New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-24
HEACK AND WHITE SLAVERY.

i black AND WHITE SLAVERY.
The Sunday Adas modifes some Of the
structures Of ts contributor on those who are
stignatized ar ignoring or neglecting the suffer
ings Of Whites from poverty and want, in their
exclusive devotion 10 the cause OF the Slave.
Still, II persists in the essential misapprehen-
.lons of the fubject-maiter which compelled our
former notice. 10 we make one further effort 10
set it right With reference % our remark
that Mere blind, Wholesale denuneiatOn Of
employers flor paying too scanty wagesl is Of
10 practical use says The Aaas
If this Be true Whist prop erton Of the eontn0s assaults
made upos slavery b. TKisrSE any time s"os The init
number pubahsd have bssn Of any manner o. Use
What proportion them have been devoted 70 shosing
rsec. coarse BY which the admitted Ell " Slavery could
/ he miusa-sdP
We beg leave 10 assure The Atlas that the
very frat point 10 be established IN thu case IL
the essential wrong and pernicious consequences
Of siayebolding The " ey. Of Slavery Is not
q" admitted 1t certainly Has not when Tn
TRIBUNE first undertook the ventilation Of the
subject. A. We write, We take up The last
lBaHg Atlas and AfgHs-tLe leading Journal
Of the late dominant party IN thu state-the
party 10 which TAe Sunday Alias adberes-and
read as follows;
IA, f,rETssartt CosrlIcr sid isborng uisr the
other d., ~hs bas b..p habit Of victims th. Republican
ues~t begin 10 where the rr.presEbs ooufc b %
b. A. this v.f 10 aad. abolition twill b. between
he .hs lsbor.r Of the Nortt and Oh. negroes turned
loo.. 10 oompe'. with them And o. vii be Of courss
n thee. s,sts. with wandering and half civil
tsd negroes. compelled 70 wort simply for Their breed and
clothes the Ero. o. labor vil naturally Gown - low
6sr. and The Whit lsborsr' will feel The fret pressure"
Here IL cool assumption that -Four Mil
lions Of lsboren in this country must be re-
tanned in Slavery, or the rest Of the Laborine
Class will be compelled TO work for half price
This !. strictly on par with that mean Ns.
ti,ism which teaches that our Amercan-born
laborers are impoverished and degraded by the
immigration Of foreigners. The fact is. as we
I confidently believe, that our native mechanics
and working men, in The average, receive bet
ter wages and hold more eligible positions than
/ they would il no lcreign-bop lsborcr were
now in the country. For each laboror is
consumer ne well as n produccr-hc buys and
uses food, clothing &C.. "a wei rs produces
theni.-and the influx OF less intelligent and
skillml labor tends constantly 10 give better
employment and better wages to the better in.
structed and more efficient. IL Ten Millions
Of ignorant and stupid negroes were TO be
transferred nj once 10 the Free States-a re-
suit which we neither expect nor desirc-their
presence here would create more work and
more wages for Whites than it would deprive
them Of All these new. corners would want
clothes, hats, shoes, shelter, &C., as well as
food they would make places for foremen and
directors Of ignorant labor, and nearly every
dollar they earned would be Immediately ex-
pended for the products Of White mechanical
and agricultural labor. Yet the Democratic
organ teaches, and most Democrats believe,
that these negroes would seriously diminish the
reward Of labor We protest against the
monstrous assumption. II is Ideness not In
you do not depress Labor by increasing the
number of useful productive laborers. This
truth, THE TRIBUNE has through years strug-
ged to enforce and diffuse. Had it circulated
az freely among Democrats as among Repub-
licans, such absurd fallaces as that we have
just quoted would no longer be reiterated.
The fact that The Sunday atlas now speaks
Though Incorrectly Of Slavery as an " admit.
ted evil /" proves that our efforts have been of
use.
As to practical course" We have labOred
faithfully, and not entirely in vain, to break up
the monopoly Of political porer and patronage SO
long enjoyed in the Nation by the shareholders
AMI their satellites. For many years, con.
sciences had been drugged, and pulpits silenced
or perverted, and Trade debauched and our
Federal and State Politics corrupted, by the
arrogant, domineering exaction of subserviency
and prostration by the Slave Power. 1t was
not enough that those who bought Cotton,
Rice, or Tobacco were expected to reflect the
prejudices and justify the gainful iniquities OF
their growers: he who sold goods ION long
credit) to the South was expected to be red