The daily Butte record., 1858-08-28
The INSULT to Intelligent Labor.

Ine Iusuit 10 AnteihfBshs h"poa' y
The Marysvillo National Democrat
claims that the term Mud Sill, applied by the
Lecompton 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
we'll as the laboring men Of the North IL
was designed however more particularly asa
slur at Northern men. Now this fellow Ham
mond, who spoke the true Lecompton spirit
as it existed in the Senate, instead OF using
this language, as has been alleged, in the
heat Of the moment, and without due re-
hection, had given utterhnce before, and
with the utmost deliberation, to similar in
suits to the free white men of the North
As long ago as 1850. he had declared in q
public speech that il was to be regretted
that labor could so we'll protect itself in the
free States. In the South it was different,
for there labor was subservient, as it ought
to be, to the upper classes. lie only ex-
pressed his true feelings little more fully
| when he said TO national and patriotic
| in favor Of forcing the Lecompton Constitu-
tion on the people Of Kansas: " Your siares
are White. Of your oton race ]; ye are broth.
ers Of one blood ~
1t must be supposed that Mr., Hammond
lacks hackers in his high flown aristocratic
| notions. Hear what an influential paper in
the South said in the campaign Of 1856:
Slavery is the natural and normal con-
dition Of the iaJOring mdn-white or black.
| The great evil Of the Northern free society
is that II is burdened with n SeyuHe ciass 0f
mechanics and idboyfrs, unfit for Sc fg0y.
ernment, and yet clothed with dHri6Uhs
and po,cers Of citizens. Master and slaveis
q relation in society os necessary rs that Of
parent and child and the northern States
| will yet have to introduce IL. The theory
of fee government is q delusion."
Another paper soid
I'VE have got 20 hating everything with
the prefix free, from The free negroes down,
and up through the whole catal' que - free
FIRMS, free labor. free will. free thinking,
free children and free schoos--all belong
ing TO the same damnablc isms. Bat the
worst of oil these denominations is the mo l.
| ern system of free schools. The New Eng
| land system of free schools has been the
curse and prolific source Of all the infdeli.
ties and treasons that have turned her cities
nt0 Sodoms and Gomorrahs, and her lands
into the common nesting place Of bowling
bedlami,es. We abominatc the system be-
cause the schools are .free.'
Aud still another one said:
Free society we sicken at the name
What is II, but conglomerstion of greasy
mechanics, filthy operatives. small- fsted
farmers, and moon struck theorists M
tho Northern, and especially the New Eng
land States, are devoid Of society fitted Tor
well bred gentlemen. Tho 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 gentlemaus
body servant"
The Lecompton State organ, published at
Sacramento, states AZ follows:
| Here il is convenient too. to forget that
the slaves TO capital Mt the North nll veto
and exer else other acts Of citizenship, and
| thereby secure to that sec ion its numerical
ascendancy. These votes, too, consist of n
vast portion of foreigners, rs little instruct
ed in the true theory and principles of our
government as are the ordinary slaves upon
Southern plantations You drive up your
slaves to the polls, in many instances, merely
to echo your political preferences; the South
erncr keep his better employed in his field,
and does not thus PROSTATE the elective fran
chise
We think that, after reading the rorego-
Jag, adds the Democrat. no one can doubt
what was intended by NJ. Hammond in the
term Mud Sill" nor how those persons
stand who undertake to defend him for say
ing it.
1t was n deliberate Insult to the working
classes, and must be equally resented by all
men who respect tho dignity oflabor, who,h
er they live in the North or in the South,
the East or the West II was an insult to
the very founders Of our Republic, who
based its pillars upon the broad and deep
foundation of equal rights and the unqucs-
toned sovereignty Of the American people
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