Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-10-12
Thc rIud-slIIs OF society.

The NIud-SIIIs OF Society.
We are indebted to a modern Democrat
for new definition of laboring men. IL
the Senate OF the limited States, under the
Corinthian columns Of the Capitol, Sena
tor Hammond, of S. G. said that every.
where, in all countries. there must be q
class of men to do the drudgery-the ser
Oile labor of society; that in the South
they call them SLAVES, but in the North
we don't call them so. They are the Mud
SRls Of society! This Mr. Hammond is
a first.rate Democrat, of the Buchanan
stripe, and supports the Administration
without missing a single vote. He finds
it supporting slavery at the South, and
why should he doubt is willingness to en-,
slave the Mud SUls at the North? He is
honest, and therefore he treats the la5orer
at the North with the same contempt he
does on his plantation at the South! In
the South he rides out, booted and srured,
through his negroes, and tells the overseer
to give buslel of meal here and sound
whipping there, to the mad. sils of society,"
Then he comes into the Senate of the
United States--in gorgeous hall, with
cushioned seats, and marble columns, and
brussels carpets--all furnished by the
labor of the mud, ,siHs-and very calmly
comniences lecture on the formation of
society, and informs us that the class
which does the drudgery exists every
where, and in the South they are called
SLAVES, but in the North are not SO called,
but they constitute the mad siVs of society.
We are not at all surprised at Mr.. Ham
mond. The sentiment he utters is natural
to man born, bred and nurtured among
slaves. He learns to live without labor,
he learns to despise it, he learns to tyran-
nize over the people about him, and grows
up with naughty habit of command and
supercillious contempt for all men engaged
in what he calls drudgery. He really be-
lieves that God has made the largest part
Of mankind to be the slaves, the menials,
the mud-sills for the residue. With this
belief and these habits, he thinks it an
absolute violation of the Constitution for
these mud-sills to have any opinion of
their own! He likes Democracy, for it
has managed to delude the mad -siAs into
the support of his political slavery. What
senator of the Democracy rose in his seat
to deny or object to this definition of white
laborers? Where were the men who now
come befJre the people Of Ohio for support,
when this man thus placed the white
laborer on the level with the slave? We
ask all men who labor, (and we are among
the number, to mark the coolness-the
perfect indifference with which this Dem
ocratic Senator places the free and the
slave lab0rer, the white and the black, on
he same level. They are ali to him, MUD
'ILLs. Now, we say this is the natural
fleet of slavery, and it will be the natural
effect of supporting ary body Of men 10 the
rec States who support the pro-slsvery
'arty. There is no escape from it. 1t is
II old adage-"birds of feather flock
ogether." Messrs. Pugh, Bright, Fitch,
Ec., may say they do not vote, every day
he same way with Mr.. Hammond? Did
'ot every man support the Lecompton Con-
Do not Messrs. Cox, Pendle-
on, Groesbeck & Co., noU act with the
ion and Mr. Hammond?
We differ from Mr.. Hammond and his
Democracy widely. We respect labor,
vhosoever may be the laborer. We re-
pect it in the rich man. We respect it
n the poor man. We beleve-h ow-
yer natural it may be for parUenues to
ook down upon labor, and however litter
te the laborer may be-that whoever en-
Toys himselfin in honest labor for useful
urpose, is so far doing his duty and FILL
ng respectable position. and we do not
eleye that any man should be trusted in
Republican Government who despises
he free laborer.-C,n GdzeHp.