The true Democrat., 1857-03-17
Monarchy vs. Democracy.

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 '7re by when even British tories, or the mos
 T;,ntei of the monarchicsl school, dare openly
 fnndisguisedly trust their cause to argument
 or rresume to appeal to reason as an arbtrer
 ,.to,een monarchy and democracy. That a
 .,,iitical system or condition which singles out
 l.;rsle family as something divine and de-
 .n5st sthat millions of beings to whom the AL
 .,btv has given the same nature and the same
 If7,IGes shall prostrate themselves in the dust
 5 worship this suppositious divinity that a
 'uI [;I;ty. class, handful, mere fraction of
 ',', nonnlation should set themselves up as su-
 ''s li ,r to tbe mass-should arrogate to them
 lV. inc right of governing the millions na-
 ,T, equal to themseves-should audacious-
 t".ni impiouslv call themselves " lorCis," and
 fa9rd to be addressed as men address the Sa-
 'ar and Redeemer of the world, should be
 .rmitted tu i've without labor and surrounded
 i,itb the most eXtravagaut luxury, whilst the
 millions, the great mass of the people, should
 ba compelled to work and toll to support this
 ;ile and eXlrayagaut luxury, should have no
 ,saxation from labor, no chance or time to cuI-
 tiyate or to give d development to the high na-
 t,re and glorious faculties God had endowed
 them with. should be doomed, generation after crneraion and century after century, to grope io darkness and degradation in ordert to support the sensual enjoyment and idle luxury of a Favored cass-a mere fraction of the pOpula- tjou-that system, based on such prime pies or a condition oi society resting on such iounda- tjol.s. would presume to insult mems common seuse by all argument, or an attempted argu- ,nent in its favor, is lot to be expected, and therefore, we repeat, no British or monarchica writer of the present day Is hardy enough or stupid enough to undertake it.
 Nor on the contrary, dare they, in the mid de of the nineteenth century, undertake to ar gue against the ruth and justice and common srse or reaSonableneSs of our own svstem- That system or condition which deals iustv by all Its cltzens-Whch secures to every one ile rights which God and nature have given. rhich, recognizing the great foundation and universal tact Of equality, fixed eternally by tbe hand of Goi, secures d corresponding equality of rishtS-of privileges-of duties to the whole citizenship, which, in short, adapt Ing the human law to the "higher law"-the political condition to the natural conditiou- political equality to natural equality-is in such stmnplete accord not only with reason, justice. emmon sense and the fitness of things. but rth the work of the Almighty, that any cor flpt, debauched or sinful creature would dare to dissent from the truth and reasonableness of such a condition openly or directly, is not to be ex pected at this late day, and theetore its ene- nies admit and accept its principles as aJstrac- lions and then resort to base and infamous nea to pervert them into lies Indeed the fasity of monarchsm and the truth of demo- elacy is set-evideut, unavoidable overwhelm. ing. To say or pretend to say that those God h,a aroataI 1lI yo f bo 4l, xsme wants, the same adaptations, should be Changed by human means into widely se- pprated classes, into "kin9s" and "nobles." al priests, into rulers and ruled, into masters aDl slaves, that the many shoulG live a dreary lie of toll without any development of the glorluus powers God endowed them with, and |a this toll and misery, and degradation and sem- brutehood, that a handful of beings like |h cm5elves might live in luxury on their sweat, Aer life, their blood, for such IS the fact-to sy this or pretend this is not only infamous but &ch a contradiction of common selSe that no oe could believe it if they were to try.
 Had the Greater designed separate or priyi- kged classes or such things as kings or mo- ble> of course He would have created them hus, or at least adapted things to such cond- tln. But, on the contrary, not only has He GtdtCN dti dilhC duA gwen lp all tudJ btiOH9 tO %he race the same wants, but He pumishes those who peryert the natural order oi thiugs-the bsc and stupid and brutalized masses who per- mi lt, as well as the wicked and impious op- pc,sors who thus wrong and brutallze their kind British writers, therefore even the vilest an most bgoted toos and advocates of mo- narchjsm, dc not dare to insult common sense by an argument a3aiLst democracy. They ad- ..4 1 .,I. oil, habits and tormuaries, which have been grpUlmg mp for a thousand years, prevent Flu rope from adopting these truths, but in the case of America, they insist that they are not only possible and practicable but 1t is the duty of Americans to carry them out to their fullest exteul. Indeed, the most uny yielding advocates oi the status quo ill Europe-the mosg loyal sul ulporters of European society as it ts, are pre- ck Y those most anxious that democracy shall be pushed the farthest ill America, and are iu- tel sly paiued and indignant at our short-com- ines m this repect
 se Now, it is a fact that we have four millions of negroes u our midst, not one single slave, mt four millions of inferior negroes. These Resroes are mel, to be sure, but different and in- fep or men, not that kind of difference or Inferi- orty which monarchism works out. but a diff ereuce and luterority fixed eterually by the ha Id of the Almighty. Their capacities, their wat>, their nature in short demands those n es and regulations peculiar to southern 50, ck y, aud under the operation of which their Mrhesl possible we'll being a5 well IS that of the superior race k secured, inst as Ill oar own hmogenous society in New York, the existing sb ordination of children aud the social and domestic relations the sexes sccHre the ighest possible we'll being of tine whole population.- Btt these British supporters of mOnarchism set uf a theory that the negro Is no negro, but n'n Ike ourselves, except that h.s color Is diff ieFeut and therefore entitled to the same rghts al responsible 10 the same duties as American mzens, and because we do not accept their as Mnpuou and stuluty our reason by admitting VI lie to be black orthe negro a Caucasian, and te cause We do not degrade our h. gh nature and tnmple on the high faculties God has given us M put ourselves on level, or try to put our M ves on a level with these negroes, why, for sooth, we are untrue to our principles and faith les to the cause of democracy!
 # The men who degrade and brutalze their E d, that set up distinctions where nature has MRde none, and compel those God has created 3 good as themselves to be ther slaves and l& ueys, undertake to compel Us to disregard Mdral distinctions and degrade ourselves to il le q with all inferior race! They say, tour oh society does not permit that we should do unto oothers as we would they should do unto m'-"ace must be permitted to degrade and brunlize innumerable beings whom God has created equal with ourselves, because this state of things has become almost a second nature fpm its long existerce. But you, with your youug life and uniformed habits, should do otherwise, or at least should do otherwise in rEaEd to all inferior race, and get down, or try Q get down to a level with the Sensuous and nteriorly organized negro?'
 Now, it is crime against nature, and there he against God, for one man to assume do- mnion over his fellow-to forcibly and direct
 ]! reduce him to subjection as the Romars did. U indirectly, through fraud and trickery, as mder the British system. But this crime 4aust nature, wrong and vile and infamous is, is infinitely less than that which our
 Brtsh friends" propose to us in regard to hgroes. For the highly organized and highly
 e1lOWed white man tO Stultifv and tramulp on