Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-10-16
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The New Democratic Doctrine.

Siarery mol TO be confined to the Negro Race,
but to be made tie URircrSai condition Of Tie
l0boring classes Of society.
The people of the Free States have so long
yielded to the arrogant demands of the Slave
Oiigarchy in the South that the latter has
come to think it can carry any measure it sees
fit, no matter how degrading it may be to the
character of the free irhite men of the North.
Not many years ago the Southern slave-hold-
ers were contented to have their "human chat
tells protected in the States where they held
them.
Next, they demanded and secured fire Slave
States from acquired territory, ia, Fa, Ark
Mo, and Texas, while the Free States have
only secured trO,-Iowa and California
Nert, the Slave power demanded all the
territories, and broke down the Missouri Com
promise, which secured part of those terrific
ries to rrec labor
Nent, they demanded the right to come into
the free States with their slaves whenever they
choose, and stay as long as they please, and
the United States Courts seem about to Weld
to thcEl, and grant this outrageous demand
But the last, the grooming, the diaJoticai, as
sumption is, that Slavery is not to be confined
to the NEGRO RACE, but must be made to
include iabOring WHITE MEN also. This
doctrine, which is so monstrous and shocking
as almost TO seem incredible, is now openly
avowed and defended by very many of the
newspapers and public men of the South that
support James Buchanan The doctrine is al
so proclaimed by some Northern newspapers
of the so-called Democratic party, but not
generally with shch bodness as in the South.
To show the exact extent and nature of this
doctrine of easlaring WHITE MEN, the ex-
tracts from Buchanan papers, and from the
speeches OF Buchanan men are given
The Richmond Erdmiaer, one of the lead
ing Democratic papers in Virginia, ardently
supporting Mr. Buchanan, holds the following
language in a late iSSuc {
Until recently, the defence of Slavery has
laborcd under great difficulties, because its
apologIsts, (for they were mere apologistS,)
took halfway grounds. They confined the de-
fence of Slavery to mere negro Slavery there
10y giving up the Slavery principle and admit
ting other forms of Slavery to be 1rr0ng.
The line of defence, however, is now chang
ed The South now maintains that .Sarcrv
IS right, natural and nccessary aM does not de-
Pend upon the difference Of COMPLEXION.
The laws Of the Slave States, jusiify the hold
ing of WHITE MEN in 5ondage."
Another Buchanan paper, the leading one
in South Carolina, says:
Slavery is the natural and normal condi-
ton of the lo6Oring man, whether WHITE or
black The great evil of Northern free society
is, that it is burdcned with ~rrAe class of
MECHANICS and LABORERS, unfit for
selt:gorernment, and yet clothed with the at
tributes and powers of citizens Master and
Slave is 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 free government is deluson"
There's Democratic doctrine for you,
with vengeance our theory of free gov
ernment delusion, ." kqboriag men whether
'chite or black to be slaves" Verify, matters
are coming to pretty pass with u.s.
The Richmond (Ea.) Inquirer, Mr.. Buchan
ans confidential organ, and considered by the
" Democratic party as its ablest paper in the
South, speaks as follows in a recent number
Repeatedly have We asked the North Has
not the experiment of universal liberty FAIL
ED? Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY
INSCFFERABLE? ? And do not most
thinking men among you propose TO subrert
and reconstruct il p Still no answer This
gloomy silence is another conclusive proof. ad-
ded to many other conclusive evidences We
have furnished, that free society in the long run
is an impracticable form of society it is
everywhere starving, demoralieed, and insurrcc-
tionary.
We repeat, then, that policy and humani-
ty alike forbid tic srtensien of the erAs Of free
scctety to new people and coming generations
81 Two opposite and conflicting forms Of So
ciety cannot, among civilised men co-exst and
endure. The one must give way and cease to
exist. The other become universal.