Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-18
From tn, Washington Republic
THE NEW DEMOCRACY--MR
HAMMOND.


HAMMOND.
II is one Of the illustrations Of the say
ing that truth is stranger than fiction, that
what is called Democracy, in this country,
is party led by, and controlled for the
uses Of, men who believe, and make no
'cruple in saying, that those who earn a
livelihood by selling their labor are slaves
in fact, and that the only safe condition Of
society is that in which all Iaborers are
held in the condition Of negro saves. This
is the theory Of the Southern aristocracy,
who control the Government, control the
Democratic party aud mean to control all
the Territories of the Union. And what
IS stranger still. they enjoy this control now
and can expect to enjoy it hereafter, only
by the aid of the votes of the laboring men
at the North, whom they stigmatize as
"drudges," "mud-sills," and "white slaves
One of the Southern Democrats Gov.
Hammond Of South Carolina, a favorite
specimen Of bis class, said in the Senate,
March 4. as reported in the Globe:
lin all social systems there must be a
class to do the mean duties, to perform the
drudgery of Ike. That is, a class requi.
ring but a low order Of intellect and but
little skill. Its requisites are vigor. docili.
ty, fidelity. Such a class you must have,
or you would not have that other class
which leads progress, refinement, and civ
ilization. 1t constitutes the very mud ,sills
of society and of politics; and you might
as well attempt to build house in the air,
as to build either the one or other, except
on the mud .sills. Fortunately for the
South, she found race adapted to that
purpose to her hand-a race inferior to
herself, but eminently qualified, in temper,
in vigor in dociity, in capacity to stand
the Climate, to answer all her purposes. -
We use them for the purpose, aud call them
slaves. We are old-fashioned at the South
yet; it is a word discarded now by ears po.
lite; bnt I will not characterize that class
at the North with that term; but you have
it; it is tbere; it is everywhere; it is eternal.
The Senator from New York said yes.
terday that the whole world had abolished
slavery. Ay, the name, but not the thing;
and all the powers of the earth cannot
abolish it. God only can do it when be
rspeals the fiat "the poor ye always have
with you;" for tie mau who lives by dali
ly labor, and scarcely lives at that, and who
has to put out his labor in the markets t,and
take the best he can get for it; in short
your whole class of manuel laborers and
operatives, as you call them, are slaves
The difference between us is, that our
slaves are hired for life, and we'll compen.
sated theLe is no starvation, no begging,
no want of employment, among our peo-
pie, and not too much employ jment either.
Yours are hired by the day, not cared for,
and scantily compensated, which may be
proved in the most depIorable manner, at
any hour, in any street in any of your large
towns. Why, sir, you meet more beggars
in one day in any single street in the city
of New York, than you would meet in
life. time in the whole South Our slaves
are black, of another, inferior race. The
status in which we have placed them is an
elevation. They are elevated from the
condition in which God first created them,
by being made our slaves. None Of that
race on the whole face of the globe can be
compared with the slaves of the South, and |
they know it. They are happy, content,
unaspiring, and utterly incapable, from deg |
radiation, ever to give us any trouble by
their aspirations.
Your slaves are white, ofyour own race;
you are brothers of one blood. They are
your equals in natural endowment of intel
lect, and they feel CALLED by their degra-
dation' Our slaves do not vote. We
give them no political power. Yours do
vote, and being the majority, they are the
depositaries of all your political power
If they knew the tremendous secret, that
the bsIlot-box is stronger than an army
with bayonetts, aud could combine, where
would you be9 Your society would be
reconstructed, your government reconstruc'
ted, your property divided. not as they
have mistakenly attempted to initiate such
proceedings by meeting in parks, with arms
in their hands, but by the quiet process OF
the ballot,box. You have been making
warupon US to our very hearthssones'- =
How would you like for us to send lectu.
rers or agitators North to teach these peo-
pie this, to aid and assist in combining; and
to lead them?
Mr. Wilson and Others. Send them
along.