Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-10-08
shall OWN THEM AS LONG AS THEY

4 ne hiclinOHu f<HqfttTt'. Vi a WY iSStH'
date, contains the following very shigh' opin-
ion of the people of the North;
..We can bring the capital employed in
manufactures, and most of il employed in COM
merce, South, when we please. We can trans
fer Manchester, and Birmingham and Lowell
to the South, and thus In single year, quad-s
ruplc the wealth of the South. But we would
not have your rich, UulgGr, Heenii0us bosses,
and your brutal, ignorant and iRSubOrdiHdie fac
tory hands in our midst, for all the wealth of
s'Ormus and of Ind" We are as rich as we
care to be. We would not exchange our situ-
alton for the vulgar senSuality and brutality Of
the ..aoure0ur riches,'' the coarse parvenues,
the millionaire cotton factors and groccrs oil
the North of England. much less for the
countless millions Of pGupers and criminals, Icho
iff up and sustain The c2tcarify, selfish, sensual,
iiceHtiOus, infiei, GgTGyida, Gnd revolutionary
edYics Of free sociefy-"
The Muscogee, Alabama, Herald, an enthu-
siasiic Buchanan paper, delivers itself as fol-
lows:
ssFree society, we siclen at the name
What is it but conglomeratiou of GREASY
MECHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES,
SMALL FISTED FARMERSand MOON STRUCK
THEORISTS? All the Northern and especially
the New England StateS-arc devoid of society
fitted for weil-bred gentlemen. The prevail
ing class one meets with is that OF mechanics
struggling 10 be genteel, and small farmers do
ing their own drudgery; and who are not fit
for association with q Southern gentleman's
Higgcr) body-scrvant. This is your free So
ciely which the Northern hounds are endeav-
oring to extend into Kansas
So much for extracts from democratic
newspapers. Now for fcw from Democratic
speeches:
S. W. Downs, late Democratic Senator from
Louisiana, in an elaborate and carefully pre-
pared speech, published in the Washington
Globe, says:
81 call upon the opponents of Slavery to
prove that the WHITE LABORERS of the
North are as happy, as contcnted, or as COM
Portable, rs the Stcres of the South. In the
South the slaves do not suffer one-tcnth the
evils endured by the white labOrerS of the
North. Poverty is unknown to the Southern
slave; for as soon as the master Of slaves be-
comes too poor to provide for them, he SELLS
them 10 others, who can take care Of them
This. sir, is one Of the cXceilencies of the sys-
tenn Of slavery, and this the superior condi-
tiou of the Southern slave over the Northern
WHITE laborcr."
According TO Mr.. Downs, then, (gool DEM
ocratic authority,) all that the Northern white
iaborer requires is somebody to sell him when
lie fails into poverty. Admirable philanthro-
py Beautiful democracyli
Senator Clemens, of Alabama, declared in a
speech in the L. S. Senate, that
'.The operatives Of New England were not
as we'll situated nor comfortably Off as the
slaves that cultivate the rice and cotton fields
OF the SJuth.''
In recent speech by Mr. Reynolds, Pierce
Buchanan Democratic candidate for Congress
from Missouri, that gentleman distinctly as
serted that
ment in excluding foreign-born citizens-Ger-
ingH and Irish lceU as sfgEerS.
Here Missouri Democrat classes German
aad Aisk indiscriminately with Negro slares
Mr.. l. II. Goode, another Atchison Demo-
crat of Missouri, in recent speech against the
Free State men of Kansas, denounced the la
t9rtng men as ssWHITE SLAVES!o
Senator Butler, (the uncle OF .sAssassin''
Brooks,) a shining light in the Democratic ga
laxy, declared in a speech in the UnitedStatcs
Senate this session.
':That men have NO RIGHT TO VOTE un-
less they are possessed Of property, as required
BY the Constitution OF S0ah CnOiaG There
no man can VOTE unless he owns TEN Ne
GROES, or real estate to the value of Ten
Thousand Dollars.
And tins is the doctrine democracy So
called, would introduce into Pennsylvania
JAMES BUCHANAN, 1.-The Presidential can
didate Of the men and of the party who hold
these odious views, advocated the doctrine of
reducing the WAGES of AMERICAN OPE-
RATIVES and IABORERS TO the European
standard, which is known to be about TEN
CENTS \ DAY. What fit candidate Mr.. Bu
chanan is for those who would make WHITE Z
MEN slaves! 4
JOHN c. FREMONT, the true Reppolican I
ana true Democrat, who has worked his own |
way from poverty to greatness, Ifys very |
high tribute to the dignity of FP11E LABOR,
and yet his enemies have thc.neanness to as
sert that he is aslave-holdf. Col. Fremont
never owned dollar in 1sinan flesh.
Mechanics, ,Laborers, ,fvorkingmen of allclas-
ses, read the following extract from Col. Ere
mont's letter of Acceptance, and then say
whether you will te oSlave ora FREEMAN:
GREE LABOR, ,4the natural capital which
constitutes the rcs wealth of this great conn
try, and creates hat intelligent power in the
masses, alone toe relied on the bulwarf OF I
FREE 1NSTTo TI0NS."
JOHN c. h'EMONT is the Representative
and Advoo~e of the extension of FREE La
ROR.
JAMP BUCHANAN is the Representa-
tive ar Advocate of the extension of SLAVE
LARR.
IfEEMEN OF PENNSYLE.4NI.4! For
wsch viii You east your votes ?
We perceive by the Boston Posi- of the 3Oth
hat the Ruchap,p (,I,L r r. ~