The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-11-04
What tEac Southern Wing of
TEhe National I'D cmOcracy
Think of Free White La

boring Mem.
We publish extracts from the leading
National Democratic papers at the south,
in which they speak the unvarnished SEN
timcnts of that party in regard to the free
white laboring men of the country. Such
papers as the Republican, and Leader,
are in full communion with the papers
from which we quote, but dare not open
" express their sentiments. They, how
ever, advocate all the measures supported
by their southern allies, with the intention
of reducing white men to the condition of
white slaves
WHITE SLAVERY. - The Richmond
Enquirer, leading Buchanan paper in
Virginia, uses the following language:
"Until recently, the defense Of slavery
has labored under great difficulties, be-
cause its apologists (for they were merely
apologists) took halfway grounds. They
confined the defense Of slavery to mere ne
gro slavery, thereby giving up the princi-
pie admitting other forms of slavery to be
wrong.
"The line of defense, however is now
changed. The south now maintains
that slavery is right natural and necessary
and does not depend upon the difference
of complexion. The laws of the slave
states justify the holding of men in bon
dage"
Again leading South Carolina Buch-
anan paper says:
"Slavery is tho natural and normal
condition of the laboring man, whether
white OF black. The great evil of north
ern free society is, that it is burdened
with servile class of mechanics and Ia
borers, unit for self government, and yet
clothed with tie attributes and powers of
citizens. Master and slave is q relation
in society as natural and necessary as
that of parent and child; and the northern
states will yet have to introduce it."
ave repeat, then, that policy and hu-
manly alike forbid the extension of the
evils of the free society to new people
and coming generations.
1.-TWO opposite and conflicting forms of
society cannot, among civilized men, CO.
exist and endure. The ono must give way
and cease to exist, the other become uni
vcrsal. If free society be unnatural, i'm
mortal, unchristian, it must fall and give
way to slave society-a system old as
the world, universal as man."
The Muscogee (Ala.) Herald, another
valiant Buchanan organ, says:
"Free society! we sicken at the name.
What is it but q conglomeration of greasy
mechanics, filthy operatives, smaIl-fsted
farmers, and moon-struck theorists? All
the northern and especially the New
England states are devoid of society fitted
for well-bred gentleman. The prevailing
class one meets with is that of mechanics
struggling to be gentocl, and small farm
ers who do their own drudgery, and yet
who are hardly fit for association with a
southern centleman's body servant. This
is your free society which the northern
hordes are endeavoring to extend into
Kansas"
The Richmond (Va.) Examiner, an
other Buchanan paper, uses the following
language:
1--WE have got to hating everything
with the prefix free, from free negroes
down and up through the whole catalo-
gue-free farms, free labor, free society,
free will, free thinking, free children, and
free school all belonging to the same
brood of damnable isms. But the worst
of all denominations is the modern system
of free schools, which has been the cause
and prolific source of the midelity and
treasons that have turned her cities into
Sodoms and Gomorrahs, and her land in
to the nesting places of bowling Bedlam-
ties. We abominate the system be-
canse the schools are free"
The Richmond Enquirer, on another
occasion, used the following language:
Repeatedly we have asked the north,
Has not the experiment of universal lib.
erty failed? Are not the evils of free So
ciety insufferable? and do not most think
ing men among you propose to subvert
and reconstruct it?' Still no answer
This gloomy silence is another convulsive
proof, added to many other convulsive ev-
licences we have furnished, that free socie-
ty in tho long run is an impracticable
form of society; it is ever starving, demon
allied, and insurrectonary.
Again Mr.. Downs, late Democratic
Senator from louisiana, in a speech pub
lished 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 contented, or as
comfortable, as tho slaves of the SOUTH
In the south, the slaves do not suffer one
tenth of the evils endured by the white
laborers of the north. Poverty is unknown
to the southern slave, for as soon as the
master OF tho slaves becomes too poor to
provide for them, he sells them to others
who can take caro- of them. This, sir, is
one of the exellencies of the system of
slavery, and this is the superior condition