Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-11-06
sEWARD-TuE DEMAGOGUE AND AGRA


SEWARD-TuE DEMAGOGUE AND AGRA
Ran.
In late stump speech of Mr. Seward "e hud lie
following language:
Thiuk it not strange or e1trayagant when / ssy
tnt urstocracy has already arisen here and that
it is already undermining the Republic. An nrisro-
cracy could not arise IN aEy e"ansrS an whsrs ie55h IN
which such q class could pefmnnentl? stand. On
the contrary, every State, however republican lts
Constitution may b. is TO become an arlstrcrn-
cv sooner later il il has privileged class slanu
ilr firmly ON HI enduring special tuund1iou; and II
that Glass Is continually growing str"nxe and strong
.- and the unprivieg.d classes continually growing
weaker and weaker, IL is not at all essentlal Ia
privileged class that it rest euda i;nures, or on
military command, or ecclesiastical! authority, or
that it's rights be hereditary, nt it be dis.
tinyuished by titles of honor. II lnay BE- even tie
more insdious aud The more dangerou:ior lacking all
these things, because it will be les: obnoxious to
popular hostility.
from an early period Of its settlement. Shareholders
constitute that class. They have a sl=cal foundation
on which to stand-nanely, per'nna dominion over
slaves. Conscience and sound polio forbid Nil men
alike from holding slaves, but some C-ens Disregard
the Injunction &c, &c.
Now We make the distinct issue with Mr. Sew
ard first, that the Shareholders oil ta South are uol
privileged class or nristocracy, enabled by law 10
live on other peoples labor withor iaborinC them
selves. Secondly, thar the capitalists OF the N"rth
are an idle, unemployed unpr"'ictive. priyiegeh
class, whom the law enables to liy- other people,
labor, although they do not labor themselves.
The Shareholder of the South yry generally lives
on his farm superintenas and directs its operations
buys clothing. utensils and provisions, sells the crops
and attends to the morale the heath, the housing the
clothing, the feeding and management ni his slaves
He must do all this speedy run will he the con-
sequence. The fact il the farm Joint concern IN
which the master furnishes the kill and capital. aud
the slaves the labor. The mas'rs cares and lnh"rs
increase with his wealth. The slaves are generally
happier than he, because they have no cares. Inc
wife OF the Southern farmer is almost An angel Oh
earth, Il Sister Of Charity, VIII immures herself on
the farm, and dvvotes her who'll time to kind atten
tons to husband children HI, slaves. She has II"
fashionable Broadway to peranbunte, NJ costly ga
looms aud Operas to frequent.
The rich of the North are icers and lonngers about
town, living upon the interr: of their money tnr
rents of their houses and arS and the dividends "i
their stock. This idle class rapidly increasing III
numbers a. the amount Of Safe and National dro'
and stocks in roads houses towns Sc, increase IN
for their support BY levyin: daily heavier tax OF"
the laborng poor, who payal the profits OF capital
At the South, the tendeuc, of our laws and iStItu-
tons is to make every man. working man.
At the North. Mr.. Sewart, you are all busy i'll crea'
ting an idle privileged cuI tulist class, who hve oy
law on the labors OF the por, without being oniigeu
to take care Of the poor. Try it again. Mr. Se"'r"
We assure you, that if thre be one recommends
ton of slavery greater thai nil Others il Is that saFe
ry tends to keep all society at work On the one'
hand the whole struggle N Free Society ls I" h's
without work, and the chies of merits to sucrce"
in so living. We intend to probe your ooas'eu '''"
of institutions, without frur or mercy. "J""rf ANN
,,niur cum nOcenS absoIriyr :" We invite you I" III
the same with slave society. We do not dreai '"e
comparison. Let History be appealed to- ahu We
venture to affirm that the evils Of Free Society IN lis
famines its crimes, Its ignorance. its inhde'ty' IL
awessness aud its bloody revolutions, will DE 'oun"
thousand times grenter than the evils OF slave S'e'