The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-10
FREEpOM HOW HATEFUL.

The "South Side Democrat" of Virginia,
pours out torrent of wrath against every
thing free, after the following style:
awe have got 20 hating everything with
the prefix free, from free negroes down ana
up through the whole catalogue-free farms,
free labor, free society, free will, free thinking,
free children and free schoos-alI belonging
70 the same brood of ddmnable isnls. But the
worst of nil these denominations is the modern
svstem of free schools. The New England
system Of free schools has been the cause and
proli6c source of the nfidelities and treasons
that have turned her cities into SOdOms and
Comorrohs. and her land into the common
pestlino places of bowling Bedlamites. We
,boninate the system, because the schools
are free.
II would be in keeping with such man to
abuse free air, free light, free social inter-
course, free locnmotion, free breathing and
everything else where freedom is an element.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, says, of
free suffrage:
"1hat men have no right to vote unless
they are possessed of property, rs required by
the Constitution of South Carolina. There
no man can vote unless he own ton negroes,
or real estate to the value Of ten thousand
dollars. ass
The Muscogce (Ala) Herald, chimes in the
following beautiful strain:
sFree Society We scken of the name
What is il but n conglomeration of greasy
mechanics, filthy operatives, small listed
farmers and moon.siruek theorists All the
Northern and especially the New England
A.. ,.fa ;atx ad fnr tha ..l
bred gentleman. The prevailing class one
meets with, is that of mechanics struggling
TO be genteel and small farmers who do their
druggery, and yet who are hardly fit for as.
sociation with Southern gentiemen's body
servant. This is your society which Northern
hordes IRE endeavoring to extend iuto Kansas.
Who after this, will not turn to aud fight
that miserable humbug; Freedom These
.greasy mechanics, filthy operatives and small
fisted farmers" have no right to be freemen.
They are fit only for slaves.-Dela Repubt-
can.
No one can read the foregoing without
feeling that Buchanan is the fit representative
of that sort of Democracy; and every high
spirited mechanic and working man must feel
humble at the recollection that he ever sus-
tanned party which looks upon him with
contempt, whilst they use him as the despised
instrument of their foul and selfish ambition.
When Buchanan, on the floor of the Senate,
argued the justice and wisdom of reducing
the wages of the laborer to the standard of
the Continent of European argument that
amounted to the advocacy of policy which
must make the poor, poorer, and the rich,
richer--he betrayed the same feeling Of con-
tempt for "grcasy mechanics, filthy opera
tives, small listed farmers and moon struck
theorists" that is so strongly portrayed by
the democratic editors above quoted. The
man who advocated low wages that the ordly
proprietors of the manufactures may fatten
upon the unrequited toll of the poor, may
well be the representative Of that democracy
which hates free schools and any and every
Institution calculated TO elevate the aboring
Glasses above the condition o: slaves. 1t is
the want of light and knowledge that enables
the despots Of the old world to ride "bootrd
and spurred," over the liberties of the people
Thrones are reared upon the ignorance of the
u,asscs, and the pampered aristocracy of every
country owes its elevation and power to the
unresisting degradation and supne Ignorance
OF such agreasy mechanics, and filthy opera
tives," as are content, and even proud, to kiss
the heel that grinds them TO dust Freedom
IL the offspring of intelligence, and well may
the aristocratic few, who despise the name of
equality, hate free schools, from which may
emenate the intellectual power to emancipaie
the "greasy mechanic and filthy operative"
from the tyranny 10 which Ignorance has sub
iected them, and to which the democratic
aristocrats would forever consign them. Let
the mechanics and laborers lend their aid 10
this foreign, catholic party, and the extinction
of free schools and ten cents day, will Fix
their destiny--ard that without hope-as
"greasy mechanics and filthy operatives"
whilst their proud and pampered leaoers will
riot in wealth and power, and look down,
with increasing contempt, upon the plant
instruments whom they first duped, and then
enslaved.