The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-01-10
The Prospects of the Workinf men of the
North During this Winter

From every quarter we hear of the suspens
sion or contraction of labor in our manufacto
ries, ship yards and work shops-of the dis
charge of laborers from public and private
works How are the thousands upon thou
sands of mechanics and laborers thus thrown
out of employment to live through the dreary
winter which has just commenced ? In the
city of New York alone, we learn that fifty
thousand working people are forcibly idle
The same may be said of every city in the
North While the stagnation of all branches
ofbusiness is already so severely felt in the
North, the mad legislation of Congress is
hurrying ten millions of people in the South
to condition whch.is likely to eliminate in
absolute starvation The rich lands in the
South-whch in state of but partial cult
walton, whilom produced more than two
thirds of the wealth of the entire nation--are
now fast running to weeds, whilst the black
cultivators are INDUCING in political carni
val, under the protection Of United States
bayonets, awaiting with impotence that long
expected and long promised millennium, when
they shall legislate themselves into plenty Of
pork and hominy, with nothing at all to do |!
Meanwhile the white owners of the soil
wltnouU Capitol AMI "itiiosst labor without
the power of helping themselves with their
hands tied by the unconstitutional legislation,
see approaching ruinstaring them in the face,
.,
spewed from the northern pens of infamy,
which they alternately occupied with our
Northern penitentiares, now occupy the
highest seats in the Southern State Convcn-
tions educate the blacks in the noble science
of legal robbery and legislative, swintlling,
and ;taunt the native whites as DISTINGUISHED
rebels and outlawed traitors sa.
In short, the South, which, under wise and
liberal legislation, and under the Constitution,
should now offer to the mechanics of the
North ten millions of paying consumers, will
soon exhibit to their astonished gaze ten mill
lions paupers, depending upon their charity
for precalious subsistence. The South,
whose exuberant products should freight our
ships infuse a new life into our shipping in
terests and pay for large share of our i'm
ports, will be Of the past, as an exporting sec
ton of our country. The South, which for
merly gave vigor to our manufactures and to
our commerce. will, in its poverty, be com
PEELED TO dispense with the goods it cannot
pay for. The South, under the new Radical
Congo regime, like the once Furnishing
Islands of Jamaica and Hayti will be the
scene of squalid wretchedness, of anarchy, OF
crime and utter decentralization And all
this loss of national wealth, national strength
and national honor-all this misery, humili-
alton and degradation, in the South and con-
sequently in the North, is to perpetuate the
reign of Thaddeus Stevens, of Kelley, OF
Sumner, of Wade, of Colfax, of Butler, OF
Ashley, of Schenck, and of the host of politi-
cal harpies who have battened upon the pub
lie spoils until their bloated and fostering cor
ruption stinks in the nostrils of disguised
people How long, o workmen of the
North, will you uphold, by your votes, the
reckless demagogues who, in their blind am
bition, thus dry up the sources of your pros
y wi rlc
raise the cost of your bread whilst they de-
prive you of the opportunity to earn its price
How much longer will you be deluded by
their deceitful cry of protection for Ameri-
can labor" whilst their only care is to swell
the purse of princely capitalists and to cram
money into their own pockets s.,..
The time has come when, unfortunately
you must feel the calamitous consequences OF
, the unjust, tyrannical wasteful, destructive
and Fl S yfarf tie Bntd & 6t lat f.
when, at the ballotboX, you can and will
hurl from their places the bold usurpers who
have conspired against your Government
your freedom and your national prosperity
. In the States of Connecticut, of California
of Ohio, of New Jersey, of Maryland, of Ken
lucky, of New York, the people have already
spoken. Even in Boston and Pittsburg
heretofore the impregnable strongholds OF
n Itilolcallsll tne haulcal leaders nave been re-
pudated by adherents, lately awakened to a
stern reality of the present crisis. Their
doom is irrevocably sealed In vain will they
try, by partial and ineffective legislation, to
rally back the people around the black flag OF
Reconstruction" In this last desperate eff
fort, they will signally fail. The people, be-
come wise by experience will desert them in
mass and leave them to sink ANONYMOUSLY
into their political grave "unhonored and UNI
sung."-Patriot and Uaton Ju