Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-10-22
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THE NEW DEMocRAT1cv DocrR11
Slavery not to be Confined to the Negro Race
but TO be Made the Universal Condition Of
the Lahoriuq Glasses of Society

yielded 10 the arrogant demands of the Slave
| Oligarchy in the South, that the latter has come
to think it can carry any measure it sees fit,
no matter how degrading it may be to the char
acter of the free trhite men of the North.
Not many years ago, the Southern slave
holders content to have their s'human
chattels" protected in the States where they
held them.
Nert. they demanded and secured fire Slave
States from acquired territory, Louisiana Flo
rida, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas,) while the
Free States have only 'sseured tpo,-Iowa and
California.
Merit, the Slave power demanded all the ter
ritories, and broke down the Missouri Com
promise, which secured part of those terri
tories to free labor.
Nerf, 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 crO,rniag, the dia6oiicai as
sumption is, that Slavery is not TO be confined
TO the NEGRO RACE, but must be made to
include laboriag 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 newspa-
pers of the so-called Democratic party, but
not generally with such boidness as in the
South. To show the exact extent and nature
of the doctrine of ensiqring WHITE MEN,
the following extracts from Buchanan papers,
and from the speeches of Buchanan men, are
given:
The Richmond Erarainer. one of the leading
Democratic papers IN Virginia, ardcntly sup
porting Mr.. Buchanan, holds the following Ian
guage in late issue:
''Until 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 oth-
er forms of Slavery to be ,crcng.
''The line of defence, ,however.is now chang
ed. The South now maintains that SIarerg is
right, natural aud necessary, cad does not de-
Pead upon difference Of compiezion The laws
of the Slave States Justify the holding of
WHITE MEN in bondage.''
The Charleston Mercury, the leading Buchaa-
paper in South Carolina, says:
'sSavery is the natural and normal condi-
tion of the fG6oring man, whether WHITE or
6iach. The great evil OF Northern free socie-
ty is, that it is burdened with a serriie class of
MECHANICS and LAB0RERS, unfit for self
gocerRhneRt, and yet clothed with the attributes
and powers of citizens. Master and slave is
relation in society necessary as that of pa
rent and child and the Northern States will
yet have to introduce it. Their theory of free
government is delusion.''
There's ''DemocTatic'' doctrine for you with
vengeance; sour theory of free government
dcluSiOn, ,''-''iaboring men, whether lchite or
black, to be slaves?'' Verify, matters are COM
ing to a pretty pass with us.
The Richmond CVa.) Enquirer, Mr.. Buchan-
ans confidential organ, and considered by the
democratic" party as its ablest paper in the
South, speaks as follows in recent number:
''RepeatcdIy have we asked the North. ehas
not the experiment of universal liberty FAIL
Ed! Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY
INSGFFERABLE? And do not most think
ing men among you propose TO subrerf and re-
construct 1T q Still no answer. This gloomy
silence is another conclusive proof. added to
many other conclusive evidences we have fur |
n;shed, that free society, in the long run, is an
lmpracticable form Of society; it is every
where starving, demorali,ed, and insurrection-
arg.
''We repeat, then, that policy and humanity |
alike forbid the ertension of the erils of free |
sOcie'y to new people and coming generations |
'sTwo opposite and conflicting forms of So
ciety cannot, among civilized men, co-exist |
andendure. The one must give way and cease
to exist. The other become universal
elf frna Snciptv no i,nnatural in,,nnroI nm
christian, it must fall, and give way to slave
society," social system old as the world, uni |
versal as man.
And the South Side Democrat, another pro-
mincnt Buchanan paper, in Virginia, whose i
editor was supported for Clerk of the House
of Representatives, by the Democratic men,
bers OF the present Congress-T. J. D. Fuller,
of Maine, among them-abuses everything
FREE after this style:
''We have got to hating everything with the
prefix FREE, from free negroes down and up
through the whole catalogue-FREE farms.
FREE labor, FREE society, FREE will, FREE
FREE children, and FREE schools |
ali belonging to the same brood of damna-
bic isms. But the worst of all these abomina-
tions is the modern system of FREE SCHOOLS.
The New England system of free schools has
been the prolific cause and source of the inf
delities and treasons that have turned her ci-
ties into Sodoms and Gomorrahs. and her land
into the common nestling-places of bowling
bedlamites. We ahominate 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 RAB-