Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
LABoRING MEN BUT MUD s1LLs.

In all social systems there must the class
to do the mean duties, to perform the drudg-
cry of life--that is, class requiring but
low order of intellect and but little skill
Its requisites are vigor, docility, fIelity.
| Such q class you must have, or you would not
have that other class which leads progress,
refinement and civilization. 1t contitutes
the very mud-slls of society and OF political
government; and you may as well attempt
to build house in the air as to build either
the one or the other except on the mudslis.
Fortunately for the South, siIe found race
adapted to that purpose to her hand. A race
inferior to herself, but eminentIy qualified in
temper. in vlgor, in docility, in capacity, to
stand 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 oy ears po-
| lite; but will not char cterize that class of
the North with that term; but you have it;
it is there; it is everywhere; it is eternal.
/ NORTHERN LABoRERs ARE BUT SLAVES.
The Senator from New Yerk said vester-
day that the whole world had abolished slay-
cry. Ay, the name, but not the thing; and
all the powers of the earth cannot abolish it.
God only can do it when he repeals the fiat,
"the poor ye always have with you;'' (ELe-for
the man who lives by daily labor, and scarce
lY lives at that, and who has to put out his
labor in the market and take the best he can
get for it; in short your whole class of man.
ual laborers and operatives, as you call them
are slaves.LG The difference between Us
is, that our slaves are hired for life and vel
compensated, there is no starvation, no beg
ging, no want of employment am ,ng oul
+ people, and not too much employment either
Yours are hired by the day, not cared fo
and scantily compensated, which may be
proved in the most deplorable manner, any
hour in any street in any Of your large towns
Why, sir, you meet more beggars in one day
in any single street of the city of New York
than you would meet in lifetime in the
South. Our slaves are black, of another and
inferior race. The status in which we have
, placed them is an elevation. They are ele
waited from the condition in which God frs
, created them, by being made our slaves
) None of that race on the whole face of the
: globe can be compared with the slaves o
, the South, and they know it. They are hap
py, content, unaspiring, and utterly incapable
from intellectual degradation, ever to give u:
:. any trouble by their aspiration.
n Your slaves are white, of your own race
!. you are brothers of one blood. They are
your equal in natural endowment of intellect
4 and they feel CALLED by their depreciation
CEFOur slaves do not vote. We give then
# no political power.lo Yours do vote. an
,. being the majority, they are the depositarie
e Of all your political power. If they knew
the tremendous secret, that the ballot-box
stronger than any army, with bayonets, an
could combine. where would you bel Yor
society would be reconstructed, your proper
ty divided, not as they have mistakenly al
1. tempted to initiate such proceedings b
meetings in parks, with arms IN their hand
but by the quiet process of the ballot-bol
- You have been making war upon US to OF
d, very hearth-stones. How would you lh
~ y, for us to send lecturers or agitetors Mort
~ to teach these people this, to aid and asst
AZ in combining. and to lead them!
DIR. Wilson and others--Ssnd them alonl