Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-08-14
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FIGHTING rom TuErm ENEmKEn.
Thereceht riots have caused great reioicingu
In Richmond; they have given new life 70 The
respondent rebel chiefs; the extracts we have
given from southern journals show that the dis
turbances here enabled the enemy 10 forget for
the moment even the loss Of Vicksburg; and
there is no doubt that bali the moral effect up
on the rebels Of our recent glorious victories has
been lost through the occurrence Of this out
break in the metropolis Of the FREQ States That
Is TO say, though the rioters inflicted coinpara-
lively triiing loss upon the city, they put
great, a very serious loas upon the countryi
they helped q PROSTATE enemy on his legs
again.
Nov why should this BET what favor do
the rioters owe to the slaveholdersf Have they
been go kindly treated by those in rebellion
that sentiment Of gratitude should lead them
10 help these persons at a critical momentf It
is said that many workingmen and many per-
| sons of foreign birth took part in this defiance
Of the laws; what benefits have they to expect
from the men who rule at Richmond, that they
should make themselves their alliesf Are the
| shareholders the true friends Of workingmenf-
1t is true that in the Slave States labor is more
respected and aborers held in more honor than
in the Free Statesf Unless this is So il would
appear that no working man, no foreigner, alive
to his best interests, does wisely when he does
that which gives new hope and strength to the
slaveholding rebels.
Let us examine this important question for a
little. In the first place, Il should not be for
| gotten that before the commencement OF the re-
bellion, Mr.. l.. NJ Spratt of South Carolina, one
OF the leading writers Of the South, declared
separation from the Free States and the revival
of the African slave-trade necessary to the South
because already, he said, "Irishmen are doing
the work which our slaves ought to do" and he
specified that even in the hotels of Charleston,
Irish walters had taken the places which, as he
sverred, of right ought to be occupied by negro
l.. II. IL
ing to Mr. Spratt lay in making the slaves so
numerous, by the importation Of negroes from
Africa as to exclude altogether from the South
ern States free white workingmen, whom he
called "mudsills' and "disorganizers"
Take, next, the expressions Of Mr.. RUSSELL the
London Times correspondent by Shareholders
A soon as the war was over, they said, the fore
ign population, the Irish and Germans would be
, shorn of their privileges They should no lon
ger vote; they should no longer enjoy the rights
of citizenship. The Rickztond Literary Messsn-
ger spoke recently in the game strain:
"That benign institution of slavery, which it
is now the pride and glory Of the South to as
cribe TO the conception of Divinity, and which
n this war has proved to be, next to the undaunt-
q ed patriotism Of her sons, the great element Of
= power in the Confederacy, win prove, ia pre-
venting too heavy infu1 from foreign shores of
that class of population dSvoted 10 meniai pursuits
. another bulwark against the encroachment Of
those tendencies to democracy which have been
the Pandora's box of disntegration and ruin to
. all republics"
The rebels are unsparing in their expressions
a of contempt for workingmen, and especially
for such Of fthem as are of foreign birth. The
Aug'lstd Georgia. Chronicle and Sentinel OF the
. 18th ofMay says.
sThe riff-raff of the cities, the uncouth louts of
q the country the ignorant Irish and Dutch, and
! the off-scouring Of Europe, make up the great
y bulk of the Federal army"
Another Rebel journal, the RIiorvHe ReJister,
. recently held forth in these words:
"Why not hang every Dutchman captured?--
: We will, hereafter, hang, shoot, or imprson for
y life all white men taken in command of negroes
and enslaye the negroes themselves. This is not
" too harsh. No human being will assert the
. contrary. Why, then, should we not hang a
+ Dutchman, who deserves infinitely less Of our
! sympathy than SamboH The live masses of
: beer, krout tobacco and rotten cheese, which on
: two legs and four (on foot and mounted), go
prowling through the South, should be used to
manure the sandy plains and barren hill sides of
Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia"
Are the men who speak of free, white work.
ingmen as "mudsills, "cowardly riff-raffs," /"
base-born brutes, ARE these the men to benefit
whom any workingman in the North, or in the
. world, should lift his fingerH What has labor
! ing man to hope from the Shareholders? Have
: they ever encouraged emigration from Europe?
Who voted against the homestead bill, the pur-
pose of which is to give every industrious work.
ingman free farm? The siaveholders opposed
it in body They called it an abolition scheme
= this measure, which was intended especially
to encourage the emigration of the industrious
, poor from all parts of Europe.
= An 1rishman or German who comes to one OF
the Free States has all the rights and privileges
of an American citizen freely and c0nfidingly
= offered him. utifhe should go to South Car
olina, the model Slave State, he would find no
! man permitted to vote unless he owns a landed
&c hold
= he is wealthy stakeholder Is this the state
of things the forcign-born workingmen Of New
York want to induce here2
Almost the first act of the rebellious slave
holders of Virginia, after forcing the act of sec
ession through the convention by the help Of
mob, was to pass ordnance depriving every
workingman in the State of the right 10 vote o
hold office; and at the fall election of 1861 the,
had the impudence to force the people of thu
W State TO vote on this degrading proposition
n Happily, they voted it down. But suppose i
J. had passed? What free workingmen woul,
d thereafter have removed to Virginia?
> 1t is notorious that the rebels desire and in
tend to shut out from the Slave States every fire.
e white workingman. Those now there they cal
n by the opprobrious name of "white trash;" ant
3 they declare that they want no more such.
they should, with the help Of northern demagog
l. ues, make themselves supreme in the Union
ie they would disfranchise every foreign-bon cti
zen and every workingman as soon as possible
Id and would revive in every state, those oppress
i've laws and customs which have so long born
ID heavily upon the laboring population of Ire
- land and Germany. They would destroy III
n. last remaining refuge of the oppressed poor an
ie turn away from our shores the thousands VIII
to now seek here home and equal rights.
q, Yet it is theseiwretches who are benefited b.
the recent riot in New York; they and they on
ly can derive advantage from any disorders o
1t lawless disturbance in the Free States.-N Y
1t Evening Post, July 24th.
l. NIggcr on the Brain.
We ahould auppOsp Damoerata nonlJ xot sIoo