Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-03-08
Tho ShnpmnkcIa OF Lynn.

suddenly reflector are reminded by
their wants-that this is too small
share Of their cwn labor; they therefore
demand resppo'tlonment Of their
WAGES between themselves and the cap
lahs,s who employ them.
Their Senatorial representative HIM
self one Of the crast-has just composed
and delivered All Grafton against those
masters who employ men IN making cot
ton and tobacco. The Senator has
shown that this sy.tem by which the
employer gets all the wages upon con
dl,lon that he shall bear the charges OF
the labor and the laborer's family, IN
sickness, infancy and age, ought to be
ovcr,hrown. And here, just when the
Senator from the shoemaking town Of
Natick has written, aud spoken, and
pri, ted, and corrected the proofs OF his
o,a,ion against negro slavery, comes the
news that bis own constituents are max
lug practical application Of his doctrines
in All unexpected manner.
We really think, sometimes, that those
cunning capitalists who drink wine in
bIown-stone houses at the cost OF free
labor, desire to divert the attention of
the free laborers from the excessive eX.
actions TO which they are SUBJECTED, and
therefore hire orators, and editors, and
lecturers, to disfgure African slavery as
much as possible, and those white slaves
who labor for the wine. blbbiDg capital
IL l. .Vo Lnuan hn
tented with the contrast between his own
wages Of three dollars u week and that
of cutfcc, who receives nothing.
The shoemaker of Lynn makes shoes
for cuffee and for the master Of
cuffce; he is paid ia the labor Of
cuffec, and his own wages are in fact
les than those Of his colored customer,
for out of his three dollars week he has
to pay for his own cabin, and lay up a
sum for sickness and age. But the shoe
maker of Lynn is complimcntcd with
the assurance that he is free. lie be-
gins to work on Monday morning at
six, and tolls day by day during the
week, earning by the weeks work less
than the retail merchant receives for a
single pair OF shoes he has made. If he
stops for sickness, fatigue, pleasure, in
temperance, or desperation, he starves,
or some one dependant on him suffers.
Is this freedom!
Does the slave who quits his cabin to
labor without wages 60 forth under a
more imperious necessity than the shoe
maker impelled to toll as the price o.
bread The shoemaker may drop his
work, and, standing erect in the image of
lis Creator, swear he will labor for no
man; and the master coolly tells HIN
you have perfect right to cease your
labors, but you have no right to depend
upon me for support.
Suppose tina. the people of the South
ern States sympathize with the shoemak-
crs, and even more deeply with the poor
operatives locked up in rickety mills, or
the sesmstrcsses shlve,ing in garrets up
on the pittancc dolsd out by their mas
tiers should say we cannot longer allow
this state Of things? These people are
not only fashioned in the form, but in
the color Of humanity. They are in no
respect different from the task masters
who abuse them, therefore we insist they
shall be relieved from their dependent
condition; we insist they shall have a
larger share of their own wages and
we will use every means to set them
free from the abject slavery to which
they have been reduced.
What universal and what just indig-
nation would be excited at the North by
such an improper interference And
yet they would do no more than has
been done, and is now doing, by the
Abolitionists to disturb the relations be-
tween master and slave.
There can be no doubt but the deter
mination OF the Southern States to con
tract their consumption of Northern
goods has been a main cause of the
diminished demand for the shoes Of
Natick and Lynn, and this reduction has
! caused the discomfort of the operatives
1t is the effort of Senators Sumner and
Wilson to raise the wages of the blacl
operatives of the South that has re.
duccd the pay of their own constitu-
ents.
This comment upon the 'irrepressibl.
conflict" theory ought not to be lost up
on the practical mechanics of New Eng
land. So profuse a conflict between
free and slave labor no two modes O
industry harmonic so well. They ar
reciprocal not rival. Abolish slavery
nay, interrupt for season the remit
lance and sale Of slave staples, and free
labor pines in sympathy with the fail
urc.
We do not doubt that frost whicl
should destroy the cotton and Tobacco
of Alabama and Virginia would be fcl
more scusibly at Lynn and Lawrence
than by the planters whose product wa
ruined. Whys Because the corn and
wheat would still remain to support tn
planters. Their homes and cabin
would still afford comfortable protec
ton. Their capital invested woul
secure them credit for the supplies sbso
lutcly necessary to carry on their planta
tons, whilst the operative whose wage
depended upon the receipt of thci
staples would suffer or perhaps peris
for want Of the food, fuel and shelte
which the poorest slave enjoys.-State
and Union.
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rent election Of ex-Liuet. Governor For