Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-08-28
THE FREE PRESS
EsUREIHNsaTON
John Mitchell, the Democrat
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST %, 1857.

John Mitchell, the Democrat.
John Mitchell, whilome an object sym
rathy as ga poor Exile Of Erin" escaped
from the clutches Of British Tyranny, and
then made notorious from his earnest wish
| that he could be the owner ofan Ala bama
broth of a boy" ccrtainly,-a modern dem
ocrat of the highest mark. lie has taken
( up his sojourn at the south, where if
| he can not own the slaves lie can at least
have the satisfaction Of looking at them,
and enjoy the social privileges Of u slave
holding community. No place like the
South he thinks for an Irishman to % to,
that is, provided he kao,rs enough, and has
money enough to buy Il plenty Of negroes
The poorer sort of Irishmen he thinks will
10 as well to r.m.iu in tho lre' ,tat'..
"hclring to roll up there as usual, sweep
ing moiorites for the Democracy"
In his late letter written from Knoxville
Tennessee, July 28th to "John Martin Esq.
sometime Irish Exile, he says that he
''dogmatically afirms.
First. That there is less approach to
aristocracya at the South than at the North
Nrcond. That slayc-owners and non
slaye-owners alike are interested IN, benc-
fitted, by the institution of Slavery.
IhWd. That the political organization
Of South Carolina, which your frccsoilor
points at as ur>tocrdtic, is Demo cracy
Is pure as that Of Massachusetts,, and
more pure in practice.
Forh. That there is more social equal
ity between citizen and citizen, at the South
than at the North.
These propositions be Celebrates after his
own stvle through several long columns
We give Il few bits as illustrations Of the
whole:
Eight and twenty months | have lived in
the South, town and country. ami never
anywhere else have seen farmers, labor
ers and urtizlus 50 high spirited and Iude-
pendent 1t would do your heart good to
see one Of these, alter laboriur all the
week upon his own land, rclMirin. to his
country-town to hear rival candidatcs solic-
it his suffrage for the Office Of Governor of
the State, or Presidential ElcctOr, and list
cning to the arguments or cXppsitiDns Of
State or Of National policy there laid before
him, with the calm Consciousness Of power
bcittius man who knows he has Il vote to
give rs potential as any otHar mans vote.
His ncighhor the planter who owns hun
GrcI negroes, feels that he Is has equal,
and NO more, addresses him by his Cmiet-
ian name, and is SO addressed in reply,dincs
at the same board with him, and tets with
him ON the event.
The complete contcntment of the people
with their institutions is one of the main
causes of security for the South. ltu man
has no slaves he tries to grow rich and buy
slaves. Meanwhile he is bound up with
the institution and lives by it. The money
| that circulatrs around him comes by slave
labor. BY it the goods he is selling are to
he paid lor the wagon he Is making Is to
be laden, 1t is the air he breathcs, and he
finds it to agree with him.
After hourishng away on the absolute
| dependence Of all the manufacturing world
on the cotton fields Of the South and the
prospects Of the supply running short for
want Of laborers, he says
Here is question opened that is likely to
excite some discussion ere long. only dc
sire YOU to observe that it Is a question
, which must be decided precisely as these
HoulnSrh states sn"Ii REQUIRE. IS Tue AZ
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l. c,o. !. .;.,' 49,. ,.,I. ~,
along without it much longer
The open resumption of the African
slave traaG would get rll OF ITS Two cryi'l
Gi, itl I,,y'tjno ''i m'tnrn "- and | ndI Il.
a rreatcr blessing to mankind. white anc
black, than all the Tract Societies, Peace
/ >oc'etie' ana wee SIuplre'-i1H 9ocivtl,T
r,"n '''' 'l,''u '".'' WAN
.y,r b.,, boorli, s,il +rot tro nrorro..
| of the Southern States has been retarded
by slavery. tell you 1t has been RETARDED
O'Stus' 'n'rg !, no' 1i'N'ry enouT"' w.
or,. on tb, e"n nr mast ~ h.rofcrnt royoI,