The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-11-22
Changing Front.

" Slavery is the natural and normal
condition of the ta5oring man, WHITE
or Hack The great evil of Northern
free society is, that it is burdened with
sertae class of MECHANICS and
| LABORERS, unit for self government
and yet clothed with the attributes 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 intro
duce it.. Their theory of free govern
ment is delusion. rs. c. Standard.
How do our " Mechanics and Labor
ers" relish such doctrine? Are they
willing to spread such tenets over Kan
sas and its contiguous Territory? II
the white people of the South could
read, and knew what their masters said
about them, they would rise in theil
strength, assert their rights, and dc
away with slavery and the privileged
classes forever Only $4,000 slave
holders, including men, women and
children, in fifteen of the United States
thus lord it over 5000, 900 of their own
fellow citizens, and also over IL ,000, ,000
of citizens in the nominally free States.
Here we see the force and power Of
Promptness. The STAKEHOLDER ALWAYS
goes armed, and has made up his mind
to shoot down, or to kill instantly,
whoever or whatever opposes him.
One decided man of this kind is equal
to ten men. who hesitate, and doubt,
and are undecided how to act. Slave
holders are not cool and gorgeous, but
impulsive and daring. And it is this
sudden and impulsive action that gives
them such power over their cool and
quiet neighbors. They may utter SEN
timents derogatory of labor, and of Ia
borers-they may say that white men
who labor, arc no better than beasts,
and ought to be treated like them. The
chances are, that the poor white men OF
the South will never read /; and if they
should, their habits of submissiveness
are such, they will resent it, only by
wishing they were in free State.
The whole South is changing front
on the subject of slavery. A few years
ago Church and State admitted it to be
a great wrong. Now hear the RICK
mond Examiner -
Human experience shows the uni
versal success of slave society, and the
universal failure of free society, as un-
ayailing, because the former were pre-
cluded from employing it, by admitting
slavery in the abstract to be wrong
The defence of mere negro slavery in
volved them in still greater difficulty.
The laws of all the Southern States JUS
tifes the holding white men in slavery,
provided that through the mother they
are descended, however remotely, from
negro slave. The bright mulattoes,
according to their theory, are wrong
fully held in slavery.
"The line of defense, however, is
changed now, and the North is com.
pletely cornered, and dumb as an oys.
ter. The South now maintains that
slavery is right, natural and necessary
1t shows that all divine and almost all
human authority justifies it. The South
further charges, that the little expert.
ment of free society in Western Europe
has been, from the beginning. crue
failure, and that symptoms of failure
are abundant in our North. While il
was far more obvious that negroes bt
slaves than whites-for they are only
fit to labor not to direct-yet the prin
ciple of slavery is in itself right, ana
does not depend upon difference O
complexion. Difference of race, of lin
cage, 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 beer
of different national descent. Nose:
and Aristotle, the earliest historians
are both authorities in favor of the diff
ference of race, but not of color
Let the Irish and Germans note this