Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-09-12
Labor va. Slavery.


Year by year slavery reveals its
an,agonism to the interests OF the
free laborer Not content with de-
grading MS social position, it seems
now to have laid its bloody hand on
his throat and claimed the right 10
take his life. The killing Of Reai-
ing, by Herbert, brings out distinctly
this doctrne--that gentlemen have
right to abuse laborers, and II they
resent the insult, then for their lnso-
lence they may be lawfully killed on
the spot This is the lesson Of the
Herbert tragedy. Do our Northern
workinemeu wish 70 study ~ We
assure Them VIC do not misstale the
case. The doctrine is clearly laid
down in the follow ing from the Char
lestown Is. CO. Standard:
Herbert and Heating. Any
provocalion that may have been Civ
en- for the assault upon him by the
body Of walters, was at the most, a
provocation Of words, and such
provo ali n as servant should not
have right to resent and II white
men accept the offices Of such men
ials, it should be expected that they
will do so with an apprehension Of
their relation TO society, and the dis
position quietly 10 encounter both the
responsibilities and the liabilities that
The relation imposes"
In this region it is generally under
stood that the relation Of the ser
want and the employer is a mutual
one, that each is bound to respect
the rights and feelings Of tie other,
that the laborer is called upon To
give up no portion OF his manhood,
and that gentleman will scorn Ia
disgrace himself by abusing those
who mny be socially his interiors, or
engaging in personal conflict with .
them. The doctrine Of slavery as
laid down above is, that gentlemen
have q right TO abuse those in their
employ, that it is the laborer's duty
TO submit quietly. but if he resents
the insult then it is entirely proper
and becoming for the gentleman to
chastlse him on the spot. This is
the Southern idea of gentlemaniy
conduct, and of the position of the
laborer. And 1t is fully carried out.
Only last week another waiter was
stabbed, al Cape May, by young
buck from Washington. Really the
occupation of the waiter is getting
TO be n perilous one
But the doctrine Of slavery strikes
no more at walters than any other
class of laborers. 1t wars against
free labor in all its forms. Says a
Charleston, s. C. paper
4" Slavery is the natural and nor
NAL condition of the laboring man,
whether WHITE or BLACK. The
great evil of Northern free society
is, that il is burdened with a SerUile |
class OF MECHANICS and LABoRERs,
unfit for selEgovernment, and yet
clothed with the attributes and pow
ers of citizens. Master and slave
is relation in society as necessary
as that of parent and child and the
Northern States will yet have TO in
troduce it. Their theory of free
government is delUson."
You hear it, free laborers Of the
North You are all slaves, or ought
TO be, and if the South can carry
out lis plans, you most assuredly will
be Says The Richmond, Va, En-
aniiner ;
The South now maintains that
Slavery is right, natural and necessa-
ry, and does not depend on the dir
ference in complexion. The laws
Of the Slave States Justify the hold
ing Of white men in bondage"
And il is these laws which the .
South seeks TO carry, under the con
stilution, into all the territories Of
the Union --POrtidnd Trans.