The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-10-21
slavery the Natural Condition Of Laborers

slavery the Natural Condition Of Laborer.
SLAVERY is THE NATURAT
AND NORMAL CONDITION OF
THE LABORING MAN WHITE
OR BLACK. The great evil of the
Northern free society is, that if IS bur.
dened with A SERVILE CLASS OF
MECHANICS A Nd LABORERS
unit for self-government, and vet
clothed with attributes and powers II
citizens. Master and slace IS a ye1ot;o,
az society as necessary as parent ana
child and the Northern States ,r;l
yet haze to Introduce 1t. The theory
OF tree government is delusion %.
Gov. HAMMOND.
Gov. Hammond is leading men,
Der OF the Democratic party, and one
OF the most prominent members of the
United States Senate. He is an au-
thorized exponent of the views, and
principles, and plans of the Democratic
party. What he says, therefore, is
democracy, and there it stands at the
head of this article! Laboring men
of Detroit and Michigan, look at it
There you are toldsby one of the trusted
Democratic leaders that .Szacery is yo,es.
natural condition. Not only you, but
all of our Mechanics are stigmatized
MS a servile class &C UNFIT FOR SELF
GOVERNMENT" and only fit of
course, for SLAVES. How do you like
the idea of being treated and spoken
of as SLAVES of the men who en-
ploy you-your masters, according to
the definition of this expounder of De
mecracy You are plainly told by
Gov. Hammond that yo,s soiN haze to
come to IL, because it is your /" natural
condition" e aae'l 81
This is not an idle threat coming
from such aquarter, for the South has
ruled the country for more than three |
fourths of the whole period of our ma
tional existence. Whatever policy it
has dictated has finally prevailed. |
They consider and treat all Iaborers as
slaves, and at the South all non-slaye-
holders are even more degraded than
slaves. The rapid tendency of the
policy the Government is now pursr-
ing, is to reduce northern laborers ;nl
reality to the condition shareholders
now assign them. The bred Scott
decision, which in effect, has trans
formed every foot of soil in the United
States into slave territory, is one long
step towards that end. 1t NAV be
years, or it may be ages before the
prediction of this Democratic leader
will be technically filed. But at the
rapid rate the sentiment of the South
is now progressing, and the rapid
strides slavery is making, it cannot be
long before it will be partially so. ,
Free labor is degraded Just in pro- j
portion to the increase of slave labor. ,
AS we have said already, free white
aborers are more heartily despised
md more absolutely degraded in all |
southern States, than are the slaves. 8
they have not single civil, social or ,
,oIitical right except that of voting tol .
'phold slavery. This is the condition !
It things to which all laborers are
ending just in that ratio that the SEN e
iments of shareholders prevails. 1t It
Ices not even need that slavery should G
,e brought into direct competition with !.
Northern labor to degrade it to this
'ont. 1t only requires that Northern e
should be moulded into the "
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orm It has taken at the South. The C
Democracy, or the pro-slavery portion \
T it, have already come to look upon !
laboring men" as little better than !.
laves, only fit to acork and cote, and n
heir feeling of contempt for laborers IL
nd mechanics prevails just in proper 81
ion to the zeal with which they advo- II
ate " the rights of the South" and
ave adopted its opinions. +
This is not mere assumption. Their
7hole course proves it to be true. They u
ave adopted a policy in regard to Y
american Manufactures especially de- :,
igned to injure and degrade the la =
oring classes. The whole policy OIL tt
he Government while in the hands of il
he Democratic party has been at war h
nth the interests of Northern laborers a.
nd mechanics. Hundreds of thous-
nds of men are at this moment out 81
f work, because the Government q
hooses to adopt policy tth!iat re- b
loves our workshops and manufacto- II
les to Great Britain. And now thew
vould degrade labor and debase the r
sborers by bringing them still further p
nd more intimately into competition pl
nth slavery. -Four millions Of slaves b
re now doing the work that ought -
be done by free white laborers. -
lot even satisfied with all these wrongs al
pom free laborers, they would even az
.duce them to Slaves! - $50 a b.