The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-10
FREEDOM HOW HATEFUL.


pours out torrent of wrath against every.
thing free, after the following style:
awe have got 70 hating everything with
the prefix free, from free negroes down and
IN through the whole catalogue-free farms,
free labor, free society, free will, free thinking,
free children and free schools-alI belonging
10 the same brood of ddmnabie isms. But the
worst of all these denominations is the modern
srstem of free schools. The New England
system of free schools hns been the cause and
rrolfc source of the infdelities and trcnsons
that have turned her cities into Sodoms aud
Gomorrahs, and her land into the common
nesting places of bowling Bcdlamites. We
abominate the system, because the schools
are free.
1t would be in Keeping with such n man to
abuse free air, free light, free social inter.
course, free locomotion, free breathing and
everything else where freedom is an element.
Senator Butter, of South Carolina, says, of
free suffrage:
"'rhat men have no right to vote unless
they are possessed of property, as required by
the Constitution of South Carolina. There
no man can vote unless he own ten negroes,
or real estate to the value of ten thousand
dollars.
The Muscogce (Ala.) Herald, chimes in the
following beautiful strain:
"Free Society! We sickcn Of the name
What is it but conglomeraton of greasy
mechanics, filthy operatives, small listed
farmers and moon.struck theorists All the
Northern and especially the New England
States, are devoid of society fitted for the well
bred gentleman. The prevailing class one
meets with, il that of mechanics struggling
to be genteel and small farmers who do their
druggery, and yet who are hardly fit for as.
sociatun with Southern gentiemen's body
servant. This is your society which Northern
hordes are cndeavoring to extend into Kansas.
Who after this, will not turn to aud fight
that miserable humbug; Freedom! These
~greasy mechanics, filthy operatives and small
listed farmers" have no right To be ireemen.
They are tit only for slaves.-Dela Repubh-
can.
No one can read the foregoing without
feeling that Buchanan is the fit representative
of that sort Of Democracy; and every high
spirited mechanic and working man must feel
humble ut the recollection that he ever sus.
tanned party which looks upon him with
contempt, whilst they use him as the despised
instrument of their foul and selfish ambition.
When buchanan, on the floor of the Senate,
argued the justice aud wisdom of reducing
the wages of the laborer to the standard of
the Continent of European argument that
amounted to the advocacy of u policy which
must make the poor, poorer, and the rich
richer--hc betrayed the same feeling of con.
tempt for "greasy mechanics, filthy opera
tives, small listed farmers and moon.struck
theorists" that is so strongly portrayed by
the democratic editors above quoted. The
man who advocated low wages, that the lordly
proprietors of the manufactures may iatten
upon the unrequted toll of the poor, may
well be the representative Of that democracy
which hates free schools and any and every
institution calculated to elevate the laboring
classes above the condition o: slaves. 1t is
the want of light and knowledge that enables
the despots of the old world to ride "bootrd
and spurred," over the liberties of the people.
Thrones are reared upon the Ignorance of the
mass, 5, and the pumpered aristocracy of every
country owes its elevation and power to the
unressting degradation and supinc Ignorance
of such "greasy mechanics, and filthy opera.
tives," as are content, and even proud, to kiss
the heel that grinds them 10 dust Freedom
is the offspring of intelligence, and well may
the arstocratic few, who despise the name q
equality, hate free schools, from which may
emenate the intellectual power to emancipat'
the "greasy mechanic and filthy operative
from the tyranny to which Ignorance has sub
jec,ed them, and to which the Democrat,
aristocrats would forever consgn them. lie
the mechanics and lnborers lend their aid Il
this foreign, catholic party, and the extinction
of free schools and ten cents day, will fl,
their destiny-aLd that without hope-a'
"greasy mechanics and filthy operatives,
whilst their proud and pampered leaders viii
riot in wealth and power, and look down
with increasing contempt, upon the plan
instruments whom they first duped, and theI
enslaved.