The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-28
really come to this-thst the metropolis Of New
York Is being sold and bar:ered away, with all
its rights and privileges, to a corrupt LOBBY at
Alhanv

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its rights and privileges, to corrupt lobsy at
Albany.
A sOuthera View or che Strikes st che
North.
In another column we publish an article frou
the Charleston Mercury, which presents some
at the North. The South, never having besG
troubled with strikes, can look down from its
eminence upon those disturbances of the COM
merciai and manufacturing system Of the North
with philosophic eye, and calmly trace them
to their source. The labor system of the South.
which Northern philosophers of the republioaa
school are so anxious to change, is not subject
to those violent shocks which are sustained
from time to time by the so-called free labor
system Of the North, and which often rock the
social and political fabric to its foundations.
Manufacturers all over the world" says eur
contemporary, with great TRUTH 'keep their IA
borers as near the starvation point as circum-
stances and the efficient operation of the fac
tories will allow" 1t is so in Old England,
and it is so in New England
The Southern States of this republic present
the only exception in the world. 1t Is the in
terest of the Northern capitalist to make I'll
the money be can out of his laborers; he
has no interest in seeing the hands /.
bis factory healthy or making money. What
ever money they make beyond keeping soul
and body together he regards as SO much alb.
stracted from his profits. 1t is no concern of
his that those in his employment cannot earn
sufficient to feed, clothe and lodge themselves
and their families; il is not his affair that they
pine away and die. partly from want and part
~ from excessive and protracted labor in q
foul and over heated atmosphere Owing 70
the abundance of labor there are plenty OF men
and women to take their places, and sell their
services at starvation prices to the capitalist.
They are as essentially slaves as the negroes at
the South. The only difference between their
respective conditions is that necessity forces
them to DO what the law compels the negroes
that their services are sold for limited period,
whereas the services of the negro are owned for
iite--a difference that is completely in favor Of
the black and against the white man-for while
his wants compel the white man to continue to
sell his labor from week to week, or from
month to month, for the whole of his life, he
sometimes finds, to his misfortune and dismay.
that he cannot get employment, and in that
contingency he has no claim on the manufactu.
rer, nor Oh any one else, for bread, and whea
sickness or old age oyertakes him, without
being able to save cent for rainy day, he
has no right to a sustenance from the msnufsc-
turer to whom he has sold his labor for the rest
Of his life, and he must perish from want, II
charity will not keep him alive.
1t is totally different with the labor system
of the South. 1t is the interest of the planter
or manufacturer who owns the services of the
negro for life to treat him well, because if he
treats him badly he dies prematurely, or he
runs away, or he becomes sick, and in sickness
and in old age he has legal claim for support
upon his master. He is free from care and
anxiety, and never dreams of want. Hence the
robust health and the happy disposition of the
Southern blacks compared with the soured
temper and sickly frames of the free negroes
and mulattoes of the North.
The difference between the treatment of mon
whose services are owned by capitalists for .
limited period and those Of men owned for life
is exempliGed in q remarkable manner In the
case of the Chinese coolies, who are worked
almost to death in the seven years which they
are bound, and endure more real hardship than
the negro slave for his whole life. Nor is tho
negro chattel as he is represented by North
ern demagogues. If he were, he might be killed
by his master like bullock. Instead of that,
he is protected as person. by the law, against
the violence and cruelty Of his master, who
merely owns his services for life, and whose in
terest it is to take as good care of him as he
would of valuable horse
Thus 1t will be seen that the overruling mo-
tive Of self interest operates in opposite direc-
tiens upon the labor systems of the North and
the South; snd, though it is true that the re-
cent strikes have been precipitated by Northern
fanaticism operating on the South SO as to
induce it to partially withdraw its custom, the
disease is chronic, and Its causes Lie further
back. As to the effect of the strikes on the
great political issue of the day, there is No
doubt that their tendency is to operate against
republication, for the manufacturers are for
the most part of that fanatical creed, aad the
probability is that the strikers will take the
opposite SIDE particularly as the immediate
cause Of their suffering is mixed up with John
Browns raid, Helpers book, the irrepressibls
conflict manifesto of Seward, and the general
course Of the republican leaders and their or
gans at the North.
Police Intelligence.
THE RECENT SAD CASE Under the caption
Of "A Sad Story" we p'oshed paragraph in issue
Of the 2lst inst to the elect that young lady ha,ag
from little Falls Hermer county, in this State passing
under Assumed name uf Cannon hnd