The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-29
To the White Working-Men of North.
Carolina.

| White Working men, the following facts
arc 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 as children of our good old Mother
State are dear to the heart of every true
North Caroinian:
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-
ed 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 bullied into volunteering, by promises to
feed your families, which were broken; or
by threats and persecution. You were then
conscripted, hand-cuffed and made to fight
for slavery and secession under officers who
were aristocrats, or the tools of the great
oligarch, Jefferson Davis. 1t was a rich
Ihnd.-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 set of re-
bellious and reckless officials. {
Fou4th--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. @.
FItth.-Humble Working men have ever
been scorned by "Southern chi'Talry,"
and one of the worst recommendations
your, children could have was tn at you
had learned them trade. Remember, that
the leopard does not change his spots.
iSigth.-Remember the men who involved
you in war did so in the interest of, and for
slavery. They lost their slaves, and now
they want to tax you to make good their
loss A tax of this sort would make slaves
of you'll Are you ready to bear it? Re-
member also, that all the laws passed here in
former times were for the benefit of slave
owners and large landholders.. They would
not even allow poor mechanic to have lien
upon his work until his wages were paid
and they always put upon the poll of the
poor laboring farmer and mechanic, the same
tax in proportion which they put Upon the
land. They desired, first, 20 pay the rebel
debt, and thus in part reimburse tn emselHes
at your expense for the loss of their slave
property; and failing in that, they now want
to tax you To- pay for their slaves ~ p.
.Seoenth.--Behold! There is now a. party
in full life and vigor in North Carolina,
which honors the Working-man whose ad-
vocates and members are Working linen, and
whose brothers at the North are likewise
honest sons of toll. That party is sternly
opposed to all measures tending to ward the
degradation of labor,-it is against the sla-
very of white or black men, and looks with
the greatest adherence upon aristocratieai
or monarchical governments sss..
Eighth.-In the North, as well as in the
South, the great advocates of Republican
principles are your firm, true and tried