Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-04-01

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your whole class of manual laborers and
operatives, as you call them, are slaves.
The difference between us is, that ouf
slaves are hired for life and well compen-
sated; there is no starvation, no begging,
no want of employment among our pee.
pie, and not too much employment either.
Yours are hired by the day, not cared fot.
and scantily compensated, which may be
proved in the most deplorable manner, at
any hour, in any street in any of your
large towns. Why, Sir, you meet more
beggers in one day, in any single street Of
the City of New York, than yen would
meet in lifetime 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 Gre
aled 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 in-
capable from intellectual degradation, ever
to give us any trouble by their aspirations.
Your slares are white, of your oun race;
yoa are brothers of one blood. They are
your equals IN natural endowment of IN
tellect, and they feel CALLED by their de-
graduation. 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 ballot-box is stronger than an army
with bayonets, and could combine, where
would you bea Your society would be
reconstructed, your government reconstruct
ed, your property divided, not as they
have mistakenly attempted to initiate such
proceedings by meeting in parks, with
armsi in their hands, but by qtiet process
of the baIlot-box. You have been making
war upon us to our very hearth-stones.--
How would you like for us TO send lecturers
or agitators North, TO teach these people
this, to aid and assist in combining, and to
lead them? -,
Mr.. Wilson and others Is Send them
along.
NORTHERN LABoRERs ARE BEaGARs.
Mr.. Hammond-You say, send them
North. There is no need of that. They
are coming here. They are thundering at
our doors for homesteads .of one hundred
and sixty acres of land for nothing, and
Southern Senators are supporting it. Nay,
they are assembling, as have said, with
arms in their hands, and demanding work
at 81, 900 year and six hours q day
Have you heard that the ghost Of Mendoza
is stalking in the streets of your big cities;
that the inquisition is at hand? There is
afloat fearful rumor that there have been
consultations for vigilance committees
You know what that means already
Transient and temporary cause have thus
far been your preservation. The great
West hes been open TO your surplus popu-
lation, and your hordes Of semi-barbarian
eInegrants, who are crowding in year BY
year. They make great movement, and
you call it progress. Whithers 1t isl pro
gress, but it is progress toward vigilance
committees. The South have sustained
you in great measure. You are our fac
tors. You bring and carry for us. $780,
100000 of our money passes annually
through your hands. Much of it sticks;
all of it assists to keep your machinery to-
gether and in motion. Suppose we were
to discharge you; suppose we were TO faks
our business out of your hands; we should
cousign you to anarchy and poverty.
SOUTHERN RULE GLORIOUS ANE BENEFIT
CENT.
You complain of the rule of the South;
that has been another cause that has pre-
served you. We have kept the Govern
ment. We have placed her and kept her
upon the Constitution; and that has been
the cause of your peace and prosperity
The Senator from New York says that IS
about to be at an end; that it will pass
from our hands. Perhaps what he says is
true; it may be; but do not forget-it can
never be forgotten, it is written on the
brightest page of human history-that we,
the shareholders of the South, took our
country in her infancy, and, after ruling
her for sixty out of the seventy years OF
her existence, we shall surrender her to
you without stain upon her honor, bound
less in prosperity, iacalculabls in her
strength, the wonder and the admiration Of
the world. Time will show what you will
make of her, but no time can diminish our
glory or your responsibility.
REMARKABLE WORKS OF HUMAN La
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