Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-09-23

The people of the Free States have sc
long yielded TO the arrogant demands oi
the Slave Oligarchy in the South, tha, the
latter has come to think it can carry any
measure 1t sees fit, no matter how degra-
ding 1t may be to the character of the
free white men of the North.
Not many years ago the Southern slave
holders were contented to have their '.hsl-
man chattels protected in the States III
which they held them.
Next, they demanded and secured five
slaves states from acquired territory, La
! Fla, Ark, Mo-, and Texas while the
Free States have only secured two,-Iowa
and California.
Next, the slave power demanded all the
territories. and broke down the Missouri
Compromise which secured part of those
territories to free labor.
Next, they demanded the right to come
into the free states with their slaves when
ever they choose, and stay as long as they
pleass, and the United States Courts seem
about to yield 20 them, and grant this out
rageous demand
/ But the last, the crowning, the diabol-
zeal assumption is, that slavery is not to be
confined TO the NEG RO RACE, but must
be made to include lab'r ring WHITE MEN
also. This doctrine, which is so mon
s.rots and shocking as almost to seem in
credible, is now openly avoweG and de-
tended by very many of the newspapers
and of the public men of the South that
support James Buchanan. The doctrine
/ is also proclaimed by some northern news
papers of the so-called Demo cratic party,
! hut not generally with such boldness as in
the south. To show the exact extent and
nature of tins doctrine of enslaving white
men, the following extracts from Buchan-
an papers, and from the speeches of Bu-
chanah men are given.
/ The Richmond Enquirer, one of the
leading Democratic papers in Virginia,
ardentiy supporting Mr. Buchanan, holds
! the following language III late issue:
8 Until recently, the defence of slavery
has labored under great difficulties, be-
cause its apologists for they were mere
, apologists) took HALFWAY grounds. They
confined the defence of slavery to mere
negro slavery; thereby giving up the sla-
very principle, admitting other forms of
slavery to be wrong.
:" The lne of defence, however, is now
C aanged. The south now maintains that
slavery Is right, natural and necessary,
and does not depend upon difference OF
COMPLEXION. The laws of the slave
stats justify the holding of WHITE
MEN IN bondage"
Another Buchanan paper, the leading
one in South Carolina, SAYS:
:" Slavery is the natural and normal con-
ditlonof the laboring men, whether
| WHITE or black. Tne great evil of nor
thern free society, is that it is burdened
with servilc class of MECHANICS and
a relation In society as necessary as that
of parent and child and the Northern
states will Yet have to introduce it. Their
theory OF tree government is a delusion.'
There's Democratic doctrine for you
with a vengeance /" our theory of free
government delusion, -" iaboring men
whether white or black be slaves" Ver-
lily, matters are coming TO a pretty pass
with us.
The Richmond (Ia.) Enquirer, Mr..
Buchanan's confidential organ, and con-
sidered by the :: Democratic party as its
ablest paper in the South, SPEAKS as fol-
lows in recent number:
Z" Repeatedly have we asked the north
Has not the experiment of universal lb-
erly FAILED? Are not the evils of free
scci .ty INSUFFERABLE? And do not
most thinking men among you propose TO
suhvert and reconstruct iis Still no an
swcr. This gloomy silence is another
conclusive proof, added to many other con-
elusive EVIDENCES we have furnished, that
free society in the long run is an imprac-
ticable form of society; it is everywhere
s,arving, demoralizing, and insurrection-
arv.
"We repeat then that policy and hu-
manity alike forbid the extension of the
evils of free society to new people and
coming generations.
Two opposite and conflicting forms Of
society cannot, among civilized men, CO.
exist and endure. The one must give
way and cease TO exist The other become
universal
" If free society be unnatural, immor-
/ al, unchristian, ii must fall, and give way
to a slave society," social system as old
us the world, universal as man."
And the Muscogee Ala. J Herald, an
other valiant Buchanan organ, SAYS:
! Ice Sbtitty. VIC SiNhCI d tiiC
What is ii but conglomeration of GREA-
SY MECHANICS. FILTHY OPERA
! ITIVES, SMALL FISTED FARMERS,
and moon-struck THEORISTS All the
Northern and especially the New Eng
land States are devoid of society fitted for
well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing
class one meets with is that of mechanics
struggling to be genteel, and small farm
ers VINO do their own drudgery and yet
who are hardly fit for association with a
southern gentleman's body servant. This
is your free society which the Northern
hordes are endeavoring to extend into
Kansas"
And the South Side Democrat, another
prominent Buchanan paper, IN Virginia
whose editor was supported for Clerk of
the House Of Representatives by the dem
ocratie members of the present Congress
+. j. j. Fuller of Mairle among them
L, l. Il.