The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-09-20
ssssAsr. AAsa. 81 the Degradstie,
81 l.abor.


sessAern AAea. 81 the Degradation
~ Labor.
We wish every laboring man in the land
would read an duly ponder the ensuing for
chile article from the Pittsburgh Gazette,
which, for the sake OF additional conspcui-
ty We place under our editorial head.
The right, character, and dignity of Labor
are at stake in the present contest. Slave
holding degrades labor. To labor is to oc.
oupy an inferior position in Southern socie-
ty. lsborer belongs to an inferior caste.
II Slavery is extended to Kansas, the honest,
independent farmer Of the Free States who
calsirates bis own soil cannot 90 there. lie
is excluded by the laws Of Southern society
unless he conse t. to occupy an inferior po-
si'icn in social life and to become sort OF
proiege Of some lordly owner Of human
chatteis. Human servitudc dishonors indus
try. To make work the lot of slaves, is 10
badge workingmen with the disgrace OF
bondage. The sensitive spirit Of the white
man in Democratic State, recoils from
this relation. The Southern States are Gll-
ed with An A. my of ragged, gaunt, lean, idle,
Ignorant and sullen pro,es,ants against the
political inferiority and social degradation
which labor in the midst Of black slaves i'm
poses on white citizens. Two classes rapid
ly form in the Aristocratic States; the bond
African iaborers at the bottom and the
wealthy proprietors at the top. The non-
Shareholders between, Will inevitably be
pressed out, or ground to death.
Herbert, the murderer Of the Irish waiter
Heating, is defended at the South because
according to the Southern code, persoual
servitude degrades the white servants to
the position OF the black slaves. On this
ground, the Charleston >fandard, leading
Blu ;hanan organ, in South Carolina, de.
maHds that Herbert shall be exempted from
punishment, for the murder Of poor Heating.
1t uses this remarkable language:
"Any provocation tina, may have been civ.
en- Tor the assault upon him by the body Of
walters. was 1T the most a provocation OF
words, and such o provocation as u SERVANT
Ehoa'u Hot uaNc Ilxut W resent, anu, n
WHITE MEN accept the Offices Of MENiAI.S
II should be expected that they will do 80
with an apprehension Of their RELATION
TO SOCIETY, and the disposition quietly to
encounter both the responsibilities and the
liabilities which the relation imposes"
That Is servants, walters, must consent to
be rebuaed, insultei, cursed, and kicked,
and must take it all patiently aud bunbly
a. social incidents belonging to their condi-
iion. II they are so presamptuous as to resist
the laws OF the code, they are to be sho, down
liks slave or dog.
There is, says the Albany Evening jour
nal, no more shameful ani sorrowful fac. in
tie history 81 our Politics, than that Mr..
Buchanan, son Of frca state, and nnnil
OF agood shool of free Industry and Of go.
clni equality, shoaid be the voluntary exno.
nent of policy whsch requires Irish md
American and German table waters. Ia sub.
NIT pesceably TO insult and mron; and To-
confess BY humility Of manner aud excess u
endurance, that, they are not MEN
free men in the Capital Of tue Republic
ba. are brutes and chntteis. The people will
sslie this feuial teaching in November Me- /.
aad repress its lristocratie missionaries with.
in their preseas field OF lashing, clubbing.
branding and bounding Of Working Men.
: BATTLE OF os.AwArrAsiE.-Capt. O. c.
Brown, the redoabtable hero u Ossavatra.
ME, 10 not dead. With his thirty or for,v
brave comrades he fought over two hundred
RadiAns, and kept them at bay TIL his auma-
milton gave out, when he retired with . lo..
Of three men killed, and three wagons load.
Of the Rul6xns killed.
OOL. BiasxLL.--Ehe Ebo- Shias seem to be
ssbseasly anxious to get the gallant Col.
~ ~ track, md arc constantly circulating
pAoouen thnt IN has withdrawn lie in M,