Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-03-28

INTO human DelngS, with human rights
as that it would ask the votes OF the
toiling men who stand on. the hills o
New Hampshire. They will tell a,
that these men were black men. have
only to say this, that the man whit
would make a black mana slave would
make a white man slave, if he haG
tie power. 10 do it. aa 84 e 1,a
i see before nae men whom recog
nize as toiling men; men who have te
support the wives of their bOSoms and
the children Of their love by manual
labor. Icall the-elrneSt attention OF
these men to this terrible struggle
through which we have passed, and tC
what has been achieved for the poor
toiiing men of this country during the
last twelve years. / feel that l have
the right to speak for toiling men and
to toifiug men. I Was born here in youI
County of Stafford. was born in po-
verty-:: waRtisat by my cradle. / know
what it is to ask a mother for bread
when she has none to give, left my
hoineat ten years OF age, and served
an apprenticeship of eleven years, re-
ceiving months schooling each year,
and at the end of eleven years of hard
work, yoke Of oxen and six sheep,
which brought me eighty-four dollars.
Eighty-four dollars for eleven years OF
hard toil!g, I never spent the, amount
of one dollar in money, counting every
penny, from the time L was born until
1 was twenty:one years of age. know
what it is to walk weary miles and ask
my fellow menff for the lief to toll. ~
L remember that in October, 1893,
walked to your village from my native
town, went through your mills seeking
employment If anybody had offered
nle nine dollars month should have
accepted it gladly. went to Salmon
Falls, 7 went to Dover, l went to New
market, and tried to get work, without
success, aud returned home footsore
and weary, but not discouraged. I put
my pack on my back, and walked to
where / now live, in Massach usetts,
and learned a mechanics. trade. /
know the hard lot the toiling men
have to endure in this world, and eve
ry pulsation of my heart, every conyic-
ton ofmy judgement, every aspiration
of my soul puts me on the side of the
working men of my country lay ,fOf all
countries. / became an anti-slavery
man thirty-six, years ago, because the
poor bondman was the lowest, most
degraded and helpless type Of man
hood, An anti-slavefy man from con-
yiction is, by logical necessity, not only
the inhexible foe of the doctrine, that
capital should own laborers, but the IN
yielding friend of the CONS and daugh-
ters of toll. - si'l-itFo] Hit''H. ~ 80
afLet Us see whatthe Republican party
has done for the laboring men. of this
country during the last twelve. years.
It struck the sfetters from, four and a
half million .laboring men and women;
converted them from things into men
and women. In making them free,sit
struck down that proud, naughty, and
domineering; aristocraey of the South,
that held thedoctrirle-and proclaimed
it ttoo--that'icafital Should own labor;;n
that the 1men who t0iled for wages,
were fthomud-sills Of society;Y that
the slavery of workingmen. produced
ga class of gentleInaii, who We're the
substitutes for 40 order. Of nobility"
These were the doctrines proclaimed in
our ears for forty years by the eCalhouns,
the McDuffie5, the HammondS, the
Rhetts, Ruffins, the Fizhughs, the
l1erschel ". Johnsons, and men ofthat
class, who laid down the doctrine ev-
erywhere, that slavery was the nor
NAL condition of laboring men, black
and white."Hf In enhancipating these
foar and a half million black men. and
women we struck down the power of
the owners of workingBen and work
ing women lin this country .forever.
They made labor dishon orable in eight
hundred Thousand square miles of. the
United States, in the, Sunny South, as
they were wont to call il. Laboring
men from abroad would not go, their
to toll; Northern laborin. men, would
not go there to live;' they would
not stand byithe side, of the fet-
tered boqdmen where labor was
dishonored. iaBpt,s BY, the steady,
persistent 2 adherence to, principle
of the. men trained in the faith, of
opposition to slavery, whonow stand in
the ranks of the Republican party, all
this has been changed, so that to-day
the iabering men Of New England can
stand" up I'M South Carolina by the
graves Of calhoun, OF McDuffie,, OF
Pickens,h of the leaders of the slave
power, who proclaimed free society a
failures that free men. 4 and women
when they emerged from bondage Into
freedom were classed in; four su6di-
visions, t'the hireling, the beggar, the
thief, and the prostitute sslOok
upand be proud in the midst of their
toll. ~ We have made labor honorable,
even IN tllelrice swamps of the CaroIinas
and Ge0rgfa;we have taken the brand
OF dishonor from thes hro@ of labor
throughout the country; and in doing
that grand work we have done more for
labor, for the honor and dignity of Lac
boring men, than was ever achieved by
all the parties that arose in this country
from the time the Pilgrims put their
feet upon Plymouth Rock up to the
year 1850. lApplausei] 10 :" liii'oi.if
q. And that grand and i'm mortal achiev-
ement is not all, I'VE have opened that
eight hundred thousand square milesto
free laboring men;Tthey can go there
now, they are going there now. The
German, the Englishman, the Irishmal,,
the New, England Yankee, the man Of
the middle States, of the Northwest,
can go there now. engage in the me-
ehanic arts, cultivate the. soil, and, in
all the pursuits of life, no. longer, feel
the degradation that rested upon work
ingmen when labor was extorted only
by the lash. Let the man who tolls for
.wages, whether in the mill, on the farm
or In the1nechanic shop, realize what
has been done during these last dozen
years to'lift from toll the badge Of dis
homer, and to open the great South to
the free laboring men of the world
Let him remember with grateful heart
that he. owes IL all, under Providence,
to the Republican party. !"
especially into being and won the vic
tory, when it elected Abraham ,Lincoln
to.save the magnificent territories of the
United States TO the free laboring, men
Of our country, their children, and their
ehildren's children, "whie grass shall
grow and water run" 1t Saved that
mapni ifipant tarr ;tory IN frandnr,1 M