The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1855-04-28
CLINTON, L.. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1855.


thirds Of the population of Massachusett.
pressed into the gutter by selfish capital
disowning their manhood, and compelled
in the dark or. Of the night, TO fit alon
|suhteIrancan paths, and conSpirc in sccrc
against their own government. With US
only insurgcnt slaves hide from their ma,
tcrs and ccnspire at midnight. Arc thcs,
men who are the slaves Of capital, and who
are compelled to plot in secret against their
wealthy lords, tho men to reform our insti
tutions, and brand us with infcriority
Eirhtv thousand from in a republic, con
spring, in underground ways, to vindica,e
their rights MT the ballot box against forty
thousand Is this freedom |? Is this tree-laboi
society? it4I1 a.
Nominal freedom often is practical slave
ry, and nominal slavery practical freedom.
There arc two notifications of social cxis
tcncc: the one correlation of mutual obi
CATION, i. q, inscparably between capita
and labor; the other, the dissolution of con
tinuity, l. e., Independence between capital
and labor; in the former the elective fran
cLise is limited to a portion of the commu-
nifty, but there isno starvation; in the other
1t is unqualified, but in crowded civic pop
ulations ten per cent. die OF starvation, di
rectly or indirectly through typhus fever
insufficient food, imperfect shelter; and all
the accompanimcnts Of pauperism. Take
yon, now, slavery and safety, or free labor,
with paper rights and starvation. What
remedy, let me ask, is proposed for these
evils of civic population? Socialism! Yes,
socialism you prescribe. Your French so.
cialist teachers tell you the evils of society
spring from the freedom of society. Labor,
through competition, enslaves ITSELF they
say. To guard against this, lalor must h
organised. What means this organization
OF labor? Why, it means social slavery
Lahorers shall not compete, they shall not
dispose of their own time and strength
socialism is social slavery. Will the South
then go into this new organization because
it is pauperism enlisted against wealth and
charters, and the establishments of system
of social slavery? Will she go into it be-
cause of its Abolition tendencies? Do they
not exist? Has not the national whig par
ty disunited because of the abolition ten
dencies of its northern wing? Will this
wing have less abolition feeling under new
organization? Will these northern demo
Gratis who abandoned their party because
they said it was allied with slavery be more
moderate abolitionists in the new parity
DO not such materials make up the northern
know nothing" party? Is not its object
power and place? Will it not, then seize
upon all elements of strength which can
carry it into power? And are not the cle-
mcnts floating about at the North, and ca
ger for coalition, the abolition and free-soil
element? They have been strong enough
to shatter IN old and powerful organization
and will they lose their virus and purpose
in new one?
What, too, have been the practical results
Of this new party? In Massachusetts, alone
It has been victorious through its own
strength; and what see we there? Is not
the abolition and iice.sol flag the only one
flying? how stands its members elect? |
read an extract from the correspondent of
the National Era IAN abolition papcr.) The
writer is stated to be John e. Whittier, CO.
editor of the Era, and distinguished abo-
litionist Of Massachusetts,, who, as much as
any man, is booked up in reference to its
politics, particularly frec-toil:
&C. Il. Knapp, Of the eight district, is an old
libsrty-man, true us steel. De Witt in the
Worcester district, TRITON in the eleventh. SO.
nins in the fourth, D.mrell in the third, IN
in the fourth district are also fr3 i
70 lcrs. N. p. Banks, jr. is trulnphantly r.
tlected from the seventh district against th
ombned opposition of the Pierce DcHograts
md the Wigs. He goes back to w ,shnnytou
IN anti ,dministrat, on tllsonist BaflingtoA OF.
the second district, and Morris, Of the tenth
arc reliable ant.-sav ry Wings.
"Gardindr, the Goyyrior, stands openly
pledged against the Nebr Ska fraud, and I'll,
fngItye layclaw, II past history has been ,y-
lcnt'y that ofa pro-sl.iyery whig, but W. speik
now ohly Of his present position. OF the sen
ltors and representatives elected, enough is
known to be tolral3ly certain that reliable
nan will be chosen to the United States Sen
itc and cfFectual provision made for protecting
thc inhabitants of the State against the fngi-
i've slave hunt.
Thus have actfd the know-nothings of.
Massachusetts,. How spoke they? will
'ead theresolutions of a know.nothing con.
1cntion in Norfolk, Massachusetts,