New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-17
NEW WORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JANUARY II, 1880

on The coming Connecticut election. The object |,
10 break the Republican line in New-Eogand o,
TIE opening Of 1860. Connecticut is Intimately
associated with the trading Interests Of this city,
and here is felt the first movement. From thi'
civ 40 the money and the ammunition. mental
and material devoted to conquer ng her prejudices
II is enough, we trust, that we announce and ex-
poss this conspiracy while it is yet in the bad. II
will bloom ard unfold itself az time advances. II
ANYTHING unusual is found going On in the industrial
interests Of the Free States, either open or covert
All may know what it mesrs. If these conspira-
tors think to win the way for their hateful and
detestable doctrines by systematic attempts to CO.
cree the independent voters in any quarter OF the
courtyy, we trust and believe free spirit vii be
found to drive the rascaIs back TO their dens,
whether those dens be p Wall street, Nassau street,
tie Fifth avenue, or elsewhere.
The men who are plotting tbs crusade do
not know the temper Of the classes with whom
they propose to deal. They are making a
mistake usual with all aristocratc bodies
and parties in thinking that the mechanic and
manufacturing class and the rural laoorers
Of the country are, they assert them to be, the
counterpart of the slave labOrers of. the South.
Upon what other hypothesis is it possible to ac'
count for the nefabe stupidity OF daring to Illus
trate the superior condition Of Southern slaves, by
the gross insult of comparing them with the facto-
IT operatives of Lswrencel How dare foreign
born ard impertinent scribblers thus insult the
manufacturing and mechanic and rural labor OF the
Free Statesl They do it to certain degree ig-
norantly. They have no knowledge of what they
speuk, and they have no just instincts in regard
to the subject.
Look at the unutterably prepOsterous ar
guments addressed to this very class OF peo-
pie, day by day, in The columns of The Herald to
show why Slavery should be allowed universal
spread They believe the people to be fools. They
talk TO them ss though they we're fools Let
these scrbblers and politicians go into the
Northern workshops and fields, and preach
their detestsble and insulting doctrines there,
if they dare. They viii find the hard-handed
sons Of toll far different class from what Is
supposed by the appaDt shalow-brains found in
some Of the offices, counting-roons, and stores oil
this crowded city. All! ye Fifth-avenue aristo-
cratic Democrats, did&you ever see and converse
with the men who work at the Pow, the Loom,
and The Anvil Go tell them their condition is less
favorable than that of the negro slave; that the lat
ter are better caredior, less liable to poverty less
liable to accidents, more happy, sleek aud con-
tented! Ard having done it, come back aud re-
port the result Of your errand. You will not dare
thus TO insult them. Yet your organ here in this
city is dongths thing every day, with every variety
of contumely and contempt. aye fools and
blind" Do you expect this class of men to
wilt, aud run, ard cover, and ask for
giyeness Of you or your Southern slavehold-
ing masters because they have dared manifest the
consciousness of universal manhood Do you
expect il in Connecticut, ye walking Wall-street
money bags1 Do you expect it, ye hippant advo-
Gates of darkness and of DEATH Hence, hypOcrites
and trifers, all You think these are fit men to
be the objects of plot and conspiracy You think
TO damage their pecuniary interests, and to cocrce
their votes : You think these. are men who pin
their faith on book or political leader and that
your cry Of Helpers pamphlet, or Stewards
speech, swsys them as the leaves of an aspen are
swsyed in the blast Ye frog-blOoded preachers
Of the foulest and batefnest aristecracy that the
country has ever known, all in the abused
name of Democracy Utterers of diabOlical doc
trines, authors of insulting comparisons and
infamous charges against your betters, know that
your efforts will be met with scorn. The artisans
and the rural aborers Of this country, and of this
very Connecticut, on whom you now propose to try
your short sighted arts, far more learned in the
laws Of supply and demand than you imagine. Far
more 80 in their knowledge of political questions,
political men, and political issues. They would
be precisely what they are, in mental and
moral station, if Helper had never written
and Seward had never spoke. All the legiti-
mate demands of commerce are independ-
ent Of politics, aud Independent Of political
schemers; and if you don't know it, the men Of
Connecticut teach you the fact, for they learned
it long ago. Hope not for success then, in your
present conspiracy against the Free Labor Of the
North. We tell you, too, that neither you nor your
confcderates can escape the just penalty of the
hateful work you have now undert. ken.