The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-04-20

q. called Demccrs,is party have ever boost
d Of sheir devotion y The isesrss,s 81 the
'nssses." Their l6a,ersseed seal aad
ntsnss love for the ssb0iao classcs." Aas
been ssnnvalled q seseSelled. With
. hat antirias sasssy asve they iabctsd
lssins, protective tariff" "bsaks," Ae.,
becsu they were opposed to oil "sissa
70 I'll measures ca,calased 70
enrich the "siik stocking geR,ry" At the
expease of the people. How loudly have
they proclaimed that "tAe greatest good to
The creates, aumbsr'' was the gres, con-
trolling idea Of the great Dem oeratic par
ty;" the corser stoas ON which rested the
entire structure. aad without which It css'd
not and would not exist.
but the Democratic party Of to-dsy y set
the Democratic party OF the past. iss
sheil, the husk, remains; bu, the ksraei'
the substance, is goae. There is aotaing
j, lis former vitality len, while Al! 10 old
vices are retained in iui! vigos.
Those who refused prs,e.tion to the
manufacturers o, New England aud Pens.
SYLVIA MIA, are nov using ali their power TO
pro,ec, the nsaro-raisers Of Virginia, AID
the negro growers OF Georgia. Those who
would no, aid the struggling manufacturing
interests Of the North, are the willing ser.
wants 81 the dominant, ail.powertui slave
interests OF the South And Tor tals they
present the plea OF justice to the South !"
wAe constitutes this South ~kch the y
Mish to dement's The masses, the bulk Of
,ae rec white c,assnsi Are tAes to be ben.
Gifted BY the extension OF the system 81
,.ss labor and the consequent depreciation
OF yrse labor, Let tew iasts asswer these
QUESTION:.
The whole Number OF whites in the slave
holding States s--acsarding 10 the census
Of AIS, Of whom s<7,S2S ara
shareholders; and allowing literally for oil
those who may be connected with these
slaveAoldeTs, in the family relation. &c.
still these cannot be lore than one.fo1rtt
OF the whole white population who are In
terested in slave property. What then il
the effect o. the system on these non.slave'
holding ahitesi Let Us hesr the testimony
Of Southern mes on tAis point.
Says Ar. Farrer, Of Missouri, in . paper
on Domestic Manufactures 10 the Sestt
and West" published in isA7:-
aTae free population Of the South may
be divided into tive classes-tAs alsvehold
ing and the aon.slaveholding. I am net
aware that the relative numbers Of thesl
two classes have ever been assertainsd il
any Of the States. but an sasiAdsd that
the non-slaveholdefs far outnumber the
slaseholder.-peri4ps BY taret 70 oss. Ia tbs
more southern portion Of this region the
non-slavsholcers possess generally pey
anal! means. and the land which they pos.
sess IS almost universally poor. and &C
sterile that . scasiy ssbssstsaex 10 oil that
can be derived from ils cultivation; and tAa
more fertile coil being in possession Of the
s.avshslder. must ever renain out Of the
power of those who have none"
This state Of things is great drawback
and bears heavily upon and depresses the
moral energies of the poorer classes.
The acquisition Of . respects
bic position in the scale of wealth appears
so difhcul,, thai they decline the hopsles
ysrssis, and many Of them settle down init
habits Of idleness, and become the slmes
passive subjects of ell i,s Consequences
And lament TO say that hare observes
Of late years that an evident deterioration
is taking place in this part Of the pop uls
ton, the younger portion Of il being less sds
cgtsd, lsss tndastrioss and in every point .
view, les, respectable, than then ancestors.
| William Greg. Esq, of South csroiins
/ delivered ss address on the subject of man
ufaetures before the South Carolina Inst
,ute in 1851, in which he said:
From the hes, esti---.----'- -nn1e peoPi
I wno ought 10 work and who do not, or VII
are 20 employed as TO be wholly unprodue
tive to the State, are one hundred an
/ twenty five thousand. An,
I ruan who is an observer OF things woul
/ nsrdiy pass through our coaA,ry withou
being struck with the fac, that all the cap
iltsi, enterprise and intelligence is employ
e N directing slave isbor; and the conse
/ 4Izaes IS that large portion Of our poo
g ai,e people are wholly neg Elected, and Or
catered to while away an existence in
sat- ba sae step "a Advance Of u. Isdiaa of IA
forest"
The white population Of South Carolin
In 1850 was 27s,56s, Of which. according I,
the above extract, nearly one-hlif are Ivin,
10 shiftless, unprod sc,ive idleuess In 1875
o. Hammond delivered an address befor
the South Carolina Institute. in which b,
peaks OF the peer whites as follows:
They obtain a pressrious subsistence
By occasional jobs, BY hunting, BY fishing
| b. plundering fields or loids, and too ofts
by what is in its effects far worse-tradin
Nth slaves, and seducing them to plunde
for their benefit.
We have taken the liberty Of itsIizinR
part OF the above extracts 10 order to NOR
fully Impress hem upon the mind of ID
reader, who viii find much more to tn
same purport in THE Poor Whites of ID
South" BY George ". Weston, a tres,is
aieh ougb, 70 De 10 the hands ofevery on,
who wishes TO understand the workings q
slavery.
But to return. We should like to enquir
Of all those who are sustaining the presen
g1Iey Of the democratic party" BY WIS
III, OF pretense Of right, do they ignor
he interests. moral and physical. Of the mil
! 2gns Of non-slavehoiders In the South B,
hs, right ~ they insis, on controlling tn
mole legislative, Judicial and executive
a5xer VI these Uni,ed States SO a. to sub
I'VE the interests Of hereditary oligsrehy
On what plea are they justified in bui Idin
p and eztendinga system which aceordin,
10 the testimony Of Southern men, is crush
! iEg out every lsudsbls ceiling, every in
du:uioas resolve, oil manly action and eve
al manhood from thousands and tens O.
b susands Of native born, (rss. white Ame,i
.rg, T,uIv fhsza ahaya riunfs NH. h