Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-28

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ed by eighteen dollars per annum, with the
privilege of being logged at discretion, and
| having his wife or children sold from him at
the necessity-or will of his master, the senator
| from South Carolina informs the Senate Of the
! United States, is ''well compensated - Sir,
there is not poor-house in the free States
where there would not be rebellion in three
days 1t the inmates were compelled 10 subsist
on the quantity and quality OF food the sena-
tor, estimates as ample compensation" for
the labor of slave in South Carolina.
Turning from his "well compensated
slaves, the senator tells us that our "hiIeling
laoorers," our "mud -sils," are scantily
"compensated." Mr. Chngmsu of North
Carolina, in urging the establishment of cot
ton manufactures in the South, says the wa
| ges of labor at the North are one hundred per
| cent higher than wages in the same pms nits
in the South. The wages of labor in iron
| mills in South Carolina were thirteen dollars
| per month in 1867 in Massachusetts they
were thirty. Sir, these hands of mine have
earned, month alter month, two dollars per
day in manual labor, and have paid that sum
to "hireing manual laborers,' month after
month, and year after year. Financial and
commercial revulsions sometimes come upon
US, and press heavily upon all branches of the
mechanic arts and manufactures but labor
- 5ShOiaill Wei plO96u anu wen paul. Al
any rate, the laborng men of the tree States
have open to their industry all the avenues of
agriculture, commerce, manufactures and the
mutltarious mechanic arts, where skilled la
Dor is demanded, aud where they do not have
to maintain, as the senator in his address be-
fore the Institute of his own State tells US the
white men of South Carolina have to main
tain, "a feeble and ruinous competition with
the labor of slaves" r r
Borrowing, MIR. President, an idea, found
in a speech made in the House by Mr. Pick.
ems, of his. own State, more than twenty
years ago, in which he threatened to preach
insurrection to northern laborers, the senator
asks, f" how he would like for them to send
lecturers and agitators to teach our shireling
| laborers the tremendous secret of the power
of the ballot-boX," and q to aid in combining
and to lead them ;" Sir, tell the senator
we would wGcome him. his lecturers and
agitators; we would bid them welcome to
on hearth stones and our affairs. Ours are
the institutions offreedom; aud they flourish
best in the storms and agitatons of inquiry
and free discussion. We are conscious that
our social and political institutions have not
attained perfection, and we invoke the ex-
animation and the criticism of the genius and
learning of all Chrstendom. Should the
senator and his agitators and lecturers come
| to Massachusetts on a mission 10 teach our
g hireling class of manual laborers," our
"mud sills, our " slave - the "tremend-
Gus secret of the balot-box" and 10 'shep
combine and lead them,' these stigmatized
hirelings" would reply to the senator and
his associates, We are freemen; we are the
peers of the gifted and the wealthy; and we
know the " tremendous secret of the ballot.
box =: and we mould and fashion these in
afffa fiopc fhofk o,,A I i
free commonwealth These public schools
are ours, for the education Of our children
these libraries. with their accumulated treas
ures, are ours; these multtudinous and va
ried pursuits of life, where intelligence and
| skill ind their reward, are ours. Labor is
| here honored and respected. and great ex-
| amples incite us to action. All around us in
| the professions, in the marts of commerce, on
the exchange where merchant. princes and
capitalists do eongregate; in these manufac.
tories and workshops, where the products of
every CLINE are fashioned into a thousa nd
forms OF utility and beauty; on these smiling
farms, tertilized by the sweat of free labor in
every position OF private and OF public life,
are our associates, who were but yesterday
hireling laborers," mud .sills," Slaves
IN every department of human effort are no.
BILE men who sprang from our ranks-men
whose good deeds will be felt and will live in
the grateful memories of men when the stones
reared by their hands of affection to their hon
ored names shall crumble into dust.
4 Our eyes glsten and our heats throb over
the bright, glowing, and radiant pages of our
history that record the deeds of patriotism of
the sons of New England, who sprang from
our ranks and wore the badges of toll, While
the names OF Ben amin Franklin, Roger Sher-
man, Nathaniel Greene, and Paul Revere,
live on the'brightest pages of our history, the
mechanics of MASSACHUSETTS ane New Eng
land will never want illustrious examples to
incite US to noble aspirations and noble deeds.
60 home say to your privileged class, which
you vauntngly say "leads progress civiliza-
tlon' and refinement" that it is the opinion
of the hireling laborers" of Massachusetts,,
If you have no sympathy for your African
oondmen, in whose veins flows so much of
your own blood, you should at least sympa-
thize with the millions of your own race.
whose labor who have dishonored and de.
graded by slavery You should teach your
millions of poor and ignorant white men, so
long oppressed by your policy, the " tremen.
dous secret that the ballot box is stronger than
an army with banners !" You should com.
bne and lead them to the adoption of policy
which shall secure their own emancipation
from degrading thraldom
Mr.. President, for four years the distant
Territory of Kanzas has been the battle. field
between freedom and slayery-between free
labor which elevates, and servile labor which
degrades. In this contest slavery has startled
the nation by series of acts of violence. and
by frauds you will scarcely find paraleled in
the history OF the world. These acts of VIC.
lence, these frauds, perpetrated by the neces.
s'ties OF the slave power, upheld by the ready
seryility of the Democratic party, are now
made the test of fealty by the Administrator,
Fealty to the Administration, to the Demo.
cratic party, is now fealty to human slavery.
to violence, TO trickery, and fraud Sir, by
| perversions of the Constitution and tie laws.
by the red hand of violence, by unveiled
trickeries and transparent frauds, by the In.
decent prescription Of men OF infiexibe intep-
rity, by the prostitution of the honors of the
| government, and by the crank corruption.
mining all Within which "infects unseen .
the Administration is converting the Ameri-
can Democracy into mere organization for
the perpetuity, expansion, and domination of
human slavery on the North American CONT
nent There is not today in all Christendom
political organization so hostile to the rights
OF human nature, to the development of re.
Publican idess, to the general progress of the
human race, as the Democratic party of the
United States. There is not a political or.
ganization even in Spain, Russia, or Austria,
that dare, in the face of the civilized world,
blazon its banners with doctrines so hostile to
the rights of mankind, so abhorrent to bu.
manity, as are avowed in these halls, and up.
held by the American Democracy, under the
lead OF this administration. The great powers
of Europe, England, France, and Russia, have
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