The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-09-10

i wv PSi iueStlUu EdL issue than Is common.
~ imagined; question which is but re.
| motely touched in your controversies
about United States banks and sub-trea.
suries, chartered banking and free bank
ing, free trade and corporations, although
these controversies may be paving the
| way for it TO come up
Ills bias IN favor of Van Burenism, is
easily seen in the following passage in
which, while he pretends 10 be in favor
OF laborers, he gives !. preference to
slavery and shareholders. over free labo,
for wages, and those who pay them?-
Hear him:
Gin regard to labor, two systems OBJ
tam; one, that Of slave labor, the other,
that of free labor. OF the two, the first
IS, in our Judgment, except SO far as the
feelings are concerned, decidedly the
least oppressive Ill If the slave has
never been free man, we think as ge-
neral rule, his sufferings are less than
those of the free laborer at wages. AS
to actual freedom, one has just about as
much as the other. The laborer at wages
has all the disadvantages Of freedom, and
none of its blessings, while the slave, if
denied the blessing, is freed from the dis
advantages.
1--WE say, frankly. that, if there must
always be laboring population, distinct
from proprietors and employers, we re-
gard the slave system as decidedly prefe-
rable to the system of wages!
wages is cunning device of the de-
vii, for the benefit of tender conscences,
who would retain all the advantages Of
the slave system, without the expense,
trouble, and odium of being slave
/ holders. -
1--WE really believe orr northern sys-
tenn OF labor is more oppressive, and mis-
| chievous to morals than the southern.
But having traced the inequality we
complain of to its origin, we proceed to
ask again, what is the remedy2 The
remedy is first to be sought in the de-
struction of the priest.
''The priest is universally the enslayel
OF his brethren, and therefore it is Chris.
tlanity condemns him'!!
''lt may be supposed that we Protes'
tants, have no priests; but, for ourselves
we know no fundamental difference be
tween a Catholic priest and a Protestan
clergyman. as we know no difference Of
any magnitude in relation to the princi
/ pies on which they are based; between ;
| Protestant church and Catholic church
''There must be no class of men Sc
/ apart and authorized, either by law o.
| fashion, to speak to us in the name o
i God, or to be the Interpreters of the wore
of God. uPThe word of God neve
drops from the priests lips!''
j The Church. too, not the Catholic
alone, but the visible church, in all its
/ forms, and Of ali creeds, must be hurled
j down. Mr. Bronson says:
''But one might as well undertake Il
!! dip the ocean dry with a clam-shell, a:
to undertake to cure the evils of the so
cial state by converting men to the Chris
tianity of the Church.
''We object not to religious instruction
we object not TO the gathering togethe
of the people, one day in seven, to sinE
and pray, and to listen to discourse from
a religious teacher; but we object tt
| every thing like an outward visible
Church-to every thing that in the re
motest degree partakes Of the priest''!!!
Hear what the office.holder says re
specting the bank:
] 'sBut what shall governm ent do? it
] first doing must be an undoing.''
s'But. again, what legislation do we
want so far as this country is concerned
We want first, the legislation which shall
free the government, whether state O
federal, from the control of the banks
I 'Uncompromising hostility to the whole
!, banking system should, therefore, be thu
motto of every working man and Of every
! friend of humanity.
The system must be destroyed. Or
this point there must be no misgiving. M
subteriuge, no palliation.
Every friend Of the system must b,
watched as an enemy to his race, to hi
country, and especially to the laborer
| No matter who he is, in what party he i
found, or what name he bears, he is il
! our judgment, no true democrat, as h
!. can be no true christian
j The next and last step is to take ava,
! mans property at his death, from hi
: wife and children, and give it to the pub
!. lie.
:. Following the destruction Of banks mus
} come that of monopolies of all privilege
), There are many of these. We canno
: specify them all: we therefore only Sc
!. lect one, the greatest of them all, tn
:! privilege which some have of being Dor
rich, while others are born poor. 1swi
be seen at once that we allude to the he
reditary descent Of property: an anon
!, oily in our American system, which mus
!, be destroyed"
!, "a man shall have all he honestly &C
/ quires so long as he himself belongs t
the world in which he acquires it. Bu
! his power over his property must ceas
: with his life, and his property must the
become the property Of the State Cyl !
!, be disposed of by some equitable law
for the use of the generation whish take
/ his place.
ssIt IS great measure. and startlin