The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-05-30
AYIMPosTOR EXPOsED.


Labor Party, which he is as incapable Of
comprehending as he is the characteristics
OF gentleman. has recently been endeavor-
ing to SOW afresh the seeds of dIScord and
hate between the Northern and Southern
people, which have proven so disastrous to
the welfare Of both. While the good men
and true Of both sections have been striving
10 heal the breach which the demon Of war
has made, and inaugurate reign Of brother
~ love, this ghoul, evidently with the hope
Of filching six months subscription from
TIE pocket Of some crelHlOus dupe, has been
pandering to the most deprayed passions Of
the human heart.
So long as the fellow confined his efforts
to an exhibition Of the Length of his ears, or
ventilatrg bis so-called opinions in a Iegiti-
mate (2) manner, we were. content to treat
him with that silent contemp. which bis e.
forts deserved. When be undertakes, how
ever, to gain a temporary uotoriety by assail
ing and .fllsi'yiHg the declared opinion Of
honest men, selfrespect compels Us to give
him tie casigatior which his ignorant
aujacl-y 50 richly demands This, in fact,
is the only apology We have TO offer for pol
luting our columns with any reference to his
rawlings.
II has been known for years to every
intelligent reader Of the ADvoc TIE, that we
DO not, uuless expressly stated at the time,
hold ours .lves responsible for the opinions
# OUT correspondents. Our columns have
been thrown open alike to the abolitonist
and the secession,st, sectional lines and is
sues forming no pant Of cur political creed /;
olr object being to secure an enlightened in
teligent discussion Of the great labor pro-
b.em. Among those who have ayaied them
selves If our invitation is Mr.. Leonard, Of
CbTl.n, Ohio, man who for years has been
prominently identified with the free soil
party, though now vIliautly fighting in the
ranks of labor reform As might be expect
Cd, his views up thu slavery question are ex-
irene, though We have never felt ourselves
justified in eliminating or garbling any por-
ton Of bis commun cations on that account,
especially when an equal privilege has been
awarded to our southern correspondents.
Now, what win Ne thought Of The charac-
ter or honesty Of a journalist, who knowing
these st2t~Tents to be true, publishes an ex-
tract fr5rI bis communicate y, and announces
the views therein set forth to be the views Of
the editor or the ADVOCATE. When Mr..
Green stated that we had announced our
selves in favor Of the doctrine Of negro equal
ily, he stated what he knew to be ,ci{lf4I
and deliberate .fdSdo0d, and for such state
mentS We denounce him as a. unmiiigQ!ea
liar and sc0tHt rel We have a1rooa Gated, as
~ trust we ever Shall, that pr. ciyie and
policy alike dictated the adopt:o- Of a
just and honorable course .oWards the
negroes Cf the South, and that the interests
Of the whi.e mechanic demanded that the
principles Of systematic orcGnizGtion should
be disseminated among them, so that they
might become an element Of strength instead
Of az element of weakness, to the toiling
millions Of our country. More than this we
have never advocated, less, we should have
been ashamed u demand.
But that our readers may comprehend the
onimus which actuates'our lTddnt. assailer,
We have only 10 publish the following ex-
tract from bis n ass Of balde-dash:
white man, who conscientiously believes
TIT tie negro Is bis equal, we might endure.
Bat one Who sneakingly, ard in the interest of
the British Foguc's party and the bondholders
seeks DER COVER OF 4 CORRESPONDENT 20 ven
tilate yhe IDEA that the negro il the SUPERIOR Of
the white w0rkin1man, II ORDER TO Drive A BET-
TER BAEGAN FOR HIMSELF with the great military
despotism convention, nov in session at CEica
s-, we can not and Will not countenance.
Again, few weeks since, we published a
letter from a Methodist. clergyman in Rush
vile, Indiana, denounciDg US as "tbe tasest
Of rebels" and also a note from western
subscriber, objeoting to the paper as
'black and '.production, and referred to
the inconsistency Of such objections by
stating that the same issue Of the ADVOCATE
was the one to which both parties referred
to sustain their uosition. Mr.. Green, with |
that chiyalry So Characteristic Of his family, |
selected the letter Of FOUR Milwaukee CORES
pondant, from bali dozen others, applaud /
ing our couse, and prefaced it By saying
The Chicago WoREBGXLN's ADvocA1E 40 /
,alled) appeals 10 the British rogue's party, i'll
he great military jespotism convention, nov in
session ~ Chicago, TO compensate il fer its
0s-es by advocating their doctrine Of he sUfK-
Io tTr 1t Che NEGRO ever the white working
.aan, by PUBLISHING Sic following;
Tie Milwaukee, workingman's head i level.
Ile is o white man, and we would like to know
I'D take Him by the hand. But he ought not TO
shock the weak nerves of the "God and morali-
) party, and its FINP, the W0RKISGHASs AD-
TooLTE, by using such eIpletives as id
The FIRST time we ever saw this gentle
nan ~ was at Baltimore, in 1866, at the
National Labor Congress, when We were
asked il we would use cur influence to OBJ
tain permission to have him address that
)cdy in,LcLan Of the Claims Of the Maryland
Institute p patent swindle we
lfter ascertained, to be owned and run by
Duff Green & Son. The permission was
granted, and in a rambling, unmesning mar
angue, be virtually announced himself
he patentee of brilliant idea, which, if /
arried out, would assuredly provide the re-
oedv for the evils which afflict humanity. |
ne bait didn't take however, and we had
lmost forgotten the occurrence, when he /,
lade his appearance in Chicago, in August
Ist, Nhen be again appeared as its repre- I
lntstiye. We also distributed q sample
by Of journal which be proposed to pub {
b, but the HrGssUmiag { manner in which !