The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-08-15

nd endure. The one must give way and
ease to exist. The other become uniyer-
al. ~ Ia ~ ~
Iffree society be unnatural, immoral, nm
II must Gall, and give way to
lare soaety-a social system old as fhe ,corid,
man."
And tho Muscogee (Ala.) Herald another
Taliant Buchanan organ, says:
/" Free society we sicken OF the name
What il it but q conglomeration of GREA-
81 MECHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES,
SMALL FlSTED FARMERS, and NOON
struck THEORISTS All the Northern
md especially the New England States are
devoid of society fitted for well.brcd gentle
men. The prevailing class one meets with
is that Of mechanics struggling to be gen.
teel. and small farmers who do their own
drudgery and yet who are hardly ct for
association with q Southern gcntleman's
body-seryant. 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 Democratic
members of the present Congress T. j. d.
Fuller of Maine, among them - abuses eve
rything FREE after this style:
"We have got to hating everything with
the prefix FREE, from free negroes down
and up through the whole catalogue -
FREE farms. FREE labor, FREE society,
FREE will FREE thinking, FREE children,
and FREE schools - all belonging to the
same brood Of damnable isms. But the worst
Of all these denominations is the modern sys-
TEN of FREE SCHOOLS. The New Eng.
land system Of free schools has been the
cause and prolific source Of the in6delities
and treasons that have turned her cities in.
to Sodoms and Gomorrahs, and her land in
to the common nestling-places Of bowling
Bedlamites. We abominate the system, be
cause the SCHOOLS ARE FREE"
The Charleston Is. C.) Standard ,anothe,
Democratic paper, in defending tho murder
er Herbert, 1.-THE Democratic Congressman,
who shot the poor Irish waiter, says:
WHITE MEN accept The office, o.
meniais, IL should be expected that they iriH d.
so ,riM an apprehension Of their relation Il
society, and The disposition quietly 10 enooun
ter both the rssponsibiGtis, and liabilities trhie'
The relation imposes" ..F
The Alabama Mail, in commenting on thu
same, says:
"H is getting time that ,raiters al the Nort|
irere conrinoed that they are servants, and no
gentlemen in disguise. We hope this Her
bert affair rriR teach them prudence"
So much for extracts from " Democratic
newspapers. Now for few from Democrat
ic speeches.
S. w. Downs, late Democratic Senator
from Louisiana, imam elaborate and carefully
prepared speech, published in the Washing
ton Globe, says;
81 call upon the opponents Of Slavery ia
prove that the WHITE LAB0RERS Of the
North are as happy, as contented, rs COM
Portable as the &dres of the South. In the
South the slaves do not suffer one-tenth OF
the evils endured by the white laborers OF
the North. Poverty is unknown to the
Southern slave, for us soon as the master oil
slaves becomes too poor to provide for them
he SELLS them 10 Others who can take care
of them. This, sir.is one of the cxcellencies
of the system of Slavery, add this the supe-
rior condition of the Southern slave over the
Northern WHITE laborer."
According to Mr.. Downs, (thcn good
Democratic authority all that the Northern
rhite iaJorer requires is somebody to sell him
when he falls into poverty. Admirable
philanthropy! Beautiful Democracy!
Senator Clemens of Alabama declared in
a speech in the U. S. Senate, that f" the OPP
eratives Of New England were not as well
situated nor as comfortably Of as the slaves
that cultivate the rice and cotton fields Of
the South"
In recent speech by Mr.. Reynolds,
Pierce Buchanan DENT cratic candidate for
Congress from Missouri, that gentleman
asserted that -
The same construction OF the power of
Congress to exclude Slavery from United
States Territory, would Justify the Govern
ment in including foreign-born citizens =
GERMANS AND IRISH AS WELL AS
NIGGERS."
Here Missouri Democrat classes GER
MANS and IRISH Unfortunately with
SLAVES.
Mr.. L. ii. Goode, another Atchison Dem
ocrat of Missouri, in a recent speech against
the Free State men Of Kansas, denounced
the LABoaING men as " WHITE SLAVES"
These extracts are not taken from obscure
prints, or obscure men. They are from the
active, influential papers, and influential
men who lead the Democratic party. 1t is
for the free and intelligent mechanics, and
farmers, and laborers Of Maine land they
comprise nearly the whole population) to
decide whether they will cooperate with q
party whose leading spirits thus condemn
their honorable .callings, and brand them
with every opprobrious cpithct.
Freemcn Of the North you believe in the
dignity of labor. Are you ready to strike
hands with those men who insult you and
your principles by calling you GREASY Me-
FILTHY Operatives, and SMALL
FIsrrD FARMERS, and cooperate with class
Of men in electing President who tell you
that the +" MECHANICS and L,BoRERs ofthe
free North {" are scribe class, unfit for
We know that you will
not thus degrade yourselves, but will sup
port that candidate, the true earnest friend
of freedom who has INST beautifully and
truthfully said that :" free labor is the natu.
raj capital whieh constitutes the real realth of
this great country, and creates that intelligent
po,rer in the masses alone 10 be relied on as
The bul,rark Of free Institutions"
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