The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-10-26

johnson Om lynii-spiittcrs---
More Hatred Of LabOrinr Men
H. " Johnson, the Douglas candidate
for Vice President made speech al
Terre Iiauto, Ind, on the Sth Of Oct
The Daily Express Of that city, reports
the following language az having been
used by him on that occasion;
"Mr Lincoln Ia said TO be good Rail,
SPLITTER have twcnty Negroes at home
who are good Rail-Splittcrs, ANY ONE
OF WHOM ] WOULD RATHER
SEEE EElECTED TO THE PRESIDEN.
|CY OF THE UNITED STATES.
THAN ABRAHAM LINCOLN"
We think that Mr.. Linouln's most Bit
ter opponents will admit that he Is equal
at least, in point Of ability aud character,
to the average of Ruil-Spli,tors Of the
West. Even Mr.. Johnson does not ques-
ton that. Then il follows, of course,
that Mr. lohuson considers rauy one" Of
his "twcnty Negroes" as better qualified
Tor the Presidency than white Rail-Split-
ters. What say you lsboVing men, to
this kind of Democrats. Arc YOU ready
to place in the second Office Of the gov
erumcnt man who tins eleyates his de-
graded and ignorant "pFopcrty" abote
YOU in tho scale of Intelligence and
worth Should this petty ,yropt and
sncoriug aristocrot succeed through your
votes, aud finally become tho President
as two Vice Presidents hayo already dono
you must not complain 1.-THE offices at
his disposal are filed with his negroes
end those Of his fellow slave holders, rath-
or than from any of the Rail-SpliItcrs
and other white laboFors Of the North
for IL Negro Rail-Splitiors are preferable
to white ones FOR President, they certain
ly are for subordinate positions
But this Democratic candidate has as
high an estimate Of Northern 'Ruil-Split:
ters as ofother white lpborcrs. as shown
by his previous speeches. Al Philadcl-
phia, in 1856, he said;
"WE BELIEVE PROPERTY should
| OWN LABOR. Is there any doubt that
there must be alahoring class cycrywhcrci
In all countries, and under every form of
social organizations, there mpst be q le-
tOring claSs--d class Of men wio Get lleir
itUiRg by tAe spcat Of their bro,o; and
hen there must Le another class that con.
irO's and directs he capital Of tAe coua.
try
Again, in his speech at Pittsburgh, but
few days since, he used the following
language: Il
"Look at the slaves in your own work
shops they are driven 10 the polls at the
beck of their Masters, under the penalty
of being dischargcd!'
Thus we see that these sncers at the
white loborin g men are no sudden thing,
provoked by circumstances, but the out
going Of an innate aud irrcpressibic con-
tempt for whom he calls the "luborinu
closscs,' who "gct their lvirg by the
sweat Of their brow!' lis hatred of
"Rail-Splitters," deep us it Is, Is no more
intense than for the "Slaycs" Of the
Workshops" lie prefers hls black
"Rail-Splittcrs" to tho Northern white
ones, because they formed aud "ownod''
by "capital," as he claims oil such would
be, while tho latter town" themselves.
Democratic laboring mcnl is not that
OF dignity dits 's-ct- van IN snpportl Is
work for the "Slaycs of the Workshop"
in the Free Statesl How manly, to see
a Freeman walk up to the polls and by his
deliberate vote endorse the declaration
that he should be "owned" by "oapital,' -
have task kmastcr and spend his life in
unrcquited toll for some contemplate ty-
rant, like this Johnson aud the class
whose favor MIR, Douglas and his North
crn friends aro so anXious to secure! Let
those do II who mny, but let such forever
cease to expatiute upon the dignity OF
American Citizcnship and American In
dustry.