Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-06
SOUTHERN SLAVES AND NORTHERN
LABORERS

Tie New York Herald, which competcs with the
Journal of Commerce for the glory-and profits
Of being the Shareholders organ has long art
Gle to prove that the servitude in which the work
ing men of the North are held by the Northern
capitalists is far more CALLING than that OF negroes
a cotton plantation; while their liability in hard
times like the present, to lie suddenly deprived of
support and lett to their own resources makes their
condition infinitely worse.
In bringing forward this not very original argu-
ment, hacknied for three or four years past in
Congress and the Southern newspapers, t.c Herald
ovcrIooks the rather important fact, that in nine
eases out Of ten the Northern laborer is himself
capitalist working his own land, or having his own
mechanics shop and therefore not dependant upon
any capitalist for employment,
As to the Lowell factory girls has the Herald
forgot the hair pulling that Mr.. Senator Clemens
deservcdly got for his pseudo-philunthropi dia
tribes in their behalf? 1t is not likely that the
Lowell girls, who are little fastilious, will ever
soil their fingers with the Herald but if the
positors in the Herald Office have the slightest spir
it among them, they will certainly give the writer
of that article--prohahly some reccGt importation
Of the John Mitchell school from Scotland or Ire
land, or some Englshman whose ideas of our fac
tories are derived from Dickens or Mrs Trollo pes
novcls-a good ducking under the nearest CrotOn
hydrant just to show him the difference between the
liberties which freemen take, and the necessary
submission to insult of slaves on plantation. The
mission to i1agellatiOn in the person of its own
foreign born Catholic proprietor, that our native
Protestant Americans can so easily be treated or
even spoken Of as slaves
Take the five hundred printers said to be just
now out Of femplOyment in New York and with the
example Of the success of the New York Herald
before their eyes-a success frequently ascrLed to
unprncipled rascalites, hut really due in spite of
those rascaties, to energy endurance, enterprise,
tact and abity-which Of those printers: destitute
Of money and employment rs he may be supposed
to be for the moment, would be willing to sell his
birthrsht to freedom and the pursuit Of social po-
siton in his own way, for the flesh pots or rather
the peck of corn week, with shirt, jacket, and
pair Of brogans at Christmas) )-of South Carroll
ma cotton plantation
This is one Of those cases in which example will
60 n thousand times further than precept Let the
corps editorial Of tho Herald set the example Of
voluntarily submitting to servitude-say OF the
office of the New Orleans Delta or Pi1ayune. Hav
ing first done that their articles in favor Of servi-
tude would he read with some attention They
would least get the credit Of sincerity, which is
the first step towards influencing opinion 1t
would, however, be but poor compliment to the
sagacty of the Herald to imagine that such arti-
cles rs tie one we have quoted, and which are but
too common in it's columns, were written with th>
hope of producing any effect at the North-except
indeed TO stimulate Northern capitalists to initiate
as far as they can or dare the example of the
Southern Shareholders. They are designed exclu-
siyey WALL street excepted Tor the Southern mar
ket having just now superseded wooden nutmegs
and other trumpery Of that sort-BOSton Ttte-
graph
! RUssIA.-1n seventy-seven years intervening be-
tween 1872 and l649 the Russian empire increased
in population from fourteen millions to upwards ri
sxty-six millions, or at the rate of about fourteen
millions in every twenty years. This wonderful
increase is chiefly attributable to the enlarged area
Of the empire, caused by the addition of Poland,
Finland, and the Caucasus to its domains. II
Russia should conquer and annex Turkey, her pop
ulation would exceed eighty mions--almost
equallng the combined population of England
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