Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-11-20

means OF national prosperity, and above all adyo
Gated national bank. as the grand regulator of the
currency and the panacaa for all financial evils All
s schemes are and have been mixed up with the inter.
position Of false and artificial standard Of value be
tween the laborer and the employer. by which the
former is continually burdened, while commercial
revusions the result of an excessive development of
the credit system, periodically overtake the com.
munity, driving ths merchant into bankruptcy and
bringing penury and starvation on the operative and
his family. This is the WHITE SLAVERY OF THE
NORTH. This false and unjust system, which If not
nerdicted directly by the Constitution Of the United
States is at least opposed to lite spirit, has been
condemned by the Democratic party.
The protests of the Democracy against the various
forms and notifications in which the spirit Of specu
ston and monopoly has sought TO fasen itself on the
productive energies Of the American people, are
embodied in clear and emphatic language in the
resolutions of the National Conventions of the
party. and in the messages and public papers
Of Democratic Presidents. There is no Disguise
or ambiguity about the views of the Democ.
raoy Those eIcrescences op the social condition of
the North, which have been sanctioned by improv.
dent or dishonest legislation be suffered, but they
are not approved by the democracy, and it bas stead
y and consistently resisted a monopoies and exclu
siVe legslaon for the benefit OF the few at the ex
pense of the many"
There was time when the opposition were willing
to avow boldly their advocacy Of high tariff,
tonal bank, and credit system of which it should
be- the glory and strength. But these days Of polt
cal lngenuousness have changed. The manufacturers
OF New England and the Bankers OF the whole North
have no longer the bold and eloquent champions
they once bad who had entrsnced Sepates In rapt
attention, and furnished ingenious arguments to
make thousands of laborers hug the chains Of that
subtle slavery which continually transferred, without
an equivalent the products of their toll 10 others
What is that but slavery, where " there is class
which produces everything and has nothing, and sno-
tber which produces nothing and possesses every.
thing" 1t was to emancipats the Government from
this slavery that Democracy have insisted on the
OF its moneys from banking institutions,
aud stamped the establishment Of National Bank
"as dangerous to our Republican institutions and the
liberties of the people"
Bank and tariff are the distinctive features of North
ern white servitude with its adjuncs of internal inn
provemeDts by the General Government, its foster
Ing Of those branches of industry which can be mo-
nopozed by great manufacturing corporations to the
detrment of the common interests of the country, its
projects of indorsement of State credit by the Fede.
raj Government, its distribution Of the proceeds OF
the public lands to the Staes and its reckless sppro
praton of these lands to monopolizng companies un
der pretense of local Improvement. The people Of
the South have generally opposed this anti Demo
cratic policy and for the that their capital and
labor were more completely identified in interest than
in any other part OF the world because the master of
negroes has pecuniary motive in sustaining the wages
OF labor, and Is obliged by an implied guaranty TO
support and provide at every period Of life for those
linked to him by the peculiar Institutions Of that sec.
ton of the country.
Therefore Ia that the supporters Of Northern white
slavery, the system of bank and tariff, OF monopoly
aod speculation, of paper currency and unlimited
credit, have OF late years turned against the South
and endesvored to brand il the seat of ogarchy.
For this reason We have heard of late years. longer
the specious sopbsm, "protect American industry"
but the Summers and Stewards who have succeeded
the great Wing statesmen, now shout "prostrate the
slave ogarchy." Those sggressons Of the slsvebold
err however, only mean this, that the Southern mas
e. fhop all NJ ohn
his monopozing bank and tariff taskmasers, nothing
more.
1t was not only dishonest to advocate Abolitionsm
only as a means to sustanepaper money and high
tariffs, at the risk of dsunion but was treason
ous The mass OF the Black "Rspubcan" party
perceive the dissimutstion of their leaders, if
they do not reject their errors as the advocates Of
Northern white slavery They are rejecting the i'm.
material issue of the negro and are ready to come
back to the old political lines The Democratic par
ty will not reject those natural and real grounds OF
differences, and prepared to stand by thoss Just
and equitable principles that have been illustrated by
the frmness and sagacity of Jackson and Buchanan
While they repe the fraudulent and false assumption
that the negro ia in any respect partner in our po
tcal system, they are ready to maintain the equa-
ty of the white man, and TO demand for him, though
poor the fair and undiminished fruit OF hs toll Sub
ect he may be to the inevitable decree in the sweat
Of his brow to eat his bread, but the American De-
mocracy, will not f possible add to that the further
curse of supporting in careless luxury and upproduc
tive idleness, the locuss of monopoly and specula.
ton. If possible they will secure to toll just re
oompense, and as between labor and capital strike
out those partial and unequal statutes which have
Disseminated 30 long in favor Of the latter.
