New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-16
Could not have laid such terms t upon his csllet"

No. When drlyellng demag0gues, slayerlng the
feet Of the great Southern Dagon, put their fingers
in their eyes and pretend to pity New-England
fhoemskers, they merely trying to use them for
private purposes of somewhat dishonorable de-
scription. All such arts basely useful as for a
time they may promise to be, will soon enough
hoist those who practice them. And if any intelE-
gent striker fit to compare his condition to that
of Southern slave, we can only say that he is, if
not actually starving quite well of as he de-
serves to be. He may have wrongs; he may some
times find ii difficult TO make both ends meet; he
may not think his wages great enough, or the man
who pays them considerate enough; but he knows
that he is not slave, and he will probably regard
any one who says that he il, as at least uncom-
monty unciyil
At the worst, he can but die. There is nobody
just sufficiently interested in him to keep him just
alive AT the worst, he can say: "These hands are
" my own, although nothing else is left me. Work
upon these proposed terms will not, come what
may come. i have said it " Imagine a set Of
feld-hands striking upon the most patriarchal plan
taton, drawing up tariff of prices, fixing thehours
of labor debating terms to the occupant of the
great house, abandoning the shovel and the hoe,
taking up the fiddle and the bow, forming process.
sions, making speeches, hosting flags, cheering,
visiting neighboring plantations, and having good
time generally. An this is rank rebellion Bring
out the dogs and the blood hounds; load the
rifles and the revolvers; main, hack, shoot down,
starve hang, draw, quarter The Southern strike,
we imagine would soon come to a lame enough
conclusion. There would be great fight at first,
and afteiward as much butchery might be con-
sidered consistent with liberal economy. Are the
LYNN shoemakers like the Southern negroes
This expedeht Of recrimination some of our
Southern friends seem TO regard as irresistible.
But "you are another proves nothing and settles
nothing bad system of labor at the North, does
not make good similar system at the South. And
yet slayeholdDg Senators ard Representatives are
of such gigantic intellect that they seem to consider
this species of augmentation as the least answera-
bic in the world. Northern merchants find money
tight and the beauty Of Slavery is at once demon
strated. Northern manufactures anguish and the
Southern position is thereby rendered impregnable.
A Northern factory falls down-ah it would not
have fallen at the South, for the excellent reason
that it would not have been there. In every crime
and conhsgfation, in every riot and in every rail-
way accident, and in every wreck, in all scaroties
and short crops and commercial embarrassments at
the North, the South finds proof positive of the OK.
cellense of Slavery. When q Northern cashier
embezzes when Northern clergyman falls into
disgrace, when Northern enthusiast proclaims his
otheis,n fbe Southern stakeholder thanks God
takes courage, and exclaims: " How beautiful is
Slavery" II he be- in Congress, he filings his dirty
little fact like glove into the forensic arena, and
valiantly dares any Northern Representative to
take it up. If nobody does so, as very often no
body is disposed to do, he considers the question
,ettled and the superiority of the South established
| He fances that he has proved his case, and sits
down in infinite complacency. Whereas he has
proved nothing except bis own absolute incapacity