True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-08-13
Southern Ideas of the Degradation Of
Labor.

The right, character and dignity OF la
Dor are a, stake in the present contest.
Slaveholding degrades labor. To labor
is to occupy an inferior position in South
ern society. A laborer belongs to an in,
ferior caste. II slavery is eAtended into
Kansas, The honest, independent Farmer
of the free States who cul,ivales his own
soil. cannot go there. He is excluded
by the laws Of Southern society, unless
he consents to occupy an inferior position
in social life, and to become sort Of pro-
tege of some lordly owner of human chat.
tells. Human servitude dishonors indus
try. To make work, the 10, Of slaves, is
to badge working men with the disgrace
Of bondage. The sensitive spirit Of the
white man in democratic State recoils
from this relation. The States are filed
with an army Of ragged guant, lean, idle,
ignorant and sullen protestants against
the acknowledgement of the political in
feriority and social degradation, which la
Dor in the midst of black slaves imposes
on white citizens. Two classes rapidly
form in the aristocratic States the bond
African labors at the bottom, and the
wealthy proprietors at the top. The non
shareholders between, will inevitably be
pressed out, or ground to death.
Herbert the murderer Of the Irish wal.
ter. Heating, is defended al the South be-
cause, according TO the Southern code.
personal servitude degradCs the white
servant to the black slaves. On this
ground, the Charleston Standard, the
leading Buchanan organ in South Carroll.
ma, demands that Herbert shall be ex.
empled from punishment for the murder
of poor Heating. 1t uses this remarka'
BILE language.
"Any provocation that might have
been given for the assault upon him by
the body of walters, was at the most ;
provocation of Uords and such q proUo
cation as a seroanf should not haze th,
right to resent; aud if ,Ohite men &C
cept the offices Of snenials it should b.
eTpscted that they ,oiN do so 'oith an ap
prehension of their relation to societ,s
and the disposition quietly to encountsi
both the responsibilities and the iab;li
ties (Which the relation imposes"
That is, servants and walters must con
sent 10 be rebuffed, insulted, cursed, ant
kicked, and must take il all patiently an,
humbly as social incidents belonging t.
their condition, if they are so presump
tuous as to resist the laws Of the code
they are to be shot down like slave o
dog.
> There is, says the Albany Evenin
Journal, no more shameful and sorrowfu
fact in the history Of our politics, tina
that Mr.. Buchanan, son of free State
and a pupil Of good school of free in
dustry and a social equality, should b
the voluntary exponent Of ? policy whic
requires Irish and American and German
: waters to submit peaceably to insult an
wrong and to confess by humility of man
ner and excess of endurance that they ar
= : not Men-free men in the capital of tn
. Republic--but are brutes and chattlei
! The people will stlAe this feudal teach
! ing in November next and repress il
aristocratic missionaries within their pres
: : enr field Of lashing, clubbing, brandip
u and bounding of working men.- Wasl
Reporter.