The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-10-01
Laboring Man, a Word with You,

the South--the slave was compelled
to give all his timo without pay, VIC
answer. Are you in favor Of that
system you man, living by his
wagesY We hear you reply No !
If not in favor of slavery, arc you in
favor Of partial slavery "a system by
which labor gives all its time for part
pa72 The answer comes again No.
Why, then, vote the Coppcrhoad
ticket2 Do you know tho design of
the white mou--thc rebcls--of the
South What do they waut2 We
have an hundred times explained
They want the laboror as scrf or
peon with only partial pay. IL they
cannot get all his wages, IS in sla.
very, they want a part OF his wages
by their notion ofwhat should be the
law Demonstration, They hate to
give him up. They intend further
robbery.
IL the whito men can got labor for
half or fourth ofwhat it is worth,
how does tho fact affect you ? Have
you no interest in it2
Labor is of no race nor nationality
A days labor is So many "licks"
with the spade, the hammer, the
trowel; so many burrows with the
plow so many strokes with the AK.
The color oi the man who gives
these "licks," plows these burrows,
or makes these strokes. is a matter of
Indifference. Black muscle is equal
to white.
If Sambo and Quashce, in the
South, wcrd at black smithing, or
plosteriug, or carpoutering, or brick
laying, at one dollar day, how many
carpenters, blacksmiths, brick lave rs
or plasterors Of your color do they
prevent from getting three dollars a
day2 II they will raise wheat and
corn in Tennessee aud the other
Southern States, at six to eight or
ten dollars a month, how many white
men do they keep away from the
wheat aud corn fields of that section |?
What effect do they have, in all these
omployments, upon the wages of
men engaged in the same in the
North?
The South raises, besides good cot.
ton aud tobacco, good wheat, corn.
oats, rye, cattle, hogs aud sheep. IT,
by the operation of the law by which
black labor is deprived of its polit-
icnl rights, the Southern farmer can
got his work for ono-thirl what tho
same is worth in the North, how
long will Northern labor maiutlin its
present rates?
The black laboring force of the
South numbers four millions. 1t is
by no means to be dcspised Lqbor.
er, is it for your interest that it
should be defrauded? If the labor
ing men Of Indiana were compelled
by the political aud social arrange.
ments of their employers to toll for
what is paid the laborer of the South,
how long could the price Of your la.
Dor in Illinois be kept up2 What is
true uf these two States is equally
true of labor in the North aud the
South. Labor wronged anywhere, is
wronged everywhere.
Dat how do we know what the
South intends? Why, by what va
rious States of the South have done.
Take Mississippi as an example of
the whole: In that Sslte the Dom.
ocrats decreed, that the black labor.
ing man should not be permitted to
acquire land on which to make him
self u home that he should not DO
witness or juror in court; that he
should have no part or lot in the
choice of the men who were to gov.
can him that he and his children
should be subject to what they call.
cd "VagraDcy aot," by the opera
IiOn of which his family and him
self could be arrested aud sold to tho
highest bidder whenever any white
man desired that result. These aud
many other provisions of that law
expressed the Democratic idea on the
rights Of the laboring man who hap
pens to be not wholly white. That
law was passed since the war.
Now, We ask the laborcr of the
North, is such legislation just or fair2
Is it not blow at you, our explana-
tiOn being correct that the interests
Of laboring men are the same every
where3 Do you want labor 10 this
country to suffer that degradation q?
Do you suppose that, with your
boasted intelligence, if you were leg
islated for as the Democrats propose
to legislate for the laboring man of
the South-if you we're reduced to
the condition of serfs or holots with
out political rights-that you Mr..
Blacksmith, you Mr. Carpenter, you
Mr.. Mason, you Mr.. Tailor, would be
able to command three 20 four dol
lars a day for your services ? How
long before you would be working
for what the black laboring man now
gets? Look across the water, if the
black example is not sufficient, and
see how labor is paid 10 Europe where
the laboring man has no political
rights.
Laboring man ! Beware lest you
become party to rank injustice, TO
aagrant robbery Of other men who
toll like yourselves in the field, on
the street, AZ the anvil, az the bench
in the forest and the mine. Rob |
them, and the robbery slirl return to
you. Cypress them, aud you are iu
danger of being enslavod. The Re-
publican party Gffers, as its corner
stone, freedom to labor, aud protec
tion aud citizenship to the laborer
everywhere. IL viii favor none, OPP
press none. Liberty to all, aud fvll
days wages for an honest days
work. What more can a laborer do.
sire p Chicago Post,
Treason-The Southern rebellion
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