The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-14

Ia AHShlAs w mAIV nODA
Ths Free LsAsr Movemsas &c che uorta.
We published yesterday the proceedings Of q
meeting OF the journeymen shoemakers Of this
city, held for the purpose Of adopting measures
to Sustain the strikers Of New Ergiand in their
effort 70 obtain an advance Of wages on the
present starvation prices paid for their FREQ
labor.
This meeting is only oneof many Of the same
character which are yet to be held. The move
ment Is spreading on every side The giant
struggle ofisbor against capital is only In the
commencement Of ta career. Tho republican
party have awakened the wrong customer.
They have set on foot q war against capital In
the South, which has extended to capital in
the North, and tho ahoemakers and men Of
other trades think that what il sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander. The republicans
have endsavored to stir up to insurrection
against capital the black labor at the other
side Of Mason and Dixen's line, and the white
labor on this side has taken the hint and
carried the war into the camp of Northern CAPT
tai The intention of William II. Seward and
bis political friends was to enlist the free labor
of the North against the capital of the South;
but, instead Of that, it is rising In rebellion
against the capital of the North.
II has begun with shoemaking, but it viii
extendi to every other trade: meetings have
been held in few places, but the movement
Widespread to every Northern State and city,
either In the shape Of strikes or Of raising ma
terial aid for the strikers, and giving them
moral support The black republican leaders
and Journalists are sorely troubled about the
free labor strikes Of white men; but they win
soon find, like Frankenstein, who raised mon
ster be could not quell, that they have started
a revolution which they cannot arrest The
SNOWFALL gathers volume as it rolls, and so will
the labor movement against capital
One ofthe speakers at the meeting, evidently
q friend of the manufacturing interest, told
story about shoemakers being able to earn
twenty-four dollars per week--a statement
which excited no small indignation, and would
answer better to tell the "horse marines"
than any intelligent assembly of free
men, The same gentleman repudiates the
idea that any Northern white men are
slaves. 1t is true that they are not slaves
in the technical sense But what is in
a name? Their "bossesr have not right to
their services for life; but. Northern working
men have no right to sustenance and support
from their employers for even an hour, much
lase Enr Nc
white labor at the North and negro labor at
the South is this: that the one is free to |
exc out miserable existence in the best way
it csn--to vegetate and rot-to be willing to
work even to the destruction of health, for
reasonable remuneration, but denied the OPP
portanity of doing denied the right to i've
And this is called free labor; while the other,
which is called slave labor, is never
tasked beyond its strength, is well fed,
we'll clothed, well cared for in sickness and
health, and provided for in old age by the
authority Of law. The black republican
leaders have great sympathy for the imaginary
and wrongs Of these happy blacks,
but no bowels of compassion for the woes Of
miserable white men, who, Made IN tho
image Of God, are doomed to look at their
wives and children dying by inches before their
eyes for The want of Aat sustenance which
the prices paid by Northern capital deny them.
These agitators, who are the false friends of the
black laborers Of the South, are the real enc
mics of the white operatives of the North. By
driving away Southern custom from the
Northern labor market, the supply becomes
greater than the demand, and the suHerings Of
The people become almost intolerable.
But this is only the beginning Of sorrows
Every day matters will grow worse and worse,
I'LL the canse of the evil is removed, and the
lost equilibrium between the North and the
South is restored. But If the ant-slavery agi.
tation is continued, and is not speedily put
down by the voice Of the people oppressed,
through the ballot box, the present embarrass-
ments Of capital and the hardships OF labor will
be increased thousand fold. And how would
the misiortunes Of the laboring population of
the free States be still more enhanced, If four
millions Of emancipated slaves were sent among
them from the South, to augment the surplus
labor, accumulate pauperism, and overwhelm
property and industry with taxation for its sup.
port
THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION IT
OuGBT o DE HEID.-The National Democratic
Convention, to be held at Charleston, to nomi-
4.