Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-10-08
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THE NEW DEMOCRATIC" DOCTRINE.
Slavery not to be Confined to the Nero Race,
hut 10 be Made the Universal Condltlon o.
the La5oring Classes OF Society.


acter of the free uhife men of the North.
Not many years ago, the Southern slave
holders were content to have their '.human
chatteEs'' protected in the States where they
held them. - g
Ncrf, they demanded and secured fire Slave
States from acquired territory Louisiana Flo
rila, Arkansas. Missouri, and Texas while the
Free States have only secured f'co,-IoWa and
California.
Merit the Slave power demanded all the ter
ritores, and broke down the Missouri Com
promise, which secured a part of those terri
tories to free labor.
Nert, 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 yield
to them, and grant this outrageous demand.
But the last, the crowning, the diaboiicaL as
sumption is, that Slavery is not to be confined
to the NEGRO RACE, but nlust be made to
include laboring WHITE MEN also. This
doctrine, which is so monstrous and shocking
as almost to seem incredible, is now openly a
vowed and defended by very many of the news
papers and of the public men Of the South
that support James Buchanan. The doctrine
is also proclaimed by some Northern ncwspa-
pers of the so-called Democratic party, but
not generally with such boldness as in the
South. To show the exact extent and nature
of the doctrine of ensiariHg WHITE MEN,
the following extracts from Buchanan papers,
and from the speeches Of Buchanan men, are
given
The Richmond Eramiacr ono of the leading
Democratic papers IN Virginia, ardently sup
porting Mr.. Buchanan, holds the following Ian
guage in late issue:
ssUntl recently, the defence of Slavery has
labored under great difficulties, because its a.
biologists (for they were mere apologiSts) took
halfway grounds. They confined the defence
of Slavery to mere negro Slavery. thereby
giving up the Slavery principle, admitting 9TH
er forms OF Slavery to be acrcpg.
ssThe line OF defence ,however,is now chang:
ed. The South now maintains that Siqrerg is
right, natural and accessory, and does not de-
pend upon difference Of complexion, The laws
of the Slave States justify the holding of
WHITE MEN in bondage.'
The Charleston Mercury, the leading BucFqX-
an paper in South Carolina. says:
s.Slayery is the natural and normal condi-
tion of The tutoring man, whether WHITE or
~
ty is, that it is burdened with serriie class Of
MECHANICS and LAB0RERS, unft for self
rent and child and the Northern States viii
yet have to introduce it. Their theory Of free
government is a dcIusion.''
There's democratic" doctrine for you, with
a vengeance; s'our theory OF free government
dclusion, 'siaboring men, whether ,rhHe or
black, to be slaves ?'' Verify, matters are COM
ing to pretty pass with us.
The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, Mr.. Buchan-
ans coufiden ntial organ, and considered by the
democratic" party as its ablcst paper in the
South, speaks as follows in a recent number:
s'Rcpcatedy have we asked the North. .has
not the experiment of universal liberty FAIL
ED Are not the evils Of FREE SOCIETY
INSTFFERABLE ? And do not most think
Ing men among you propose to sU6rert and re-
construct it p Still no answer. This gloomy
silence is another conclusive proof, added to
many other conclusive evidences we have fur
nished, that free society, in the Tong rua is an
impracticable form of society; il is every
where starving, demOralioed, and iasurrection-
ary.
ave repeat, then, that policy and humanity
alike forbid the crfeHsion of the eUils Of free
society to new people and coming generations.
sSTwo opposite and conflicting forms of So
ciety cannot, among civilized men. co-exist
and endure. The one must give way and cease
to exist. The other become universal.
ssIf free society be unnatural. immoral un-
christian, it must fall, and give way to a slave
society-a social system old as the world, uni
versal us man.
And The South Side Democrat, another pro
minent Buchanan paper, in Virginia, whose
editor was supported for Clerk of the House
of Representatives, by the Democratic mem
bers of the present Congress-T. J. D. Fuller,
of Maine, among thcm-abuscs everything
FREE after this style:
'sWe have got to hating everything with the
prefix FREE, from free negroes down and mp
through the whole catalogue-FREE farms
fREE labor, FREE society, FREE will, FREE
thinking, FREE children, and FREE schools
all belonging to the same brood of damna-
bic isms. But the worst of all these abomna-
tons is the modern system of FREE SCHOOLS
The New England system OF free schools has
been the prolific cause and source of the inf
dellties and treaSons that have turned her ci-
ties INTO Sodoms and Gomorrahs, and her land
into the common nesting places of bowling
cediamiteS. We abominate the system because
the SCHOOLS ARE FREE
The Washington Union. the National Organ
of the democratic party, says that the hon
est and heroic FREE LABORING MEN of
Kansas
care MISERABLE, BLEAR- EYED RABf
Bile, who nave been transferred like SO NJ
NY CATTLE to that country
The New York Day Book, one of the ewo
papers in New York City that support mes
Buchanan, proposes to enslave poor sERl- ,
CANS, Germans and Irish, who mayail into
poverty and be unable TO support t'ir fami-
lies. Here are the Day Books ext words in