The Nevada Democrat., 1858-09-01
ERom De Marnsrius pemorat.l
The NTudHlIIs.

Inc
We claim that the term Mudsill, applied by
the Lccompion upStart, Hammond, TO the labor
ing classes, was AN insult TO the working white
men Of the South, who constitute very large
portion Of the community. as well as the labor
ing men OF the North. 1t was designed, how
| ever, more particularly as u slur at Northern
men. Now this fellow Hammond, who spcke
the true Lecompton spirit, as IL existed in the
Senate, instead of using this language, as has
been alledgcd, in the heat of the moment and
without due reflection, had given utterance he-
fore, aud with the utmost deliberation, to simi-
lar insults to the free white men of the North.
As long ago as 1850, he had declared in public
speech that it was to be regretted that labor
could so well protect itself in the free States.
In the South il was different, for there labor
WAS entirely subservieEt, as il ought to be, to
the upper classes. He only expressed his true
feelings little more fully when he said to ma
tiUnal aud patriotic Northern men in the Senate
| III his remarks in favor of forcing the Lecomp-
ton Constitution on the people of Kansas: " You,
slapes are white, Of your oscn race you are brothers
Of one biood.'
| 1t must not be supposed that Mr.. Hammond
lacks hackers in his high hown arIstocratio no
tions. Hear what an influential paper in the
South said, in the campaign of 1866:
Slavery is the natural and moral condition
of the ldboring mdn-white or black. The great
L
burdcned with II serude class Of mechanics and Ia
borers, unfit for eli-government aud yet clothed
with attributes and po,cers o. citizens. Master aud
slave is u relation III society Us necessary a. that
of parent aud child; aud the Northern States
will yet have to introduce it, The theory of
free government il q delusion."
Another paper said:
We have got to hating every thing with the
prefix free, from free negroes down, aud up
labor. free will. free thinking, free children aud
free schools-all belonging 10 the same daInna-
Ule isms. But the worst Of all these abOnla-
tiOns is the modern system OF free schools. The
New England system of free schools has been
the curse and prolific source Of all the inlide-
ties aud treaeOns that have turned her cities
into SudOnis aud GomorrahS, aud her lands into
the common nesting places Of howlng bedlam-
ties. We ahominate the system because the
schools are 1iee'
| Aud still another one said:
Free society we scken at the name. What
is il, but conglomeratOn of greasy mechanics,
filthy operatives, small listed farmers, and moon
struck theorists? AH the Northern aud especial
y The New England States are devoid of society
htled for well bred gentlemen. The prevailing
class one meets with is mechanics struggling to
be genteel. aud small farmers who do their own
drudgery, aud yet who are hardly fit for asso
citation with y Southern gentleman's body SER
want"
We think that. after reading the foregoing,
no one can doubt what was intended by Mr..
Hammond in the term "MudSill " nor how
those persons stand who undertake TO defend
b m for saying it.
1t was a deliberate insult TO the working
classes. aud must he equally resented ly all
men who respect the dignity OF labor, whether
they live in the South or the North the East
ar the West. 1t is an insult to the very found
rrs Of our Republic. who based its pillars upon
the broad and deep foundation of equal rights
aud The unqucsloued sovereignty Of the Ameri-
can people.