The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-10-30
To the White Working.Men of North
-.l.s Carolina. So

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| White Working men, the following facts
are submitted to you as Working-men who
earn your daily bread by the sweat of your
brows 1t is hoped that you will read and
decide fairly, remembering that your inter-
ests a. children of our good old Mother
State are dear to the heart of every true
North Carolinian:
! First-Heretofore, you have been of no
political importance or consideration in any
Southern State, but have been stigmatised
as mean, whites" "poor white trash," and
greasy mechanics You have been impos-
cd upon socially, politically and pecuniarily
by Southern aristocrats and secession oil
garchs
Second.-You. were forced into the late
war against your wills. You were wheedled
or buiiied,into, volunteering, by promises to
feed your families, which were broken; or
by threats and persecution You were. then
coascripted, hand-cuffed and made to fight
for slavery and secession under officers. who
were aristocrats, or the tools of the great
oligareh,, Jefferson Davis. It was rich
mans war and poor mans fight. s..s
1hird.-The whole weight of the war fell
upon you. and your innocent families, who
were nearly starved and became shoeless and
almost naked; and to-day you are poor, in
debt, and taxed by rebel government with
out mercy, to pay the salaries of a set of re-
beTlious and reckless officials. 49,
/ Fourth Until the present hour there has
been no party in the South, which proposed
to elevate you in society, to make your labor
honorable, educate your children, protect
your industry, or reward your efforts towards
political advancement by promoting you to
high and. responsible positions. 49,
| yM.-Humble Working men, have eve,
been scerned by Southern chivalry,''
and one ofsthe worst recommendations
your children could have was that you
had learned them trade. Remember, that
the leopard does not change his spots. 4
SiasA.-Remcmber, the men who involved
you in. war didso in the interest OF, and for
slavery They lost their slaves, and now
they want to tax you to make good theil
loss. A tax of this sort would make slaves
of you | Are you ready to bear ita Re
| member also, that all the laws passed here in
former times were for the Benefit of slave
A -
owners and large landholders. They would
not even allow poor mechanic to have a lie,
4 upon his work until his wages were paid
and they always put upon the poll Of til,
poor laboring farmer and mechanic, the sam,
| tax in proportion which they put upon til,
land They desired, first, 20. pay the rebe
debt, and thus in part reimburse themselve
at your expense for the loss of their slay1
property; and failing in that, they now wan
TO tax yont to pay for their slaves. -, =
| SecenM. Behold! There is now part,
in full life and vigor in North Carolina
which honors the Working man, whose al
vocases and members are Working-men, ant
whose brothers at the North are likewis'
honest sons of toll That party is sternlJ
opposed to.all measures tending toward the
degradation Of labor, lit is agains. the sla
very of whiteor black men, and looks witt
the greatest adherence upon aristocratica
or monarchicai governments.
Eigha. In the North, as well as in til
South, the great advocates Of Republics