The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-12
War Against Slavery
Was Step Forward
in History

armed revolt. when on the very
spots where hardly a century ago
the idea Of one great Democratic
Republic has first sprung up,
whence the first declaration Of the
Rights Of Man was issued, and the
first impulse given to the European
Revolution Of the eighteenth cen
fury, when on those very spots
counter-revolution with systematic
thorouefness, gl5ried in resembling
the ideas entertained at the time
Of the formation Of the old cohsti-
tuition indeed. the only solution Of
the great problem of the relation
Of capital to labor and cynieally
proclaimed property in man the
cornerstone Of the new edifice,' -
then the working classes Of Europe
understood at once. even before the
fanatic partisanship Of the upper
classes, for the Confederate gentry
had given its dismal warning, that
the shareholders rebellion was to
sound the tocsin for a general holy
war Of property against labor, and
that for the men of labor, with their
hopes for the future, even their past
conquests were at stake in the ire
mendous conflict on the other side
OF the Atlantic. Everywhere they
bore therefore patiently the hard
ships imposed upon them by the
cotton crisis, opposed enthusiastic
ally the pro-slavery intervention -
opportunities of their betters-and
from most parts of Europe con-
tributed their quota Of blood to the
good Of the cause.
while the workingmen, the true
political power Of the North, allowed
slavery to defile their own republic,
while before the Negro, mastered
and sold without his concurrence,
they boosted in the highest pre-
negative of the white skinned la
borer to sell himself and choose his
own master, they were unable to at
tain the true free 5on of labor. or
to support their European brethren
in their struggle for emancipation;
but this barrier to progress has been
swept off by the red sea of civil war
1.-THE workingmen OF Europe felt
sure that, as the American War of
Independence initiated a new era
Of ascendency for the middle class,
so the American Anti-slsvery War
will do for the working classes. They
consider it an earnest sign Of the
epoch to come that 1t fell to the
lot OF Abraham Lincoln, the single
minded son Of the working class,
to lead his country through match
less struggle for the rescue Of the
enchanted race and the reconstruc-
ton of a social world.
"Signed on behalf Of the Inter
national Workingmen's Association,
the Central Council:
"Longmaid, worley, Whitlock,
Blackmore, Hartwell, Pidgson. Luc-
raft, Weston, Dell, Nicars Shaw,
Lake, Buckley, Osborn, Howell, Car
ter, Wheeler, Starnsby, Morgan,
GrosSmith, Dick, Denotial, Jourdain,
Morissot, Leroux, Bordage, Bosquet,
Talandier, Dupont, L. Wolf, Aldro-
varldi, Lama, Solustri, Nuspert, Ec-
carius, Wolf, Lessner, Pfsnder, Loeb
ner, Taub, Balliter, Rypcrynski.
Hansen, Schantzenbeck, Smales,
Cornelius, Peterson, Otto, Bagra-
gstti, setocri, George Odgers, Presi-
dent of the Council; P. v. Lubez,
Corresponding Secretary for France;
Karl Marx, Corresponding Secretary
for Germany; G. P. Fontana, Cor
responding Secretary for Italy; j. E,
Holtorp, Corresponding Secretary
for Poland; H. F. Jung, Correspon-
ding Secretary for Switzerland; Will
liam Cremer, Hon. General Secre-
tary, 10 Greek Street, Soho, Lon
don W."