Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-12-03
- LABOR RESPECTED IN THE
NORTH.

Honest Toll should be respected wherev.
er found. Labor is the foundation of all
wealth and prosperity, with individuals as
we'll as nations. No nation ever became
great and glorious without the labor of its
people, while many nations have dwindled
into insignifcance and debauchery by the
Incidence Of its people.
For many years we have heard the ia.
natics Of New England, where mush-
room, Goldfish aristocracy has sprung up,
derounce the people Of the South as the
"Slaveocracy," the autocrat Of the whip
&C., &c. BY this SPECIE Of denunciation
Of the people Of the South as the enemies
Of labor, a gigantic deception has been
practiced upon the North, and prejudice
and hatred has been cultivated towards
the people Of the South which is as un>
fortunate to the one section rs it is unjust
to the other. Let an impartial observer
pass through the towns of New England
and witness the bloated and disgusting
ars'ocracy Of the wealthy manufacturers,
| ship owners and sea captains, whose wealth
is their only claim to respect, and witness
the air Of contempt with which the me.
chanic or Iaboring man is treated, and if
he has any knowledge Of Southern char.
acter and customs, he will be upable to
, resist the conclusion aud confess that the
political leaders Of the North have i'm
posed alike upon the ignorance Of the
North and the history Of the South. 1t
common for those in New England who
have built up fortunes by the traffic in
brass clocks ard wooden nutmegs, to
cast a scornlul glance or turn up their
noses at the toling masses Of the country,
while the feeling in the South among the
substantial planters is one of respect for
mechanical genius and honest toll. 1t
may be unpleasant for Northern man to
make the confession, tut i, is nevertheless
true, ard deserves to be made a matter OF
! record.
On this subject the New Orleans Plea
game Of the 18th Of October has the fol.
| lowing. Its statements are true and wor.
| thy to be treasured mp:
I'VE cannot conceive how any man
who has ever lived both North and South,
can give place to the ridiculous idea that
labor was ever regarded as more ignoble
at the South or as degraded a man in the
estimation of either the rich or the poor,
the slaveholdiug or the non.slavebolding.
"On the contrary, the only place where
the laboring man, and especially the me>
chanic, was never clogged in his efforts to
rise among his fellow men, where his EN-.
p|oyment and the hardness of his hands
never gave cause for his exclusion from
company, where his family easily passed
into the charmed circle of good society,
when their accomplishm suit them
therefor, was in the South.
The tavorite Mayor of New Orleans,
, the one who longest retained his position,
vas journeyman halter, another prin
ter Eor can u single instance be shown
in the State where man was helped into
office by the reputation of being an arts
tocrat or man OF wealth.
$50 in Mississippi; its hvori,e Gov.
ernor, Joe Matbeps, was well.digger,
| Gov. Tuckera blacksmith, aud its Sena-
tor, John Henderson, a shoemaker. A
man aspiring to high place in the atfec
tons of the people, had always to appeal
TO evidences Of early industry and toll to
prove himself to be a 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 10
despise labor and laboring men. but these
were invariably such as had travelled
North and learned snobbishncss among
the vulgar rich at Newport and Saratoga.
Ask the mechanic, who has ]ournryed
over the Southern States and North alike,
in which of them he was treated with
most respect. 1t has been the fashion,
for years, for the Northern press to assert
that labor was considered degrading to
the white man Of the South. The South
ern people and Northern men living South
did not deem tho accusation worthy a
reply. When it is repeated in our own
midst. and through the safferance Of men
who know better, We deem it our duty to
reply to it with emphasis, that it is less
true of the South and Southern people
than of any other upon Gods footstool.'
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