The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-11-25

Rebellion, It all sprang from different views OIL
Labor and the methods of using il. The germ
Of the whole matter lies in Work The same Il
true the Revolutionary war Historians de,
clare that our Fathers broke off their allegiance
to Great Britain on grounds of political Difficult.
". That was the form which the struggle as
sumed, as in the lato civil war. But in both ca.
legislation had sadly intcrfered with the indus.
trial interests of the Colonies. More than forty
royal statutes were in force previous to the Rev.
'olution, restricting and forbidding labor, and
there was scarcely single channel of industry
remaining free and unobstructed. And it was
the irritation-the sense OF wrong in regard to
the free rights Of labor in the Colonies, that led
TO the widespread dissatisfaction which culmi.
mated in tue Revolution.
When our Fathers settled IN this land, they
had no plans or fixed ideas on the subject of la.
Dor. They had no set system. Alike in North
and South, through the policy of the royal gov
eminent, slave labor was introduced But NOR
al, industrial and climatic influences soon began
to affect the Labor question And shortly after
NsfFH
the Revolution dividing line Was drawn be-
tween white, free labor, and black, slave labor.
The Northern Colonists were common people,
but they were good stock. They bad mn innate
hatred of everything that savored of monarchy,
aristocracy or class privilege. They we're COM
mon in feeling, common in interest common in
faith, common in hope. They did not look up-
on communities as mass, drawing life and. sus-
tenance from some living head. They looked
upon man as an individual, born of God, des-
tined to immortality, with the issues Of time and
eternity in his own hands. This worlds fight
to them was free fight and il seemed both
mean and wicked to trip up a champion or
throw obstacles in bis way. Rather was it their
duty to give him trusty weapons, muscles TO
WELD and skill to use them. ae8 g9 fHis
1t was plain to them as tits to us, that men,
though-considered in their individual capacity,
are not in an unlimited sense, equal. The Gre
ator gives men certain, though unequal faculties,
for the development and proper use of which
each is responsible. Every man is held under
certain Laws, human and divine, and in return
for bis obedience thereto, he is granted certain
rights or privileges. Among these are Life, Lib
erty and labor. These were the two leading
ideas in the political faith of the Northern Colon
lists ,Ers7y man ought 10 enjoy the proceeds Of his
0ara labor \ sast e. laomas u.s. HaT5 u
Ereryn ought to haze his faculties Developed
to the extent for sOhich God has fitted them.
The practical result of carrying out these ideas
is found in the great prosperity of the North
Public schools were sown broadcast over the
land, for the education of the common people,
and every man was allowed to work, when,
where and how be found it most advantageous
to Himself. 9sfH 74s4' 'ts
Free, educated Labor was their doctrine
The South, on the other hand, adopted the
theory that labor ought not to be free and that
certain faculties Of an inferior race ought not to be
educated ues
They held the doctrine that capital ought to
own labor that God in his inscrutable wisdom
made one race to be the scryants-the hands and
feet, asst were, of another class.
Now il may be true that the South never ex-
pressly legislated ignorance to the slave But
the one is necessary result-or rather, an ac-
compartment Of the other. Education is Free
dom. And the great effort of the South hasbeen
to bring the slave down to that point, when he
could do the most work with the least intelIi-
gence-to make him nearest brute in intellect,
and nearest man in Industrial skill. This was
necessary to the effectiveness and permanency of
the Institution. et..,.r..r.,1t .a.,srs
Through the operation Of this system of labor,
an imperious and exacting aristocracy was Gre
ated the laboring classes, both white and black,
free and slave, have been kept in almost total ig-
norance, and their section has made no material
progress the mechanic and agricultural arts.
Moreover, it blunted the edge of individual mo-
rality, weakened public virtue and developed
such passions as were hostile TO the good Of the
State. st4f'A = teA"it9
Uneducated slave labor was the theory Of the
South aEi41& IF ba@s HES+ iii@tafe ~
Fouryear ago the two systems came in con-
lict, and the conclusion struck out a storm Of
war. The Northern system prevailed, and it is
the work Of to-day to install the conqueror in his
new territory Every honest laborer in this
broad land, may to-day lift up his head and re-
joice that heis free--free to enjoy the proceeds
of his own skill. His hands are Embossed and
the proceeds Of bis toll no longer flow into the
Golfers ofanother. ANN. 100 t,..s fa....
THE work Of installation in the South is
but half accomplished. To make labor effective
valuable alike to the laborer and to the pub
lic it must not only be free but educated -
What the South wants to-day is steady, educa-
ted, productive labor. We have given up the
idea of cOlonizing the freedmen--of sending the
only laboring class out of the Southern country,
and leaving it to terminate weeds or sink into a
DESERT They need the steady labor Of every
workman within their reach. And leaving NOR
al obligations ont Of The question, it is certainly
better to educate their aborers, than to have this
large class IiYingin ignorance, idleness and vice.
to contaminate the wholemass Of society ae1s
We are glad to see that the subject is being
agitated In the South The late religious Con.
ventions at Richmond, discussed the matter and
adopted resolutions looking to this end. It il
they who must do the work, since they are IA
miliar With the wants and fcapacityFof the negro.
The people of the North can aid by expressing
liberal.and encouraging views, and suggesting
proper expedients, as we'll as BY contributions Of
money and Teachers. Let us drop the question
of Negro suffrage and urge the FAR more pressing
and important one of Negro education. 4ts s
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