The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-11-07
The Laborizg GLASS.

No class ofour citizens have deeper inter-
est Ia the coming election than those who Ia
Dor and do the work, of the country. The
great contest is not for men, but for princi-
nles r. is emphatically contest between
tree labor on the one side and slave labor on
the other. The Southern rebels are striving
for power to perpetuate the slave system, not
only in the slave States, but also to extend it
all over territory now free. True Democracy
and proud aristocracy are the contestants,
and every vote thrown for Abraham Lincoln
is a vote for democracy, and every vote
thrown for Mcclellan is a vote for aristocracy.
The whole matter lies within the compass Oh
nutshell, and he who runs may read ana IN
derStand the true record.
To vigorously prosecute the war ana crush
out the rebellion in the shortest space Vi Iilile
is to mt down the slave olgarchy, dignity la
bor and Mace the working men and working
women on the elevated plane where they be-
lone. Int an armistice or negotiating with re-
heels in arms is the direct course to establish
the doctrine which Herschell v. johnson ad-
vocated in 1860 when he was the democratic
candidate for Vice President. He said " We
6elieoe capital should oaun lGborw And what
did John G. Calhoun, the father of the democra-
cy that would now rule the country, say years
ago? 1t Is this, "The hand that is familiar
with the plough handle should never he per-
mitted to touch ballotp Think of that, far
mers Of Maine, and then vote, if you can, for
Mcclellan, armistice and the slave aristocra-
cy. a1Gft3 Wg 3IaEeIR0I1 ,4fGf4
But that is not all. Hear what Gov. Ham
mond said, SIN all social systems, there must
be class to do the mental duties--G to,rer
order OF intellect and little skittp' And this
proud aristocrat wound up by characterising
the laboring. class as "the nsudsills of societyr'
And again one Spratt said in an address to
the Confederate Congress at Montgomery in
1861, "Ths real contest lies between two
forms of society. In the one the reins of gov
eminent come from the heels, in the other,
from the head Of society" But De BOWS
southern Review, about the only literary work
the South has ever published, places the whole
matter in clearer light, If that were possible
1t says, "7he theory Of free labor Is deIu-
sion. Slavery is the normal condition of the
laboring man, aohite or black"
Such are the sentiments of Southern rebels
and Shareholders, and the copperheads of the
North are doing all in their power to perpetu-
ate that same system of slavery sum OF
all villanies" as it has been well characterized
by the great and good Wesley-and induce
the working men of the free states to assist
them by their votes next Tuesday to accom-
plish their abominable work. But we trust
and believe very largenumbers of the working
men of Maine who have heretofore voted with
the Democrats, are not SO easily hood winked
and blinded. They will break away from a
party that was once powerful and patriotic
and join hands with the great Union party
and put down forever on this continent tha
vile system which characteristics them as "tht
mudsills of society" Our farmers will show
to the world that their hands although "fami
liar with the plough-h handle" can s'touch a
ballot" and putt into the. box for Freedom
And our mechanics will say to these prout
shareholders that there are not sldoe race
born to labor and naGster-races born to gov
ern and control the fruits of labor as tn
Richmond Examiner has recently affirmed.