Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-09-14
MORE OF JoHNseN,s REcofsUs

MORE OF JOHNsoN's REcofgUs
In the Pittsburgh Journal of thep2 "a
inst, we find the following ssizss Il
CAPITAL SHOULD OWN IT'S LABOR"
Write it out, and look at it, alt you
labofing and toiling thousands of this
city and State. The Democracy Heaven
save the mark at Baltimore have -nomr
mated a ticket, on which johnson of
Georgia, is candidate for Vice President,
This man, on the 17th of September,
1856, made a speech in Philadelphia in
which he said: gz.,g} Il i. s.s- aims r
"We believe capital should own labor;
is there any doubt that there must be a
labaring class everywhere? In all coun>
tries and under every form Of social or
ganization there must bea laboring class
Ia class of men who get their living by
the sweat of their brow; and then their
must be, another class that controls and
directs the capital of the cohntry' ~
We ask our readers, thousands Of
whom are men whose hands have been
hardened by toll, We ask you now, if you
can, to vote for ticket that carries ON
it the name of man who can unblush-
lngly, in the capital of this mighty labor
State, stand up and say that the owners
ofour foundries, rolling mills, coalmines9
and farms should oaonr the sine,osI and tie,
souls of those who sieare their bread bythe.
s.eeat Q their bro.e. ....s.l...,.. 80.
And moreover, this vile calumniator
of honester men than he dares to be, puts
his argument boldly Upon tbs ground
that capital sboald o,rst its labor tscdasss
ids 1aborts II "Thereo ISL says he "a Ia,
boring class, and q ruling class!,' =. .s;.ra
t What man is this, who has the hdrdi-
hood to cast such slur upon our iiisti-
tutions1 ssA labofings class owned by
capital9 indeed! n Who twere Bsojaminz
Franklin, Roger Sherman, Gen, Green;
and hosts of our best and greatest men,;
but of the laboring class? Let johnson
come to our city, and we will point him
to the capitalist who is also the laborer,
and the laborer who has his snug SUM
in the bank for a rainy day. This is
your Democratic here aef 1860, whose
highest idea, Of labor is what he sees
Iscourged daily to the rice swamps or ex-,
posed Oh the auction blockr Ria laborer
is the down ggtroddeu one whom tho man 2
stealer plucks from his dFamily, chains
in the feoffie, anddsends salanking to-
the lifezdoom Of unreqpited toll !
To our Democratic Vice Presidential
candidate, every man Of Pennsylvania
''who eats his bread in the sweat Of his
face, is SO much bone andasinew to be!
boughtand sold hyscapital. 'anduwnedhy7
capital whipped BY, capital = plum,
dered by "capital," and damned if acapi.
tap please? Mihd, itiss'labor" that soap
ital" should own; not Africans, not In
dians, NOR Japanese. nor Chinese coolies.
nor any particular class Of teilers, but
"labor," which, the thing being pat for
the person, includes all nlen who do
labor, whether III the deadly rice swamp
under the scorcoing3 sun of Georgia, or
by the blasing forges of sPennsyiyauia,,
The laboring man who, knowing of that
speech of johnson S, would yet vote for
him for dny Office deserves to Be a r1dntq-N
ton stace, and should cork to The crack ;
Of a whip alt the days Of his life! n!oaaht