The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-28

fearful crash and ruin thst are impending. 1t is
the action which will result from these feelings
which will save the State of New York where
the shameful cliques of Mozart Tammany and
the Regency blind, deaf dumb, lame, palsied
and idiotic to everything else than power, place
and spoils--would ruin it.
There goes forth from Washington, every
day, cry to the people of the United States
that the dogmas of VIM. a. Seward have sufi-
GENTLY attained fruition to threaten the coun-
try with civil war, to menace the destruction of
our commerce, to cut off the internal and ex-
ternal sources from which prosperity flows to
our merchants, manufacturers, mechanics,
farmers and capitalists-to inaugurate leng
period of "fire rape and slaughters, to turn the
hands of sons against fathers and fathers against
sons, to degrade the most enlightened, free and
civilized nation on the face Of the earth to bar
barism-and that cry finds its echo in ears that
hear, and hearts that feel. The ears and the
hearts are to be counted by thousands anA tens
of thousands. And the fat has gone fortHthat
the endorsement of the State of New York shall
not be given to doctrines which would make
miserable stranded wreck of our now happy
republic, and that no risk of its safety shall be
run by leaving its interests in the hands Of o
vagabond condottieri, generated by venal
oficeholders, bloated contractors, and such
seedy denizens of grogshops as control the
movements of Tammany and Mozart halls.
The bogus representatives of the democracy,
in its two factions live by place, and
consider the funds in the federal and
city treasures as their own, and to
have been created for their benefit. They
call themselves "active politicians" and are
either strong in muscle or still more powerful
in knavery. They are consistent and true to
one principle, from which they never swerved,
which they inAexibly adhere to, and which may
be called the open sesame of their hearts, lives
affiliations and practice. That is, they are al
ways for sale to the highest bidder. They are
the corruptionists whom the national masses
have to drown as the deluge Of retribution rises.
If money is wanted to elect, in November, q
national President, it will be given. What
were million of dollars to the merchants of
New York to secure the safety of the Union?
If brains are needed, they are to be found.
The key note struck by Charles O'Conor will
never cease to vibrate. But-there must be new
men, new measures, new appliances, and the
rotten machinery of present organizations must
be replaced by upright, industrious individuals,
through whose fundamentally and energy the
great ends may be secured upon which the very
existence Of the United States depends
The White slaves OF FREQ Labor-A Hint
to tho Albany Regency.
At q time when the efforts Of fanaticism are
pertinaciously directed to the creation OF a
conflict between the social systems Of the
North and the South, by a-course of steady
Misrepresentation Of the true character of Ame-
rican slavery, and hiding Of the evils inherent
to the social organization o the countries
where the laborer is supposed to be free, such
revelations as those made by the falling of the
Pemberton Mills come upon the public mind
with startling vividness.
A kindred revelation has recently occurred
in England among the stocking weavers of
Leicestershire, In trial for libel the particulars
Of which we republish in another column. In
the facts there developed it is shown that men
In hundreds-and NO doubt thousands having
wives and children to support, and an unpro-
vided future Of age and misery to look to,
can, by laboring fifteen hours day, earn
the pittance of one and half or perhaps
two dollars week. Even this scanty reward
for their labor they are compelled to expend
at favorite grocery, to obtain the little sup.
plies Of food which it will procure, under the
virtually understood penalty Of losing their
employment We know that it will be asserted
that the humane law of England provides a
nerally known as the truck system but, waiv-
ing the admitted opinion that carriage and
horses can generally be driven through any act
of Parliament, we would ask the humanitarian,
what does the fact that such law is necessary
for the protection of the poor laborer prove upon
the society that vaunts its free labor? The re-
Violations at Lawrence and in London prove that
legislation is necessary to protect the laborer
from his fellow freeman, and from evils that,
though differing in form, exceed in tyranny the
exactions of our Southern slavery. "Hush!'
said the mother to the dying girl at Lawrence,
when with her last breath she would have re-
vealed something in regard to another mill,
"you will ruin your mother'
When we compare the condition of the free
laborer in the North with the true condition Of
the slave in the Soath, the contrast is terrible
ono for the abstract theories of the aboitionsts.
In the North we find the workmen compelled to
long hours Of labor in the day, and to be
huddled together in crowded and noxious
tenant houses at night, wearing away
life under the relentless taskmaster, Want.
With his employer there is no social contact,
nor single sympathetic tie. If disease or age
come, the relief of the pauper is his only hope
In the South, another social condition exists