Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-06-09
WHITE LABOR rs.ENEGRo LABOR.

WHITE LABOR vs.SNEGRo LABOR.
"IRIsH AND NEGRO Row.-There was pro-
tracted and somewhat bloody fight yesterday
afternoon, on the dock, at the foot of Wash
lngton street, between some negroes and IRISH
men. The parties were about equal in point
of numbers when the affair began, but the
Irish soon collected in great force, and con-
sidering it free fight counted themselves in,
and poor cuffee had not ghost OF chance.
Three Of the negroes were badly beaten one
of them to such an extent that 1t was supposed
he must die; but he is better this morning, and
will probably recover. Some six or eight of
the combatants, black and white were before
Justice Drullard this morning, with q large
number OF witnesses to complicate the inves-
tigation. 1t seems to have been sort OF
spontaneous outbreak, without any other cause
than the mutual jealousy and dislike subsisting
between the Celtish and African races. Before
the police were able to suppress the row, some
thing like thousand persons had collected,
besides those directly engaged in the ARRAY
Buffalo Commercial 4dpertiser, 18th inst.
The foregoing is only one of the thousand
similar instances which have taken place, and
the ten thousand which must inevitably occur,
arising from the course of ,abolitionists and
freesoilers. Wherever free negroes become at
all numerous, they come in direct rivalry with
white labor. The white freemen of the north find
themselves compelled to enter into rivalry with
negro labor in order to get bread for their fami-
lies. They find the freesoiler and abolitionist
snubbing them, and giving preference to negroes.
Yes, the freesoilers and abolitionists give ne
groes preference over white men; these very
white men, upon whose valor they rely for
safety for themselves and their property in
time of war and danger, while the negro is
fattening in security at home. The negro is
satisfied to live in filth, and with enough to keep
soul and body together, and the white man is
compelled to take the same wages or be turned
of. Wherever the negroes are numerous
enough, this will always be the case, and the
abolitionists and feesoilers give them pre-
ference. No wonder that every workingman's
blood boils at these things and the time viii
come when they may turn their indignation
from the interfering, insolent negro to those
who make them SO, and who forget the rights
of the white workingman. There are in Boston
some seventy thousand Irish, who already feel
chafed at the insolence and interference Of
negroes, and the preference shown them by
freesoilers and abolitonists. 1t may be dan
gerous for these people long to tamper with
the patience of their Irish fellow-citizens and
native workingmen.
These abolitionists declare their perfect will
ingness that as many free negroes as choose
may go to Nebraska. Now, it is very certain
that every free negro who goes there will be
all the time seeking employment which belongs
to the white man; seeking the very jobs the
white laborer seeks, while no slave would be
permitted to do SO but quietly working on his
masters farm, would be in the way of no white
man.
Sooner or later, fearful issue will be made
between the working whites and the free ne
groes. As they become numerous, by emanci,
patton or running away from the south, they
will be pitted against the white man by the free
sellers and abolitionists, as they now are to a
great extent.
Let the laboring white men Of the country
bear in mind the object Of the freesoilers and
the abolitionists to build up free negrocacy,
to compel the white labor to submit to the ex.
tortion of their freesoil and abolition employers.
Let them mark we'll every man who gives pre-
ference to negro over white man, and they
will soon be enabled to see who are their friends
and the object of this preference.
1t is enough to rouse to Indignation the in
dependent white citizen to see an acrid, bitter
abolitionist turn him off from work or refuse it,
and give it to some rank-odored negro. But
when war comes, the negro is kept at home in
fine employment, and the rejected white laborer
is expected to go forth and risk his life to Sc
cure the property the cold-blooded abolitionist
and freesoiler, who refused him work to give a
negro the preference.
Let the laboring men bear in mind that the
great object of these men is to get up class of
negro laborers by which 10 injure white Ameri-
can laborers, citizens soldiers, and jurymen.
This subject will before long command gen.
eral attention, and of necessity the whole labor
ing class of the north will be banded together
against the freesoil abolition conspiracy against
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