Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-11-23
NUMBER 46.
From the Chicago Tribnne.l
A Days Pag for Days Work.

The essence of slavery was the successful ef-
fort of the white inhabitants of the South to get
something for nothing-a day work out OF the
| black man without q days pay. That is the
prolific. cause of tyranny and misgovernment
everywhere. That is what misgovernment
means-somethng, out of part of the people,
for nothing, to benefit the other part of the peo-
pie. In other words, nearly all the despotism OF
modern times resolves itself into this axiom of
ant-democratc polcy-give us (the favored few
a days work without days pay
Pay lies at the basis of all well-constructed
human society. There is but little of the brutal
tyranny which seizes upon mems bodies, throws
them into prison, beats, tortures and puts to
death, by the exercise of irresponsible force left
now in the so-called Christian world. Our
former slave States presented the most conspic-
uous and disgraceful examples ot the barbarism
but, even in them, the practices and precepts of
Christianity have partially supplanted the bru-
tality of the 0lden time; and all that is needed
to-day to effect the reconstruction of the South
on an enduring basis, to elevate the black, and
to more efTectually civilize the white man. is the
cheerful and universal acceptance, in the South
ern States, of that simplest of all the maxims of
enlightened political economy-pay day $
wages for q days work The hope to get along
without this is one of the most prolific causes OF
difficulty between the contending races, and be-
tween the Government and the late rebels. Inc
/ lingering desire, sometimes conferred, but more
frequently denied, the part of the late mas
ters to have some system of apprenticeship, or
some other form of unjust and unequal legisa-
ton, to which their former slaves shall be sub
jected and by which the masters will get out OF
their laborers whole days work Tor hall
DAYS pay-that's what's the matter.
Laborng men of the North this thing most
intimately concerns you Labor is of no color
it is not white, black, nor red, nor copper
colored, nor g-streaked-and-speckled. 1t is
an entity, thing the complement of which is
II to hav in he as
t well in the North arrangement, sanctioned
| and protected by custom and the law, by which
5 labor shall have right to a certain and we'll
: earned reward-not a half day, not three
e fourths of day s, not nine-tenths OF day pay
! for whole days work, but pay in full A fur
, row turned by black man will afford just as
f much space for the growth of cotton or corn as
= if it were turned by q white man, though he
were whittier than alabaster. The furrow costs
labor-as much in the case as in the other
G and just as true as that good government is the
l real and final interest of all the governed, so
true is it that government can be just, good
or tolerable, in which the law stands be-
tween days work and days pay We en-
treat you, then, to ask yourselves, when you
next go to vote, this question Will this bal
lot that hold in my fingers be the means, how
ever remote and slight of building up wall, by
the agency of the law, between honest labor and
just reward?' If the answer is only family,
! Yes cast the paper from you as you would
your opinion of the sanctity of Work and the
everlasting necessity and justice of Pay. And
when you hear demagogues deploring the con-
dtion of the South, and wondering how long
! Congressional interference and military rule will
be visited upon the Southern people, remember
that it long, wicked and persistent disre-
gard of that maxim which have called the
foundation stone of good government, ga days
wages for days work" that caused the war
and the attendant and subsequent evils thereof;
and that the only way to quiet the present tur-
moil is for the South to act, now and hereafter,
in good faith, on that best and most ndispensa-
BILE of governmental apothegms, IA days labor
shall have days pay" Until that is the rule
of all this land, we shall have no peace.
A FEARFUL ScENE.-An exciting scene, says
recent issue of the Liverpool Mercury, took place
at Manders mcnagerie, at Turnbridge Wells.
case containing seven rattlesnakes was by an
oversight left open, and one of them escaped.
A panic seized the employed, and with the
greatest difficulty elderly named God
frey, prevailed some of them to endeavor to
recapture the reptile Aiming themselves with
shovels, forks, scrapers, broom 5, etc, the keep
ers under the direction of Godfrey, proceeded
toward the snake The reptile, during these
preparations, remained perfectly quiet, but on
the approach of the keepers, which was heralded
by large sack being attempted to be thrown
over him, leisurely proceeded up the center of
did not appear to notice any of the occupants of
the numerous cages and dens until it came to
the caravan containing the bonassus, species
of bufalo-an immense animal, weighing up
wards of two tons. On arriving opposite this
caravan the snake paused for q moment, then
made a spring, fastened on the bshassus and bit
it in the left nostrl. The reptik then let 90 its
grip, and shaking its rattles glfded through an
opening between the two caravans, where some
grooms were filling cart with straw. To this
cart was attached one of the finest horses be-
longing to Mr.. Mander's extensive stud. The
snake fastened the off fetlock of the horse,
which imm ediately reared and plunged to such
an extent as to shake the reptile off, and before
r it could move away it was crushed to death be-
= meath the hoofs of the horse. In few minutes
after the horse received the bite its whole frame
quivered, its eyes nearly burst from their SOCK
cts and its moans were pteous. Two veterinary
surgeons were brought, but their services "ei1
: of no avail for in few moments the norse u,eu
in the most frghtful agony. Meanwhie lne ~
nassus was in such an infuriated CONDITION tnaI
the door of its den bad to be put up anu 5eeuie
Iv holted In a few seconds a heavy 1ail was
e Loord in. the caravan and on the doors bclng
: opened the noble beast was fouhd ue"u'
co,oprn DEMocRAT.-IIon. j. \. j. Cress-
, ,reI, in an eloquent address before the Border
c.o.es Convention at Baltimore, narrated the
: fov1owing Il know but one black in Mary
, land whose position is doubtful. - Whose ?''1
His name is Abe Corts, in my county. Some
one came to time ago, and said Abe
Corts was Copperhead. "Oh,' said l, 'sI
think that is very true" The next time saw
Abe told him, - they say you re a Copperhead,
Abe" s'Oh, yes, Massa John, I'm a Copper
head" Says l, ''Abe, you re fool" ''No,
massa," says he, q m no fool. Just hear what
this niger has to say. You know | am a pretty
old man, and can't read write, and hain't
got enough to learn, and besides |
. mighty fond of whisky. Inever thought was fit
for anything but to be Democrat" [Great
applause and laughter That sort OF reasoning
overcame me and | surrendered at discretion
THE young lady who was suffering from the