New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-20

treats indignantly but to little purpose Of
" Sbylocks, Sewing Women, and Starvation
" Prices" and sees fit to indulge in the
following episode:
Come up here for little while Messrs Sumner, Wilson
and Th.ddeus your beloved bigger out OF the
question few moments while you consider another and
worse form Of Slsvey-the Slavery Of the white woman
Perhaps you cannot make much political capital out oil he
a. you can GU. greasy wench but word for 1t that you
can serve both God and better by looking into the modes
In which the Government il swinded while the People are
qroundthan gu BY emsncpstng the whole BLACK race
Step into car with morning Brother Beeche ana
see do not point out white woman whose wrongs
and will be almost enough to make you forget the
fa.hy mustto for whose freedom expect to take
up collection In Pymoah Church next Sunday Devote
column to the ventilation Of these wrongs done 70 'he
labor Of the female poor General Greeley and only two to
making against slavery-nstesd Of de'ony the
whole three the latter laudable object You might even
suspend half column quarrel with The Herald for such
an object, lose much in tie OF editorial Hd'u'
And you ready and willing would refomer' OF
the age to make yourselves felt in this matter which has
real interes, at akeg La Mountain to up in you
for you balloons or let them illuminate some hash'ea
city with you for you nothing more than thin ts'"
AS this game of playing off one wrong
against another is popular and effective with
the thoughtess, we propose for once TO deal
with it pretty thoroughly.
There are poor people in this and in al
most every community who can find no employ
ment, or none at which they can earn decent
livelihood. There are other poor not far from
us who are lawfully stripped of what they do
earn, and compelled to toll from childhood to
old age without recompense-earning much
but saving nothing, 55ecause nothing belongs to
/ them. Even their children are another's prop
perry; he can lawfully sell the wife from the
husband, the infant from its mothers breast,
the young girl to the hideous old lecher, and
! there is no redress.
! Now il is hard to be white and free and in
want; but is it not harder to be black and en-.
shaved and stripped of every human right
The most unhappy free person has hope he
may see better days; or he may die begsar,
yet his son may become wealthy respected,
and be chosen Governor or President. Is not
the difference between this and Slavery heaven.
wide
And whatever the suffering Of Poor Whites,
fhe ia,cs do not constrain nor enforce it. On the
contrary, the Poor are the rulers of this cOun-
try; they choose the legislators and governors;
and if the laws are not just to them it is their
own fault For most OF the time since our
fathers won our independence, the party to
which a majority of the Poor Whites adhered
has been in power-in power by virtue of their
suarage,, and because of it, presumed devotion
to their interests. If the laws are not just to
the Poor, then ia Democracy the most atrocious
imposture and fraud ever tolerated on earth
Does this writer indicate any course Of pub
lie action whereby the suferings of the Free
Poor might DO mitigated Not he! Mere
blind, wholesale dcnlncation Of employers is
of no practical use. If a woman makes Il shirt
will give her more. The Poor buy aud con-
sumo most of the shirts as well a, make them;
and if they would agree never to buy shirt
of any one who paid less than twenty-five cents
for making, six-cent shirts would soon become
scarce. But Poor and Rich generally act on
the principle Of buying as cheaply as may be,
and letting makers and sellers look out for
themselves.
The wrongs and expressions" Of Poor
Whites are no hyperbole. Some have been
grieyously wrOnsed i'll their education-brought
up in luxury by foolish parents without single
qualification for earning a livelihood, and at
length thrown upon their own resources by
some unlucky speculation or commercial reyul-
sion, when it appears that they are unable to
earn one meal per day. The poorest and most
miserable of the Poor are those who Z" have
" seen better days" What will grumbling
at low prices for shrt.making avail them
What do grumblers ut cheap shirt-mahing pro-
pose to do for them
Blu. " Gen. Greeley" ought to do something,
cay something, in behalf OF Poor Whites.
Well, Sir do you know what he has done
Do You know that this journal has eyinced
more daring, provoked more enmity, and in
Cured more loss of patronage by its efforts
on behalf Of Poor Whites than by all it has
tried to do for Poor Blacks Do you know
that Democratic journals such as The Albany
Argus, stiematlze us as Communist and re-
Ggioas Oracles, such as The Ner- York o.
sercer, brand us Infdel, because of our earnest
endeayors to improve the condition of Poor
Whitesl 1t has not been popular nor
profitable in this community to be known as a
"nigger. worshper;" but even that epithet
is less damaging than Socialist. Yet, though
it has subjected us to most unmerited odum
as the champion of doctrines we utterly abhor,
sc have never been constrained TO repe even
tLe latter limitation