is tho more valuable, the
more il produces, The individuality Of the lubo-
gcr is lost sight Of The incidents Of life suiicr-
Ing hope, affections, poverty, sickness,) are un-
known to the capitalist; ifkuown not recognized
in his estimate of dollars and cents. lie walks
through the crowded workshops, and casting his
oyo the sweating and bcgrimed toilers, revol-
wing in his mind just these two ideas, "They cost
me 80 much--they make me so much" If evils
exist and cases of nnumerable hardships reach his
ears, he soothes his conscience by quoting to him
self Satanic theory "The necessary evils ofso-
cety."
No ono can deny the existence Of the wrong
the wrong of crushing tho life blood out of those
whose ''lot il is to labor" This wrong has gone
from step to step, until it boldly assumes the til
tie Of right" and If reminded of the devastation
At leaves behind replies, the necessary evils of the
society," The common law is, that where there is
wrong there is always a remedy Human equal
Sty s the law OF God. Distinctions in society that
OF man. Human comfort is the intent of Provi-
denco. Human suffering is the work Of man. Ma
ture is 5nst and man unjust and the evils in our
eial condition ninety-nine times in hundred, can
be clearly traced back to that element of personal
selfshness which is the distinguishing characters
nc Of the the privileged classes"