The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-24
LAwLEssNEss NORTH AND SOUTH.

Aside from its effect In settling the la
Dor question, and determining once for all
that mans labor is his own and that he
can sell it to whom he will and at what
price he pleases, it is perhaps well that this
railroad conflict came at the present time.
Too many of our northern fellow citizens
have become accustomed to believe that all
the lawlessness in the country is at the
south, and that the north is law abiding,
law respecting and law obeying. They hon.
estly believe this too, but these disturb
ances in the larger states of the north, ex-
tending over 30 large belt of country,
must give them rude and sudden awaken
ing, and teach them that men are pretty
much the same everywhere.
In one sense the troubles at the south and
these at the north are entirely different,
but in another sense they are essentially
the same. The attempt in both is to rule
by intimidation, terrorism and violence.
The most sacred of personal rights are in
terfered with it both cases. The difficulty
at the south was political, while at the
north there is nothing political about it, al
though the strife will drift into politics
and have more or less to do with deter
mining political questions and the person
mel of elective officers for years to come.
But the effect of the northern disturbances
will be more disastrous on society and in
dustrial and business prosperity than were
those at the south, for aside from the i'm
mediate loss of life and destruction OF
property, 1t must result in the permanent
suffering, enforced idleness and consequent
poverty of the large number of laborers
mainly responsible for forcing the conflict
to bloody Issue.
For years, in tact ever since the days
when reconstruction was supposed to be an
accomplished fact, and during all the time
that the whites of the south have been
struggling to regain the supremacy. we have
been wont to refer to the rights of suffrage
as the most sacred right of American citi-
zens, and any interference Herewith as the
most grave of crimes but, while admit
ting the sacredness of the shts of suffrage
and the Nervousness OF any interference
Herewith, we very much question whether
it will compare with the right each person
has to his own labor and the produce there
of, or whether graver crime against the
citizen or country can be committed than
when the attempt is made to deprive hin
of this right How much better off is {
man than slave if he cannot employ whom
he will, or sell his labor to whom he pleas
es and for such prices as he cam How II
man benefited by the right TO vote, if
at the same time, he has not the right to la
Dor? If the liberty of the citizen is de
pendant upon the right of suffrage and hi
free exercise thereof, so is his prosperit!
and that of the country dependant upoI
the right TO labor and his being protectet
in the full and free exercise of it.
1t was IN recognition of this principle, Al
well as in compliance with the terms of tn
constitution and law, that induced tn
president to aid the authorities with fedora
bayonets. And his interference was entire
ly different from that under the last admin
istraton about which 30 much complaint
has been made. Then 1t was simply
question Of politics, of disputed succession
and it was always matter Of very gray
doubt which party, if either, was in tn
right, and which pretended state govern
meut, if either, was authorized 10 deman
federal aid. The simple result was ths
the president, in effect, decided conteste
election by the use of the bayonet. Her
no snch question arises or can arise. Their
is no politics about it. The right is all o
one side. There is only one authorit
to call for aid, and no pretence of an
other. 1t is case Of resurrection" or ,