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they are stripped by the OIigarchy Of slave
owners who command their wages. their tens,
menls' and Of course every thing. The elasl
who hold monopoly Of the soil can command
everything. He takes my life who takes the
means whereby l live.' Hence, in the South
the mOnOPOlists Of the land and black labor Of
The country although numbering but SI7, 900
out Ola population Of six millions, in virtue OF
their power over near four millions of slaves.
are absolute in all the state governments. TbeV
are the governors; the Legislators, the Judges
justices, sherids-they are all in all.
The power which combined action gives 10
the slavehOlding class over The whole South.
is welded with equal effect 10 obtain conhOl
over the south. The machine it moves there
is on large scale, and the nstumentality Of
its action visible to the least discerning eve
Every northern aspirant for the Presidency,
may be looked upon as apOwer in the hands Of
the South to meve the machine of federal gov
ernment according to its will. We instance
the experiment before our eyes. Mr. Pierce is
a candidate for re election to the Presidency
Mr.. Douglass, Mr.. Cass, Mr., Buchanan, are
hopeful rivals; each have their partizanS in the
different sections of the North: some 40 or so
thousands of office holders and dependents on
executive favor rely upon one or the other Of
these TO make them secure in their posts. 1t
is known to all theOe people that not one Of
the rivals can command a majority of the
northern vote against the other; and, indeed
against an opponent Of any other party. For
either of them, the votes of the South decides
the question Of nomination, and then the DOS.
siblity Ofelection depends absolutely upon
united southern support. The southern slave
holders, therefore, have the fate Of all these
seekers Of the Presidency, the sO-callOd dem.
ocratic party, entirely in their hands.
And here we find in what consists that which
is now vaunted 10 be the Democratic party pay
excellence. 1t is composed the ofice-holders
under the present administration, headed by
those chiefs who are looked to continue them
in office, through the united vote of the South
and the chance vote Of some northern state OBJ
tanned by plurality-ths result of the division
Of their opponents growing out Of personal
preferences or party dissensions. The demo-
cratic party, which the administration call its
own has no basis but In the oigarchy of the
South--we mightwell call it the black Oligarehy,
returning to it the aprelation which it is so
willing to give to others, because it most ap-
propria!ely 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 considered
it as the FIRST attribute of the new order Of
things established by the revolution, that it
would arrest the spread of slavery throughout
the continent, it did lead to its immediate ex-
tinction in many Of the states. and the first act
under the constitution was to exclude it from
the whole territory of the Union. The Dem
ocratic leaders Of the new order at the bidding
Of the southern nulli65rs, have broken all the
compacts and compromise designed to estab-
lish free republics in the territories from which
slavery was excluded. In doing this they
have put under foot the representative prin-
ciple; defed the will OF their immediate con.
stituents, on receiving instruction to repeal
their acts have refused to obey; and in this
have given the most striking example of an ut
ter abandonment Of the cardinal doctrine of
the democracy. The spread of Liberty, not
slavery, is its distinctive principle.
They have shown that the will Of BAT 900
Shareholders in the Southis more to them than
twenty millions of freeLsu in the North. The
leaders of this spurious democracy are but the
satraps of southern masters.
The fate which awaits people afflicted with
a democracy which grows up under a govern
ment of slave owners, may be seen in the tes-
timony which we give in the words of the most
distinguished men of tLat party, which we Ind
collated in pamphlet by Mr.. We stOn.
Mr.. Sarver. of Missouri, in paper on DO
mestic Manufactures in the south and West,
published in l847, says:
1.-The free population of the South may
be divided into two classes STAKEHOLDER
and the non-slaveholder. am not aware that
the relative number Of these two classes have
ever been ascertained many Of the states, but
I am satisfied that the non Shareholders far out
number the slavehOlders- perhaps by three TO
one. In the more southern portion Of this re-
gion the non.slaVehOlders possess, generally,
but very small means and the land which they
possess is almost universally poor. and is SO
sterile that scanty subsistence is all that can
ha dar;vad from ito cultivation. and tha more