Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-11-15
RICHMOND THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER

whose tolls bought these comforts must spend their days
in unpleasant dwellings aud often in miserable huts,
doomed TO perpetual obscurity, and denied, even 10
sickness the comforts Of life produced by their own hard
labors.
But who are those honest, sturdy laborers who are
kent in position of inierory TO those who assume TO
be their earthly masers who require them to dive their
carriages black their boots and do for them all kinds OF
menal service? They are icbifs men. They belong to
no inferior race They arc only free but they
the sons Of reemen who shed their blood 10 secure b
erty to their posterity. These men have political rights
inherited from their ancestors which are inaenable-
They have the right TO bear arms, and thousands OF them
know how to use them. They can read aud write and
correspond with each other about the wrongs inflicted
upon Them.
Should separation take place. aud the Northern
States take up against the people Of the South, and
attempt to incite our slaves nsurrectOn. these North
ern white laborers who have suffered much Injustice
NJ he hands of those who have wrung from them the
hard earnings of the sweat o their brow should be en-
conrsged to rise in their might and divide among the
surplus of such Northern capitalists as have received
their labor for many years without making just compen
saon After they have declared their independence OF
those who assume to be their masters and who will not
associate with them nor permit their families TO assoc
ate with them equsls they should be invited 10 Join
our standard and associate With US upon equal terms
They Shoui be liberay rewarded for their services,
should longer be required 70 perform the mental ser
vice OF negro and shou be taught that the true Arstoe
Iacy the South arsOoracy not Of wealth. but oi
color aud Of conduct
We should Lot hesitate to spend whatever sums Of
money may be necessary, to give proper Information,
upon this subject TO the dOwn-trodden and oppressed
hboers Of the North and TO encourage them. in case
of difficulty with the Northern States TO take into their
own hands that Justice which has been so long denied
them by their haughty orpressors As We did not be-
gin this warfare but il has been forced upon u.s. We
should end it ill the aggrcors the greatest
sufferers The gold silver and other treasures, Of proud
and naughty Northern aboliiionists would afford rch
harvest those in their midst who have been all their
lives kept in poverty aud obscury, who more loyal
20 the Constitution Of their country, aud much more
worthy to erjOy these treasures than thousands Of their
oppressors who possess them. How different The
safe of things IN the South Here the poor white al
borer is respected equal His family are treated
with kindness consideration and respect He docs not
belong the mcnal class. The negro is, in no sense
of the term h equi He feels aud knows this lie be-
longs to the only aristocracy, the of he
de blacks masters boots, and bows the knee TO no
one save God alone. lie receives higher wages for his
labor than does the aborer Of any other portion Of the
world and he raises up his chiirea with the knowledge
that they belong TO inferior case bu that the highest
members OF he society in which be lives, WILL il their
conduct is good, respect and treat them as 6qul'.
These know that in the event OF the abolition OF
slavery they would be greater sufferers tha the rich,
who would be able to protect themselves. They will,
therefore, pcrmi. the slaves OF the South TO be set
free among them come in competition with their labor,
lowed testify in Courts against themst on rries
with them march to the ballOtbox 10y their sides, and
participate u the choice Of their ruers-claim scclal
equality with them-and ask the hands Of their children
in marriage. That the ultimate design of the Black Re-
publican party is TO bring about this state OF things IN
the Southern Sa eS aud thai It's triumphs If submitted
TO by u.s. will very distant period lead TO the con-
summation Of these results is Think quite evident to
the mind Of every COOL dspasscuate thinker who has
examined this question: in the light Of all the surround
ing circumstances.
If the madness and folly of the people Of the North
ern States shall drive TO separation from them,
have within ourselves all the clements Of wealth. power
aud national greatness to eIteut possessed probably
by no other people on the face OF the earth. With
aud fertile tory possessed OF every natural advantage
bestowed by kind Providence upon the mos. favored
land and with almost complete monopoly of the cot
ton culture of the world it were true TO ourselves
power would be nVincibe, aud our prosperity I'M
bounded
II it Is ascerained that the Black Republicans have
triumphed u.s. will cordially unite with The Gene
raj Assembly any action, which, in their Judgement
may be necessary the protection Of the rgu and the
p reservation OF the liberties Of Tie people OF Georgia
against the further aggrcssons OF an enemy, which,
when flushed with victory, will be insoen. in tue hour OF
triumph.
For the purpose of putting tbs State in defensive
condition fast possible, and prepHring for an emfr
gency, which must be met sooner or later | recon
mend that the sum Of one million dollars be immediate
ly Appropriated military fund FOR the ensuing year
and iLa prompt provision be made for raising such por
ton Of the money may not be ia the treasury last
the public necessities may regime its expenditure
Millions iQr defense but cent for tribute should
be tho future motto of the SOuh5in1ltes.
To every demand foE further conocs ion or compro-
mise OF our rights, We should reply the Argument is
exhausted" aud we nov stand by our arms
JOslPH 4. BROwS