The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-11-20

Judgment the man with a hammer. or Shut
lie, or plane in his hand, with the apron on
his body is as capable as he who wears 40
apron and Dispenser his hundreds OF thoss-
anGs 10 speculation on Wall street. From
soue quarry, ia this century. there emerged
a aay laberer, who vas the brightest intellect
of his time, aud before whose mental and
meral and Religions forces the SilIustrions or
ator" himself Who touches with delicate hn-
gers ana soft palm che rough exterior OF Ia
Dor. would have hsen but as q straw curling
10 the whrlwinl. We speak here Of white
laborias men, to be sure. who have had the
opportunity freely and fairly Of thinking tor
themselves in their workshops, 10 the hs'ds'
down under the earth, in the nio eS-such
men as Hugh Miller Ben. Fsaak'n. DAM
Shelley, Abe Liucolp, Stephen A Douglas
and it is Of the white labaring men that Nr.
Stuart speaks. too, when he divides 'heH on
10 array against capital, The lahor'as white
man of America, we make bold to say, 10
heart. in min, in religion, in order, ID pas
riotism, is infinitely she superior OF the CAN
ders in society, the favorites Of fortune, or
the victims Of false pride. who never struck
one blow for the advancement Of their kind
non. productive conspmers, living of the re,
aeet:an of ancestral fame and gain.
IF Mr. Stuart means really that tenden'
ICY to antagonism between labor and capital
has its origin 10 a natural antagooism he IS
gravsly in the wsJas Capital and Labor
10 their marches and progress, go hsnd IN
hand. The mos. complete harmony should
prevail between thu two. Capital pays Labor
money for the skill and muscle aud industry
in changing iron and cotton into new shapes
and enhanced values. Tho minimum prices
at which laborer cun work is for so much
as will keep him froa starving aud freezing
The minimum at which be Kill work. 1t az
energetic man, is the amount Which will equa
the wages he could obtain by leaving the
workshops and engaging IN agriculture,
field that is open to every man In America
The maximum wages that capitalist vii
allow is the balan e, after deductipg for him
: self paying interest profit on HIS capital 10.
vested and the greater the profit he receives
the greater the wages he can allow his EN-
ployees. The strikes of trades unions ii
England and America are owing to the fac
that the lahorer believes the capitalist is &c
stroyina the true ratio between profits ant
labor. Perfect accord between labor ant
capital is the tendency of the'seneral rule 0
trade, Of common sense, and individual per
, soual interest. The violation Of this ruiz
must either result ia oppression Of 'esis
taooa.
This production o. Mr.. Stuart. though
COLLATION. of historical facts and az entire, Ials
apprehension of the relations labor bears II
capital-the dignity Of the one where gener
al suffrage prevails OF the mission OF the 9th
or and its beuiieeuce-ranks much htghe
than tho illusions with which he ordinar'l.
tavors the public. Fills speech 'sssne''s of tn
lamp" aud its periods, we'll rounded from dc
i;be, ate care and Enthusiastically in tn
mapper, "A saccsss -lasioal'y. ID the merit.
prodgious fa'lnre--w'i i;ffar'i an hours re
, nass wherexith TIE political sentimentals
and voluptuary, may wilde away the tedinn
Of the winters evauiug, with the same pleas
+ urc and with ahous equal heue6e as he woui
the pa.es of dime novel or "thrlllng 70
mance' in the New York Ledger. Wee"n
code to the gentleman the most plous an
uh.lan.hropic intentions, but dissent from HI
project, as 10 direct violation at tbs Consttu
ton of the Uuited States and laws passed i
conformity therewith-in opposition to tn
Fundamental law of Virginia and its leg'sla
i've enaotmeuts-at war with s0und publi
policy and hcalshful social economy.
We shall. no, eyade the probable idea o
Mr.. Stuart, although not distinctly express ed
that he would gloltsh the amendments to tn
Constitution to attain his end-that force
the strong m,the omnipo'enoe of numbers
from Boston to the RiG Grande. should b
invoked to effectuate the transportation: -
But this would be far beyond the widest
chimera that any white man or black has ev
err dreamed of. When freedom is once be
slowed it eau never, in these days Of civil
cation, be taken away, To do so would b
so trample unaer foot all constitutional right
and to perpetuate fraud on these innocen
negroes who STOOD by us in civil war, ant
whose sad condition Mr. Stuart so patheti
ealy condoes AID suppose too, that de
portation was effected, low under the nation
al laws could their return to their oil
homes be prevented. should they choose tt
du So They would be free in San Doming'
surely, and being rec, they could make a new
departure and come hack again to old Vir
ginia
Mr.. Stuart does not reason by the light .
history, when he presumes that the African
and white races cannot live together, tn.
farmer. bsing relieved from bondage, withou
'.dranching the country in blood" Villeiu
49,. ,,l.ro., tbnf v,rov,;1od rnGor tb a fau3.