Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-19

less unlike than their climate and productions.
Following the indications of nature herself, these
TWO sections have adopted social arrangements,
suited to their different latitudes, and calculated for
their own meridians, but which are also irreconcil.
able in their features, and hostile in their tenden.
cies. Free labor was substituted in the Northern
states where Slavery proved expensive, and now
forms the basis Of their Industrial force, while
Slave labor has only been impressed, in holder
profile, upon the very soil Of the South, and now
marks with q line, far broader thai her mountains,
the peculiar distiction Of her social system. An
thgonistic in their interests, the labor of the North
seeks to eSpel tue labor Of the South, that it may
enjoy tho comfort Of more renumerating prices
and find new Fields of Of more varied and extern.
sive employment. Consequent to this, rs the civil
polity OF n country will always adapt itself to the
local circumstances Of the people, the political
characters Of these two sections are equallJ as dis
similar and opposed MS their social relations. The
Free States Of the North are Democracies, rioting
in the excuses of an indiscriminate Freedom
~prodigals in Liberty, but bankrupts in Law-where
labor is elevated to political power, and enjoys the
same political privileges with the capital that en-
rloys il. Rivals in every feeling of interest and
hope, and brought into constant and angry COM
petition Mt the ballot-box, the very foundations of
society are rocked by the clash, and the ~propriety
Of government itself disturbed by the throes Of
this hitherto unknown element. History furnishes
no example of n Republic, in which the mere op-
NAhNif u Il llllD
wealth--has ever been elevated to the same polit-
ical level with its intelligence and capital. The
iielots and the Seryi of the ancient Republics en-
joped no civil power-the villcins and the bond
men of the fcudal ages possessed no political fran
chise-the apprentices Of no modern nation are
admitted to the rank of a citizen, and no State can
hope to preserve her integrity that opens her bosom
to such discordant forces. The Southern States, on
the contrary, are republics, dwelling under a
balanced system of regulated freedom, where labor
is not arrayed with hostile front to capital, nor
armed power to reyolutionize the State; but where,
while the natural rights of each party are secured
by law, the concord of mutual dependence and re-
.ciprocal interest establishes sympathy between
these apparent rivals, and ensures to the engines
of government the strength of proportion and
harmony of action. And we'll would it be for
our Northern brethren if they would cease their
vain and short-lived subterfuge of creating a tenn.
porary diversion in their own favor at home, by
turning against us under the affected plea of phi
%lanthropy that impetuous tide of popular discon-
tent, which must escape by some vent, and strike
from their system that cruel custom by which the
employer cuts from the employee the pound of
flesh for the work in the bond, and when the
muscles fail, gives Ger the man to starve-"food
so dear, and human life so cheap"-and instead
of this cold and heartless scheme, that builds
their palaces, out strews their land with beggary
and rags, establish some practical system of joint
dependence and mutual obligation, by which
capital will be made to feel a personal and immo-
date interest in the welfare of labor-exchange
bread for suffrage, daily comfort for Utopian
thoughts, and the necessaries of life for imaginary
sceptres.
We do not know who this al. L. PINcKNEY, Jr.,
Esq )" is, and should, therefore, not have repub-
llshed the above extract from his speech, if we
had not thought that they are more generally
entertained. at the South than our readees may sup
pose,
South Carolina politicians are the leaders of the
slavery party in the South. They first had the
boldness to defend the peculiar institution" as
good In itselt-the corner stones of our republican
government, and the conservative element of
American society. They have recently advocated
the re-opening of the African slave trade, q traffic
the most infamous mankind has ever engaged in
and which the most civilized nations of the world
have agreed to punish as piracy, This last emana.
ton from the ~seething abyss IF South Carolina pol
itics is morei INDUSTRIOUS thar any which have pre-
coded 1t, and could not have came with SO much
propriety from any other quarter. In what other
community could an%'orator, On such an occasion
gravely advise a free people to voluntarily yield
themselves up to slavery, or propose to the rich and
powerful in the most prosperous common wealths,
in the world that they should make slaves of the
mechanics and laboring men and deprive them of
all political rights and privileges-where else than
in slayery-ridden South Carolina, we ask could such
a proposition be gravely made to an intelligent
audience without eliciting some signs of d~isappro-
baton and disgust?
South Carolina has a free population of ga, 567
persons-of whom Is, $50 are slave holders, own
ing 384, 9S4 slaves. VIM. GREGG said, in an adj
dress delivered in 1851, before the South Carolina
Institute, that from the best estimates he had been
able to make, he "put Town the white people of
South Carolina, who ought to work and who do
not, or who are so employed as to be wholly unpro-
ductiye to the State, at one hundred and twenty
five thousand" 0 rnearly one,half the entire white
population. Gov. HAMMOND, in an address before
the South Carolina Institute in 1850, describes
these poor whites as follows:
They obtain q precarious subsistence by occa-
sional jobs, by hunting, by fishing, by plundering
fields or folds, and too Often by what is in its effects
far worse-trading with slaves, and seducing them
to plumber for their benefit"
Such a description would not apply to the thou
sandth part of the population of any non-slavehold-
ing State, yet, as we here see, the Governor of South
applies it to one-half Of the white people
of his State. The balanced system of regulated
freedom. which Mr.. PiNCKNEY thinks they have in
South Carolina, notwithstanding his panegyric,
does not produce results which will excite the envy
of any wise community. The poor white popula-
ton of Georgia, another of Mr.. PiNcKNEY's RE
publics, dwelling undera balanced system of regu-
lated freedom" are described by the Hon. j. Ii.
LuNPKIN, of that State, as degraded, halffed,
half-clothed and ignorant, without Sabbath schools
or any other kind of instruction, mental or moral"
IL such be the condition of poor white men under
Mr.. PINCKNEy's balanced system of regulated
we think our laboring people will still
prefer the system of Free States, those "Democra-
rioting in the excuses of an indiscriminate
freedom-prodigals in Liberty, but bankrupts in
labor is elevated to political power,
and enjoys the same political privileges with the
that employs it."
From the Free Presbyterian.