Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-08
POOR WHITES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

! A South Carolinian writes to the Wisconsin
Chief in reply TO Senator llammonds aspersions
upon Northern laborers as follows:
! Without any fear OF successful contradiction
| venture the assertion. that, according to white
naiire population, there cannot be found IN the
American Union, larger proportion Of poverty
>t'icken gnVrauuses thrn Mr.. Hammond has
Ne h nor 10 represent la one district, in which,
| | think Mr. Hammond at one trlc resided ami
ncr.ups was raised, it is u notorious fact, thai
/ dis class hold the balance of pOwer-are the
nltSters of the leaders who can but despse them.
and actually dispense their iavors as voters, nc.
cprdng to the wealth of the aspiring Gema-
.ogues, and its distribution among them before
aud On election days. 1t is well known here, that
during canvass for Senatorial honors in the
State Legislature, few years since, between u
late Governor and another distinguished politi-
cian, not less than Sl0000 we're paid out 5y each
party, Cor gros, bacon -four, clothing, tobacco, &c
given unblushincly by their pnrtzan tools. 10
these eierotea freenren, equivalent for their
votes. Enclosures, called "bull pens" have been
erected in different parts of said districts to
which numbers of these voters pledged to, and
perhaps fed by both parties, have heen conveyed
confined, and guarded for days, apd perhaps
weeks before Ihh election. as security for their
nnh;ical fidelity not Ctirerwise to lie obtained
" hile in these pens they fare sumptuously on
grog and like denominations. On election morn
wish, and, of course, are soon drunk. They are
then piled into wagons, by slaves, and hurried off
to the polls There they are laid out in the same
way, by the ddrkies, until wanted. When one
awakes from his stupor, drink is rendered by
the distinguished keeper, which, Of course, is
ceptcd, las the chance for such free iudulgences
will soon be over, and, arm in arm, they march
to the ballot box. There or perhaps on the way,
the said keeper places vote in the victims hand
and sees him. by tremendous effort against grav
tation and groG, deposit IT in the ballot-box, the
sacred bulwark of freedom. The services OF the
poor vagabond are then no longer needed, and he
is turned loose, perhaps several miles from home
to make his way thither as best he eau and bidc
his time until another horde Of demogogues may
call for his suffrage.
With such living examples Of poverty and deg
radiation before the eyes Of Mr.. Hammond AT
home there might be some excuse for his vile
SANDER, were it not that there is more meanness
exhibited by the rich intelligent rascals who pan
dor to such baseness, and are the systematic cor
ruptors of those to whom they would deny all pu-
itical rights as freetnen, If those poor degraded
creatures are be denied their political rights
account of their ignorance and corruption, how
much more should be denied their vile but more
Intelligent cOrTuptors
The South has its slaves Of necessity, in equal
ratio TO its white ndhue population. with the
North. Immigration may give the North few
more poor whites on account Of the immense
inhux OF foreigners hut southern slavery denies
the demand for the labor Of the immigrantit it must
he arranged TO answer for any disproportion here.
Yes, Soath Carolina has not only its ratio Of these
slaves of necessity as Mr.. Hammond would term
the poor white man. but it has a population OF
more than one half, who are not only slaves OF
necessity, but ignorant and degraded slaves by
legal enactment! Slaves who arc compelled to go
az tho bidding of a master--frequently the slaves
Inierlor--and submit 10 lust such "a tyranny as
ought to be laid on Mr.. Hammond and all similar
advocates Of It's advantages until he and they
learned more of the philosophy Of goveTnment-a
science which he pretends to understand and
teach Yes, he, aud all who utter or cuuntenance
such ISLANDERS against the free laborers Of this
Republic, should be WHIPPED by their strong arms