Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-27

EI Those who contend that the Re-
publican Party are battling alone for the
elevation of the negro raee--that its
opposition to the curse-of slavery is be-
cause of morbid or natural sympathy
for that race alone--that the benefits &C
cruing from its success must rebound
solely TO the slave-are, ii seems to us,
but little acquainted either with the aims
of the party or the operations of the in
stitution of slavery. There is no fact
more patent, than that the condition of
the poor white population of the Slave
States is much more AFFECT, much more
pitiable, than that of the Slaves them
selves. Bred to look upon labor as de-
basing, because it but places them upon
the level with the human cbattels around
them, the poor white class have left to
them but limited range of occupation.
To Till their own soil, sterile as it princi-
pally is. and afording but sorry re-
turn for their labor, and having tributa-
ry to them only those mechanical and
professional pursuits in which a know
ledge of letters is imperative-and de-
barred, by the want of schools, from OBJ
taining this knowledge-they are forced,
through the combination of pride, preiu-
dice and ignorance, into state of pow
~ and degradation. even lower, in many
instances, than that of the Slave. This
state of things has caused much specu-
lation among Southern men, who have
endeavored, without interfering with their
pet institution, to find a remedy. The
more liberal minded have sought for it
in a freer and more general system of
education. And this perhaps is the only
palliative that can be applied, Ii can
never eradicate the disease, but it can and
will give relief. But there are still many
who look to another method, and horri-
BILE and startling as it appears, advocate
it boldly and ardendy-namely, to en-
slave them. This plan has been advo-
Gated time and again by the rabid slavery
propagandists Of the South, and is the
natural result of the aristocratical form
of society there existing. The man who
possesses absolute power Over. the lives and
actions of portion of his fellow beings,
will not be likely to see in the miserable
and worthless freeman, simply because he
is termed Anglo-Saxon, though his skin
may not be paler than that of his slaves,
many rights to be respected that he does
not accord to them; and it is only from
lack of power that he would not reduce
them to tie same condition. What are
now simple arguments would undoubted-
ly ere this have received practical appli-
cation, had it not have been for the large
preponderance of non slaveholding whites
in the Southern States. That the advo-
cacy Of the doctrine of enslavement for
the negro, necessarily impel men 10 look
with contempt upon their poor white
brethren-that disregard of the rights
of the negro brings with it an oblivious-
ness of the rights of whites who are in a
lower social scale, is exemplifed by the
following from the New York Day Book,
one of the most rabid ro-slavery jour
nails in the country, as well as a good
Democratic authority. 1t is but the
panacea for the poor white trash" of
the South, recommended for the "poor
white trash" Of the North. The Day
Book is speaking of a provision for the
poor and unfortunate-not of Africans,
but of Americans, Irishmen, Germans,
and of persons of all countries:
" Sell the parents of these children in
to SLAVERY. Let our Legislature pass a
law that whoever will take these parents
and take care of them and their offspring
in sickness and health-clothe them, feed
them, and house them-ShaH be legally
entitled to their services and let the same
Legislature decree that whoever receives
these parents and their children, and OBJ
tains their services, shall take care of them
as LONG AS THEY LIVE"
If, then, Slavery SO debases the lower
class OF whites-if it prevents their exal-
tation in the social scale-if il deprives
them of the benefits of education, while
it impoyerishes them-if it ieopardizes
their liberty, as with sufficient power in
the hands of the Slaveholding Oligarchy
it assuredly would. we ask if the Anti
slavery movement of the North is not
self-preservalive one-if the Republican
party of to-day is not necessity to the
poor white trash," of the South, and
the laboring classes of the North. It's
benefits are not confined to the negro,
nor its sympathies to the slave, but its
progress is the triumph of the cause OF
white labor, lis supremacy the victory