Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-16
A Model administration speech

Saiotlua mas not Oeeu represented IN tiAHPI
branch OF Congress, till the present session, by
men coming up to their stature. either in ability
or IN their radieaness and thoroughness in de.
fence of the peculiar institution" Governor
Hammond fully sustains the ultra pro-slavery
character acquired by the Palmetto State during
her palmiest days Of notification and extreme de.
fence Of the "patriarchal institution" And for
this reason, he is, IN a stronger sense than any
other man now in the national councils, probably
the embodiment and representative of the politi-
cal ideas necessary to constitute "a true blue Lee
compton, administration Democrat. In his
speech in the Senate, March 4, in defence of the
Lecompton constitution for Kanzas, Gov. Ham
mand, who represents South Carolina in that body
the successor of the late Judge Butler, said, as
reported in the Globe:
"In all social systems there must be a class TO
do all the mean duties, to perform the drudgery
oflife. That is class requiring but low order
of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are
vIgor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must
have, you would not have that other class
which leads progress. refinement, aud cigza.
ton. 1t constitutes the very mud sils of society
and OF political government, and you might as
well attempt to build a house in the air as to
build either the one or the other, except on the
mud-sills. Fortunately for the South, she found
a adapted to that purpose to her hand-a
race inferior to herself, but eminently qualified,
in 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 every.
where ; il is eternal.
The senator from New York said Yesterday
that the whole world had abolished slavery. Az,
the name. but not the thing and all the powers
Of the earth cannot abolish it. God only can do
it when he repeats the fat, the poor ye always
have with you; for the man who lives by daily
labor, aad scarcely lives at that, and who has TO
put out his labor in the market, and take the best
he can get for it, in short, your whole class of
manual laDorers and operatives as YOU call them,
are slaves, The difference between us is that
our slaves are hired for life, and are well compen-
stated ; there is no starvation, begging, no
want OF employment. among our people, and moi
too much employment either. Yours are hired
by the day, not cared for and scantlly compensa-
ted, 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 bcggars
IN one day, in any single street in the city fNew
York, than you would meet in a lifetime in the
whole South. Our slaves black, of another
inferior race The status in which we have placed
them is elevation. They are elevaled from the
condition in (which God first created them, bv be-
ing 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, aud utterly incopa-
BILE, from intellectual degradation, ever to give us
any trouble by their aspirations.
Your slaves white, of your own race; you
are brothers of one blood. They are your EQUALS
in natural endowment of intellect, and they feel
CALLED by their degradation. Our slaves do not
vote. We give them no political power. Yours
do vote, and being the majority, they the de-
posltarles 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 be Your soci-
ETY. would be re constructed, your government re-
constructed, your property divided. not as they
have mistakenly attempted to initiate such pro-
ceedlngs 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
hearth stones How would you like for US to
send lecturers or agitators North, 10 teach these
people this, to aid and assist in combining, and
to lead them?
Mr.. Wilson and others-Send them along.
Mr.. Hammond-You say, send them North
There is no need of that they are coming here
They are laundering at our doors for hnmesteads
of one hundred and sixty acres of land for moth.
ing, and southern Senators are supporting it.
Nay, they assembling as l have said with
arms in their hands, and demanding work at one
thousand dollars year. and six hours a day.
Have you heard that the ghost of Mendoza is
stalking IN the streets of your big cities that
fearful rumor that there have been consultations
for vigilance committees. You know what that
means already. Transient and temporary causes
have thus far been your preservation. The great
West has been open to your surplus population,
and your hordes of semi barbarian emigrants,
who are crowding in year by year They make a
great movement, and you call it progress.
whittier? 1t is progress, but it is progress to.
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sustained you in great measure. You are our
factors. You bring and carry for US. One hun.
dred and hity millions OF dollars of our money
pass annually through your hands. Much of it
stcksi all OF it assists to keep your machinery
together and in motion. Suppose we were to
discharge you; suppose we were to take our bus
mess out of yolr hands; we should consign you
to anarchy and poverty"
1t is such doctrine as this that the course pur-
sued by the model men of the present Admins
tration naturally leads them TO adopt and en-
dDrse. 1t is similar to the dogma formerly pro-
mulgated by the Cahouns, McDufies, &c, who
were once the ornaments and idols of the Palmet.
to State, and who boldly preached, as the funda-
mental basis of their Democracy" the doctrine
that 'the patrarchal institution of slavery is the
cornerstone of our republican institutions" and
that in all human society "the capitalists should
own the lcborers ;" that is, that the proprietors
in business establishments of every kind should
own and have the right of sale, as SO much mer-
chandise, the bodies and all the personal effects
of the operatives and laborers of every kind en-
ployed by them. So Senator Hammonds is not
a very novel theory, after all, and it would not be
the most absurd thing in the world to find it soon
endorsed, in all its hideous proportions, by the
present Administration, as the test Of future
membership of the party, in all It's appointments
to Office.
A FAIR Hmm Cushing, in his speech in