Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-11-16
VOL. XIx.-.-O. a.
"THE WORKIES.n

There are class of thin skinned gentry odor-'
GUS from the toilet and labelled with white Kids
and palcnt leather, who turn up their noses at
what they cali the workies." The honest
brown handed mechanic and arizan, whose toll
builds up ci.ies and fleets, and enriccs ihcworld,
and WHOSE sons, educated ut our noble free
schools and academies, will, by and BY, rs ..self-
MADE men" rule the industry ind the councils
of the land, are held in contempt BY this horde
of modern arisl ocracy-Ihe most shallow and
insutferabc that ever disgraced humanity-who
seem to have forgotten that their fathers were
gardeners, butchers, laiIors, and ,inkers
| We hardly know how 10 utler our scorn of
such carricatures of mankind. There ia no Ian
guage adequate to measure the littleness and
meanness to which they sink in the scale of hon
est judgment. "The workiesr' We should
like 10 know, if the workies were taken away,
what then would be left. Only foul scum,
compounded about equally of knaves, fools,
charIalons, and demgogucs--the fungi Of the
world-paraslles OF the enterprise, the industry,
and the moral worth of mankind.
We have taken y glance through our city, not
TO 60 farther, to see what /" the workes" are do
iug. They are building the ships, or forging the
engines which a-o to compass land and sea, link
ing lhe nations in brotherhood, by the hands of
! commerce. They are rearing the great store
houses and palaliaI dwellings, in which our
"merchant princes" live, move, and have their
being They are performing all the real abor
OF lie intercharges of trade, the rich profit of
which, crafty middle men reap They fill all the
artizan shops, ringing out their sturdy music on
the anvil, aud with the saw, the trowcl, and the
plane. They are, in fact producing all that is
produced. Upon their sweat our city lives, ex-
pands aud grows rich and beautiful. They feed
and clolhe Us all, and yet band of effeminate
ldlers, whose lives are round of deLauchers
and shame, point at workers the finger of con-
Tempt Out upon such insolent atfrontery.
We, that is MIR. Pick-have been "a worker,
and hard Worker all our life. With us il has
been necessity, u duty, and pleasure to work,
aud we have not felt our moral or social worth,
nor our :" nobility" disgraced thereby. 1t is the
divine Injunction that " man shall earn his bread"
and We have been ever ready and proud to fulfil
the injunction, even BY grinding with hand or
gan, and we hold ourselves, all inky Us our fin
gers may be in putting the Pick to press, as
good in blood, and spirit, or whatever goes to
form all essential manhood, as the best man on
earth. We will not say us good us the thnskinn-
ed gentry under notice, for We would shrink
from shaking their eperous hands, though their
liveries We're u Thousand times mnre imposing,
and their kids and patent leather had ten.fold
fairer luslre.
Honest, useful labor ia. the patent for true no.
Hiiy. We are satisfied in striking for that.
;, prefer not to rank with those who build no
monuments and leave no signs when they dye,
lat they once lived; we had rather count with
', great host who have opened up the treasure
OF The earth, founded eticsEa1d nalons, and left
.,..rywhsre mpershabtc'' traces of rhes power
~ The genius of men, We had rather be the
nest builder of Il pyramid or palace than its
ate robber tenant. If We had sons and daugh-
tcrs, we should curse any fortune that would
leave them 10 idIeness, or inspire them with n
con,emp; for labor. The workingman is lord of
the earth, however much he may BIZ swinded,
robbed, and oppressed. Such are Mr.. Picks
sentiments-New York Pick.