The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-04-01
ADDRESS TO TuEswHTE WoRKNG-MEs
OF NORTH.CAROLINA.


are submitted to you as Working-men who
earn your daily bread by the sweat of your
brows 1t is hoped that you viii read and
decide fairly. reniehi berins that your inter-
O. ests as children OF our good old Mother
State are dear TO the heart of every true
North-Carolinian; haaN -
Heretofore, you have been of no
l,s political Importance consideration in any
Southern State, but have been stigmatised
rs smean whites '.poor white trash" and
greasy mechanics" You have been impos-.
ed upon socially politically and pecuniarily
By Southern aristocrats and secession Ole
-, ygarchs. a,7t -, 81 ,,.s5 ~
war against your wills You were wheedled
or bulIied 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
q, oligarch Jefferson Davis. 1t was rich
nuns war and poor mans fight.
Third-The whole weight OF the war tell
upon you and your innocent families, who
were nearly starved and became shoeless and
.z almost naked and to-day you are poor, IN
, debt, and taxed by rebel government with
r. out mercy, 10 pay Tue s"iaiieSVi ooe vi io-
beious and reckless officials. s.ts1
.a. F0u1th-Until the present time 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,
'''=@ Fitth.-Humble Working-men have ever
o been scorned by Southern chivalry," and
i'z one of the worst recommendations your
.s'1 children could have, was that youhad learned
vi them a trade Remember, that the leopard
~ does not change his spots ,'''-' ''1 Il.
q 7l- Sisth.-Remember the men who involved
Boa YOU in war did so in thesinterest of. and for
ssL slavery. They lost their slaves, and now
they want to tax you to make good their
Pm loss. A tax OF this sort would make slaves
-s of you! Are you ready to bear it 2 Re-
rs member also, that all the laws passed here in
former times were for the benefit OF slave
owners and large lantiholders.- 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
i the poor laborng farmse and mechanic the
same tax in proportion which they put upon
the land. They desired, first, to pay the
rebel debt, and thus in part reimburse them
o.
~ slave property; and failing IN that, they now
o want to tax you to pay for their Slaves
g - Segenth-Behold? There is now party
b! in full life and vigor in North Carolina
A which honors the Working man, whose adj
vocates and members are Working-men, and
..-. whose brothers at the North are likewise
..- honest sons of toll That party is sternly
opposed to all measures tending toward the
degradation of labor,-it is against the sa
ro very of white or black men, and looks with
the greatest abhorance upon aristocratical
....- or monarchical governments. ,,.4.+ .r
r.. Eighth-In, the North, as well as in the
South, the great advocates of Republican
principles are your firm, true. and tried
friends. They have risen from your ranks
in the face of the bitterest opposition. They
have fought your battles on every field. and
DAB are to-day contentling for your interest with
all oftheir original courage. -
IL W. Ninth.LIn all the Northern States, where
the Republican party rules,-and all the
bGa Northern States are now in the hands of
that party,-LABoR is honored above all
ID. things under the sun, except God; and the
American Union. of which it is the founda-
ton; and your brother mechanics, farmers
and workingmen have, femigrated from
North Carolina by thousands, in order to
reach land where they could be respected,
gHo rewarded and appreciated. r-1 l
9' 5Ti1sah.-The Governors, Judges, Congress
r5al men, and Legislators of the Northern States
1ges are members of the Republican party and
lof g are Working men themselves, having driven
5s.,. q pillow or swung hammer Just as you do
they are honored, and you are over
a, looked and forgotten. @ -r
e7 lam. ELeoenh-You have nothing to hope for
mn. but continued oppression until you rise In
m your majesty and hurl arstocrats and oil
70. garchs from all places of power. Even now
they seek to perpetuate their ancient and
lntolerable system Of misrule. As men enti-
tied to an independent voice in the govern
meet, arise and protest in the name of your
..i children, against such monstrous lniquity.
'L q Tweyth.-What is there Objectionable to
you as Working men in the platform of the
Republican party? If it guarantees any
za thing, it guarantees the perfection Labor.
1t advocates civil, political and religious lib
III erty to all men. 1t denounces class legisla-
zion in favor of the powerful against the weak;
while it proclaims that our soil knows no
king, but the Monarch of the Plow and the
Anvil-the Working man.
~. %, Thirteenth appeals to your preiudi-
.es against colored tailoring men, is put upon
The ground that tile negro is aspiring to be-
youi equdl 1Ney now saw
Il that he will become your master, and endea-
vor to freighten you with the bug-a-boo of
negro supremacy" How ridiculous =
- Where is the prootl Who tells you of these
= things but the very man that would consd-
crit degrading to have you associate on
equal terms with his tamily WHO turns up
.l his nose at your hard hands and oil-stained
-4+ garments2 Your private house is your own,
'-7h His private house is his own. The colored
ri mans house is his own Your social circle
0 your own, and no man, white or colored,
g can enter it without your consent Have
E0TYou ever heard of colored man who advoca-
ted social equality between the white and
al black races7 Never. No laws can be made
you to associate with any. one in
your houses or at your tables. Did YOU
s,I. ever hear of such a law in any country? Is
81 such law, then, likely to be passed in free
America ? The man that talks to YOU
..,, about social equality insults your feelings
and Understandings. Beware of him-he is
either fool or knave. II
-. Fourteenth-When in 1858. WORKING
l's mans Association was formed in Raleigh in
Z ) order to secure legislative protection for and
.dl equality of taxation on LABOR, land and
~ slaves, Its members were denounced as Abo-
Nv htionists, and the Association frowned out of
5-ii existence by aristocrats and secession oil
iI;i garchs. Has the memory Of that event pass