New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-03

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stronger than things that il is sinest in vain to
convince these fosterbrethren Of ours that there s
suy inconsistency in this American Edition Of their
IrisL hatred of oppression. Hopeless, indeed. Is it
to EEK 10 disturb the bestifc vision of plantation
in Tennessee ard gang Of healthy negroes wbi,h
lures onward the steps Of that model martyr and
pattern patriot. Mr.. John Ntchel, fJr it ia nos
hatred Of tyranny as i. affect. Others. but az i.
comes scro.s bis own path tha. sweus the voI-.
and .hsrpens the pen Of bis Remuneration OF op
pre.sors. Toler, and Fitzgibbon. aud Major Lrr
would have made just such rebels as he, and
would have been as loyal defenders OF Law and
Order as be. had their positions been changed. II
was all one selfshness in different DISCUSSES.
But. what rich Asbams lands and gangs Of Ne
groes and overseers and saye-whips are 10 Mr..
John Mitchell, their own right arms mot forgetting
their left a.o) and the pick-ar, the shovel and the
hoe are 10 the finest peasantry on earth. II is on
these that they depend for winning bread for the
wife and the children. Whatever, then, is Ike to
come bet1 these bread winners and their bread
is ss serit u. calamity to them as the engaging OF
their p ssas c BY the Cndei ground Railway by al
hi. fat z, gre es would be TO Mr. John Mitchell. Now
if there BE- any estate that regarded as en-
| tailed upon its lawful owner, one would consider
the ines Of railways snd canal. aud other public
nprovenens as belonging, during the time of
their building 10 our Irish fellOw-eitizens. When
they ak rs at pubic meetings, in reply 70 the gbes
| vi the KLOw -NOthings what would ye have
| - done without IL when We were digging your ca
''nals and making your railroads ," We are com
PEELED TO admit that We should have been very much
in the vccaiiye without them. But their Southern
alies-those whose dominion over them too many Of
Their number are ready to cement By voting for
Buchanan-their Southern allies deyising more
excellent way whereby they can b. rid of them.
Many Of the public works in the slave country have
been built BY the hands of slaves hired for that pur
pose By the contractors Of the same. The white
sborers have been To great extent, shut ont from
their share OF this work by the riyashp of slave
labor. But now it is seriously proposed BY the
President Of the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad
Company, as may be seen by his report in The Bos
ton RGa,cay Times, that the corporations themselves
buy the slaves their own account and DO up the
work without the interposition of the contractors.
He makes sn accurate calculation of the first cost
Of the negro, Of the insurance on his life, OF his
clothing and food and foots il all up at SlF5
year; and his allowances, il must be owned, are
liberal almost 10 the point of extravaganza. lie
allows less than SlJ for clothes, Sl5 for bacon,
snd so for corn and Notwithstanding q grand
toa OF $40 for the reward Of man who works a
whole year for nothing else Who viii say that
cortoraiioIs have no souls after this Allowing
Ja,s in tha
year, each laborer would stand the company in,
everything reckoned, but forty-sin cents a day
Part of the hands il is proposed to place upon
farm in the neighbOrhood TO be- hired for tue pur-
pose where a portion Of the provisions could be
raised. and which "coud be usei as a nursery or
rero-itory for The siqrts and mules not IN suits
bic condition for work, IL rest and be recruited
VIII any infdel hereafter deny the humanity OF the
.lsyehO,dersl is not be that il merciful to his
beast coed man And So il can be logically
shown that be that is thus mercifu 10 his black
cattle and his mules must be good Dr.. Nehemiah
Adams could not syllogize it out better Aud il is
10 str.pg hen the hands of men who degrade labor
er, 20 the level of the hybrid beasts that perish
who stigmatize their own honorable calling with
shame, al d who would readily put them int the
CT fife as the negro slaves that honest labOrers, ma
tive as well as foreign TO the soil, are asked to help
under the prostituted name Of Democracy
In The States where this di.honor is done 20 labor,
ard where il is proposed thus To organize the shame
vet more efiecrua,iy the voice OF Northern labor
cannot b. heard with power. But these same
tramplers upon toll demand that the vast territory
which the forecast Of our fathers had dedicatei to
Free Labor shall be blighted by the accursed pres
erce Of Slavery, before whose face Free Laborers
are forced 10 flee. Ii is simple sum IN arlthme
tic. one would think that settles whether it Is
worth the while If the Northern masses, whether
native or foreign which necessarily made up OF
men who live by the labor Of the hands, 10 null
tpy in geomrtrcal ratio the area Of system
which makes the labor of abe.0Odied man
worth precisely forty-six cents day, including IN
;ere,t on his prime cost and the insurance of bis
Iife And vet this is precisely the question which
. 10 be submitted u the white laoorers tomorrow,
and phich We fear, great multitudes OF them, de-
ceyed by the illusion OF words and dazzled by the
false uresenuents offered TO their eyes BY political
contrers VII decide far a. lies ID them, against
,Leuse.yt. d1d against their children. The dead
lest foe of the Northern Free Laboreris the South
ern STAKEHOLDER AS one increases must the other
decrease. They are natural and necessary aatago-
nists And yet such il the deyili-h MacnlaVeiism
of the Slsyecraft, that il bas always been b. The
hand. If these very Northern ldborers that L has
buil5ed Id and fortined it, power. Il receive. from
them dominion. snd il gives them in return word