Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-08-21
T. o. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
TOWANDA:
ehrrsoap tflorninn, Ansnst 81. 1856.


r,IIic,nisu and Abolitonism are and the same
They both 20 for free niggers II their doctrines
th'ns s-iai ont We would soon have the whole North
"'r rritb niggers driving white lahorers out of
,i. and filling up our Poor Houses and Prisons
We cut the above beautiful paragraph from
,bc Eastou Argus. Our friend HUTTER is be
roming badly soiled with the CRIME of nigger-
,Iriyipg He knows that the assertions he here
makes are unquafedly false, for no man should
rror hctter than himself the true issues at
stake He has been to Kansas, and has some
rcrsonaI knowledge of border ruf1ianism, and
,be designs of those who are determined to
force Slavery upon that Territory. He once
,bopght of establishing press in Kansas.
What deferred him Fortunately for him
he did not do so, or his materials would have
shared the fate of the HeroM of Freedom.
Friend HrTrFR, you understand perfectly
we'll that Rcpublicanism and Abolitionism are
not one and the same thing You know that
Rrnu}cansm goes for free white men. Did
not the frcc-statc men in Kansas vote to eX
rulc negroes, free or slave, from that Terrific
~ by large majority? The Republican par
" seeks to keep the poor white labOrer free,
and does not believe in the Democratic doc
trinc. as promulgated by the RichmOnd En-
rrlrr, that slavery is the natural condition of
the poor. without regard to color.
L.. +bo SIoro S+ntoc tbot fhn Dnuro
ic.radcs labor, and drives white laborerS out
o' employment filling poor-houses and prisons.
Tbe>aye-holder, who is used to driving negroes,
will not employ white laborcrS, whom he looks
upon as below the negro The Slave States
contain four times as many free negroes as the
Free States. They keep the white laborer in
destitute condition, degraded, abect and ser
yIe, because he is lorded over by the barons
Of the land and deprived of the privileges
which should be the birth-right of every free
man
The Republican party is the White Mans
party. 1t would keep the soil of our Free
Territories free from the polluting tread of
slavery 1t would secure for the white man,
and for him alone, the territory of the nation.
It seeks to elevate the condition of the White
Ia5orer, by opening to him the enjoyment of
a! those privileges guaranteed by our Consti-
~ton but which in many instances, slavery
deems it necessary to curtal.
It is in the Southern States that the place
which should be filled by white labor is occu-
pied by negroes. Why is it that our mechan-
les and our laborers do not 90 South Simp-
Ebccause negroes have crowded out white la
bor in nearly every branch of industry. In
Tie cities particularly, the man who owns half
dozen slaves, derives an income from their
labor and looks down with contempt upon the
White man who earns his bread by the sweat
bis brow. lie owns, perhaps, slave who
Ea >hlIIfnI carpenter drayman, blacksmith,
awaltcr or in some other branch of industry
SHRED out at good wages per week, all of
Winch goes into the pocket of the master,
While small pttance is returned to the slave
\ upon which to suhsist. What prospect for
White mechanics
Establish slavery in Pennsylvania, and how
'24g before similar state of things would ex
~ Slave labor would not be profitable to
''y great extent in tlling the soil, but the
'"a'nS Of negroes for Southern market would
~% profitable here, as among the +. +. VS.
4 Virginia. But the man who had the means
"'0I half dozen slaves instructed i'll trades,
''uH be IN possession of fine income by
...'s them ont, without day. labor himself
wat would be the effect upon white labOrers
4 -a mechanics, Mr.. Argus? And yet that
NDe consnmmation to which the Democratic
1 .".! Is Inevitably and rapidly drifting.
4 'nce successful in the scheme to extend
/ aver! INTO the misunderstanding crushed
a. me last remains of Freedom at the North,
4 next demand of slavery will be, that the
S"Iu'ioh secures them the same rights in
>!'ania they enjoy at home. How much
s'a'vr encroachment upon State Rights ould
A ~" al assertion be- than the strides in that
4 ''''on slavery has made within the last two
'aN?