The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-03-17

mud slls of society and of political gov.
.et,rnment; and ySh might as we'll attempt
to build house in tie air, ,as to build either
the one or the other, except OH the mud
sills. fortunately for tie South, she
found race adapted to that purpose to
her hand. q race inferior to herself, but
emineDtly qualified in temper, in vigor, in
docility, in capacity TO s,aud the climate,
to answer all her purposes. We use
them for the purpose, and call them slaves.
We are old fashioned at the South yet;
it is word discarded now Ly ears polite;
but will not characterize that class at
The North with that term but you have
1t; 1t is there; it is everywhere; 1t is
eterna..
The Senator from New York said YES.
terday that the whole world had abolish.
ed sIayery. Ay, the name, but not the
thing; and the powera o! The earth cannot
abolish it. God only can do It when he
repeals the fiat, "lhe poor ye always have
with YOU; for the man who lives 10y daily
labor, and scarcely livSS at that, and who
has to put out his labor in the market
and take the best he can get for it; H.
short, vour whole class of manual Labor
erS and operatives, AS you call ihem, aGe
slaves. The difference between us ,s, that
our slaves are hired ior life and well com.
! pensated there is no starvation, no beg
g'ng, no want Of employment among our
people, and not too much employment
either. ours are hired bv the dav, not
cared for, and Scantily compensated. which
may be proved in the most depIoraLle
manner, at any hour, in any stree; in any
OF yonr large ,9"ns. Why, sir, you meet
m9re beggars in one day, in any single
street Of the city Of New York, t,.au you
would meet in a lifetime in the wLoe
South. Our slaves are black, Of another
inferior race. The status in which we
have placed them is an elevation. They
~" elevated from the condition in which
God first created them, by being made
oar slaves. None Of that race on the
Whole face Of the globe can Ue compared
with the slaves Of the South, and ,hcv
know it. They are happy, cop,gni, uuas
sp'y'pg, and utterly incapable, flom intel
Iectual degradation, ever 10 give us any
trouble 10y their aspirations.
Your slaves are white, Of vCur own
race; you are brothers Of one blood.-
lhey are your equals in natural eId0w
ment of intellect, aud they ieeI CALLED by
their degradation. Our slaves DO not
vote. We give them no political power.
Yours do vo:n, and being the majority.
they are the depositareS Of all your puIt
ical power. lfthev knew the tremendous
secret, that the balIat box is stronger than
an army with hayoneis, and couIc. com.
blne. where would YOU be! Your society
would be reconstructed, your government,
reconstructed, your property divided, not
AS they have mistakenly attempted to in
itiate such proceedings by meeting in
parks, with arms in their hands, but bv
the ballot box. You have been making
war upon us to our very heaylh s;pnes.-
How would YOU like for US tosend .ec,ur
ers, or a2itators North, to teach these
people this, TO aid aud assist in comLin-
ing, and 10 lead theml
Mr.. Wilson and others. Send them
along.
MIR. Hammond. You saw, send them
North. There is no need of that. They
are coming here. They are laundering
at our doors for a homestead Of one hun
dred and sixty acres of land for nothing,
and Southern Sepators are supporting it.
Nay, they are assembling, as have said,
with arms in their handS, and demanding
work at $1,000 year and six hours u
day. ave you heard that the ghost of
Mendoza is stalking in the streets Of your
hlg cities; that the inquisiliqn j. at banu!
There is at pat fearful rumor that there
have been CONSULTATIONS for vigilance coru
mlttees. You knew what that means a.
ready. Transient and temporary causes
have thus far been youT preservaton.-
The great West has been open To vour
surplus population, and hordes oil s.ni
bi.. 2rI"n cmgrants, who are crowdInr
in year by Year. They make a great
movement, aud you call it progress.-
Whittier! 1t Is pr"gress; but it is pro-
grcSs towards vigilance cYmmitteer. The
South have sustained you in great
measure. ou are our factors. You bring
and carry for us. One hundred and fifty
million dollars Of our money passes annu
aliv through your hands. Much of il
sticks all OF 1t assists TO keep your ma
chinery together and in motion. Suppose
we were to discharge YoG; suppose we
were to Ia 70 our business out Of Your
hands We should ccn,ign You u aparcby
and poverty.
You complain q the rule Of tbe South;
that has been another cause that has pse
served YOU. We have kept the Govern.
ment conservative. to the great purpose of
the GovernWept. We have placed her
and kept her upon the Constitution, and
that has been, the cause Of your peace and
prosperity. The Senator from New York
'ays. that that is about to he at IL end
that you intend t2 take the Government
from us; that it will. Vaas from our hands.
Perhaps what he says is true 4; but do not
forget-it can never be forgotten il is
written on the brightest page of human
history-that we, the Shareholders of the
South, took our country IN her infancy
and, after ruling her for sixty Que Of tie
seventy years Of her existence, we shall
surrender her TO YOU without a stain nDon