Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-07-26
COLU MBIA DEMOCRAT.
BLOOMSBURY, PA.
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY &C. 1862.
The Thing is Working.

The Dayton Emp"e, alluding to the
rapid increase of negroes in that part of
Ohio, gives us the following:
"In one shop in this city, there are four
negro biacksmilhS. In certain glue fac
tory all the hands are negroes.
A white man making one dollar day,
running a stationary engine in certain
carpcnters shop, had to leave to make
room for contraband at eighty cents per
day."
Our Ohio contemporary dwells upon
these facts with spirit and indignation, but
before six months will roll around it will be.
come used to them and, if we are not
egrsgiously mistaken "eighty cents" per
day will be quito acceptable to any me-
chanic whose labor is reduced to compete
ton with that of runaway or contraband
negroes. In tho Southern counties of
Pennsylvania, bordering on Maryland,
there are hundreds of these contrabands
now engaged in harvesting, but there are
none receiving the sum of "cighty" centsa
day for their services, Up as far as Dau-
phin county, wherein is loc ated the Capital
of our State, this runaway labor has crow
dcd out free white and free negro labor too.
In and around Harrisburg, there are sever
al hundred contrabands, some of whom are
laboring in the field for twenty-five cents
per day. We have heard of one philan.
thropic Aboiticnist, living short distance
from Harrisburg, who had number of
blacks engaged at the liberal sum OF ten
cents (the Buchanan standard,) per day,
and after he could use them no longer,
and fearing that they would become bur
then to him, he, on one 6uc morning, an
nounced to them that their masters were
after them, and in that tender and sympa-
thetic manner, our Abolition pecksniff
after robbpg the poor wretches Of their
labor 90. clear of them forever.
Here we have a practical illustration Of
the meanness and the workings Of Aboli
tionism. 1t is simple compound o.
treachery, hypocrisy, meanness and trea-
son. Wherever you find shifting, cada
verous lean and hungry looking dyspeptie
turning up his pious eyes, lamentlng th'
condition of the slave, you may be SUR
that he will for gain, not only opprcss th'
negro but the white man; and if he ha
money to loan, he will raise his per cent
, age in proportion to the borrowers neces
sitics. The greatest scoundrels are alway
: the greatest professors; and the meanes
creatures we have ever seen are professet
philanthrophists. The hardest masters
the cruelest landlords, and the meanes
men on this side fperdition are your can
ting philanthropists. They are loud in tn
advocacy Of every eutopian scheme of char
ity which costs nothing but the cries Of wild
ows and orphans iu their own hearing, re
: eeives no response in their stony ant
bloodless hearts. Their cold, CLASSY eye
j are full of speculation, but nc pity, and
! when bOggary and poverty sue to then
+ for aims, they invariably refer them to tn
!. overseers of the poor.
If it were possible to ascertain the facts
it would be found that those who are loud
est in their wailiDgs over slavery and il
favor of its emancipation, are such mon
sters as we have described. Free tn
) slaves and they will find in this class thei
greatest tyrants, They will not go to war
nor will they contribute to assist others t.
60 the widows and orphans of dead pa
trots they shun as if they were lepcrs
and their only aim in advocating the war
even with words, is, not to restore thei
country, bet to set free four millions o
poor wretches, who, after being free, woul'
) find in these heartess fanatics their mean
est and most mereiless oPpressors.