Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-04-30
Locofocoisln and slavery /!
.NORTHERT .uE.N, REID .4.V,D P0A.
DER.

Ex- Governor Hammond, OF South Carolina,
and now United States Senator from that
S,ske .4pnd of course lending member Of that
party, aud who expresses the political senti-
ments of Locefocoism in the South, delivered
u speech on the 18th ul;., in that body, report
cd in the Globe. in which he expresses tie
well-known Southern contempt for the free
white llhoring man of the North BEAD,
Northern Freeman, and see what you are
thought of by the Southern influence in whose
hands Buchanan has placed himself;
L4BoR1NG MEN BUT MUD sILLs.
Ia all social systems .there must be class
to do the mean duties, to perform the drudgery
of life that is, class requiring but low or
der of intellect and but little skill. It's re-
quisites ase vigor, docility, fidelity. Such q
class you must have, or you would not have
that other class which leads progress, refine
nleut and civilization IL CONSTITUTES the very
mud sHis of society, and of political govern
ment. and you might as we'll attempt to build d
house in the air as to build either the enc OIL
the other except on the mud sills. Fortunate
ly for tho South, she found a race adapted e
that purpose at her hand. A race Inferior to
herself, but eminently qualified in temper, in
yigor, in docilty, in capacity, to stand the eli
aiate, to answer her purpose. We use theG
for thu purpose, and call them slaves. We
are oldfashioned at the South yet; it is wore
now discarded by ears polite, but l will no
characterize that class at the North witt
that term; but uou haUe a.; IT is there; 1t i.
everywhere; it is eternal.
NORTHERN LABORERs ARE BUT SLAVES.
The Senator from New FORK said YESTERDAY
that the whole world had abolished Slavery
BY the name, but not the thing; aud all tht
powers Of the earth cannot abolish it. GGt
only can do it when he repeals the iakD eth,
pool ye always have with you;" for ~ak ana,
tcho fiueS b., daily labor and scarcely tiUes a
fbat. and 1oho has to put ont has tubol IN tn
market, and fOke the best he can get for 1t, Il
short your waote class Of manuel taborers ant
operatives, as you call them, are SLs7VES.-
The difference between us is, that our slave
are hired for life, aud well compensated; ther
is no starvation, no begging, no want of em
ployment among our people, and not too muc
employment either. Yours are hired by tn
day, not cared for, aud scanty compensated
which may be proves in the most deplorabl
manner, at any hour, in any single street, i
any OF your large towns. Why, Sir, you NEE
more bcggars in one day, in any single stree
of the city of New York, than you would meg
in lifetime in the whole South Our slave
are black, of another, inferior race. The pc
eitiop in which we have placed them is an ele
walton. They are elevated from the conditio
iu which God first created them by being mad
our slaves. None of that race, on the whol
face of the globe, can be compared with ii
slaves of the South, aud they know it. Tbe
are happy, content, unaspiring, and utterly il
capable, from intellectual degradation, ever
give us any trouble by their aspiIatisns.
Your stareS are aottte, Of yoar owH race; 90
We brothers Of one blood. They hape your ~
tuat eado0ment of Intellect, and they fc
CALLED by their degredation. Oar slaves {
aot vote. We give them no political powe
Yours do vote, and being the majority, the
are the repositories of all your political poy
eT. Ii they knew the tremendous secret, til
the ballot box is stronger than an army wi
bayonets, and could combine, where would W
BIZ Your society would be reconstruct
;unr governments reconstructed, your proper
divided, not such proceedings meeting
parks, with arms in their hands, bat by Il
quiet process OF the ballot box. You ha
teen makiEg war rpon US to our very hear
stoucs. How would you like for US to sci
lecturers or agitators North. to teach the
people this, to aid aud assist IN cosnbi0iug, al
10 lead them.
Mr.. Wilson and others--send them along.
Mr.. Hamnoud-lou say send them Mort