Freeman's champion., 1858-05-20
"Tha Md sills Of the Nation. y

Gle y" iSyery Generaily meeting WIN
meritod rebuke even in tho South. =.
The N. 0. BaEIetia, in y jate issue,
administers q severe castigation to
this bloated son of an Irish hod-car-
rior. It ought not to surprise the
country that such language is u:el by
Southern Senators. "A tree is known
.by it's fruit" and the enslsying AMI
degrading Of every one who works is
but of the natural outcome Of o sys-
tenn which allows the enslavement Of
q race, if that enslavtment is allowed
to go on. Every man held in bond
age, whether his skin is dark or fair,
is q disgrace to labor and a hindrance
to it's progress and recognition Ss the
trucst worship Of God and Nature.
Senator Hammond has only given
the weight of official position to the
doctrines avowed for years past by
the ultra newspapers and orators Of
the South. Herein they show. their
consistency, for it cannot be color
but condition which is really the 'ba-
sis of slavery everywhere. Were
we q believer in the enslavement of
one human being, color would make
no difference in our views, excepting
as to my power over the enSlaved in
dividual. The term "mud sills"
will be Of great benefit in coming
campaigns,and we think the Republi-
can party ought present the Senator
from South Carolina with testimo-
niAl for giving them such an excel
lent weapon with which to fight. 1t
will be used with fearful effect upon
the Pro Slavery party in melting the
working man against it.
As for the opposition of portion
Of the influential Southern Press to
that speech, it is but natural that they
should disavow such sentiments
They know that great cities are CEN
tres of intelligence, and the congrega-
tod masses Of free laborins men who
gather therein, necessarily and inev-
itsbly become the hot beds of agita'
tiou dangerous to the existence of Sla-
very. The utterlnce Of such lam
guegs as that Of Hammona's ia sui
ciial on the part Of the South, for it
set the masses thinking, and flung in
to tho inAammable materials of Free
Labor conSregatcd in the Southern
commercial centers, its consequences
are ss much to be feared IS would. be
those caused by spark of fire placed
in powder magazine. Slave inSti-
tutions are primcval; they accord
only with agriculture, and it must
have room for expansion. 1t is ex-
hausting, and constantly demands
newer fields for its expansion. Like
the Fendal system, towns and cities,
with their wealth, intelligence, com
parative freedom and agitation are its
bitter and uncompromsing enemies,
and will ultimately destroy it. As
the Italian municipal republics in the
middle ages wero the seed from which
the present slow maturing tree OF Lib
erty sprang, so will the cities of our
Southern States yet bring forth fruit
golden, ripe, and pleasant to the taste
and eye. The speeches of mon like
Hammond, tyrsnts, oligarchs and
aristocrats, teach the mechanics, Ia
borers and n.slaveholding whites
Of the South what they may expect
when the bullies who now rule get
strong enough to conquer them, The
"mud sills" will ,bo long remembered.
AS the rocks which once were mud
grow hard and become the solid gran
ite ribs Of the world, and then up
hcaved by mighty convulsions till they
Tower aloft in grandeur as mountain
peaks aud chainS, so will "the mud
sills" become tho solid rock, and by
the mighty earthquake Of Free Labor
bo flung upwards to rule the nation.
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Geological Lectures,
VIM. Denton, formerly editor