New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-22
nsau,,sa Of ,yh,,s slavery.

The Cincinnati Commercial ia a darkly, deeply
dyed Freesoi journal, although ably and interest
ingly conducted in other respects. 1t can see little
or no good in the South, and little or no evil in
the North Its freesosm blinds its eyes, deaens its
ears and obscures its Judgment whenever 1t refers
to Southern affairs. 1t will write eloquentIy and
| pathetiealy upon the fabulous wrongs Southern
slaves are falsely said to endure-the said slaves
being PROFESSIONALLY the happiest and best cared-for
set Of aborers in Chrstendom-and, at the same time,
entirely overlook and forget the crying evils the sad
expressions, and the mighty tyrannes their system
of labor practices upon the free white operatives of
its own immediate section of country! But this is
not strange-it is ireesoilsm-and when that is said
all is said for the subject is exhausted.
| Not long since the German journeymen tailors OF
Cincinnati held large meeting, and resolved to ask
increase of wages of from 25 to so per cent The
Commercial had report of the proceedings Of the
meeting from which we take the subjoined extract
About thrty-fve hundred journeymen tailors are
employed by wholesale manufacturers in this city,
and their average TRACES are about ftype cents per
diem. Some do not receive ouer hTtyfUe cents per
dien while fetc # any receice G60ce sirty cents
/ They all required to work ten hours day. Those
who are able to own sewing machines, and who EN-
poy from three to half dozen girls to assist them
make fair per diem by working from sixteen to
eighteen hours out OF the twenty-four. The prices
|
/ For ordinary cashmere and doeskin pants which
are sold at from 81 TO IS per pair the manufacturer
pays the ourneyman Is to 40 cents per pair for MAX
Ing It requires day to make pair For an ord
nary cloth coat usually sold by the manufacturer at
from $40 to $l5, the jonrneyman is paid So to 623
cents for making. 1t requires full day to make it.
For good quilted coat 81 Is is paid for making.
year ago the price was 81 So It requires fully three
days fast stitching to make such. For making an
ordinary cloth, silk, satn velvet or other vest the
tailor is paid Is to so cents, and it is a days work
| Taors say that they know that pants have been
made, within week, for Is cents pair.
Merchant tailors pay their journeymen about one
hundred per cent better prices, and charge their
toners more than pro rata price for work. Cut
tiers are paid 3 cents each for cutting out vests,
cents per pair each for pantaoons, and l21 cents
each for coats. The majority, however, are paid by
| The month.
! very affecting narration, but very coolly related
Although the proposition is incontrovertible that
these poor white people cannot live their meagre
wages except food that slave would reject with
contempt, and which no stakeholder would venture
to place before his chattelsn the Commercial has no
words of editorial sympathy, encouraging COM
mens proers of assistance to aid in extricating
the impoverished from the distresses that environ
! them! Oh no Freesoilism has no feeling in COM
mon with white slavery All that sort of material is
reserved for Southern blacks who do not need it, and
who out of the teeming abundance which surrounds
them know not the meaning Of the words priyaton
or want. Freesoilsm thou art an arrant hypocrte