Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-07-02

Judge fancy VS.. senator Hammond.
Some time since we alluded to Senator
Hammond's defence of slavery in general on
the ground of its suitableness and necessity
in the nature of society, He divided oil
mankind into two classes, the servants and
the served, and contended that these distinc
tions exist from birth. lie claimed that all
laborers, black and white, stood upon the
same level, and should be owncd by those for
whom they labored. He characterized all
men who work with their hands, be they
black or white, northern mechanics and
farmers, or southern plantation slaves, as
the Mud. Sills of society. And he concluded
by prophesying in eloquent and impassioned
language, that the progress of the age was
rapidly hurrying on that time, which kings
and prophets longed to see in vain, when all
these classes should in fact as we'll as in
theory stand where the negro slave of the
South now stands, in the position of slaves !;
when every northern white mechanic, farmer
and laborer would have his owner, and
slavery of whites as we'll as blacks cover all
our country with its blessings. By the way,
rs we hear some talk of amalgamationists,
We think that this speech, made in the United
States Senate by a Democratic Buchanan
Senator, is one of the most decided amalga-
nation speeches ever uttered in this country.
Judge fancy, in the bred Scott decision,
prepared the way for this speech, by
declaring it to be the law of the land, that
the constitution carried slavery with it into
all the territories of the United States, and
intimating that the question whether it did
or did not carry it into all the States and
protect it there, was yet to be decided.
Judge fancy judicially declares that the
constitution carries African slavery wherever
itgoes. Senator Hammond officially declares
that white slavery stands on the same footing
and is equally as proper. Such is the pres.
ent position of the masters of the Buchanan
Democracy.
To show how rapidly our political rulers
and Southern Democracy are advancing in
political science, we give an extract from a
speech of this same Mr.. fancy, in 1919, on
the subject of slavery. He was defending a
Methodist minister, who had been indicted
at the March Term of the Frederick County
Court, Md, fr preaching an incendiary
sermon. Judge fancy said:
"There is no law that forbids us to speak
of slavery as we think of it, A hard neces-
sity, indeed, compels us to endure the evil o:
slavery for time 1t cannot be easily or
suddenly removed. Yet while it continues,
1t is a blot on our national character, and
every real lover of freedom confidently hopes
that it will be effectually, though it must be
gradually, wiped a,0ay, and earnestly looks
for the mans by which this necessary object
may be attained. And until it shall be
accomplished, until the time shall come
when we can point without a blush to the
language held in the Declaration of indie.
pendence, erery friend of humanity will seek
to Tighten the calling chain of slavery, and
better to the almost Of his porer the wretched
condition of the slave"
Judge fancy, in 1919, regarded slavery as
a"6lot upon our national character" and a
"hard necessity" and an 'evil' to be
endured only for "a time" confidently
hopes. that itwiH be efectually wipsd awaU"
''earnest7y looks for The means" of wiping it
away; cannot sspoint without a blush to the
Declaration Of Independence" while it lasts;
and will "lighten the CALLING chain and bet
ter the wretched condition Of the szave to the
almost of his power" A pretty good abo-
lition speech-far stronger than the Repub-
lican Platform. The Republican party only
seek to defend the territories yet unsettled,
and free from slavery, from this "hard
necessity" "blot" and 'eril;" to keep it
from spreading and "being imposed on"
new States. as Mr.. fancy says it was imposed
on US, against their will
But the ssharmonious Democracy have
progressed, and Judge fancy with them.
Judge fancy Of 1858 no longer thinks of
"wiping away the ssblot'' and sshard neces-
sity;' but of spreading and protecting it in
new territories, and even in the free States,
and Senator Hammond progressing in
another direction, advocates the extension of
the "hard necessity" from the black race to
the white, SO rs to include all laborers,
under the dark 'blot" Truly, we are
progressive people!
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