The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-04-09


We are sick Of having to daily en-
dounter the blanket sheets full Of
meaningless twaddle, which greet our
vision upon taking up our exchanges
for perusaL The entire trashy mass,
Il reduced in the crucible Of common
sense to its legitimate proportions,
would be found to be nothing more
hor less than the words that we have
selected to caption this chapter. We
Are full to safety, Of the vicious stuff.
That which emanates fIom radical
Auill-driver's empty pates, containing
Jess knowledge of good Saxon, than of
flthy billingsgate, and less ordinary
common sense than either, is q rascally
swindle, contemplate cheat, designed
As cover for the most outrageous Of
official malversation, a screen behind
which privileged few may toy with
she rights of sacrificed people. What
we find in Democratic vehicles of men,
tai garbage, for it is scandalous libel
apon the language to call them news
papers, is little or no better. Sometimes
IN terms of sufficient filthiness, to be-
foul the mouth of a Manchester fish.
woman, or a Massachusetts congress
man, never in Ineligible parlance, we
ind them continually catering to
vicious prejudice, the only outgrowth
.of which is unfit for decent entertain
tment. A negro, for he is not a"nigger,"
lis as good as q white man in his prop
Ger place, and bis proper place is rs
high up the social ladder rs he can get.
without trespassing upon the rights of
sothers.
We have no scruples in ventilating
this belief, though it may be, and NO
;doubt is out Of accord with views en-
.tertained by some who read the AK-
ivocATE. The manacles recently taken
from the black man, he who is blindly
fighting TO keep the former as deep in
the mire Of ignorance, as ever he was
in the palmiest days of slavery. is
'laboring with all his main to assume,
land he deserves no better reward for
;his intamy. The proper sphere of the
black man is by the side Of his white
,citizen brethren, in a duel to the death,
with the odious money tyranny, which
;entertains for each an equal love. -
Tammany Hall and Beaumont, or
! Union Leagues and Clafiin, are no more
3he friends of the white, than of the
black workingman. The perpetuation
Of their soulless regime, depends upon
iheir ability to enforce a continuance
Of this blind battle Of prejudices, pur-
posely generated by the political ex-
cesses of each. Loyalty, which should be
a sacred word to every Republican citi-
zen, has become nauseating in the ears of
common sense. Not that We would
have any .disloyal; we would have q
loyalty of the greatest comprehensive
ness conceivable. We would have q
man loyal, first to his God, then to has
family, and then to his country.
If man be loyal in the legitimate
sense of the word, 10 the two
former, he must be so to the
latter. But loyalty does not mean
simply an ever-present readiness to re-
'ist those who would take up arms
against a wicked regime. into which it
nay have fallen. 1t means the duty of
he citizen to be, careful, honest and
ogical inquirer into the causes Of the
Illeged grievances for which some
vould rebel, and if it be found that
hese so-called grievances are really
UGH, then the part of loyalty is to
pply the political remedies, always
ccessible, and always eficacious. A
oyal people is people Of peace. A
isloyal people, one which goes to war
nth unholy prejudices. Let us have
70 more Of this wicked az well as silly
ant about loyalty. Let our ears be no
Onger daily saluted with the disloyal
'utcries Of unholy preiudices au.irss