Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-10-29

papers in New York City that support James
Buchanan, proposes to enslave poor AMERI-
CANS, Germans and LriSh 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:
'sSell 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 health-clothe them feed them
and house them:-shaH be Iegaltu entitled fC
their serrices; 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:
:EWe 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, Uuigar, Hceaiious bosses,
and your brutal, ignorant cad iRsUbOrdinate fac
tory hands in our midst, for all the wealth of
''Ormus and of Ind We are as rich as we
care to be. We would not exchange our situ-
alton for the vulgar sensuality and brutality OF
the ''Roureaur richeS,'' the coarse parvenues
the millionaire cotton factors and grocers OF
the North or Of England, much less for the
countless millions Of paaDers and criminals. ,cho
tft up and sustain the c2icGydty, selfish. sensual,
hceRttous, tntidei, dgrGrian, and revolutionary
edifce Of free society,"
The MuscVgee, Alabama, Herald, an cnthu-
siastic Buchanan paper, delivers itself as fol-
lows
Stree society! we sicken at the name
What is it but conglomeration of GREASY
MECHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES,
SMALL FlSTED FARMERSand MOON STRUCK
THEORISTS? All the Northern and especially
the New England States are devoid Of society
fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevail
ing class one meets with is that OF mechanics
struggling 10 be genfeei, and small farmers do
ing their own drudgery; and who are not fit
for association with a Southern gcntleman's s
(nigger) body-scrvant. This is your free So
ciety which the Northern hounds are endeav-
oring to extend into Kansas.''
So much for extracts from s.Dcmocratic''
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 contented, 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
North. Poverty is unknown TO the Southern
slave; for as soon as the master Of slaves be-
comes too poor 70 provide for them, he SELLS
them to others, who can take care Of them
This. sir, is one OF the exceIlencies 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
ocratc authority,) all that the Northern white
laborer requires is somebody to sell him when
he falls into poverty. Admirable phiIanthro-
py! Beautiful democracy!
Senator Clemens, of Alabama, declared in a
speech in the L. S. Senate, that
ssThe operatives of New England were not
well situated nor as comfortably Off as the
slaves that cultivate the rice and cotton fields
of the South
In a recent speech by Mr.. Reynolds, Pierce
Buchanan Democratic candidate for Congress
from Missouri, that gentleman distinctly as
serted that
''The same construction of the power of
Congress to exclude Slavery from a United
States Territory, would Justify the Govern
ment in excluding foreign-born citizens-Ger-
man and Irish as yell as Riggers.
Here a Missouri Democrat classes German
and Iris4 indiscriminately with Negro sIares.
Mr.. l.. II. GoOde, another Atchison Demo
crat of Missouri, in recent speech against the
Free State men Of Kansas, denounced the la
boriag men as ssWHITE SLAVES ~
Senator Butler, the uncle of ssAssassin''
Brooks,) shining light in the Democratic ga
laxy, declared in a speech in the UnitedStates
Senate this session
s.That men have NO RIGHT TO VOTE uu-
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
Thousand Dollars.
And this is the doctrine Democracy" So
called. would introduce into Pennsylvania.
JAMES BUCHANAN,th 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 Emope
standard, which is known to be about TEN
CENTS DAY. What fit candidate Mr.. Bu-
chanan is for those who would make WHITE
MEN slaves!
JAMES BUCHANAN is the Represents
tive and Advocate of the extension of SLAVE
LABOR.
FREEMEN OF PENNSYLVANIA Are
you prepared TO cast your votes for man
who cntertans such doctrines
THERE ARE two eventful periods in the life
of women one, when she wonders who she
will haye-the other who will have her. The