The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-02-16
"HIRELING.n EQUALITY. ETC.

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we would maintain it on every proper occasion.
There as nothing an the social or moral orgoni-
cation Of the htreHng States avhich entities them
TO a superiority Orer as. We don't want war
of words about it, but the thing itself we will
not surrender.-Riehmord (Va) Whig.
The h;reling States The Wing is compli-
mentary; but it betrays the real feeling enter
tanned by the Shareholders towards the North
ern States. Hirehng States ~ They are
considered always in the market, ready to be
hired out to the highest bidder. The South
holds the Administration with its pssronage,
and hires the North to do service for it, So"
said a chivalrous member from Kentucky, in
relation to the Nebraska Bill, we don't do
fsuch work ourselves; we can hire plenty of
Northern men to work for u.s." The general
calculation is, that the Administration, with it's
patronage, is good for at least forty Northern
votes, in any emergency in which they may be
required by the South. The division of Ne
braska into two Territories was a lucky thought:
it precisely doubled the offices to be filled. Two
Governors, two Secretaries of State, six or ten
/ judges, attorneys, marshals, agents Sc. How
chances multiply for those disposed to please
the Administration at the expense of their con-
stituents
Or, perhaps, the Wing sneers at the North
ern States as hireling because the People there
hold that the laborer is worthy of his hire"
The Wing is enamOsed of system which au-
thorizes one man to extOrt the labor of another,
without pay, and sell him to boot, if it SO
please him. An honorable system, this No
hireling labor here! The idea of paying wages,
of rendering to every man a fair equivalent for
his services, is decidedly vulgar True nobility
consists in living upon the unpaid earnings of
the poor.
But. there are other points in this brief par
agraph from the Wig
1t misrepresents the question in controversy
The question now is, not whether the North
and South have equal rights, but whether a
bargain or compact, agreed to by the two Sec
tions, in relation to the Old Louisiana Terrific
ry, shall be violated by the South, after it has
received its full share of what was stipula-
ted! Whether the North, after having been
constrained by Southern influence to yield its
principles and policy ESQ far as to accept of that
Compromise shall be swindled out of the con
sideration which induced it's acceptance!
Under still another aspect the Wing misrep-
resents the Question. The real issue involves
the rights and interests of both North and
South. Positive enactment by Congress exclu-
ding Slavery from Territories, applies ali the
People of all the States. If the Southern man
cannot hold slaves in the Territories, neither
can the Northern. The restriction is not dis.
eliminating, although it may subject to special
inconvenience tho few owners Of slaves who
might wish to settle with them in our Terrific
ries The prohibition of Slavery in the free
| States is absolute and without discrimination,
operating as well in relation to visitors and 80
jOurners as citizens, although it may subject to
peculiar inconvenience the few persons from
slave States who desire to carry their slaves
with them wherever they go. The act abolish
ing the slave trade in 1903 bore with particu-
lar weight upon the interests of the class Of
shareholders, by cutting off their supplies OF
labor from abroad; but it was no invasion Of
the equal rights of the South, for the act was
general, applying without discrimination to all
the People of all the States prohibiting them
all from engaging in or encouraging the slave
trade.
If the greatest good of the greatest plumber
should be studied by Government the mainte
nance of the Missouri Compromise is duty il
owes to the masses of the People, in all sections
OF the twenty five millions Of the People of the
United States, not more than two hundred and
fifty thousand or three hundred thousand are
| shareholders.
These, with the few persons directly depend
ent upon them might be benefited, pecuniarily
in worry limited degree, by repeating the Com
promise and throwing open Nebraska to Sla
very but how would the interests of the mil
lions of non-slaveholders in both sections, be
promoted? What they want is, Free Labor
The shareholders of the South rejoice wher
they can find in new territory shelter from
the desolations and expressions Of the Slave
system. The non-slaveholders of the NORTH
ought not to be exposed in new Territory t,
the degrading competition of Slave labor Tn,
exclusion of Slavery by Congressional enact
ment is a policy denounced alike by the inter
ests of both-and Congress, in continuing it il
force in Nebraska does injustice to no section
asserts the superiority or inferiority of no sec
ton, but simply declares that the permanent
welfare of some twenty millions of People, citi
zens of the United States, East, West, North
and South, is of more Importance than th'
petty pecunary gain, or the selfish politica
aims, Of small class of persons, confined t.
one section of the Union, interested in uphold
ing an institution, not only purely sectiona
, and exceptional, but unfavorable to the grea
ends for which the Union was established, ant
repugnant to the fundamental principles of it
Government
! 10 "Whcn shall we be favored with tn,
continuation of Herberts Romance9 The
chapters already given are uncommonly bril-
iant"-A Correspondent.
We commenced this story, by Henry w
Herbert, some months ago. The chapters wer
, furnished with tolerable regularity till tn,
close of last year, when they were interrupted
and We heard nothing more from the autho
till week ago, when he sent us another chap
ter, accompanied with a note stating that h,
had been suffering very severely from a dis
, tracing neuralgia in the head. We have con
cluded not to resume the publication till WI
can have enough of the story in hand to insur'
us agains. any more breaks in it. Mr. Herbert
we are sorry to say, has subjected US and ou
readers to much vexation.
! THE WING PRESS OF The SOUTH DIVIDED.
. One norton of the Southern Wing Press i