Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-10-29
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THE NEW DEMOCRATIC" DOCTRINE.
Slavery not to be Confined to the Negro Race,
but TO be Made the Universal Condition OF
the Laboring Classes of Society

Oligarchy in the South that the latter has come
to think it can carry any measure it sees fit,
no matter how degrading it may be to the char
acter of the free ,rhite men of the North.
Not many years ago, the Southern slave
holders were content to have their "human
chattels' protected in the States where they
held them.
Nert, they demanded and secured fire Slave
States from acquired territory, Louisiana Flo
rida, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas, while the
Free States have only secured two,-Iowa and
California.
Merit, the Slave power demanded all the ter
ritories, and broke down the Missouri Com
promise, which secured part of those terri
teries to free labor.
Next, they demanded the right to come into
the free States with their slaves whenever they
choose, and stay as long as they please and
the United States Courts seem about to yield
TO them, and grant this outrageous demand.
But the last, the crOtrning, the dia6oiicaI as
sumption is, that Slavery is not to be confined
10 the NEGRO RACE, but must be made to
include laboring WHITE MEN also This
doctrine, which is so monstrous and shocking
as almost to seem incredible, is now openly a.
vowed and defended by very many of the news
papers and of the public men of the South
that support James Buchanan. The doctrine
is also proclaimed by some Northern newspa-
pers of the so-called Democratic party, but
not generally with such boldness as in the
South. To show the exact extent and nature
of the doctrine of ensiaring WHITE MEN,
the following extracts from Buchanan papers.
and from the speeches Of Buchanan men, are
given:
The Richmond Examiner one of the leading
Democratic papers IN Virginia, ardently sup
porting Mr.. Buchanan, holds the following Ian
guage in late issue:
ssUntr recently, the defence Of Slavery has
labored under great difficulties, because its a.
biologists 0or they were mere apologists) took
halfway grounds. They confined the defence
of Slavery to mere negro Slaycry thereby
giving up the Slavery principle, admitting 9th
er forms Of Slavery to be Urcug.
ssThe line of defence ,however,is now chang
ed. The South now maintains that Sldrery is
right, natural aud necessary, aud does not de-
pend upon difference Of coHptcri0ni The laws
OF the Slave States Justify the holding OF
WHITE MEN in bondGge.''
The Charleston Mercury, the leading Buchaa-
paper in South Carolina, says:
'sSlavery is the natural and normal cond-
tion of fhe taboring man, whether WHITE or
black. The great evil Of Northern free socie-
ty is, that it is burdened with a serUile class of
MECHANICS and LABORERS, uaft for self
gOrernmenf, and yet clothed with the attributes
and powers of citizens. Master and slave is a
relation in society necessary as that of pa
rent and child; and the Northern States will
yet have to introduce it. Their theory of free
government is delusion.''
There's democratic" doctrine for you, with
svengeance; Sour theory of free government
deiusion, ,''-..iaboring men, whether schite or
black, to be slaves 3'' Verify, matters are com
ing to pretty pass with us.
The Richmond (Ya.) Enquirer, Mr.. Buchan-
ans confidential organ, and considered by the
sDcmocratic" party as its ablest paper in the
South, speaks as follows in a recent number:
s.Repeatedly have we asked the North, 'has
rot the experiment of universal liberty FAIL
ED? Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY
INSUFFERABLE? And do not most think
Ing men among you propose to su6rert and re-
construct it!' Still no answer. This gloomy
silence is another conclusive proof, added to
many other conclusive evidences we have fur
eished, that free society, in tho long run, is an
inapracticable form OF society; it is every
where starving, demorGli-cd, and ialsurrectioA-
ayy.
fsWe repeat. then, that policy and humanity
alike forbid the eGfeaSioa of the eriLs Of free
socisty 20 new people and coming generations.
Two opposite and conflicting forms of So
cIefy cannot, among civilized men, co-eXist
and eEdsre. The one must give way and cease
20 exist. The other become universal
elf free society be unnatural, immoral, I'M
christian, it must fall, and give way to a slave
society," social system old IS the world, uni
yersal as man.
And the South Side Democrat, another pro-
minent Buchanan paper, in Virginia, whose
editor was supported for Clerk of the House
of Representatives, by the Democratic men,
bers of the present Congress-T. J. d. Fuller,
of Maine, among thcm-abuses everything
FREE after this style:
eve have got to hating everything with the
prefix FREE, from free negroes down and up
through the whole catalogue-FREE farms,
FREE labor. FREE society, FREE will, FREE
thinking, FREE children, and FREE SCHOOLS
AL belonging to the same brood oil datiiha-
ole isms. But the worst OF all these abomiha-
tons is the modern system of FREE SCHOOLS.
Inc New England system of free schools mas
peen the prolific cause and source OF the mn
aellles and treasons that have turned her ci-
iles Int Sodoms and Gomorrahs. and her land
INTO ne common nesting places of howlng
bedlamites. We abominate the system because
the SCHOOLS ARE FREE''
The Washington Union. the National Organ
OF the "Democratic'' party, says that the hon
est and heroic FREE LABORING MEN Of
Kansas