Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-05-02


The speech of MIR. Stevens in Congress has pro-
voked from the whole pack of Locofoco presses
in this State the most bitter denunciations and
hostile demonstrations against its author. There
has been scruple about the instruments en-
ployed in assailing him. Extracts segregated from
their context and garbled in such way as TO
make them seem to mean the very opposite OF
what they do mean in their proper connexion, have
been paraded with view 10 produce the impress
sion on the minds OF Northern laboring men that
Mr. Stevens spoke of them as degraded and
debased class-a misrepresentation and falshca-
ton equally base and vile. 1t is astonishing that
the Northern Locofoco presses, who are so patient
under the insulting bravado and assumed superb
ority of the South-its assaults upon the most
| cherished principles Of the free States, and its
| sneers even at the dough faced subserviency of
their Representatives the dictation OF the slave
power-its gross calumnies, especially Of the free
white laborers of the North. whom il has not hes-
tated to declare to be less happy and comfortable
! and even free than the Southern slaveS-should
burst out in full chorus of contumelious attack
upon the Northern Representative who has had
the moral courage TO rise in the Capitol, and TO
hurl back upon this proud, boasting and arrogant
slave arisocracy the javelins which it has dis
charged-to hold up this vaunted chivalry by
force of the confession of one Of its organs as
breeder and groom of slaves for sale, and to ex-
pose the inconsistency OF their high professions of
honor. freedom, morality, and religion, with their
social system which rules despocally over the COL
ored race, and lives from the sweat and labor Of
hereditary bondmen Mr.. Stevens speech must
be viewed from the right stand point, and then it
will appear in its true light as scathng, power
ful and overwhelming retort upon the dictaorial
spirit Of the South, of the affronts which it has
dared and, in consequence of the absence of op-
position, has become bold in casting upon the free
States of the Union.
Far as they might have gone on other points.
we would hardly have supposed that the Locofoco
press would have conspired with the Southern
members of Congress, in endeavoring to vindicate
the Slave States from the charges driven home by
Mr.. Stevens that there free white labor is looked
upon with contempt and the white laborer held as
an inferior class lthe community. These presses
some of them, we notice, even copy, without dis
appreciation, the declaration of Southern mem
Der that he has seen the white man and negro
slave working side by side in the same field. Is
this the condition to which the Locofoco party
would reduce the free white laborer1 What say
our laboring men to working side by side wi tn the
negroes of the South Do they approve that con-
dtion of labor which brings about such state Of
thingsl 1T there is any thing truer than an
other ii is that free and slave labor cannot -four
sh together. The whole South, with few and
peculiar exceptions, is proof of this. Where are
its Mechanics! lis hats, COATS boots all its cloth
ing, are UouSilt III Tue NOrtn. lis meTcnanGlZe Is
brought from abroad in Northern vessels. Where
are its fourshing towns, filled with busy mechan
les and swelling in population and wealth. as in
the fee States! 1t requires but glance at the
dilapldaions and decay of Southern towns of old
fame, before the blight of slavery had time to
do its work upon the land to the difference be-
tween the two sections. Where are the crowding
thousands of emigrants from the expressions Of
the Old World BONE to Southern ports! The
toiling German and hard working Irshman have
too much selfrespect and dignity of character. to
GO there and be counted an inferior race, while
they labor in company with the slave. They are
found among the lree-on the hosptable soil of
New England-among the mountains and valleys
OF Pennsylvania, or on the vast Prairies of the
West, rather than on the ever verdant sayannahs
of the South with its genial sun and Italian skies.
because in the one reside Freedom and Equality
in the other Bondage and Degradation. It is
for boldly uttering this truth that MIR. Stevens is
assaed by Southern men, who find their echoes
in Northern Locofoco presses. Long may it be
ere the Northern Representative is afraid to vim
dcate the Nobility of Labor, and denounce the
mis- chiefs Of that system which makes work dis
grace TO the white man, and causes it TO reduce
him to an associator with the slave
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