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as standing armies in absolute governments
Keep millions of people in subsection. The
monopoly which near four millors of black
men give the united authority which com
mahds them, makes it impossible that any
slhgle-handcd competitor in the field of labor
can, IN cultivating the products of the soil ,
enter the market with the staples of the South
on equal footing with men who WELD the force
OF ten,ltwenty and thirty, aud hundreds of
slaves in companies. The owners of slaves
command the markets-thcy put down indi-
vidual compettors-they buy out the little
plantations which in the earlier settlements
surround them, and in the end, the lands all
become the domains of rich planters Hence
we see in the older Southern States the
poorer classes are either tenants at will
or, banishcd to the poor land of the hills,
take the life of oilers, hunters or fishermen;
or, at best, the more Industrious among them
become day-laborers, living from hand to
mouth--in word, they are stripped by the
oligdrchy Of slave-owners, who command
their wages, their tenements, and Of course
everything. The class who hold monopoly
of the soil can command everything = lie
takes my life who takes the means whereby
| live Hence, in the South the monopo-
lists Of the land and black labor of the coun-
try, although numbering but 347 900 out of
power over near four millions of slaves, are
absolute in all the State governments. They
are the governors, the legislators, the judges,
justices, shertfs-they are all in all.
The power which combined action gives
to the slaveholding class over the South, is
welded with equal effect to obtain control
over the North. The machine it moves there
is on a large scale, and the instrumentality
OF its action visible to the least discerning eve.
Every Northern aspirant for the Presidency
may be looked upon MS powerin thehands OF
the South, to move the machine Of the federal
government according to its will. We instance
the experiment before our eyes. Mr. Pierce is
a candidate for reelection to the Presidency :;
Mr. Douglas, Mr.. Cass, Mr.. Buchanan, are
hopeful rivals; each has his partizans in
the different sections of the NORTH some
forty or iitty thousand Office holders and de.
pendents on executive favor rely upon one or
the other of these, to make them secure in
their posts. 1t is known to all these people
that not one of the rivals can command ma
lority of the Northern vote against the other;
nor, indeed, against an opponent of any
other party For either of them, the vote Of
the South decides the question of nomina-
ton and then the possibility of election de-
ponds absolutely upon the united South
ern support The Southern Shareholders,
OF the Presidency, of the socalled Democratic
party, entirely in their hands
And here we find in what consists that
winch Is now Wanted to be the Democratic
Party par erecHenc'. 1t is com posed of the
ottce-holders under the present udminstra
ton, headed by those chiefs who are looked
to continue them in Office, through the unit
cd votes of the South, and the chance vote
oil some Northern State. obtained by plurality
the result OF the division of their oppo-
nents, growing out Of personal preferences or
party discussions. The Democratic Party,
which the administration calls its own. has
no basis but in the oligarchy Of tie South
we might call it the BLACK oLIGARCIIY, return.
lns it the appellation which it is so willing
to give to others, because it most appropri-
ately belongs to itself. The leaders of this
party IN the North have proved themselves
entirely worthy Of its confidence by abandon
ing every principle OF Democracy once their
boast. They have abandoned the principles
OF the fathers of the Republic, who consider
ed 1t was the first attribute of the new order
OF things established by the Revolution, that
1t would arrest the spread Of Slavery through |
out the Continent it did lead to its i'm. |
extinction in many of the States,
and the first act under the Constitution was
to exclude it from the whole territory of the
| mon. The Democratic leaders of the new
order, at the bidding Of the Southern Null |
liers, have broken all the compacts and /
designed to establish free Re |
publlcs In the territories from which Slavery .
was excluded. In doing this they have put |
under foot the representative principle, de-
fed the will Of their immediate constituents
on receiving instructions to repeal their acts
have refused to obey and in this have given
the most striking example Of an utter uban-
donment of the cardinal doctrine Of the De-
mocracy. The spread of Liberty. not Slavery, |
Is It's distinctive principle.
They have shown that the will of 3l7 600 /
Slave owners in the South is more to them
then that OF twenty millions of freemen in the .
North. The leaders Of this spurious Demo-
eracy are but the satrnps of Southern masters.
Inc late which awaits people afflicted |
with Democracy which grows up under the
government Of Slave owners, may be seen in
the testimony which we give in the words of
the most distinguished men of that party,
which we fined collated in a pamphlet 6y .
Mr.. Weston.
Mr. Sarver, of Missouri in paper on "Do-
nestle Manufactures in the South and West"
published in lS47, says:
"The FREQ population of the South may be divided
INTO TWO claSses-the Stakeholder and the Nom
>iaNeholder. am not aware that the relative num-
'crs OF these two classes have ever been
n any of the States, but satisfied that the Non
9laVehoiders far out-numbcr the Slavcholiers-pcr.
IsPs by three TO one In the moro southern portion
u TINS region the Non-Saveholders possess rener |
N.Y. hut very small means and the land which thew
possess most universally poor and so sterile that
scanty subsistence is all that be derived from
It's cultivation; and the more fertile soil heinz in
Inc possession Of the Stakeholder, must ever remain
out oil the power of those who have none
Inns state OF things is great drawback, and
e noaVlIy upon and depresses the moral energies
respectable position in the scale Of wealth anpcors
=" dllllcut, that they decline the hopeless pursuit
ma many of them settle down into habit, Of idlenoss
ma become the almost passive subjects Of all in COM
eauences' And lament to say that have observ-
4 oil late years that evident deterioration j. Ink
nS place In this part of the population the younpcr
loiton of it being less educated less industrious
ma IN every point Of view less respectable than
heir ancestors"
In the January No, 1850, of DeBow's Re-
view, in an article on manufactures in south
Carolina" we have an exhibition of the fears
entertained of bringing together masses of
southern white population,
wen ior manufacturing purposes:
80 long a. these poor industrious people couId
zee no mode ct living except by degraded opera.
Ion 81 work with the negro upon the plantation.
hey were content to endure life in its most AZ
ouiaging forms. satisfied that they were ol,r, tho
AVE- though iarng often worse than he But the
Togrc'' of the world is Onward and tbou.b in
ONE section, 1t is slow, sti 1t is ouuord' and tho
Understand that they have rights and that they Too
nc ehtltIed to some Of the synpathy which falls |
pon the suffering They NO fast learning tbat
mere j.. an almost infinite world of industry openin
olYIG 'heln' ny which they can elevate themselves
hi thelr families from wretcho dness and Ignorance
D competence and intelligence n, nm, or,,, ,n |
'iV"2 our ass"' that IRE haze 10 fsqr 80 lar a, or
isiHuti2nS are copcuHsd.n