The Shasta courier., 1865-11-11
NUMBER 81.
Hard to Please.

The working classes of the South are ex.
posed more than those Of this section at
nresent. to the pressure of negro compe-
t'lon. The equality of the two begins its
assertion there, in form more threatening
/, the white laborer than even in the case
OF me North. The progress of the struggle
at the South may therefore be watched by
.he working classes here as study of what
y as ye,' but IN the progress of development
among themselves"
To this the N. Y. Evening Post replies:
Il - u,lhcult to satisfy men who are de.
termined to grumble. We have heen CON.
tidently assured at different times hv tho
Daily News and its friends, the malignant
pro slavery men,
First, That the negro will not worl, at oil.
hut
Second, That he will work so much bet.
ter than the white laborer, that the latter
will be Injured by the pressure of negro
competition"
Third, I hat the country will be ruined bv
the dleness of the free blacks but
Fourth. That the negroes are so eager for
work as to leave none for white workmen.
Fifth, That the negroes are curse to the
country; but
Sixth, That the slave system, which made
negro breeding 4 regular and profitable
business, and thus increased their numbers
at an abnormal rate, was divine institu.
ton and blessing to the land.
Seventh, That the negro is naturally an
abiect coward but
Eighth, That he is a most dangerous
creature. capable of rising and numbering a
community double his numbers and with
hundred times his strength in arms and all
preparations for defence.
Ninth. That the negro can only live in
warm climate like that of the Southern
States but
Tenth, That now he is set free there he
will Immediately rush North. and take the
bread out of the mouths Of the white work
ingmen there.
Eleventh. That white men cannot work in
the Southern fields, which can be cultivated
ouly by negroes but
Twelfth. That the negroes ought all to be
colonzed in Africa or driven off to some re-
mote corner of this continent.
Thirteenth, That the freedmen are so
stupid ard ignorant as to be dangerous to
the Republic but
Fourteenth. That they ought not to be
instructed or permitted to acquire knowl-
edge.
Fifteenth, That it would be curse to
Northern workingmen to have the negroes
flock into those States; but
Sixteenth, That Northern workingmen
ought not to favor a policy which would
make the negroes contented to remain in the
South
Seventeenth, That the workingmen of the
Northern States are the most intelligent,
the most capable, the most industrious, and
the most virtuouS in The world but
Eighteenth, That they will inevitably be
ruined and deprived of work by the com.
petition Of ignorant and idle negroes.
Nineteenth, That the presence of the
blacks amongst US will always be a source
Of difficulty and trouble but
Twentieth. That the Emancipation 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 contradic-
tiuns. into which men fall who ignore all
general principles and follow only their
prejudices. It is not only in relation to the
negro question that they are thus blinded
their folly extends to other affairs. For
instance, they assert very earnestly that
merchant ought to be free to sell his goods
wherever he wants: but they will not have
IL laborer sell his labor as freely, though
that labor creates the goods. They insist
that we shall buy calico in the cheapest
market but not labor. They laugh at the
absurdit and crudities of protective legis.
lation, and yet cry out that white workmen
must suffer, unless protected against ''the
pressure Of negro competition They well
Come immigration from abroad, at the same
time that they try to persuade workingmen
! here that the labor market is oy erst0cke -
! These are the same men who before the war,
declared the negro a beast, a monkey,
possessed of every vile quality and terri
bic danger to the community, and yet urged
the reopening of the African slave trade