Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-04-07

who do your labor cannot be dispensed
with. The senator says you mnst hav'
class to do your degraded labor. de
: ny that labor is degraded; and here j
the point Of difference between Us. whicl
fear can never be overcome. That i
one grand reason why we resist your sys
TEN coming into our Territories; it is be
cause you are determined 10 contami
nate all labor by this degraded Glass;
Will the free, intelligent laborer place
himself upon a level with your mere n5
ject chattel, and toll there? Sir, he can
not do it, and ought not to dot, and vii
not do il.
i What an idea of laborl The Senator
supposes that the laboring class want bu
very little mind and very little skill
Sir, there is nothing on earth that put
the human intellect to all that it can at
tain like the varied labor of man. Wha
does your drone, your refined aristocrat
do in his mind? What problems doe.
he work ous? He consumes the product.
Of labor; he is idle, and ten to one he il
also vicious. He never inveuts. GO tC
your Patent Office. and see what are tht
products of your degraded labor and
your refined aristocrat The latter nev.
er invents anything, unless it is a new
way Of stuffing chicken or mixing IL
quor. Laughter. He invents nothing
beneficial to man. Degraded labor, with
a low intellect. is all you wantl Sir, the
machinery brought into operation by in
telligent labor is doing now more drudg-
cry than all the slaves upon the face Of
the earth. The elements are yoked to
the machines of human usefulness, and
there they are doing the work of bone
and muscle, and your system cannot
abide with it. The doom of slavery
would be fixed. if it was by nothing else
than the products of intelligent labor
You drudge along in the old way; you
invent no steam engine. because your la
Dor is degraded. You do not want skill;
you want but very little mind; and the
Senator thinks the more ignorant the la.
borers are the better, for he says they are
so degraded that they have no ambition
aud they never will endanger this REIN
ed class that eats up the proceeds of their
/ laborl
That is the idea of government thai
prevails all through the slayeholding re
gions of the South. Again. the Senator
says of the degraded class that do the
drudgery:
ut constitutes the very mud-sill of society and
OF political government and you Right as we'll
attempt to build house In the air, as to build
either the one or the other, except on this mud.
sill"
And then he goes on to say that we ot
the North have white slaves, that we
perform our labor by white slaves. This
class must exist everywhere, and they
must be q mud sill up n which you must
erect civil societies aud political organi
cations. How little that gentleman un
derstood of the spirit of our northern
ls5orers! would like TO see him en-
deavoring to erectIhis political institutions
upon their PROSTATE necks as mud silIs.
| think it would be little troublesome.
lie might as well make his bed in hell !,
or erect his building over a volcano, as
to undertake to build on his northern
"mud silIs." Then, with simplicity
that shows that he knows nothing of
northern society, he says we have sent
our missionaries down to their very
hearthstones 10 endanger their system.
| do not know how that is; but he turns
rnund end aSL. ho- ,va --,oriJ III. al -
to send their missionaries mp to teach our
laborers their power. was astonished
at such an idea as that being presented
to political men Of the North, who know
and see aud feel the power of the labor
ing class of men. We are all laboring
men. and the politician canuo, move un-
less they breathe upon him; be cannot
move unless he moves with their appro-
baton. They are the soul, the strength.
the body, the virtue, the main stay of
all our society. Deprive our State Of its
laborers and what would it be? We
have nothing else, and we have none Of
your refined society that is SPOKEN Of
We all labor, and are all disgraced, as
the gentleman would call it, in our COM
muniIy. Labor with Us is honorable;
idleness is disreputable. That is the
state Of things with US, and the laboring
man knows full well, and needs no mis-
sionary 10 tell him the potency of his
vote.
We should like 10 have your missiona.
ries come up and endeavor to endanger
our society! Good heavensl One man
has the same interest in upholding it as
another. Suppose one man is richer than
another in Ohio. There is DO very great
diversity, as general thing; but sup
pose he is; take the child of the poorest
man in our state; and has he any temp
tstiOn to overthrow our Government
No, sir; full of life, full of hope, full of
ambition 10 go beyond him who has gone
furthest, he wishes to avail himself of
The same securities which have minister
ed to the upbuilding of others. He is a
citizen, who holds all the rights of citi-
zenship as dear as the most wealthy
His stake in society is The same; his in
-erest in good government is the same.
tie Is none OF your PROSTATE mud -sllls,
deprived Of those rights which God Al
mighty has given him, trampled under
foot, and made to minister to the inter-
ssts Of another man. There is no such
system as that with Us.
But the Senator spoke about a degrad
ed class in our great commercial cities.
have to confess that there is some truth
IN that. We have degraded class in
he cities. They are the uffscourings
generally of The Old World men who
come here reduced to beggary by their
guarance; reduced to beggary by their
iice; ignorant, vicious. dangerous. L do
lot deny it. They are incident to all
aage cities; but the Senator should not
of them. They are the chief
corner stone of your political strength in