The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-12-06

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times limited at as possible refuge from,
The error Of the people. In nv present
posi,i N would scarcely be justified were
TO omit raising warning voice ag ainst
this approach OF returning despotista.
/ CAfIrAL AND LABOR. II
1t is net needed, nor ftting here. that
general argument Should be made in
favor Of popular institution, but there 10
one point. with its connexions, Dot 50
hackneyed as most others, TO which l
ask blief attention. It's the effoft to
place capital on an equal footing with,
not above, labor, in the structure Of gov
ernment Il is assumed that labor is a.
vaiiable My in connection with capital:
that nobody labors unless somebody Else.
owning capital, SOMEHOW by the use of it,
induces them 10 labor Tis assumed it
is next considered whether it is b* st that
capital shall hire l.horers, and shss IN
duce them to work t y their own eohseat,
| or levy them and drive them to it without
their consent. Having proceeded thus
far it is naturally ecscluded that all ia-
borers are either hire! laborers or what
we call slaves. and further. it is assumed
that whoever is once a laborcr Is fixed In
tliat condition for life.
| 4 large ajority belon to neither class neith
| er work for others, nor have others working
for them. In most of tie Sonthern States II
majorly CT the whole ieopie of all colo ars
neither slaves nor masters, while srz She North
| n large majority arc neither hirers nor hired
men Men with their families, wiEss, sons
| and daughters, work for themselves en their
farms, in their houses, and in their Shops; ta-
| King the whole prulust TO themselves, and as
king no fayois Of capital on the one hand nor
of hired iaborers the otner. Il is not for
| gotten tAat considg grablc number IF persons
mingle their own labor with capital; that is.
! they IL bor with their own huEds anl also buy
or hire others to labor for the m. but this is
Fly Iii, xed and not a distract class. No pr: IL
eip&l stated is disturbed by the lsxistance of
this mixed class Again, ns has already been
aid there is not of necessity any such thing
the free hiled laborer being fixed for that
condition for life. Many indie pendent nser
errywh here in these States few years back in
| their lives were hired laboreys. The prudent
penniess beggar IN the world fabors for
ges awhile and saves a surplus with which 20
buy tools or land for himself, then i:sburs on
his own account and at length hires another
| new beginner to help him This is Fire juss
und generous and prosperous system which o.
pens the way to all, gives hope to all ard con-
fcquent energy. progress and ilnoroveinent of
the condition to all. Ma meu living are more
worthy to DC trusted than those who toll up
OF on from povsty, none less inclined to- take
o" touch aught which they have honorably es-
> rned. Let them beware of surre,idering Poiit
ical power which they already po-sess, and
which if surrendered will surley he used 10
close tie door of advancement against such
; as they. md to fx new disabilities and burdens
upon them till all of liberty shall be lost
From the first taking OF our national
census 10 the last, are 10 years, and we
find cur population at the end of the pe-
!, riond eight times as great as it was at the
i beginning The increase of those other
things which men deem desirable, has
, been even greater. We thus have at one
view what the popular principle applied
e to the Government tE1rou 5h the rirach;n
cry cf the States, and the Union has pro
r duced in a given time, and also what il
firmly maintained it prom! ,es for the .fu
ture.-- There are already among US those
who, if the Union be preserved, will live
# to see it contain ESQ, ooo. 600. The strug
Ii gle of to-day is not altogether for to-day,
II it is for a vast future also. With a firm
: reliance in Providence all the more firm
and earnest, let us proceed in the grea
task which events have dtvolved rpof
q US.
n fsighed ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Washington. Dec. 3@186l.