The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-11


The Daily Mems this morning writes
I''Ihe working Glasses of the South ar
exposed more than those of this sectioi
mt present are, to the pressure of nepr
competition. The equality of the tW
begins its assertion there, in n form
more threatening TO the white lahore
than even in the case Of the North m,
progress of the struggle Mt the SoItJ
may, therefore, lie watched by the work
ing classes here as study of what is
ar yet, but in progress of deYeloDlnelI
among themselves" p 80 ifr's'''
1t is difficult to satisfy men who mr.,
determined to grumble. We have beer
confidently assured at different time,
Dy the DdIty NeiVs and its friends, til,
malignant prO-zlnvery men, 7GI ~
First, That the free negro will mo
work mt all, but sas dI
Second, Tint he will work so mucI
better than the white lnborer. flint M,
latter will be injured by the '.pressurt
of negro cOmpetitiOn.p
Ihlrd, Tint tho country will be ruined
by tho 1dlcness of the free blacks, but
Fonfth, That the negroes are so enseI
Tor work hs to leave none for white
wOrkmen. lfH
Firth, That the negroes arc n curse tr
the country, but ~
Sixth, That the slave system, which
made negTo-breeding regular and nro-
iiutDle business, and thus increased
their numbers nt an abfiormnl rnte
to the land. IlIITlI
Seventh, That the negro is uaturaIIv
an abiect coward, but
Eeghthl That he is n most flnnparop,,
creature, capable of rising and Tn1Irjn,.
ing community double his numbere
ana with II hundred times his strength
IN mar arms and all preparations for de
Ninth, Tint the negro can only live
in warm climate, like that Of the
southern states, but E
Tenth, That now he is set free there
ne Will Immediately rush north, and
take the bread out of the mouths Of the
white wOrkinGmen here.
Eleventh That white men cannot
be cultivated only by negroes. but
Twelfth, That the negroes oupht oIl
TO be coloniZed in Africa, or driven Off
to some remote corner of this continent
Thirteenth, That the freedmen are so
studiu and ignOrunt ms TO be dangerous
to the republic, but
Fourteenth, That they ought not to
.!s Ge instructed or permitted to acquire,
Fifteenth, That it would be curse
10 northern workingnien to have the
negroes flock into these States, but
Sixteenth, That northern Working
men ought not to favor Il policy which
would make the negroes contented 10
remain in the South. lIsg
Seventeenth, That the yorlSinpmnn
of the northern States are the most in
telligent, the most capable, the most in
uustr1ous and the most yirtuDus in the
world, but -ti1 l1lL
Eighteenth, That they will inevitably
pc ruined and deprived of work by the
competition of ignorant and idle ne
Nineteenth, That the presence of tho
blacks amongst us will always be a
source of difficulty and trouble, but
twentieth, Tint the Characterization
Act is wrong, chiefly because, under it's
operation, the negro race is likely to
die out, like the Indians.
These are some of the curious contra
dlctons into which men fall who ip-
more nll general principles, and follow
only the will-o'the-wisp of their preitl-
diees- II is not only in relation 10 the
negro question that they are thus blind-H
ed-their folly extends to other affairs.
For instance, they assert very earnestly
That II merchant ought to be free to sell
his goods wherever he wants; but they
viii not have Il laborer sell his labor as
freely-thOugh that labor creates tho
goods. They insist. that we shall buy
cniico i'll the cheapest market, but not
labor. They laugh nr the absurdities
and crulities of "protective legisia-
tlon," and yet cry ont that white work
men must suffer, unless protected
against the pressure of negro conipeti-
tion." They welcome immigration
from abroad, at the same time that they
try to persuade worlcingmen here that
the lnbor market is already oVerstocked.
ihese are the same men, who, before
tho war, declared the negro a beast. n
monkey, possessed of every. vile 1unIi-
ty, and a terrible danger to the commu-
nifty, and yet urged the rGopening of
the African slave trade. . -