Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-09


knowledged the leading organ of the Demo-
cratic party, and whatever it lays down as sound
principles, soon have to be taken up and adopted
by the party. Thus it has led on, step by step,
on the slavery question, till the late Conventions
have adopted principles, at the mention of which,
in Gen. Jackson's day, they would have stood
aghast. The doctrine is now openly proclaimed
that the aohtte aborer, well as the black should
be reduced to slavery. as the condition best for
him, well as for the employer We copy the
following article on the subject faom recent
number of the Enquirer =
''THE WHITE MAN SHOULD BE SLAVE IF A
LABoRER. = Until recently, the defence of
slavery has labored under great difficulties
because its apologists- for they Vwere merely
apologists-tooki half way grounds. They
confined the defence Of slavery to mere negro
slavery, thereby giving up the slavery princi-
pie, admitting other forms of slavery to be
wrong, and yielding up the authority of the
Bible, and of history, practices, and experien-
ces Of mankind. Human experience showing
the UNIVERSAL success of slave society, and the
universal failure of free society, was unavail-
ing to them, because they were precuded from
employing it, by admitting slavery in the alb.
stract to be wrong. The defence of mere ne
gro slavery involved them in still greater diff
ticulty. The laws of all the Southern States
justified the holding white men in slavery,
provided that through the mother they were
descended, however remotely, from a negro
slave. The bright mulattoes according to their
theory, were wrongfully held in slavery.
The line of defence, however, is changed,
and the North is completely cornered, and
tains that slavery is right, natural, and neces-
sary. Ii shows that all divine, and almost
all human authority, justi6es it. Ike South
further charges that the little experiment of
free society IN Western Europe has been from
the beginning cruel failure, and that symp-
toms of failure are abundant in our North
While it is far more obvious that negroes be
d. slaves than whites-for they are only fit to
labor, not to direct-yet the principle of slave
nv is in itself right, and does not depend on
difference of complexion. Differences OF race,
Of lineage, Of language, of habits, and Gus
toms, all tend to render the institution more
natural and durable; and although slaves
have been generally white, still the masters
and slaves have generally been of different ma
tional descent. Nose and Aristotle, the ear.
liesl historians, are both authorities in favor
of the difference OF race, but not of color
n
work published in Virginia entitled, Syciol-
ogy or. Free Society Failure, by George
Fitzhugh:-
Make the laboring man the slave of one
man, instead of society, and he would be far
better off. Two hundred years of liberty have
made white laborers pauper banditti Free
society has failed, that which is not free must
be substituted.
Say the Abolitlonists 80 Man ought not to
have property in man.. What q drepry, cold.
bleak, inhospitable world this would be with
such doctrine carried into practice
Slavery has been too universal not to be neces-
sary to nature, and man struggles in vain
against nature. Free society is a fail
ure. We Shareholders say, you must recnr to
domestic slavery, the Oldest and best. and
most common form of socialism.
Free society is monstrous abortion, and
slavery the healthy, beautiful, and natural be.
ing which they are uneonsciously 10 adopt =.
The slaves are governed far better than the
free laborers at the North are governed. Our
negroes are not only better of as to physical
comfort than free laborers, but their moral
condition is better.
We do not adopt the theory that Ham was
the ancestor Of the negro race. The Jewish
slaves were not negroes, and to confne the
justification Of slavery to that race would be
to weaken its Scriptural authority, and to lose
the weight of profane authority, for we read
Of no negro slavery in ancient times. Slave
ry, black OF white, is right and necessary.
Nature hes made the weak in mind or body
slaves The wise and virtuous, the brave and
strong in mind aud body are born to COM
mund. Men are net born entitled to equal
rights. IL would be far nearer the truth TO
say, that some were born with saddles on
vlleir backs, and others booted and spurred to
ride them and the riding does them rood
They need the reins, tho bit, and the SPUR
Life and liberty are not inalienable. The
Declaration OF Independence is exuberanty
false, and aborescently lallacious."