Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-03-27

separated, the latter was very roughly handled
SO says Madam Rumor in circles in which she
not unfrequently tells the truth. Ten to one,
"squatter sovereignty" in disguise, was at the
bottom Of the NUS
The STRIKES EPIDEMrc-is spreading through
out the North and bids fair not to cuminate until
1t turns the popular mind In that region from its
OF late intense contemplation of the falsely alleged
horrors Of negro slavery in the Southern United
States In place Of the ruling mania upon that
subject there Is every prospect that an equally
intense hostility to the interests Of those among
themselves able to live by the employment of
capital, is for perhaps the next decade to be the
prevailing sentiment In the manufacturing and
mechanical States, contra -disting uished from
the agricultural States. The capitalists there, for
political purposes-in furtherance Of their settled
plan Of gaining a sectional ascendancy to the end
of controlling the Governments policy with
reference to the principle which the duties on
imports shall be laid, on the internal improve
ments question, &c.,-have educated the masses
surrounding them to unexampled hostility to the
institution OF the South on the ground that it is
one OF rank injustice to the laborer. To do this
they have OF course grossly its true
history ,land the status Of the American negro "A
compared with that of the negro anywhere else
on the face Of the globe, at any period Of which
the world now possesses record
In thus educating them, they have necessarily
taught them ideas wholly at war with their own
interests, the fruits of which they are now reap
ing Thus, belief seems to have taken posses.
sion OF the northern laboring mind, that their
condition, so far as remuneration for the labor ia
concerned, is really worse than that of the south
ern slave who certainly receives enough to eat and
| hpd md ovi1 od Co.
They have taught that labor has Just claims on
capital far more than it now receives at the ORTIZ
in teaching that labor at the South is shame
fully unremunerated; and northern labor, finding
itself, In many branches of business. prievously
underPaid (now that the money prices of every
necessary of life have risen much faster than
wages there,) Is simply applying the reasoning of
the capitalists in this connection to its own case
and Is rapidly proceeding to act upon the theo-
ries Of individual rights in that way instilled
into it.
Thus desire for war on northern EMPLOYERS is
taking the place Of the current war on southern
employers preached for twenty-five wears past
from more than half the pulpits, lecture rooms
and Congressional seats Of the North The north.
ern manufacturing capitalists turn in ALARM to the
Republican party press that has 80 pertinaciously
assisted in their work of stirring up hatred az ainst
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distress. But with the exception Of those In Bos-
ton and few other large New England cities
they look to them in vain; as in such a contest al
home, their interests are with the many, rather
| than the few, and they decline to sacrifice those
| interests.
The result must be that desire to unlearn thei,
| workmen, as speedily possible the lessons
| taught them as explained above can hardly fail
very shortly to become prevalent on the part OF
Messleurs the northern manufacturing and me.
chanical employers; while they cannot reasonably
hope that, without making what they deem ruin
| Gus sacrifices on their part, they can check the
| tendency Of the times around them to compel
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their employed far larger share of the profits
| thereof than they now enjoy; with the certainty
that their demands are destined to increase yea,
by year, with the success of their efforts rather
than to cease from contentment with their lot
For the political demagogues throug hout the
North are already mounting the hobby of "highei
wages" and will ride 1t with whip and spur fol
long time to come; every element controlling
society in the manufacturing States operating to
make 1t, In these times pay better than any othe,
hobby they ride.
Mr.. Seward recognizes this tendency of north.
ern business and social affairs as is proved by the
pains he took In his late speech to frame his new
count in his bill of Indictment against the South
his capital States (as contra-distinguishedf from
labor States) count. In that way he essayed to
continue the prevailing tendency of the discon-
tent OF northern labor against the South. He
could have framed it for other purpose Ye,
1t has been Of no avail so far, having utterly
failed to stem the current torrent of invective
against northern capital under the aleg On tina,
Its treatment Of Northern labor is far more repre.
hensible than the treatment that southern capital
accords to its negro labor.
we believe that ere long northern labor will
find out that the white laborer at the South is fsr
more independent in every way than at the North;
and, also, that the best possible insurance that
hereafter northern capital shall be able to accord
Just and fair wages lies in the prosperity Of the
agricultnral-non- manufacturing-int of the
South, which, up to this time, has been the source
Of most Of the Norths rapid and enormous acuni.
sition Of wealth from the prosecution Of manufac-
turing, mechanical, and commercial pursuits
u. 5. NAvY.-1TEMs FOR CoNGREss.-We have
received communication from one who STYLES
himself an "Old Navy Lieutenant" who enters a
solemn protest against the ineticiency and inius-
tice OF our present naval system under which he
says Lieutenant is required to serve his country
faithfully for more than thirty years before he can
even hope to be promoted to higher rank, and
earnestly urges a change. He ays:
81 have been twenty-five years I'm the NAVY
thirteen years as a Lieutenant. and am now full
iGrty-two years of age, and still hanging, like
Mahomet's coffin, midway to the proinotio on of
our naval heaven-a Commanders commission
Ihere are more than sixty Lieutenants in our
Navy, who have been longer in the service and
VINO are older In years than myself and as MANY
as fifteen who have served more than thirty veorS
L am by ten years. at least, the senior in age of
any Lieutenant in the English Navy now re-
tanned in active service. and tho E,epcb 7 g.,