Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-04-26

| the markets they put down individual COM
petitors they buy out the little plantations
which in the earlier settlements surround them,
and, in the end, the rich lands all become the
domains of rich planters. Hence we see in the
older Southern States the poorer classes are
either tenants at will, or, banished to the poor
lands of the hills take to the life of idIers, hun
tiers or fishermen or, at best, the more indus
trious among them become day-laborers, living
from hand to mouth in word, they are
stripped by the oligarchy of slaveowners, who
command their wages, their tenements, and, of
course, everything The class who hold mo-
nopOy of the soil can command everything
lie takes my life who takes the means where
by live." Hence in the South, the monopo-
lists OF the land and black labor of the country,
although numbering but 347 900 out of pop
ulation of 100000, in virtue of their power
over near 4 1000, 600 of slaves, are absolute in
all the State Governments. They are the Go
vernors the Legislators, the Judges, Justices,
Sheriffs; they are all in ALL
| The power which combined action gives to
the slavcholding class over the whole South is
welded with equal effect to obtain control over
the North. The machine it moves there is on
large scale, and the instrumentality of its ac-
ton visible to the least discerning eye. Eve
ry northern aspirant for the Presidency may be
looked upon as power in the hands of the
South, to move the machine of the Federal Co
vernment according to its will We instance
the experiment before our eyes. Mr.. Pierce is
/ a candidate for reelection to the Presidency :;
MIR. Douglas, Mr. Cass, Mr.. Buchanan, are
hopeful rivals each have their partisans in
the different sections of the North some forty
or fifty thousand offce-holders and dependents
on executive favor rely upon one or the other
of these to make them secure in their posts-
1t is known to all these people that not one of
the rivals can command a majority of the Nor
thern vote against the other nor, indeed,
| against an opponent of any other party. For
either OF them, the votes of the South decides
the question OF nomination and then the pos
slbility of election depends absolutely upon
united Southern support. The Southern slave
holders, therefore, have the fate of all these
seekers for the office of President, of the So
called Democratic party, entirely in their
hands.
And here we find in what consists that which
is now vaunted to be the Democratic party par
excellence. 1t is composed Of the oficehoders
under the present Administration, headed bv
those chiefs who are looked to to continue
them in office, through the united vote of the
South, and the chance vote of some Northern
State, obtained by plurality-the result of the
division of their opponents, growing out of per-
sonal preferences or party dissensions The De
mocratc party, which the Administration calls
its own, has no basis but the olgarchy of the
South-we might call it the BLACK oLIGARcHY,
returning to it the appeatiOn which it so will
ingly gives to others, because it most appro-
priately belongs to itself The leaders of this
party in the North have proved themselves en-
tirely worthy Of its confidence by abandoning
every principle of democracy ence their boast
They have abandoned the principles of the fa-
theirs of the Republic, who considered it as the
first attribute of the order of things estab-
lished by the Revolution, that it would arrest
the spread of slavery throughout the continent
1t did lead to its immediate extinction in many
of the States, and the first act under the Con
stitutiOn was to exclude it from the whole ter
ritory of the Union. The Democratic leaders
of the new order, at the bidding of the South
ern nulliferS, have broken all the compactS and
compromises designed to establish Free Repub-
lies in the territories from which slavery was
excluded. In doing this they have put under
foot the representative principle /; denied the
will of their immedirte constituents on re-
ceiving instructions to repeal their acts have
refused to obey and in this have given the
most striking example of an utter abandonment
of the cardinal doctrine of democracy. The
spread of liberty, not slavery, is its distinctive
principle.
They have shown that the will of 1000
Slaveowners in the South is more to them
than that of twenty millions of freemen in
the North. The leaders of this spurious De-
mecracy are but the satraps of Southern mas
ters.
The fate which awaits a people afflicted with
a Democracy which grows up under the govern
ment of slaveowners may be seen in the testi-
mony which we give in the words of the most
distinguished men of that party which we find
collated in a pamphlet by Mr.. Weston.
Mr. Sarver, of Mo-, in paper on Domes-
tic Manufactures in the South and West" pub
lished in lS47, says -
"The free population of the South may be
divided into two casses-the STAKEHOLDER and
the non-slaveholder l am not aware that the
| relative numbers of these two caSes have ever
ben ascertained in any of the States, but am
satisfied that the nonslaveholders far outnum-
Der the shareholders by three to one
In the more southern portion of this region the
non-slaveholders possess, generally, but very
small means, and the land which they possess
is almost universally poor, and so sterile that
a scanty subsistence is all that can be derived
from its cultivation and the more fertile soil,
being in the possession of the STAKEHOLDER must
ever remain out of the power of those who have
| none.
"This state of things is a great drawback,
and bears heavily upon and depresses the moral
energies of the poorer classes. The
acquisition of a respectable position in the
scale of wealth appears SO difficult, that they
decline the hopeless pursuit, and many OF them
settle down into habits Of idleness, and become
the almost passive subjects Of all its ccnsequen-
| COS And lament to say that I have eb.