The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-03-08
THE DAY BOOK.

Northern White SloUes and Southern
Blac Ones.-The relative position in point
of comfort and good treatment of the slaves
at the South and the poor oppressed white
operatives of the manufacturing districts Of
New England seems to be realized by the
shoemakers now on the strike at Lynn, if we
can judge from the following colloquy, said
by Boston paper to have occurred there at
a recent meeting:
FIRST SHoEMAKER.-What is the use of
our making such fuss about the slaves of
the South -? | tell you we are almost as
much oppressed as they are. In fact, in one
sense, we are worse oppressed for they don't
work so many hours in the week as we do;
and they get living, while the most of us
could mt live, with our families, if we couldn't
get trusted for necesssries of life, which we
never expect to be able to pay for at this
rate
SECOND SHoEMAKER.-W are verse treat
ed than the slaves of the South, in every
sense, so far as l can see.
FIRST SHoEMAKER.-Y es, don't know
but we are.
THIRD SHoEMAKER.-You know, gentle
men, we are not quarter as bad off as this
s aves of the South, though we are, by our
own foolishness, ten times as bad off as we
ought to be. They cant vote, nor complain,
and we can. And then, just think of:.it; the
slaves can't hold mass meetings, ner Strike
and we haven't lost that privilege yet, thank
the Lord.
FIRST SHoEMAKER.-That's so; but what'll
these privileges amount to, if they come to
nothing? You see, gentlemen, the only SUI
periority of our condition over that of South
ern slaves is, we have got to manufacture
ourselves out OF this strike. Shall we fail,
or shall we assert our superiority over South
ern niggers
The Administration Vie,o Of the Mexican
Treaty.-The Washington Constitution of
Monday, commenting upon the Mexican
Treaty now before the U. States Senate for
ratifation, says;
If it be ratified we shall preserve peace
with our unhappy neighbor without loss of
honor; we shall derive incalculable CONNER
cial, manufacturing, and agricultural bene-
fits; we shall obtain partial satisfaction, to
the extent of 81, 600, 600, of the claims of our
fellow citizens, amounting in the aggregate
to about $10,000,000, and long and justly
due; and we shall prevent r rather remove,
the intervention OF foreign nations in the do
nestle concerns with Mexico. At this mo-
ment her sovereign rights are invaded by
France and Great Britain, to whom, under
the threat of armed interference, she Is
compelled to pay sixty nine per cent. OF the
duties collected at Vera Cruz and Tampico.
If, on the other hand the treaty is rejected,
it is our positive conviction that war with
Mexico is inevitable; and in that one calam-
ity is obviously comprised the loss of all
the advantages which are now within our
reach.
The Mobile Tribune amusingly checks of
the incidents of Tennyson's poem for which
he was paid fl0 line. For instance, the
opening cost $3.50; a passage in which a
wife asks her husband to forgive man, costs
$3.50; the husband rates his reply at $500,
and the upshot of the whole matter is, that
the good woman sings the baby to sleep, at
a cost of $500 to the publishers OF Macmil-
lan's Magazine; the husband concludes to
forgive his friend, now that he is dead; and
then-all hands go to sleep The entire
poem of three hundred ana thirteen lines
cost about Sis 200.
A lady in Petersburg, Va, one day last
week, W lille out marketing, brought cab
bage in rather close pro ximity to her face,
and as she did so, small green snake, wax
ed from his repose among the leaves OF the
cabbage, perked out his head and gave the
lady tender kiss upon the lips. His impu-
dent snakeship then proceeded to render
himself comfortable in the bosom of the UNI
suspecting dame and mad stretched his long,
almost transparent body half way around
her neck, before she vas aware OF his pres.
ence, when she let tall the cabbage and her
basket OF butter and eggs, and alter few
screams, removed the intruder. 1t was Is
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