American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-10-18

dares, upon American soil, cody to
propose the degradation and enslave-
ment of the WHITE WORKING
MAN? We answer, and we will prove
it, DEMOCRATIC EDITORS who
support James Buchanan, and expound
the Cincinnati Platform. Well may
such hideous proposition come from
such q source. A proposition to thus
degrade the nottingham, is carrying
out the policy advocated by Buchanan
in the Senate of the United States
to reduce American laborcr's wages to
'TEN CENTS A DAYW But we will in
troduce here, the language held by the
Democratic Journals, and ask the la
boring men of Virginia, around us, if
they will support a party that holds
sentiments SO directly at war with their
interests and their daily bread. Read
the following extracts, and make your
OWH ComllelltS .N... =
The Richmond Eramincr, Buchan-
an organ and influential Democratic
paper in Virginia, says, =
'"The South now maintains that
Slavery is right, natural and necessary,
and does not depend upon differences
Of complexion. The laws of the Slave
States Justify the holding of schttc men
in bondage" =
BesA- It's false; the South holds no
such dogma. The sentiment is confn-
ed (happily for the free white laborer)
to the breasts Of Democratic leaders,
purse.proud AriStocrats, who know no
thing of the sweets of honest toll, but
whose boots are BACKED, coat brushed,
hat slecked, and crayat tied, by the ne
gro inherited at the death of ca fine
old gentleman !" Crack Drained arts
tocrats hold the dogma of the Exami-
ner; the South does not hold any such
miserable doctrine. From no Ameri-
can paper of the South-we glory in
the assertion of its conservatism-em
anates such a pestiferous miasma as
that which goes out from influential
Democratic journals of the Democracy
to maintain their Sectional ground.
BE- The Charleston Standard, an
other Democratic journal, says:
"SLAVERY is the NATURAL and NOR
NAL CONDITION of the LABoRING
MAN, whether WHITE or black !" =
Bay How nicely the language above
quoted agree-South Carolina nullif-
ers embracing Virginia aristocracy !
The white working man, however, will
not nod his assent to the proposition
that "Slavcry is the natural and nor
NAL condition of the white laborer." -
What are we coming to, O! Democracy?
We could add three or four more
such extracts from Democratic papers
published in Virginia, South Carolina,
and Alabama, but our purpose is &C
complished in calling attention to the
wild fanaticism and recklessness of the
Southern Sectional party, clinging still
to the title Of Democracy. We pro-
nounce such sentiments as those cited
anti-American and reasonable to the
vital interests Of our country, and hold
them up to the abhorrent gaze Of the
true nobility of America-tho great
working classes, who burden our high
ways with traffic, and whitcn the sea
with commercial heets-wlo enrich the
valleys in corn and wine, and dot the
hills with innumerablo Aocks--who
WELD the lever that moves the world.
and heralds the triumphs of peace, or
drive the laundering car, bristling in
the panop!y Of war!
We may be denounced an Abolition
list Tor opposing these dogmas of South
ern Democracy, as that is the rcadiest
argument Democracy has at command.
BE it so. We have compared its use to
the swinging sign in a windy niglN, and
can give the charge, applied to us, no
higher Importance. We are compcll.
ed to regard the degradation of Amer
lean workingmen as the base PROPOSE
ton of demcnted aristocrats, and we
despise it accordingly. We are not
now, nor ever were we, an Abolitionist.
We despiso alike the strained and i'm