Daily national Democrat., 1858-08-15
Wh=skt all Means.

. deliberate insult which was palu then Oy a
I leader Of the Lecompton party in the Senate
= of the United States-an insult, too, which
had been endorsed by Lecompton papers in
various quarters Of the Union. They were
, called the Mudsills of society, white Slaves
who we're no better than the "niggers' of
the South. The only difference that the Le-
compton leader, Hammond, made between
the two classes was, that the white sldreS, as
he called them, had intelligence, and could
rise up In rebellion against their masters and
give them a deal of trouble, while the black
slaves were more ignorant and the more easi
ly kept under He congratulated the South
on the advantage which she had over the
North in her black slaves She could manage
them so much more easily, and they Away
knew their places and didn't thrust themselves
among their betters There are many thou
sands Of laboring chite men in the South, and
the Lecompton Mudsill slur applies to them
as well.
We say, we are astonished that any intelli-
gent nativoborn or foreign born American
citizen, whose pride and glory it is to be
found among the working classes earning his
honest living by the sweat of his brow, can
tamely submit to such gross and damnable
nsult-can SO bemean the manhood that is in
him as TO, dog like, lick the hand that smites
him, and slavishly "hurrah" for those FEEDER
al Lecompton leaders whose sentiments are
SO well represented by their Senatorial
champion, Hammond. Itis scarcely possible
for US to conceive of human being who has
ever breathcd the atmosphere of American
liberty, with soul so shriveled up in the
littleness of dastardly and contemplate
man-worship. Can there be any free born
man in the whole limits of this Union, who
does not know that the very constitution of
our common country and the very spirit Of
our free institutions places on the same
broad political basis the poor man and the
rich man, the working m and the man who
does not work, the masses of the people and
the creature of their will who represents
them? Knowing it to be so-knowing that
here, in this free land of America, the horny
palm of t. honest laborer does not disgrace
| by its contact the hand of the noblest or the
wealthiest in the community, but that on the
contrary the noblest and wealthiest have
sprung from this same class-why does not
every working man, Of pride and spirit, re.
pudate, at once and forever the men and
party who deny these fundamental principles
of American equality, and would make be
tween American citizens those distinctions
which ave characterized for ages the aris
t. cratic, monarchical and despotic govern.
ments of Europe Is there any one SO blind
) as not to see whittier this Lecompton suirit
is tending? To keep down the laboring
classes is in perfect harmony with the lie.
compton doctrine, as preached in the Senate
of the United States, and iterated and reiter-
ated in the Lecompton Conventions, which is
that the Representatives of the people, the
persons who happen to be ele ted by the
people, or pretend to be elected 10y the peo-
pie, are better than the people themselves /;
and if they say that the people must have
, constitutions they must have them, and in
short that tits for them and not the people
to say what sha or shall not be done, in
matters of government
We solemnly warn the people, in all can.
dor and sincerity, that this Mudsill slur
means something, and this new tangled doc
trinc Of Representation instead of the
good old fashioned Democracy that our faith
ers believed in, means something 1t means
that the first blow has been struck in this
Nation against popular liberty and that that
blow is to be repeated until either the peo.
p or their enemies shall fall in the contest
1t means that, under the plea that the acts
of the socalled Representatives are conclu
sive, the power which originally vested in
the masses shall be as far removed from them
as possible, by means OF constitutional cen
ventions and other political bodies that the
reins of government shall be gathered in the
hands Of the fer instead of the many, and
that the rudiments of monarchy are to be
engraited into our republic. 1t needs no
argument to show the truth of what we as
sert. If Congress has no right to go behind
the action Of so-called Representatives, in u
Territory, to enquire whether State Con-
stitudon is really approved by the people.
1t certainly has no right to do a similar thing
In State already organized Very well.
what Is the consequence ? Why, simply
this tsat the so-cailed Representatives of the
people in State may call constitutional
convention, frame constitution most odious
to the people in lieu of the one already exis-
tin and fasten it upon them. The people
would protest to Congress that it was not their
constitution. Congress would say, 1--WE cant
go behind the action ofyour Representatives.
recognize their action as valid" .Nouyh
but the blindness Of political bat, that
roosts in the unsunned caverns of polite Il
ignorance could fail to see the ruinous con
sequences to which such condition of
things would lead The people would rebel
against the State Government established
under snch a constitution, and the military
arm OF the Federal Authority would be called
in requistion to put down inswrectioa Thus
would be laid sure plan for uprooting pop
ular liberty. Ono by one would the consti
tutions' approved by the people, give way to
the constitutions approved by their SO ca led
Representatives, and ere long the who,e e
fabric OF State Sovereignty would fall to the
ground. These are matters for the consid .
Grafton of patriots, and. truly when the lib.
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