Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-20

Free Labor Movement al the North.
We published yesterday the proceedings of
q meeting of the journeymen shoemakers of
this city, held for the purpose If adopting
measures TO sustain the strikers of New Eng
land in their effort to obtain an advance of
wages on their present starvation prices paid
for their free labor.
This meeting is only one of many of the
same character which are yet 70 be held
The movement is spreading on every side.
The giant struggle OF labor against capital is
only in the commencement OF its career. The
republican party have awakened the wrong
customer. They have set on foot war
against capital in The South, which has ex-
tended TO capital in the Morrill, and the shoe
makers and men of other trades think that
what is sauce for tb. goose is sanc.s I, the gan
der. Therepabiicans lave endeavorcd to stir
pu To lnsurrecton against capital the black la
Dor at the other side of Mason and Dixon's
line, and the white labor on this side has ia
Ken the hint and carried the war into e
camp OF Northern capital. The intention of
William H.. Seward and his political friends
was to enlist the free labor of the North
against the capital OF the South; but, instead
OF that, IL is rising in rebellion against the
capii al OF the North
Ii has begun with shoemaking. but it viii
extend to every other trade; meetings have
been held in a few places. but the movement
Will spread to every Northern State and city,
either in the shape of strikes or of raising
material aid for the strikers, and giving them
neral support. The black republican lead
: ers aud journalists are sorely troubled about
the free labor strikes of white men; but they
will soon find, like Frankensiein, who raised
monster be could not qurll, that they have
started a revolution which they cannot ar
rest. The SNOWFALL gathers volume as IL
rolls. and so will the labor movement against
capital.
One of The speakers at The meeting, evil
IDENTIFY friend of the manufacturing interest,
told story about shoemakers being able to
earn twenty four dollars per week-a state
ment which excited no small Indignation, and
would answer better to tell the '.horse ma
rines" than any intelligent assembly OF free
men. The same gentleman repudates the
idea that any Northern white men are slaves
1t is true that they are not slaves i'll the tech
meal sense. But what is in name! Their
bosses" have not right 10 their services
for life; but Northern working men have n"
right To sustenance aud support from their
employers for even an hour, much less for a
lifetime. The difference between white labor
at the North and negro labor at the South Is
this: that the one is free to exc out IL misera-
BILE existence in the best way it can-to veg
etate and rot-tO be willing to work even 10
the destruction of health. for reasonable re-
muneration. but denied the opportunity OF
doing so-denied the right TO live. Aud this
is called free labor; while the other, which lie
call, slave labor is never tasked beyond its
strength, is well fed, well clothed, well cared
for in sickness and health. aud provided
for in old age by the authority of law
The Black Republican leaders have great
sympathy for the imaginary sufferings
and wrongs of these happy blacks. but
no bowels of compassion for tn; woes of
miserable white men, who. made in the image
OF God. are doomed to look at their wives
and children dying by inches before their
eyes for the want of that sustenance which
the prices paid by Northern capital deny
them. These agitators, who the false
friends of the black laborers of the South.
are The real enemies of the white operatives
of the North. BY driving away Southern
custom from the Northern labor market, the
supply becomes greater than the d, m and a nd
the sufferings OF the people become almost
intolerable.
But this is only the beginning of SORROWS.
Every day matters will grow worse and
worse. till the course of the evil is removed,
aud the lost equilibrium between the North
and the South is restored. But if the anti
slvery agitation is continued, and is not
speedily put down bY the voice of the people
oppressed, through the ballot box. the pres
ent embarrassments of capital and The bard
ships of labor will he incr, aSed Thousand
fold. And how would the misforiuncs of the
laboring population of the free States be
still more enhanced, if four millions OF
emancipaied slaves were sent among them
from the Snn6, to augment the surplus
labor, accumulate panpeTism aud Overwbelm
property and industry with taxation for its
support--Nesc York Herald.