Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-15

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AN ARTICLE FOR WORKING MES 70 RRAD
f AND STUDY. r. $50
What has been the chieI result Of the
vast improvements in art and science
which are the boastofthe present century?
How have railroads and steamboats,, aud
the thousand ways in which we use steam
and .'labor-saying" machinery, affected
mankind and civilized society," What is
the tendency of these inventions, which
are our pride, which we look upon as so
many triumps over nature? The answer
which will be made by all who have
watched the changes. produced by these
powerful agents, is, that they have every
where, where they have been adopted,
tended to equalize the conditions of life,
to break down the barriers which former
| ly divided classes, to create and make
powerful great middle class. They have
brought comfort and intelligence within
the reach of the poorest; they have not
only enormously increased the wealth of
the civilized world, but, by opening up
numerous avenues to prosperity, aud by
increasing the value Of intelligent labor,
they have helped to make more uniform
the distribution of property iu the com
munity. -e@
| 4O put ~ IL lew NUEuSs Iub COuulIlOQS
of men have been more nearly equalized
by the introduction of steam and machin-
cry; and the tendency of the nineteenth
CINE of Watt, the pOwerloom of Ark
wright, the locomotive of Stephenson,
were in fact so many blows at the supre-
macy of aristocracy in the world, and it
was fit that we, the people, should owe
them 70 men of our OHp condition. These
inventions, and the hundreds which have
followed upon their track. are SO many
victories for republicanism; democracy
claims them as her tools, whereby her
triumph is surely wrought ont.
The effect to which we allude is less
perceptible in our free States, where it
nent state of society which already yex-
but surely breaking down the solid walls
which formerly divided the ..gentlemaan''
| from the "boor," or "peasant" and the
Grader" Because the people have a
dozen or hundred ways open to them of
gaining a livelihood, they are no longer
the servants and retainers of the noble
class; and because the mobiles are left
without retainers, they must seek to do
something for themselves. The German
nobility has taken to trade, and so that of
Great Britain. Noblemen and honora-
bles are bankers, merchants, miners, ship
fowners, manufacturers-and sometimes
also swindlers; and tradesmen and men
of the humblest beginnings every day
take their place, even in the most aristO-
cratic country in the world, among the
gentry"
The spirit aud tendency OF the age are
to a raisiog up of the people. The men
who work arc, more Apd more all the
world over, the men who rule; the produ-
Ger is held in honor, and everywhere as
sumes share in the Government, if not
directly by vote, then indirectly by that
which, 10 this century, is as powerful rs
votes and more powerful Ihan kings aud
their ministers-public opinion. The ar
istocrats of Europe recognize this; and in
England they accept it and endeavor to
work with it. They have wisely placed
themselYes at the head Of movement
which otherwise would have swept them
away. But while they are fitting them
selves as well as they can to the new con
ditiou of the world, our slaveholding aris-
tocrats in the South have rebelled against
it. The English lords prudently work with
the spirit of the age; our petty slave lords
take up arms against il. The British
mobiles wisely try to save themselves by
helping to elevate labor; onr would be mo-
bles, our naughty slayeoWners, are in arms
to perpetuate the degradation of labor
They assume that the producing class must
be owned; they seek to make a subject
class not only of the blacks but of the
white non-slRyeholders. Already in Yir-
ginie the attempt has been made TO disfran-
chise, aud thus virtually to make poWerIess
serfs, of the whole vhite laboriug popula-
ton; and Col. Hamilton of Texas, asserts
that the subsection of the millions OF non
slaVeholding wbites-ths farmers and ar
tisans, the mudsills-is the faVOrite topic
of conversation among the ''master race"
as they call themselves in the South, at
this time. They are tired Of republican
forms of Government; they are wearied Of
their subsection TO the people; they mean
to abolish what they have long felt as a
curb, upon their reckless ambition and
greed of power. What said Mr.. Hammond,
of South Carolina, in the United States
Senate in 1883: .5..
nIn all Socia systsm there must be a olaSJ to do
the mean duties, 70 Perfurm the dradgaEy OF life
that is Glass requiring but low order OF intellect
sSd but little S Its SslSistsa are ygcr d9sility
society and political government; and you might as
we'll attempt to build Rhouse in the air, to build
e ther or the other except the mudsiils For-
tnnafely for the Sonth, she found race adapted 70
that purpose to her hand. We uss them for
the purpose, and can them slaves. The man who
lives BY daily labor and scarcely lives AZ that, aud
who has put out his labor in the market and take
the best he get for iin short your whole elasg
Of manual aborer and opelatiTels a. you call them
are slaves"
That is slayeholding aristocrat's idea Of
white working men. They are slaves; they
oughtto be bought and sold in the market !;
but as that can scarcely be done as yet,
these slave lords, these men who are ae-
customed to speak of tiny blacksmith"
"my WheelWright,p tiny carpenter 'tmy
they freely declare, 70 still further impov-
erish and make helpless fhe white artisans Of
the South, by taking the bread from their