Litchfield enquirer., 1858-04-01
LlTeHFlEI D, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1858.

i security, such as no other people ever enjoyed upon the face of the earth. Society precedes government creates it, and ought to contro | it but as far as we can look back III historic ti mes we find the cage different :; for govern ] ment is no sooner created than it becomes toe strong for society, and shapes and noulds, as well as controls 1t. In later centuries the pro gress of civilization and intelligence has made the divergence 50 great as to produce civil wars and revolutions and 1t IS notlng now but the want of harmony between govern ments and societies which occasions ali the un' casiness and trouble and terror that we see abroad. 1t was this that brought on the American Revolution We threx, off 2 gov. ernment not adapted to our social system, and made one for ourselves The question is, how far have we succeeded? The South, so far as that is concerned, is satisfied, content, harmo- nious and prosperous.
 LABoRING MEN BUT MUD-sILLs.
 In all social systems there must be a class to do the mean duties. to perform the drudge ry of life-that is, class requiring but low order of intellect and but little skill. Its re- quisites are vigour, dociiity, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, refine finement and civilization. It constitutes the very mud-sills of society and of political gov ernment and you might as we'll attempt to build house in the air as to build either the one or the other except on the mud-sills.. For tunately for the South, she found race adap- ted to that purpose to her hand--a race inferi- or to herself, but emiuently qualified ill temper, in vigor, 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 a word discarded now by ears polite but will not characterize that class at 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 York said, yester- day, that the whole world had abolished slave ry. 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 j" for tbe man aoho Aves by daily labour, and aoho scarce ty hres at that, end aeho las to put cut his lo- b0r an tie marhet and Jake the best Ae cum get tor at-sn short, your arhGle class of manual lodourers Gmd operatires, as gou call them, are stares. The difference between us is that our slaves arc hired for life and we'll compensated i; there Is no starvation, no begging, no want of employment among our people, and not too much employment either. Yours are hired by the day, not cared for, and scarcely compensa- ted, Winch may be proyedi III Jne most pforu- ble manner, tt uhy hour, in ally steet, in any of yoar large towns. Why, sir, you meet more beggars ill one day, in U single street of the City of New Yolk than you would meet in lifetime in the whole South. Our slaves are black, of another, inferior race. Tue statas in which we have placed them is an elevation. They are elevated from the condi- ton Ill 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 ut terly incapa ble, from intellectual degradation, ever to give us any trouble by their aspirations
 Your slares ore white, ot yow oasm race j; you ere 6rothers of one btood. 1Hey ore you, equals sn natural cndoumem of iatcdlect, and they feel gallcd by the degradation. Our slaves do not vote. We give them 10 political power. Yours do vote, and, being the major lty, they are the Repositories of all your po- litical power. If they knew the tremendous secret, that the hallot-box is stronger than all army with bayonets, aud could combine. e,.whcre would you be? Your society would be re- constructed, 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 war upon us to our very heartll-stones How would you like for us to send lecturers or agl- tators North, to teach these people this, to aid aud assist in combining, and to lead them
 Mir. WILSON and others.-Send them along.
 NORTHERN LABoRERs ARE BEseARs
 Mir. HAMMoSD.-You say send them North. There is no need of that They are coming here. They are laundering at our doors for homestcads of one hundred and sixty acres of land for nothing, and Southern Senators are supporting it. Nay, they are assembling, as l have said, with arms in their hands, aud de- manding work at 1000 year aud, six hours, day. Have you heard that the ghost of Men doza is stalking ill the streets of your big cit ies that the inqusiton is at hand ? There is adoat fearful rumor that there have been con sultations for vigilance committees. You know what that means already. Transient and tenn porary causes have thus far been your preser- vation. The great West has been open to your surplus population, and your hordes of standardization emigrants, who are croWding in year by year. They make great movement, and you call it progress. Whithcr It is progress, but it is progress toward vigilance fI1,n hot cfosn nads yfs1 great measure You are our factors. You bring and carry for us. $.5D,0o0, GOO of our money passes annually through yonf hands Much oft sticks {; all of it assists to keep your machinery together and ill motion. Sup pose we were to discharge you suppose we were to take cur bnsiness out of your hands ; we should -consign you to anarchy aud pow erty.