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'.le,i oo"As published at the North, their pe-
rodieals printed at the North; that shoufd a
man rise with the genius of Shakespeare. or
DlcKens, or Fielding or all three combined.
anu speak rom the South, he would not re-
ceiVe enough to pay the cost of publication
That class, that favored class. which Ieods a.
the senator tells US, 'progress, civilization.
and refinement" force the literary talent ~
the North, the home Of "hirelinp OPERATIVES
to hnd not only publishers, but readers also.
vi the authors mentioned in Duyckinek's
'CyclopedIa OF American Literature" eighty.
seven were natives of slave States, and four
huhdrec and three were natives of the free
North-the land of the 'hireling laborers.'
vi the poets mentioned in l3riswold's "Poets
and Poetry of America" seventeen were ma.
tives OF the land where they have that other
class winch leads progress, civilization, and
teuhement and one hundred and twenty
three were natives Of the land of "hirelino
operatives the ''mud-sills' of society. OF
1ne .poets' whose nativity is given by Mr.
heed, in his "Female Poets Of America
eleven are from the South, seventy. three from
the North. Nine-tenths of ali the hooks
written in America, fit to be read-nine. tentbs
OF all the books published in America, tit to be
Puonshed-are written and published, not in
she lano OF that privileged class of which the
senator boasts, but IN the free States, un-
Diessed by that privileged class; nearly all
tne authors, whose names grace and adorn the
rising literature of America, whose names are
known in the literary and scientific world.
Ind their homes in the free States Of the
North. Irving, Ticknor, Sparks, Bancroft.
PRESCOTT Hlldreth, and Motley, whose con-
trloutiohs to the historical literature of Amer.
lca are recognized by the literary world Da.
ma, Bryant Halleck, Longfellow, Sprague,
"h'Hef' Lowell, and Willis, the recognized
Poels Vi our country; Hawthorne, Emerson,
grace the light literature of our times: = and
Sllllman, Agassiz, and Pisrce names asso.
Grated with American science. lind their homes
not In the land of the privileged class that the
senator from South Carolina tells us leads
progress, civilization, and refinement" but
they dwelI IN the land of t'small listed farm.
eIs, greasy mechanics, and filthy operatives"
-the mud sills' of society. The sculptors,
ana the painters, and the artsts-they. too.
nnd Their homes, not in the sunny South. but
IN the tree land of the North. In literature
ny science, in the arts the superiority of the
North is beyond all question. Men who have
oeen, or who now are, ''hireling laborers" in /,
some forms IN the North, have contributed
more 10 the arts, the science, the literature of
America, than the whole class of slayeholders
now living in the South.
would not, Mr.. President underrate the
influence of the slave States in the copncils If
the Republic. Bound together by the cohe-
slve attraction of vast interest, from which
the civilization of the age averts its face, the
privileged class have won the CONTROL and di-
rect the policy of the government. In the
councli and IN the field, the representatives of
TINS prluegedI class have assumed to direct
ana 10 gulGe. But in accumulated capital, in
commerce, in manufactures in the mechanic
arts, III educational institutions, in literature.
IN science, i'll the arts, in the charities Of re.
ligion and humanity, in all the means by
winch the nation is known among men, the
iree states maintain a position of unqaes-
uoned pre-emInenee. In all these, the South
is mere dependency of sthe North. India
ana Australia are not more the dependencies
Oh England, than are the slaveholding States
the dependencies of the free States. Sir, YOUR
htteen slave States are but fifteen suburban
wards of our great commercial city of New
York. Beyond the political field, this de-
tendency is everywhere visible, even to the
most blind devotees of liking Cotton" Mr..
ferry, IN an address before the South Carolina
Institute, IN lS56,says of the State represented
by the Senator ''Ihe dependence of South
Carolina upon the Northern States. for all the
neeessarles, comforts, and luxuries which the
mechanic arts Afford has drained her of her
wealth, and made her comparatively poor
Mr.. Helper, of North Carolina, in work
entitled "The Impending Crisis of the South"
describes, IN. this graphic language, the hui
initiating dependency of the South upon the
North: IL
''In infancy we are swaddled in Northern
muslin; in childhood we are humored bv
Northern gewgaws; in youth we are in.
structed out OF Northern books /; in old age we
are drugged with northern physic and when
we die, our inanimate bodies, shrouded in
northern cambria, are stretched upon bier,
borne to the grave in northern carriage, en-
tombed with northern spade, and memorized
with northern slab.
''Reader, would you understand how alb
Jectly Shareholders themselves ere enslaved 10
the products of northern industryf II YOU
would, FIX your mind on southern gentle-
man, slave breeder and human fieshInoneer.
who processes to be christian! Observe the
routine of his daily life. See him rise in
the morning from northern bed, and clothe
himself IN northern apparel; see him walk
across the hoor on northern carpet, and per.
form his additions out OF northern basin
and ever Bee him uncover box Of north.
ern powder, and cleanse his teeth with north.
ern brush, see him reflect his phisiognomy inc
northern combs see him dosing himself with
indictments Of northern quacks, and perfum-
ing his handkerchief with northern cologne;
see him referring to the time in northern
watch, and glancing at the news in north
ern gazette see him and his family sitting
in northern chairs, and singing and praying
out of northern books see him at the break.
fast table, saying grace over northern plate,
eating with northern cutlery, and drinking
from northern utensils see him charmed
with the melody of northern piano, OF mus.
ing over the pages Of northern novel; see
him riding to his neighbours in northern
carriage, OF furrowing his lands with north-
ern plough see him lighting his cigar with
northern match, and logging his negroes with
with northern lash see him with northern
pen and ink, writing letters on northern pa-
per, and sending them away in northern en-
velopes, sealed with northern wax, and inn.
pressed with northern seal" afa.
Passing, Mr.. President, from the considers
ton OF these startling contrasts between the
effects Of intelligent free labor on the North,
and unskilled slave labor on the South,
proceed to the contemplation of the blighting
and crushing effects Of slavery, not upon the
poor bondmen, but upon the non slavekoldinR
poor whites Of the South Putting out Of
view altogether the sad lot Of nearly four mill
lions Of hapless bondmen, doomed to destiny
so rayless, so eheerless, so hopeless, that the
senator from South Carolina vauntingly
tells US that they are " unaspiring," and viii
never give any ''trouble to us BY their aspiF-
atoms" There and now declare that the ,000-
900 Of non. slaveholding whites Of the South