Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-03-04


there to toll Northern laboring men would not
GO there to live they would not stand by the
side of the fettered bondman, where labor was
dishonored. But by the steady, persistent adj
herenoe TO prineiple Of the men trained in the
faith Of opposition to slavery, who now stand ID
the ranks Of the republican party, all this has
been changed, so that to-day the laboring men
Of New England can stand up in the Carolinas.
by the graves of Calhoun, Of McDufie, OF
Pickens, of the leaders of the slave-poNer, who
proclaimed free society a failure-that free men
and women were classed in four subdivisions
" the hireling. the beggsr, the thief and the
| prostitute, and look up and be proud in the
| midst of their TOLL We have made labor honora-
BILE, even in the rice swamps of the Carolnas
| and Georgia We have taken the brand of die
honor from the brow OF labor throughout the
/ country and in doing that we have done more
/ for labor, for the honor and dignity Of laboring
men than was ever achieved by all the parties
that governed this country from the time the
| Pilgrims put their feet upon Plymouth Rock up |
to the year 1860. Applause.
And that il not ALL We have opened that |
500, 900 square miles to FREQ laboring-men; they
can go there now, they arc going there now. The |
| German, the Englishman. the Irishman, the New |
| England Yankee, the men OF the middle States |
and of the Northwest can go there now and en- |
gage in the mechanic arts, in cultivatng the soil |
and in all the pursuits of lfe and no longer feel |
the degradation that rested upon workingmen |
when labor extorted from men by the lash |
Let the man who tolls for wages, whether in the |
mill, on the farm or in the mechanic shop, real |
ize what has been done these last dozen years TO
lift from toll the badge Of dishonor, and to open
the great South to the free laboring-men Of the
world.
The Republican party was brought especially
into being, and won the victory when it elected
Abraham Lincoln to save the magnificent terri
tories Of the United States to the free laboring-
men Of our country, their children and their
chdrens children while grass shall grow and
! water run, and 1t saved that magnificent terri
7 tory to freedom. Auction-blocks, bloodhounds,
lua1 Nl.kr Ia.sa
down to the place from whence they came to
the bottomless pit, and the lower deep of the
r bottomless pit.
The Republican party maintains the policy of
the small farms against the great plantations.
The democratic party Joined with the South ON
that ISSUE it did in every and on every issue.
We passed the homestead bill, and James Buch-
snan veoted it, and the democratic party sup
ported him in that veto. The object of that bill
t was to save the vast public domain to landless
v men, that they might have small farms, rather
i than that few men might have great planta-
tions. We were defeated but the first year the
> Republican party came into power, in the midst
l. of the struggle for national existence passed
the homestead bill, and saved the public lands
to the free laboring men Of this country forever
u and forever.
But find an effort made at this time to make
the laboring men of New Hampshire believe
=. they have a very hard time Of it that they have
to pay taxes, almost taxed out of existence.
ut A document is circulated in this State. under
- an effort is made to prejudice the laboring men
u against the administration account OF the
TO high rates of duties. In my judgement, the
t. wise and sound policy is, to tax luxuries highly,
IN to put the burden of taxation upon articles that
= come in competition with our own, aud to make
X the free list as large as possible. We have a
O. great debt to pay. We shall have taxation
. enough for wears to come, 1t WAS nv privilege
I, last Summer to spend few weeks in England.
D l hardly heard anything else there but COM
W, plants Of our tariff. If went to adinner-party,
no or met Englishmen, on ship-board or anywhere,
they had much to say about our exorbitant rates
ni of duties. English importers caught it; German
ed importers caught it. These identical docu-
it ments that the democrats are circulating in New
40 Hampshire are not paid for by the democratic
ce party, but by men who want to take care Of for
egn nterestsrather than our own. Applause.
l asked these men abroad what they wanted
he why" they said I'VE want to sell more goods
se in your country" 1 had no doubt Of that They
said: You are great agricultural country; you
us ought to raise agricultural products, and VIZ
lO. ought to make the manufactured articles
Of well" said, II tind that you bought between
nd thirty-two and thrty-three million dollars wortl
$50 of wheat last year, and only eight millions of i
in the United States. l find that you bough
millions Of dollars OF corn. and only few thous
rn- and dollars of it in the United States" asked
ia. them il they would give up their agricultur,
80, If we would give up our manufactures, and the,
"e said their agriculture was worth a great dea
gu more than their manufactures. They cam
right to the point, for they could tell the trut
| OH tn6 subject over Inere tlelr friends do nc
like to tell it here. They said 1.-The price Q
labor is too high in the United States. You pa
too much for labor. 1t has bad effect.
nm causes a great many of our laboring peopl
to 60 to the United States TO seek better wa
ges, it makes those discontented who remai
at home; they demand higher wages, and W
'ne have had to pay higher wages in this countr
ing this year than ever before "Well, said 'tha
on does not hurt my feelings a great deal al
VI very glad they get good wages in the Unite
'eu States I; am very glad the toiling men and We
OF men over here are getting better wages" lisa
the every where went, especially on the continen
or women engaged in the toughest and harder
"y' work women had to bear heavy burdens Their
AK l saw women doing all kinds of hard work YO
have heard great deal said by our women
low rights people-of whom count myself one
ere about the right Of women to work. They hay
"a that right in the old world to their hearts col
of tent Laughter and applausel Well, gent
law men, 1 am glad that these men are compiainin
,oir about it. l am glad the workingmen in Euro1
tba are getting discontentd and want better wages
and thank God that man in the United States to-dS
ade can earn from three to four dollars in ten hour
nit work, easier than he could forty years ago eaI
we one dollar working from twelve to fifteen hour
nen The first month worked after was twenty-or
ada years Of age, went into the woods drove tean
10 cut mill logs, wood rose in the morning befol
,em daylight and worked hard until after dark
az night, and received for it the magnificent su
MD Of six dollars! And when l got the none
osa those dollars looked large to me as the moo
hu- looked tonight. Laughter. On the farm
mid Wnlcn served an apprenticeship, have see
on the best men who ever put scythe in grass wor
ma ing for from fifty cents to four shilling day.
v Ia the longest days of summer Yesterday visit,
aek that farm. asked the men who were the
a If what they paid men in hayng time last summe
and they said, from two dollars to two and ha
, as day. This was paid on the same ground whe
yes men worked forty years ago for from fifty cen
owe to four shiings and took their pay in farm pr
4 Of ducts, not money. have seen some of Il
lph brightest women go into the farm houses al
,een work for from fifty cents to four shilings wee
nm milking the cows making butter and cheet
AT whashing, spinning and weaving, doing all kin
and of hard work. was told yesterday that ma
lntv young women were earning, in the shops a d,
nv lar day, and that those who worked in houa
ther were getting from two dollars and half we
INV to three dollars and half
rem. In 1882, in the great debate in the Senate
thIs the tariff, it was said by those who advocat
ears protective duties that they had raised the pr
cen OF labor in the United States 80 that it average
,llar fifty cents day. How is it now ? This wint
ime is the most prosperous the United States b
,Te seen in its history. Everybody is at work. The
ask il very little suffering anywhere. Why Il
re- change? Why this improvement 1t il
into cause we have smitten down the slave syste
nrh broken down the slave power, lifted up and d
,odv nied and honored labor, tried to protect and
In + versify our own industries ? To-day, the lab
n 10 ing men and women of our country are earni