Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-08-14

WORKING Men OF TRINITY The social position
of labor In this county is much more exalted than
that of anv other community in which we have
lived. Here there is less of jealousy aud animos-
itv, less of distinctive line between working men
and others who make a living by less laoonous
pursuits; and men of honorable purpose ana uh-
blemished life assert and maintain that social
equality, which breaks down the thorns from the
way side of life and brightens the sunbeams that
fall in Golden showers upon ALL Here the indus
trious, intelligent worker demands the position
fraternal help in misfortune and personal respect
to which he is everywhere entitled by the rights
of man. In misfortune or failure the miner de-
mands forbearance of the merchant tells him that
he will dig and repay the credit, and chat foroear-
ance is not denied; nor is ii, in many instances
repaid with ingratitude and bad faith. Many Of
our most Intelligent and influential citizens labor
daily with the heavy implements OF the mnc'
who never bend their shoulders to the ignomlni-
GUS burden of a sighting word. They walk on
the highway of life, conscious that the earth
marks upon their clothes are the honorable di-
plomas of industry, and that the inquistorial eye
of ofrespectabity will detect nothing of deflemcnt
on the rough habiments adapted to vocation.
Unbapply this is not everywhere prrceptible,
even in our own State of democratic social econ
omv. We have been in communities where pro.
fessional men, almost imperceptible in the
measure of mind, thrftless bankrupts and
lounging fops, crowded tie unpresumng miner
to the dark side of the walk, and asserted sort
of arisiocracy at the expense of some timorous
clothes vender who had not the resolution to
refuse them gratuitous embellishments In those
places q bitterness is engendered in the minds Of
miners against all whose occupations require
different dress, and the working-man with down
cast eye and compressed lip hurries along alone
in crowd We assert that this state of things
does not exist in this community. Some, brooding
over misfortune and grown solitary and m'san-
thropc in voluntary isolation, may think they
perceive in others decreasing friendiness and
an unwontcd obiquity of old time recognition;
but the real cause is not on the surface Of their
we'll worn clothes, or because there is earth upon
them.
Observation and experience instruct us that
very many of the most intelligent of Trinity cit
iZcns labor with their hands in the mine; we
perceive this in what they require to read, in
occasional conversation and in unstudied remarks
at public meetings. Nor does it seem wonderful
to men and women of sense; so long as the earth
yields greater reward to exertion than the pro-
fessions or local Offices, men of enterprise and
intelligence will work in the hope of gathering
that rcsistless power with which gold invests its
possessor In other places dcmagogues and son
timentalists speak and write of the nobility of
labor; but here it is illustrated by example
What worker, then, conscious Of rectitude and
high purpose, would, even in temporary financial
ruin, shrink from the face Of man, feeling that
he is anything less entitled to the respect Of his
fellow citizens? Would he not smite the insuter
in the face who would tread upon him the weight
Of a hair?
Compare this state of existence with that of
the heart-broken, all but God-forsakcn people
who work from carly day till tardy coming night
in foreign labor places; they look up with their
pale and shrunken faces and their look is sad
to see.'