The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-09-13


The Richmond Examiner, . leading Dem
ocratc paper in Virginia, and one Of the
most ardent supporters of Buchanan, holds
the following language:
"Until recently, the defence Of Slavery 10
bored under great difficulties, because it's
npoogists, (for they were mere apologists, J
took halfway grounds. They confined the
defence of Slavery to mere negro slavery |;
thereby giving up the slavery principle, and
admitting other forms Of slavery to be crong.
The line Of defence, however, is now changed.
The South now maintains that Sidrery is
right, natural and necessary, and does not
depend upon differences Of COMPLEXION. The
laws Of the Slave States Justify the holding
of WHITE MEN in bondage"
The Charleston Standard, leading Blu
chanan paper in South Carolina, says
"Slavery is the natural and normal condi-
ton of the ldboring man rhether WHITE or
black. The great evil Of Northern free so
cicty, is, that it is burdened with scribe
class of MECHANICS and LABoRERs, unfit for
self government, and yet clothed with the at
tributes and powers Of citizens. Master and
Slave is a relation in society as necessary rs
that of parent and child, and the Northern
States will have yet to introduce it, Their
theory of free government is deluson.'
The Richmond, Va, Enquirer, Buchanan's
confidential organ, speaks as follows
"Repeatedly have We asked the North,
Has not the experiment OF universal liberty
FAILED? Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY
INsuFFERABLK? and do not most thinking
men among you propose to sdbrerf and re-
construct it y Still no answer. The gloomy
silenceis another conclusive proof, added to
many other conclusive evidences we have fur
nished, that free society in tho long run is
an impractieable form Of society; it is every
where starving. demordlising, and insurrec-
tiondry. We repeat, then, that policy and
humanity alike forbid the extension Of the
ertis u free society TO new people and com
ing generations. Two opposite and conhic-
ting forms of society can not, among civil
lied men, coexist and endure. The one must
give way and cease to exst-the other be-
come universal. lftree society be unnatu-
raj, immoral, unchrstian, il must fall and
give way TO u sidre society," system old as
The ,eorid, universal as man.
The Moscogee, Ala, Herald, another Bu-
chanan organ, says
Free society, we sicken of the name.
W nat Is IL Dnt II conglOmerati0n oil GREASY
MECHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES, SNAIL fIsrgp
FARMERS, and moon struck THEORISTS All
the Northern and especially the New England
States, are devoid OF society fitted for we'll
bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one
meets is that of mechanics struggling to be
genteel, and small farmers who do their own
drudgery; and yet who are hardly fit for as
ISOLATION with a Southern gentlemAn's body
servant. This is your free society which the
Northern hordes IRE endeavorng to extend
into Kansas
The South Side Democrat Of Virginia,
whose editor was supported by the Democrats
for Clerk Of the House of Representatives of
the present Congress, pitches into everything
Free, after the following style:
We have got to hating everything with
the prefix FREE, from free negroes down and
up through the whole catalogue---rREE farms,
rREE labor, rREE society, faEr will, FREE
thinking, rRER children and FREE schoois-all
belonging to the same brood of damnabie
isns. But the worst Of all these abomina-
tons Is the modern system Of FREE SCHOOLS.
The New England system Of free schools has
been the cause and prolific source OF the in
hdelites and treason that have turned her
cities into Sodoms and Gomorrahs, and her
land into the common nesting places OF
bowling Bedlamites. We dominate the
system because the SCHOOLS ARE FREE"