Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-08-21
THE UNION AS IT WAS"
Facts for Poor whites to Read.

\ prominent Democrat who lives and
does business in New York, was induced
some years since, to buy an estate in Nir
einia reputcd rich in gold lie employed
foreman TO develop it, hired twenty or !
thirty of the Poor Whites residing upon !
cr adjacent to it to assist rs laborcrs, and /,
came home to attend to other business |
But few weeks elapsed when he received ,
Dispatch from his foreman, urging him
to hurry back to Louisa county, and help
said foreman out Of trouble. He prompt
ly obcyed, and, soon after reaching his
estate, was waited upon by three gentle
men, who proclaimed themselves Com
mittee from the ncighboring proprictors,
appointed to notify him that he must not
employ white labor on his estate, but must
hire or buy slaves. He ycn,urcd to re
monstratc-ursed that he had imported
no laborers into Virgiuia-that his men
were all natives of the State and fixed
Itct'ltItS 'l tift az Iif WIS fllt
short by the spokesman (the now Rebel
ten Jenkins with Il curt reminder that
they had not proposed to argue the point
that it was not the policy of Virginia
tc encourage white labor where slaves were
10 he had-and that they only desired To
Luow whether he proposed TO comply with
their demand or take the consequence of
a refusal. Here one of the white laborcrs
IA respectable, worthy citizen, over fifty
gears old, who happened to be present or
passing-ventured to interpose the query:
.'But what are we TO do to support our
families ?''-"Don't you know enough to
hold Your tongue - responded the cion of
Chiyalry, with look as he might have
bestowed upon toad who had undertaken
e. lecture him on triyunometrv The
rcor " hitc was cowcd into abject silence
the New Yorker said he had no choice, 50
hc submitted with the best possible grace,
dismissed his White Eirginians to their
sorry huts aud ragged, unschoolcd chill
drcn, and proceeded to hire the negroes
Of his dominecring ncighbors as he needs
must He was paving the Whites eighty
cents in cash per day; they told him they
would gladly work for sixty cents rather
than be thrown off: but, though he wan
ted their work and they wanted his mon
cy, they were all under the yoke of an iron
lespotism. and had to succumb
Such is the Internal, God-dcfyinr, Man
dcbasiny system which the White laborcrs
are now being goadcd by Fernando Wood
and lIoratio Seymour Into treason TO up
hold and perpe,uate-and all because
those reckless aspirants believe their own
chances of political aggrandizement will
thereby be promoted, May the ligh,nings
of Justice blast their fendish ambition.
We cherish the hope that this gigantic,
wicked Rebellion, fomentcd aud inaugu-
rated by tie Slave power for its own
agrandizemcnt and fertilization, may result
in its most signal, righteous, utter, bcncfi-
cent overthrow. Yet we do not say that
NJ Peace must be made that docs not
stipulatc for and secure the immediate
Abolition Of Slavery. The fortunes of
War do not always enable the righteous
party in a great struggle to insist on
'DS io'a oi Jitstice Dut, any tdce
winch attempts to restore to Slavery the
consideration, respect aud power which it
enjoyed before it rushed into Rebellion
and Civil War, will prove an illusion and
arc-will be regarded by the bailled,
mortified Slave Power as but a truce, q
breathing spell, an opportunity for prep
aratiou i'll view Of a new struggle wherein
10 wipe out the remembrance of its
defeats, its losses and its humiliations ;
and will inevitably subject the sincere
Unionists of the entire South 10 systcmat-
ic tyranny, abuse, outrage, robbery, maim-
in" and murder, until the last of them
shall have been hunted out or extermina-
It'd. Such are the inevitable results Of q
~ '''av~ry "rcc'ns'ruetion.'