Aristocracy Vs. Labor

Our Navy is alniosl entirely governed by the Slavocracy. Henee while Ihe officers of all grades get liigher salaries tlian in any olher depnrtmenl of Goveinment, the wages of the laborers, the genuine producers, are accordingly depresned, agreenb]y to the fashion of the slaveholders. Read the following extract, and see what enormous salaries are paid to these petty southern officers by the hard hands of Norlhem industry. "The Contrast.- The attempt by theOrdnance Board at Washington to reduce laborers's woes from eighty-five to eighty cents per doy, has induced a correspondent of the Baltimore Sun to make a lil'.le investigntion into the respective pay of the different kinds of Jabor that each party perforas. Each ordnance officer, according to his estimates, receives from government a salary, rations, Stc, of Ü2, 160. which, with allowances, each item bein? specified, is increased to $3,500 per nnnum: being $500 more than the compensation of any Auditor or Head of a Bureau under Government - and this in a period of profound peace! Two hnndred and fifty days actunl labor, in a year, is more than the average which can beperformed hy the laboring man. For this he would receive, (if the eighty cents a dn y measure Í8 approved by the Secretary of War,) the sum of two hundred dollars. The pay of one of these officers, then, is equal to seventeen and a half laborers. Now, feiippose each of the seventeen nnd a half laborers hos a fatnily of five in number, it would make eighty-eight persons to besupported from $3,500 - amounting to less than $40 a year for each person; whilst the membersoflhe families of ordnance officers receive each $700 per annum! These facts show that the principio of "equalization" applied to the officers would be more just than to the laborer. It is abad 6peries of economy which wili cut down men to starving wages, anr' leave others with such comparatively extravagant salaries."(tIt is quite amusing to hear pro-slavery, dough-face presses calling each other by their right name. It shows large anli-slavery progress! The Advertiser belabors ihe Free Press thtis: "The Free Press ha3 ulwaya boen a proslavery paper, ifthere ever was one in the North. It has always been doiigh faced on evcry question, affbcting Northern rights. It juatified the trnmpling on the right of petition in Congress - t sustained Amos Kendall in violating the freedom of the mail - it palliated the (]8graceful riots and mobs and even the murder of Lovejoy." In another place it speaks of the exultation of the faced, pro-slavery Free Prees"! That's right. Now turn round, Mr. Bagg, and teil the Advertiser he is ditto, and you will bolh hit the exact truth,