The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-03-04
COPPERHE ADS ON COMPETITION
OF LADORER


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OoPPERHE Ans ON COMPETITION
OF LADORERs.
The Goppcrhesds Of the North in their
sympathy for traitor shareholders oppose
any withdrawal Of their means Of support
by con6scation Of their property or eman-
cipation Of their slaves. And they seek
to humhng The. people Of the North to aid
and abet their nsfarious policy In behalf
of traitors By impresslng the public mind
with the idea that such an addition of Ia
borers will reduce the wages of labor and
thereby operate injuriously on the labor
ers now in our midst.
The doctrine is broad one, and We
venture to say new one even in the DEM
ocratic party. The statement Of it in
general terms secures its condemnation
Laborers from abroad must be excluded
because they come in competition with
home labor and reduce the rate of wages.
Evidently that doctrine was originated
in the "Golden Circle" lodges, and after
it has answered its purpose to prevent
Robt. Reed, Harvey Wilson and scores of
other farmers, who have sent their sons
to Tie war, from employing colored men
to labor on their farms and enable them
to rxise crop, the doctrine may be ex-
tended by these same Golden Circles"
to exclude Irish and German laborers
from abroad for they assert that the in
crease Of laborers brings down the wages
Of labor and operates injuriously upon
the interests Of home laborers. The doc.
trine is suicidal 10 the interests of the
country because it teaches that the more
laborers the worse for them, and there
fore It discourages emigration and popu.
latien. ND l74
The doctrine is the doctrine of tn,
slsrsholders of the South and was adopt
ed by them to exclude free labor in orde
that'they might have monopoly Of EN-
ploymeAt for their own slave. And un
der this doctrine they have measurabl,
excluded foreign emigration from tn
Southern States. And now that the sym
pathisers have adopted this principle il
order to driYe. the colored men back Il
slavery. they will soon be required BY III,
Southern aristoeRacy to extend the prin
ciple to white laborers as we'll. For it il
against ysse tabor not against black labo
that the SoutssEn aristociacy wage war.
These views are boldly avowed alread,
in the South, and such doctrines in rsgar,
to the competition Of labor il but an Oh
shoot from the system of the oligarchy o
the South. De Bows Review, which i,
the accepted organ of the shareholders
says:
The right to govern resides in small
minority; the duty to obey is inherent il
the great mass Of mankind,
There is nothing to which the South en-
tertains SO great q dislike a. universal suf
frage. Wherever foreigners settle togeth
er in large plumbers, there universal sui
frage exists.
The source Of al this in6delity, vice
and NATIONAL Generalization is attribute
BILE. in great measure, to the loosenes
and latitude of the Declaration of indie
pendence, and to the exissence of it's nat
ural outgrowth, the absurd doctrine O
universal suffrage
The real contest Of o-day is not to de
termine between the North aud the South
butte dsesrsnine whether for ages i
come our Government shall partAke NOR
Of The form Of monarchies, or of more lib
erl governments.
In m article in the same strain, th
Richmond Rnquiser ssid:
We repeat then, that Humanity m,
policy alike forbid tho existence Of tn
evtb Of free society - coming genera
lions. Two opposite and oonAieiin4 form
of Sooisty cannot arnong civilised men 90
exist and endure. The one must nv,
way and cease 70 exist, and the other be
come nnissrsAl. II free society be IN
natural. immoral and unchristian, il mus
fall. and give place to Slave society,
social systsm q old . the world. and q
universal - man. II
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.raw Feb. Is, 1868.
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