North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-10-01

ner of his proclamation, which is based NM,
the same general principles with reference ;. )
the negro question.
But will the working men and tax paye,,
of the Northern States look at this movs
ment for one moment Will they exanD.
its effects upon their interests and the vel.
fa1e of the community? No sensible ma,
will for one moment believe that this trans.
portation of negroes from the lines into the
Northern States will stop with the Women
and children. That is preposterous. Thu
"parties in Chicago and other places" who
wish women and children for servants, will
not object to male servants or working men.
when the proper time comes for their intro.
ducton into those of the free States which
have not barred their entrance by statutorv
enactments. And once in the free States
then comes the practical effects of this no,
scheme of President Lincoln and the AhoI.
tion Republican party. These negroes must
put their labor directly in competition with
white men, or they must fill our almshouse.
and prisons. No other view can be taken of
this question, if reason, reflection, and oh.
servation are consulted. And in either yiew
the white laborer is put in competition with
that of white men. The last must 90 to the
wall, as the negro has no wants save those Of
the lowest animal character, and, hence, he
can and will labor for much lower rate Of
compensation than the intelligent white men
of the North, who have social positions to
sustain, families to clothe and educate and
rear in manner beftting their stations and
prospects in the future. This is the effect Of
introducing negro laborers into the free States
where he will work. But as the negro i,
proverbially idle and lazy if he will not Ia.
Dor, wha. then? He must either be support.
ed in the almshouse, or he will steal and thus
find his way into prison. In either case be
will have to be supported at the public ex.
pense, and thus the tax rates will be increas.
ed to an alarming extent, and. in tnat case,
the laboring men of the free States will be-
again tie sufcrers-as it is from the labor
the country that all the taxes are raised from
which the City, State, and National indebt-
edness is Hqudated.
Now, US these are inevitable consequences
that will flow from the Abolition Republican
scheme Of filing the free States with negro
laborers from the South, wifi the white men
of the North support that party, and thus
put INTO their hands the weapons with which
to crush them? President Lincoln in his
proclamation clearly enuncjates this doctrine,
for if all the slaves are declared free, surely
they must be allowed to act as free men, and
choose their residences where it may suit
them. Bot Secretary Stanton goes step
further, and announces that the white men of
the North are not only to have negro labor
put IN competition with theirs, but the ex
penses of sending the negroes into their
midst Is TO be paid by the General Govern
ment, and drawn from white labor in the
shape of increased taxation. This is the ba-
sis on which the order Of Secretary Stanton
to Brigadier General Tuttle rests This is
its meaning And now 1t is for the white To-
boring men of the North to say whether this
Abolition Republican plot against their in
terests shall succeed The remedy is at the
polls. Let verdict be rendered against
President Lincoln, his ultra Abolition proc
lamatlon, and the party which sustains II
when the polls close on the coming election
day: and white men can again hold up their
heads IN the North. Let them act-ConSti-
tutiOnui Union