Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-05-13

III results from the concert produced among
the masters by their common interest in an in
stitution which can only stand by force of arti-
hcIal means The slaves themselves and the
non shareholders are. individuals, naturally
against it: this makes it necessary that the
slave owners should become phalanx-an ed
ucated, disciplined army, to sustain by political
intrigue and united force all attacks against if.
There is one all-absorbing influence among its
enemies to combine adversaries in opposition-
The consequence is that the 341 900 masters
forever animated by the same instinct can al
ways vanquish partial and disultory opposition,
as standing armies IN absolute Governments
Keep millions of people in subjugation. The
monopoly which nearly 1000 600 of black men
gave to the united authority which commands
them, makes it impossible that any single-hand-
ed competitor in the field of labor can in cult
vating 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, twenty
and thirty, and hundreds of slaves in companies.
The owners of slaves command the markets;
they put down individual competitors they
buy out the little plantations which IL the ear
lier settlements surround them and, in the end,
the rich lands all become the domains of rich
planters. Hence we see in the older Southern
States the poorer classes either tenants at
will or banished to the poor land of the hills,
take to the life of idlers 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 oigarchy
of Slave-owners, who command their wages,
their tenements, and, of course, verything.-
The class who hold a monopoly of the soil can
cammand everything. "He takes my life who
takes the means whereby live" Hence in the
South, the monopolsts of the land and black
labor of the country, although numbering but
BAT 900 out of population of 6,00O00O in virtue
OF their power over near four millions of slaves,
absolute in all the State Governments
They are the Governors, the Judges, Justices,
Sheriffs; they all In all.
The power which combined action gives to
the slaveholding class over the whole South is
welded with equal effect to obtain control over
the North. The machine it moves there is on
large scale, and the instrumentality of it's ac-
ton visible to the least discerning eye. Every
northern Gspirant for the Presidency may be
looked upon power in the hands of the
South, TO move the machine of the Federal Gov
ernment according to its will. We instance the
experiment before eyes Mr.. Pierce Is
candidate for reelection 10 the Presidency; Mr.
Douglas. Mr.. Cass, Mr. buchanan, hopeful
rivals; each have their partisans III the different
sections of the North; some forty or fifty thol-
sand Office holders and dependents executive
favor rely upon the other Of these to
mall l-e tbaTu in their II < known
to all these people that not one of the rivals can
command majority of the Northern vote against
the other; nor, indeed, against opponent of
any other party. For either of them, the votes
of the South decide the question of nomination;
and then the possibility of election depends ab
solutely upon a united Southern support The
Southern Shareholders therefore have the fate
of all these seekers of the Presidency, of the so
called Democratic party, entirely i'll their hands
And here find in what consists that which
is now wanted to be the Democratic party par
ercellencc 1t is composed of the offce-holders
under the present Administration, headed by
those chiefs who are looked to to continue them
in Office through the united vote of the South,
and the chance vote of some Northern State, OBJ
tanned by plurality-the result of the division
of their opponents, growing out of personal pre-
ferences or party dissensons. The Democratic
party which the Administration calls its own,
has 10 basis but the oligarchy of the South-we
might call it the BLACK oLIGARcHY, returning to
it the appellation which it is so willing TO give
to others, because ii most appropriately belongs
to itself. Tie leaders of this party III the North
have proved themselves entirely worthy of Its
confidence by abandoning every principle of de-
mocracy 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 Revoiu-
tion, that it would arrest the spread OF Slavery
throughout the continent. 1t did lead to It's IN
mediate extinction in many of the States, and
the first act under the Constitution was to ex-
clude it from the whole territory of the Union.
The Democratic leaders of the new order, at the
bidding of the Southern nulllfiers, have broken
all the compacts and compromises designed to
establish Free Republics in the territories from
which Slavery WAS excluded. In doing this
thev have put under foot the representative prin-
eigle; defied the will of their immediate COM
stituents; on receiving instructions to repeal
their acts have refused to obey; and in thi. have
given the most striking example Of al utter
abandonment of the cardinal doctrine Of democ-
racy The spread Of liberty, not slavery is lts
distinctive principle.
They have shown that the viii of BAT, 1000
slaveowners IN the South is more to them than
that of twenty millions of freeman in TIE North
The leaders of this spuriou. Democracy are but
the satraps Of Southern masters.
The fate which awaits people afflicted with
a Democracy which grows up under the govern
ment of slayeowners, may be seen In the te.ti-
nony Which we gave in the word. of the most
distinguished men Of the party, Which we ind
collected in pamphlet By &r Weston.
Mr. Sarver of Missouri in paper Do
mestic Manufactures in the South and West,
pu blished in 1647, says:
1.-The Free population of the South may be
divided into two cla.-es-the STAKEHOLDER and
non n-slav eholder / am not aware that the reia-
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