Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-12-10
4 D,.,,nAa,.n.a Advsoat, Or Labor.

'Istin s'iian.d Advecate Of Labor
President Of The United States, IN his
&c to Congress last week, paid high
autifui compliment to the rights of labor
g industrial classes Of the country. His
ks are all the more valuable from the fact
Notwithstanding the almost ineonceiVable
and responsibilities with which he is daily
curly encompsseed, he can fud moment
use In which to notice the claims aud advo-
be social and political integrity OF the me-
cs and working people of the Union. We
nth append his noble sentiments;-
continues to develop that the insurreciion is
n, II not exclusively, war upon the FIRST
|Ples of popular government-the rights of
asple. Conclusive evidence Of this is found
most grave aud maturely considered
puments, as well as in the general tone
Aurgents. In those documents we
Judgement of the existing right Of
the denial to the people of all right
in the selection Of public officers,
legislative, boldly advocated, with
lments to prove that large control
8zz} 10 government is the source of all
|. Monarchy itself Is sometimes
NM a possible refuge from the power oil
& III sent position, could scarcely bt
4 e to omit raising warning voice
pproach Of returning despotism.
4 Il eeded nor fitting here. that genera
4 ould be made in favor of popular
But there is one point, with il.
|8 not SO hackneyed as most others, t.
lrief attention; 1t is the effort Il
35S on an equal footing with, If no
IN in the structure Of the Govern
ssumed that labor is availnble onl,
with capital.--that nobody labor
NJ ody else, owning capital, somehow
q f it, induces him to labor. Thi
next considered whether ii is bes
n hall hire laborers, and thus Undue
by their own consent, or buy them
EN- to it, without their consent =
edcd so far, it is naturally con
S ;@a Il laborers are either hired laborer
call slaves and further il is as
whoever is once n hired laborer
I ondition for life. Now, there is n
between capital and labor as ai
38a there any such thing as a freema
|S}3 h life in the condition of hire
81 b these assumptions are false, an
|a from them are groundless. Labi
independent of capital. Capt.
lit of labor, and could never has
S pr had not first existed. Labor
capital, and deserves much Il
GRAFTON. Capital has its right
|lS III l|R@ AZ worthy Of protection as any 9th
it denied that there is, and pr
will be, relation between lab
Il producing mutual benefits. III
inning that the waole labor of Il
sts within that relation. A fe
apital, and that few avoid lab
I d with their capital hire or bl
o labor for them. A large m
n to neither class, neither wo
81 have others working for them
|2H @2| Al! Southern States q majority
Il lie of nll colors are neither slay
zSa hile in the Northern a large III
|az 33z| IA or hirers nor hired Men wi
||S wives, sons and daughters wo
on their farms, in their hous,
III a$aI bps, taking the whole product
asking no favors of capital
Tor Of hired labOrers or slaves
M not forgotten that u consideral
u ions miAgle their own labor wi
4 s|| hat il, they labor with their o
buy or hire others to labor
93} II " is only q mixed and not d
81 principle stated is disturbed
@||z this mixed class.
4 already been said, there is
y such thing as the free hil
xed to that condition for life
a ent men, every where in tn
cars back in their lives, W
| The prudent, penniess beg
q labors for wages awhile, sa
M which to buy tools or land
n 'a bors on his own account 0not
y s5 myth hires another new begin
H s||a Ill his is the just and generous G
u EN- which opens the way 10
g}|a and consequently energy
Z Improvement of condition to
sss are more worthy to be trus
n toll up from poverty; none
4 4 81 81 or touch aught which they b.
II 8a@ ned. Let them beware Of g
I Al tical power which they alrei
z |a ch, il surrendered, will sur
4 the door of advancement agai
! s|3@ Ind to fix new disabilities
e hem till all of liberty shall