The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-25
from the Richmond Examiner I

years since he was as busy in denouncing the struc-
ture of free society at the North as he is now in in
termeddling with slavery atthe South. One day he
proposes to set the blacks free at the South and the
next day he would abridge or destroy the liberties
of the whites at the North He scorns and scouts
the lessons of history derides every form OF govern
ment that the wit OF man has yet devised, and
gantly proposes Utopia patched in the brains of
crazy Frenchmen and adopted on trust by Ignorant
Yankees. And what is this Utopia? It's leading
and distinctive object, in which all socialists and
communists concur is to get rid of free competition
among the laboring class. In most eloquent and
thrilling language, the socialists OF France England
and America portray and denounce The evils which
free competition inficts on the masses. AS an in-
stance, we quote the following from alton Locke,
written by an English clergyman. 1t is the speech
Of cbartist:-
II is TO add orr weight to the crowd of artisans
who cho6ng and strangltg each other to DEATH
the prisoners did in the black hole OF Calcutta. Let
these who VIII turn beasts OF prey and ieei upon their
fellows but let at least Keep ourselves pure It may
DO the law of political civilization that the rich should
eat the poor, and the poor TRIP each other Them
There rise and curse that law, that civilization that
ture Either shall destroy them they shall destroy
me- As slave, as an increased burden on my fellow
sufferers, viii not live. So help God | viii take
work to my house, and call upon all to sign
protest to that effect.
Socialists, communists chartists, and young Eng
lishmen, all fully and entirely concur that in free
ciety by means of competition between capital and
labor on thes0ne hand, and the competition between
the poor WITH each other to get employment, ''the
rich devolr The poor, and the poor eat up each
society, and Only differ to the remedy. Nay, they
agree further tlat free competition must be gotten
rd oil In someEay that its evils utterly lntole
fapie, and that society," as ut present constructed
The editor OF the Tribune has, in effect, a thou
sand times 1nostcoquenty and logically maintained
that the experiment. OF free society has been fai
lure lie is trying hard to abolish it, by getting rid
roi free competition. Now, free competition, If not
liberty, is the necessary result of liberty ana there
can pc no liberty here there is no competition If
he viii coz Re South we will show him that there isno
competition among slaves SO far then is he striv-
spg to make the COZ lition Of the independent work
;1ng white man OF tlse North identical with that OF
-negro slaves.
Moreover, he eloqRsn tly insists on Ehe bcauiies
IND advantages Of aE3o6iated labor. Tho working
men OF the North mus be associ9ted-penned up in
phanxstes les. their CT ildren from their earliest in
ianty separated from tker parents, and reared and
eouc iied IN common. The parents are 10 compose
sor. OF Industrial army, where every mOyement
shall be regulated by son2c directing and controlling
autho, ny. Individuality Is to be destroyed, aud
Een are to be MADE automctons to secure piotee N
and ceh tain subsistence ut all times. Stranger STILL
they are to be deprived Of AL free will an Feceesity
TO take careof themselves AMI their families bytsir
own Wits to be reduced to the coldition of tic cogs
on q wheel worked entirely b. an outward force. IL
orcer 10 elevate and Improve tser heads and hearts.
Tie socialists are al, more or less, tinred with
agTariaEism or communism. The lnws OF England
however, in reGprd to parishes aud poorIouses re-
cognise communism in the last resort az the obi
cation nfsociety. The parish is hound to support
its own poor wheg cut Of employment or incapable
of work.
But Greeley mist come South if he wishes to see
communism in perfection. We support and take I
care Of each slave, not according to tie amount he
enr2s, but according to what he weeds. I'VE regard
his sarfts and not his work. We pay The highest
wsPeS in support, care and attention TO the infants,
igoG AID sick. The farm is a COMMON concern, in
which 49, master furnishes the skill and capital and
lie sayeA the labor Each divides according g. his
wants. II master wants the greater share, Sut
ately, III pa oportion to his slil and capital, g6s
! fair divder,'. He often gets none, for the con-
ern frequently brings him In debt, by the dieness
'ithe negroes an the expense Of their support Il
on never happen. however, that the negroes do not
~ fheir dividend. IL the concern fails, they are
mother concern. They have estates tail in all the