The Placer herald., 1865-11-11
To White Laborers.


The New York Tribune lately published
the following paragraph without note or COM
ment:"
"Thrty,fivs employees have been dscbar-
esd from the gas works at St. Louis. and one
hundred and fifty negroes employed to do
their work. The negroes receive twenty. five
cents per day more than was paid to the
whites. The police were sent to the spot to
prevent the whites from mobbing them"
Since this WAS published white veterans of
the federal army have paraded the streets Of
New York in procession, asking for work.
They carried a banner inscribed d-"Our LAST
employment was in putting down the rebel
lion" Did the Tribune observe the veterans
marching sadly along. or was it conveniently
blind as they filed past its office!
While these veterans were parading the
streets as an advertisement to procure work,
Gen. Howard Of the Negro Bureau. was
sending cargoes Of "freedmen" to Rhode
Island, at Government expense, where EN-
ploymsnt was to be furnished them. At The
same time, or shortly after. agents were se
curing in Richmond large number of
'freedmen at one dollar a day and their
board" to 60 to Cayngs county, New York,
to fell timber. Also. since then the Camp.
bell Hospital at Washington City, one of the
finest has been taken hy the Negro Bureau,
and "viIags" established, where over one
thousand negroes and families will be accom-
moda,ed with shelter and comfort, to be fed
expense. and the children to be educated by
teachers supported 10y societies throughout
the North AT the same time, Fairfax Sem
mary, at Fairfax. Va was turned over to the
Bureau, by the Government authorities, and
will bs used for a similar purpose - The
founding OF negro village at the public ex>
pense. A little further down in Virginia, at
Camp Hamilton and Hampton, buildings are
now in course of erection by the Govern
ment, for the freedmen who are lying around
loose, and preparations are being made to
issue to them, daily, cooked soup, met and
vegetables, in lieu of the nncooked food
heretofore issued to them and to the soldiers
The withdrawal Of the soldiers has thus bet
tered the condition OF the freedmen in that
respect.
And yet, while all these extensive pre-
rarations are going on under The Negro
Bureau, at Government expense-that is
At the expense Of every tax payer in
the North-thousand of white veterans,
whose "ast work was putting down the
rebellion" are wandering the streets in
the vain search for honest employment. Is
this just-is it right? Where is the boast,
ed gratitude Of the Republican parlyl We
do not advocate doing injury to the poor
negroes-tbey need protection and EMPLOY
msnt, too-but why should everything be
done for them and nothing for those white
men who are as poor and hepIess7 There
are thousand of whites as urgently needing
assistance as the poorest negroes. And
should they not have il!
Had it not been for The unlawful and un-
constitutional policy of the Republican party
there would not now he any negroes 10 be
supported out of the hard earnings Of our
northern laborers and mechanics. Even
were the able bodied blacks made to do their
duty now they would not be SO great
charge upon the public But there is no
prospect of this. The Republican leaders
will have their way while the people, 10y .h-ir
votes, seem TO endorse this patronaya of The
blacks. Thus, until Democracy comes again
INTO power to protect the poor man, every
dollar he earns will be taxed for the support
OF negro, while all that the negro earns for
himself will be put into the negros porke,
as clear gain and untaxed. O, people, bas-
ten the good time! Then white veterans of
our armies will not parade the streets of our
cities begging for work, and hearty. strong
negroes will not fa,:en. like Shoddv at the
public crib.- Harrisburg Patriot and Union.