The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1864-12-24

LCHUtIuC'
LABOR NOT THOUGHT DEGRADING
AT TIE SoUTH.-We cannot conceive
how any man who has ever lived both
North and South; can give place to the
ridiculous idea that llbor was ever re-
garded as more ignoble at the South or
as degrading man in the estimation of
either the rich or the poor, the slave.
holding or the non .slavcbolGing. On
the contrary, the only,place where. the
laboring man, and especially the me-
chanic, was never cloggcd in his efforts
to rise among his fellow men, where his
employment and the hardness of lis
hands never gave exclusion from com.
pany, where his family easily passed in.
to the charmed circle Of good society,
when their accomplishments suit them
therefore, was the South. The favorite
mayor of New Orleans, the one who
longest retained his position, was a jour-
neyman batter, another painter, nor
can single instance be shown in the
State where man was helped into Of
flee by the reputation of being an "aris-
tocrat" Or man ofwealth, So in Missis.
sippi its favorite Governor, Joe.
Matthews, was well-digger, Governor
Tucker, blacksmith, and its Senator,
Henderson, shoemaker. A man aspir-
ing to high place in the affections of the
people, had always to appeal to eviden-
ces of early industry and toll to prove
himself to be practical friend of the
people, and to know their wants. In
truth, the "aristocracy" of the South
has always been of poor men, True,
there were some who affected to despisc
labor and laboring men, but these were
invariable such as had travelled North
and learned snobblishncss among the
vulgar rich at Newport and Saratoga.
Ask the mcrchanic, who has travelled
over the Southern States and North
alike, in which Ct them he was treated
with most respect. 1t has been tao
fashion for years, for the Northern press
to assert that labor was considered de-
grading to the white man in the South.
The Southern people and Northern men
living South did not deem the accusation
worthy of reply. When it is repeated
in our midst, and through the sufferancc
of men who know better, VIC deem it oul
duty, to reply to it with emphasis, that
it is less true of the South and Southern
people than of any other upon God,
footstool.-MeW Orleaus Picayune. 8
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BIGAMY.-There has been quite an
excitcmcntraised among the gossipping
portion Of the community, recently by
the arrest and imprisonment Of a man il
our county Jail charged with the crime oI
bigamy. Severa! weeks ago q mar
made his appearance at several places in
this county, calling himself Royal Sut
ton, or DR.. Sutton, attending to the busi
ness of extracting OR c1ring corns ant
bunions. lie became generally knowr
as the "Corn Doctor" At Reidsburg
some three or four weeks ago, he mad,
the acquaintance of young lady, attcn
ding the Seminary at that place, and af
ter couple of weeks courtship, married
her. They visited among their friend
the lady being very respectively con
nected-and were spending their hon
eymoon quite pleasantly, when the nev
bride was Mortified by the appearance o
another wife of the corn doctors hailin'
from Clearfeld county, and accompanies
with a constable, who had a warrant fo
the arrest of the gay Lothario. Thi
wife who was married but few month
ago, had along with her child, severa
years old, which the DR.. had brough
her a short time since, representing
to be the child of his first wife, who h
said had died a year aud half age
The DIR, was arrested and is now il
Jail awaiting his trial. He is no douh
a regular knavc, and there is no tcllin
but what he may have half dozen NOR
wives over the country.