Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
From the Hartford Courantl
Something for the Mechanics and
Iaborers to Think About.

U Ihere really appears, on the part OF tn
South, fixed and settled determination t.
, degrade labor. The leaders of this littl,
oligarchy of masters have SO long been in tn,
= habit of living upon the results of unrequit-
i ed labor, and of feeling the aristocratica
: elevation which the relation between owner
t and slave gives them, that they transfer tc
: every description of physical labor the de-
gradation which they attach to the condition
of their human chattels.
This feeling of the inferiority of the labor
ing class transferred to ,chite men as well as
negroes, and the Buchanan papers at the
South begin openly to proclaim i. as the
true doctrines of American society! The
Richmond enquirer, an ardent Buchanan
paper of Virginia, thus speaks on this
topic:
Until recently, the defence Of slavery
has labored under great difficulties, because
its apologists, (for they were mere apollo
gsts) took half way grounds. They con-
fined the defence of slavery to mere negro
slavery; thereby giving up the slavery prin-
cipte. admitting ether forms of slavery to be
urong.
The line of defence, however, is now
changed. The South maintains that slavery
IS right, natural and necessary, and does not
def end upon difference of COMPLEXION
The laws of the Slave States justify the
holding of WHITE MEN in bondaoe.''
A Buchanan paper olSouth Carolina thus
expresses itself:
"Slavery is the natural and normal condi-
ton OF the Laboring man, whether WHITE
or black The great evil of Northern free
society is, that it il burdened with serrile
class Of MECHANICS and LABORERS,
untt for self government, and yet clothed
with the attributes and powers Of citizens
Master and slave is relation in society as
necessary as that of parent and child; and
the Northern States will yet have to intro
duce 1t. Their theory of free government
is delusion.'
How do on: "Mechanics and Laborers'
reilsh such doctrine! Are they willing to
spread such tenets over Kansas and its con-
tiguous territory, which must and will be
done, ii Buchanan is elected PRESIDENT
are they willing that such shall be the con-
dltlon OF the North unter the say of the
slave power! Yet such will be .he results
OF triumph gained by the South in this
coming presidential contest. "Mechanics
and laborers!' Will you not rather join
the ranks of the advocates of Free Labor
and Fremontl
Hear what the Richmond E 9uirer says.
1t is well known not only as the LEADING
Buchanan paper of Virginia but of the whole
South. Hear its ideas ofthe state of society
supported by free labor.
"Repeatedly have we asked the North,
Has not the experiment OF universal liberty
FAILED! Are not the evils Of FREE
SOCIETY INSUFFERABLE And do
not most tn linking men among you propose
to subvert anG reconstruct it!' Still no an
swer. This gloomy silence is another con-
elusive proof, added to many other conclu-
sive evidences we have furnished, that free
society in the long run is an impracticable
form of soc ety; it is everywhere starving,
denaoralized and discretionary.
We repeat, then, that policy and humanity
alike forbid the ertension Of the euils of free
society to new people and coming genera
tiens.
Two opposite and conflicting forms of
society cannot, among ,,civilzed men, co-ex-
list and endure. The one must give away |
and cease to exist-the other become uni
versal.
If free society be unnatural, immoral and
unchristian, it must fall, and give away to
slave society-a social sy stem old as the
world. universal as man.
The South Side Democrat, another Buch-
anaD paper OF Virginia, whose editor was
the Buchanan candidate for Clerk of the
House in Washington thus spits out his
hatred of everything free.
"We have got to hating everything with
the prefix FREE, from free negroes down
and up through the whole catologue-FREE
farms, FREE labor. FREE society, FREE
will, FREE thinking FREE children and
FREE schools-all belonging to the same
blood of damnable iSms. But the worst ofall
these denominations is the modern system of
FREE 81 CHOOLS. The New England sys-
TEN of free schools has been the cause and
prolific source of the infdelities and treason
that have turned her cities into Sodoms
and Gomorrahs, and her land into the COM
mon nesting places OF bowling Bedlamites.
We abominate the system, because the
SCHOOLS ARE FREE"
Lovers of freedom do you hear this South
ern-this Buchanan--dcctrine!
The Muscogee Herald, Buchanan paper
Of Alabama, sings the same tune:
"Free Society we sicken of the name
What is it but a conglomeration of
GREASY MECHANICS, FILTHY OP-
ERATIVES, SMALL FISTED FARMS
ERS and moon struck THEORISTS! All
the Northern.& cspe cally the New England
States are devoid of society fitted for we'll
bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one
meets with is that of mechanics struggling
to be genteel, and small farmers who do
their own drudgery; and yet who are hardly
fiji for association with gentleman's body
servant. This is your free society which
the Northern hordes are endeavoring to ex-
tend into Kansas
The Irish are placed in the same scale
with NEGROES bv these Southern haters of
of freedom. The Charleston Is. c. Stand
ard thus speaks o. the murder of Heating,
by Herbert:
"If WHITE MEN accept the offices of men,
ins, it should be expected that they will do
SO with an apprehension of their relation to
society, and the disposition quietly to en-
counter both the responsibilities and liabili-
ties which the relation imposes"
In the same strain, the Alabama Mail
goes on:
alt is getting time that walters at the
North were convinced that they are servants,
and not gentlemen in disguise. We hope
this Herbert affair will teach them prudence
Buchanan orators advanced the same opin-
ions respecting the degradation Of labor
Ex-senator Downs OF Louisiana thus speaks:
al call upon the opponents of slavery to
prove that the white laborers of the North
are as happy, as contented, or as comfort