Prats of slavery and bewail the suferings Of ictl-
tious Uncle Toms and Uncle Neds, Mesdames Jelia.
bys and Stowes but what this to the pitiable spec
tscle of thousands OF Intelligent and sturdy white
med daily assembling In front of the New York City
Hall and despairngly asking for work, begging for
work, and finding none aud then returning penpile's
and hopeless to cold and dreary home where the
mute, complaining gaze OF wife and the cries oil
hunger er.stroken children the dismal welcome to
the tortured slave of monopoly. The false philsn.
thropsts of the Beechsr Stowe School, and the Mrs
Jellsbys of Exeter Hall never pretended that Uncle
Tom Aunt Philis or any of their picsnnlnies were
starved on the Southern plantations. In that respect
they far better off than the operative of Man
chester or the laborer Of New York under the eeva
ting and benignant influence of that unjust system
which can oppress even with freedom freedom 10
starve for the aborer the freedom to oppress for the
speculator and monopolis.
When the white men of the North have completely
vndicated their mutual equality broken down the
partial legislation which at all times more than tithes,
the products OF labor in favor of the producers,
seals to almost hopeless penuy the great mass ofther
population, and subjects them every few years to
rigbtful destitution and famine, in the midst OF
over flowing abundance then it will be time to cast
benevolent glance Souihward, stretch out tho hand
OF sympathy 10 the fat and grnning Sambo, and hav
ing emancipated this woody headed brother, elevate
him to be sharer in our political birthrght an equal
in our social and marital relations, and carry out the
fine theories of the Black "Repubicans." Till that
time comes, ,Sambo must stand aside and bde his turn;
for charity begins, or should oegin at home.
In this connection, it gives US great pleasure to re-
publish the following sound sentiments of the N. Y
Journal of Commerce upon the riotous "bunger" de-
monstratous that now af1ict the largo Northern
cities:
1t is very simple for Mrs. Rank, and the Teutonc
Socialists who have figured at Tonpkins Square, to
"resolve" that the city oil New York shall issue war
rants for millions of dollars for the establishment Of
free refscores at the Crystal Palace, the commence
ment by the Corporation and by the Federal Govern
ment of public works on colossal scale, &c' GO;
and these sage counselors may resolve that in case
their demands are complied with, they will sack,
burn and page the stores of the city; but they say
nothing about where the money ia to come from to
execute these gigantic echemes, and seem TO forget
entirely that riot and outrage must be queed even it
resort to the ultima ratio of guns and bayonets be
necessary for that end.
1t is right, nay, it is the duty of the city govern
ment to do everything that they can se'bmatety to
relieve the necessitous poor, by continuing public
works already begun, or for which appropriations
have been made but they have neither a legal nor
moral right TO create work to be paid for by The al
ready ovsrburdened taxpayers. 1t is essential that
the distressed working men should know t5s, and
cease to expect impos.blItles and taey shouid also
know that it s not the duty of the American Govern
ment to provide food or employment their
money power is very limited, and that they cannot
transcend it. Wherever 1t has been attempted. as in
Ireland in 1867 and in France in lS4S to establish
Government Works for the employment OF the poor
tho result has been disastrous failure The mutual
relations of labor and capital are gnlded oy immua-
BILE laws, which cannot be violated with lmpunity.-
Labor must yield to adversely just as it is elevated
by prosperity, and those who live BY labor have no
more right to claim support in hard times than have
ruined merchants, lawyers DOCTORS or the members
OF any other trade or profession who have failed in
their various walks in life.
In spite of the sedtious rawlings Of rowdy speakers
hired for the occasion to ince to riot, or eager for
mischief in any shape for mschets sake, We believe
that the real working men of New York have too much
good sense, TOO much reliance on the sympatny sno
eenerosy of their more fortunate fellow citizens,
and are too we'll aware Of the certain ruin they would
hrina nnan thamaslzes and families, as well upon