Year: 1861

House at New York, and Robert Vosburg,
negro, appointed in his place."


We clip the above from the Pine and
Palm an abolition paper, published in
Boston and New York simultaneously
1t is put forth, in that sheet with a gusto,
as showing the advance of 'liberal princi-
pies" in the government, when white men
can be turned out of public employment to
make room for negroes. Inasmuch as the
announcement comes from the other side,
we suppose We may take it for truth-it is
not "a secession lie," as our opposition
friends are fond Of clubbing everything that
don't suit them.


We think it would be we'll for white men
and especially for Iaboring men, to notice
this appointment. With the cry of better
times-of free farms for the farmless-of
free homes for the homeless-of free speech
free laboring men, hundreds of thousands
of votes were stolen by the Lincoln party
last fall and what do those men find now!
They find the wages of labor reduced one
fourth or one.third in many instances ,and
! four days week at that. They find COL
lieries, iron works, and other great indus
trial and commercial enterprises stopped,
or on the point of stopping. They find ,
instead ofplenty of work at wages that
would make their families comfortable,
their families crying for brcad-and all
this they find as the feast of better time,
which was spread out for them to partake
of last fall. Free farms for the farmless
they now find to mean spot of ground
about six feet by two; which they are at
liberty to occupy from this to the day Of
Judgment,in the shape of q soldiers grave ;
and for homes for the homeless, they have
found that in all future prospects the homes
for their starving families will henccforth
be the street or the poor house, and, their
dependence the charities of the world ;
instead of free speech, they find they have
the freedom to talk as certain men may
dictate, and that if they complain or reit-
crate the cry of their starving children fol
bread, they are called seccssionists' and
the community warned against giving then
employment; or if they happen to be il
tho army and complain because the gov
ernmcnt is robbing them by their State tc
make them comfortable while fighting the
battles of their country, like poor Balso a
Harrisburg, the authorities arrest them fol
treason and throw them into dungeon
disgraccd and dishonored They find that
instead of comfortable clothes, they are
furnished with garments Of Ssh oddly, thai
wear out and leave them naked in week


and instead of shoes to keep their feet from
the burning sand during their long and
weary marches, they are furnished with
sandals soled with white shavings. In
stead of protection to home industry as
they were promised, they find and army
of ignorant and barbarous slaves let loose
upon them to compete with their labor and
disgrace their employment, and then every
little while are regaled with news, like the
above, that white men are turned out Of the
government employment to make room for
strapping son of ETHIOPIA. And then
white men find also, that if they meet to
consult together to devise a redress of grie.
vances, or how they shall protect them
selves against these things, the very news
papers that were so loud in promises but a
few months ago, ridicule their efforts and
take part with lazy and barbarous negroes
who are now fleeing from the Southern
States, and foisting themselves upon the
sympathies of the community for support
This is the way things are now going OH
every day about us, and in all earnestness
how long shall it be submitted to! Under
the cry of "no party" democrats in the
fcld-bravc and experienced soldiers, are
almost every day being superseded by the

appointment of old broken down political
hacks, who never saw service and never
we're in the ranks in their lives. With the
cry of 'no party" now, but anything for
the country, the national administration is
engaged daily in turning out democrats
from civil positions although two-thirds Of
/


those in the field now upholding the ma
tional honor and the integrity of the I'm
ion are Democrats, and putting the most
bitter and radical Republican partizans in
their places, and even, in some instances
supplanting them with negroes. Under
the cry of "no parity" they organize Con
grcss by the election of a mere chattering
abolition free trader for Speaker of the