Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-10-22
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papers in New York City that support James
Buchanan, proposes to enslave poor AMERI-
CANS, Germans and Irish, who may fall into
poverty and be unable to support their fami-
lies. Here are the Day Books exact words in
speaking of the POOR WHITE PEOPLE:
ssSell the parents of these children into
SLAVERY. Let our Legislature pass a law
that whoever will take these parents and take
care Of them and their OFFSPRING, in sick
ness and in hcalth-clothe them, feed them,
and house them:-shaH be legally entitled TO
their services and let the same Legislature de-
cree that whoever receives these parents and
their CHILDREN, and obtains their services,
shall OWN THEM AS LONG AS THEY
LIVE.''
The Richmond Enquirer, of very recent
date, contains the following very shigh' opin-
ion of the people of the North
ssWe can bring the capital employed in
manufactures, and most of it employed in COM
merce, South, when we please. We can trans
fer Manchester, and Birmingham and Lowell
TO the South, and thus in single year, quad
ruple the wealth of the South. But we would
not have your rich, raigar, Hceafioas bosses,
and your bySfGL, ignorant and insubordinats fac
tory hands in our midst, for all the wealth of
sSOrmus and of Ind We are as rich as we
care to be. We would not exchange our stu
alton for the vulgar sensnality and brutality Of
the ''DonceGur riches,'' the coarse parvcnues,
the millionaire cotton factors and grocers OF
the North or of England, much less for the
countless millions Of pdupers and criminals. rho
l1 up and sustain the co,oardly, selfish, sensual,
hcenffoas, infdei, agrariGg, and revolutionary
edifce Of free society,"
The Muscogee, Alabama, Herald an enthu-
siastic Buchanan paper, delivers itself as fol.
lows:
''Free society we scken at the name.-
What is it but conglomeration of GREASY
MECHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES,
SMALL FISTED FARMERSand MOON STRUCK
THEORISTS? All the Northern and especially
the New England States devoid of society
fitted for wel-bred gentlemen. The prevail
ing class one meets with is that of mechanics
struggling 10 be genteel, and small farmers do
ing their own drudgery; and who are not fit
for association with a Southern gentleman's
(nigger) body-servant. This Is your free So
ciety which the Northern hounds are endcav-
oring to extend into Kansas
So much for extracts from ssDemocratic''
newspapers. Now for a few from Democratic
speeches.
S. W. Downs, late Democratic Senator from
Louisiana, in an elaborate and carefully pre-
pared speech, published in the Washington
Globe says:
81 call upon the opponents of Slavery to
prove that the WHITE LABORERS Of the
North are AS happy, as contentcd, or as com
Portable, as the SHARES of the South. In the
South the slaves do not suffer one-tenth the
evils endured by the white laborers of the
\ orth. Poverty is unknown to the Southern
slave; for as soon as the master of slaves be-
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them to others, who can take care Of them
This. sir, is one of the excelencies of the sys-
TEN of slavery, and this the superior condi-
tiou Of the Southern slave over the Northern
WHITE laborer.''
According to Mr.. Downs, then, (good DEM
ocratic authority,) all that the Northern white
laborer requires is somebody to sell him when
he falls into poverty. Admirable philanthro-
py Beautiful democracy
Senator Clemens, of Alabama, declared in
speech in the U. S. Senate, that
'sThe operatives of New England were not
as well situated nor comfortably off as the
slaves that cultivate the rice and cotton fields
Of the SJuth.''
In recent speech by Mr.. Reynolds, Pierce
Buchanan Democratic candidate for Congress
from Missouri, that gentleman distinctly as
serted that
'sThe same construction of the power of
Congress to exclude Slavery from United
States Territory, would justify the Govern
ment in excluding foreign-born citizens-Ger-
man and irish as 'ceH niggers.
Here Missouri Democrat classes German
and Irish indiscriminatcly with Negro slGres.
Mr.. L. II. Goode, another Atchison Demo-
crat of Missouri, in recent speech against the
Free State men of Kansas, denounced the la
boring men as ssWHITE SLAVES,''
Senator Butler, (the uncle of ssAssassin''
Brooks,) a shining light in the Democratic ga
laxy. declared in speech in the UnitedStates
Senate this session
ssThat men have NO RIGHT TO VOTE un-
less they are possessed of property, as REQUIRED
by The Constitution Of South Carolina. There |
no man can VOTE unless he owns TEN NE
GROES, or real estate to the value of Ten |
Dollars.
And this is the doctrine siDemocracy," So
called, would introduce into Pennsylvania
JAMES BUCHANAN, the Presidential can
didate of the men and of the party who hold
these odous views, advocated the doctrine of |
reducing the WAGES of AMERICAN OPE-
RATIVES and LABORERS to the European
standard, which is known to be about TEN |
CENTS A DAY. What fit candidate Mr. Bu-
chanan is for those who would make WHITE |
MEN slaves!
JAMES BUCHANAN is the Representa-
i've and Advocate of the extension of SLAVE
LABOR.
FREEMEN OF PENNSYLVANIA! Are
7ou prepared to cast your votes for man
who entertains such doctrines?
THERE ARE two eventful periods in the life