Daily national Democrat., 1858-08-26
Tho WudsiIIs.

We claim that the term Mudsill. applied
by the Lecompton upstart, Hammond, to the
laboring classes was an insult to the working
white men Of the South who constitute
very large portion of the community, as well
as the laboring men of the North. 1t was
designed, however, more particularly as a
slur at Northern men. Now this fellow
Hammond, who spoke the true Lecompton
spirit, as it existed in the Senate, instead Of
using this language, as has been alledged, in
the heat of the moment and without due re-
Election, had given utteran ce efore, and
with the utmost deliberation to similar in
suits TO the free white men of the North. As
long ago as 1880, 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 it was different, for there labor
was entirely subservient, as it ought to be, to
the upper classes. He only expressed his true
feelings little more fully when he said to
national and patriotic Northern men in the
Senate, in his remarks in favor of forcing the
Lecompton Constitution on the people of
Kansas; Your slaUeS are white, of your oVn
race you are brothers Of one blood -
1t must not be supposed that Mr.. Hammond
lacks hackers in his hgh.aown aristocratic
notions. Hear what an influential paper in
the South said. in the campaign of 1885,
"Slavery is the natural and normal condi.
ton of the ldboring mdn-whte or black
The great evil of the Northern free society is,
that it is burdened with seryiLe class Of me.
chanicS and tGborers, unfit for selfgovern.
mentt and yet clothed with attributes and pop-
erS of citizens Master and slave is rela-
ton in society as necessary as that of parent
and child and the northern States will vet
have to introduce it. The theory of free gov
ernment is delusion."
Another paper said:
I'VE have gotto hating everything with the
prefix free, from free negroes down, and up
through the whole catalogue-free farms,
free labor, free will, free thinking, free chill
dren and free schools-all belonging to the
same damnable isms But the worst of all
these denominations is the modern system of
free schools The New England system offree
schools has been the curse and prolific source
Of all the inhdelities and treasons that have
turned her cities into Sodoms and Gomorrahs.
and her lands into the common nesting places
of bowling bedlamites We abominate the
system because the schools are free"
And still another one said
Free society! we sicken of the name
What is it. but a conglomeration of greasy
mechanics. filthy operatives, small listed
farmers, and moon struck theorists All the
Northern, and especial y the New England
states are devoid of society fitted for we'll
bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one
meets with, is mechanics struggling to be
genteel, and small farmers who do their
own drudgery, and yet who are hardly fit for
association with Southern gentleman's body
servant"
| We think that, after reading the foregoing.
no one can doubt what was intended by Mr.
| Hammond in the term "NIudsill," nor how
! those persons stand who undertake to defend
him for saying it,
1t was deliberate insult to the working
classes, and must be equally resented by all
men who respect the dignity of labor, wheth-
er they live in the South or the North, the
East or the West 1t was an insult to the
very founders of our Republic, who based it's
pillars upon the broad and deep foundation
of equal rights and the unquestioned sOver
eighty of the American people.
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