The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-08-21

menial pursuits, another bulwarl,
against the encroachhnent ofthosc ten.
denotes 60 democracy which hav,
been the Pandora's Rox of disntcpra.
ton aud ruin to all republics"
The rebels are unsparing in their
expressions of contempt for working.
men. and especially for such of them
as are or foreign birth. The Angus.
Ia (Gcorgia). Croniclc and Sentinel
OF the 17th of MAY saws:
"Thc rifI.rair OF the cities, the un.
couth louts Of the country, the igno.
rant Irish and Dutch and the of, scour-
ings of Europe, make up the great
bulk of the Federal army"
Another Rebel journal, the Knox.
vile Register, recently held forth in
these words:
"Why not hang every Dutchman
captured? We will, hereafter, hnug,
shoot, or imprson for life all white
men fnLnn in command or nv=rv,t.S.
and cnslave the negroes themselves.
This is not too harsh. No human be.
/ ing will acsert the contrary. Why.
then, should wcnot hang Il Dutchman
who deserves infinitely less of our
sympathy than Samho: The live
masses of beer, krout, tobacco. and
rotten cheese, which on two legs and
-four Ton foot and momted). 90 Prov
ling through the sandy plains and
barren hill sides Of Alabama Tonnes
see, and Georgia"
Are the men who speak of free.
white workingmcu as "mudslls."
"cowardly riff. rafs." base born brutcs
-are these the men to benefit whom
any workingman in the North, or in
the world, should lift his finger?
What has laboring man TO hope from
the Shareholders! Have they ever
encouraged emigration from Europe?
Who voted against the homestead
bill, me purpose Uf which 10 =. s-:--.
every Industrious workingman free
farm? The Shareholders opposed it
in body. They called it an aboli-
ton schemc-this measure, which was
intended especially to encourage the
emigration of the Industrious poor
from all parts of Europe.
An lrishnan or German who comes
to one of the Free States has all the
rights and privileges of an American
citizen freely and contidingly offered
him. But if he should go to South
Carolina, the model Slave State, he
would find no man permitted to vote
unless he owns landed cstate-no
man capable of holding Office unless
he is wealthy STAKEHOLDER. Is this
the state of things the foreign-born
woriingmen Of New York want to in
duce here!
Almost the first act of the rebellion
S;,l,a9yeirholders Of Vision through rsf-
convention l,y the help Of n mob was
to pass an ordnance dcpriying every
w2rkingman in the State Of the right
to vote or hold office; and at the fall
election of 1861 they had the impu-
dcncc to force the people of the State
to vote ont his degrading proposition.
Happily they voted it down. But
suppose it had passed? What free
workingmcn would thereafter have re-
moved to Virginia!
1t is notorious that the rebels de-
sire and intend to shut out from the
Slave States every free white work
inrman. Those now there they call
10y the opprobrious name of "whitc
trash:" and they declare that they
want no more such. II they should
with the help of Northern demagoguc'
make themselves supreme in the
Union, they would disfranchisc every
foreign-horn citizen and every work
ingman as soon rs possible; and wo
revive, in every State, those oppr5ss
i've laws and customs which have 81
long borne heavily upon the laborin'
population of Ireland and Germany
They would destroy the last remain
ing refuge of the oppressed poor, AN
: turn away from our shores the thouS
| mds who now seek here n home an
equal rights.
Yet il is these wrctchcs who M
= benefited 10y the recent riot in Ne
: York; they and they only can deriv
| advantage from any disorders or law
h less disturbance in the free States
| N. L. Eccning Post, July 24th