Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-04-08
Democracy North and South.

Ex-Governor Hammond, of South Carolina,
Senator of the United States, and of course
a leading member in full communion with
Mr. Buchanan's free trade and pro slavery
wing of selfstyled Democracy" delivered
speech in the L. S. Senate on the 4th ult. in
which the we'll known contempt of the slave
holders for laboring men is fearlessly express
sed. Some of the passages in this speech are
exceedingly rich. We give one by way of
sample:
NORTHERN LABoRERs ARE BUT SLAVES.
The Senator from New York said yester-
day that the whole world had abolished slav-
cry. Ay, the name, but not the thing; and
all the powers of earth cannot abolish it.
God only can do it when he repeals the fat.
the poor ye always have with you;' for the
man fpho Ices by daily labor, and scarcelv
tires at that, and aOlo has to put om his labor
IN tie market and take the best he can oet for
tin short, your schole class Of manual la,
-borers and Operatives, as you call them, are
SLAVES. The difference between US is, that
our slaves are hired for life, and well compen-
stated; there is no starvation, no begging, no
want oil employment among our people, and
not too much employment either. Yours are
hired by the day, not cared for, and scantiiy
compensated, which may be proved in the
most deplorable manner, at any hour, in any
street in any Of your large towns. Wby, Sir.
you meet more beggsrs in one day in any
eIty OF New York, than you would meet in a
lifetime in the whole Sonth. Our slaves are
black of another, inferior race The status
in which we hare placed them is an elevation.
They are elevated from the condition in which
God fret created them By being made our
slaves. None OF that race on the whole face
81 the globe, r~n be coIo pared with the slaves
"i the South, and hey know It. They are
ha3py content, aNsafiFiug, and utterly inca
sable, nom tateiieciual degradation, ever to
give Us any trouble by t..eir aspirations.
toUf $t0tes ars achtt, 0t y0ur oscn race
4oa are tr0tters Of one blood Theg are uour
equals a. natural endowment Of intellect, and
shey feel CALLED by their degradation. Our
elaSes do not vote. We give them no poIitj-
cal power. Yours do vote, and being the ma.
1oEity' they are the repositories Of all your
9oh'ical aower. If they knew the tremcn.
i"as secret, that the ballot box is STRONGER
thau an army with bayonets. and could com.
bins--Wfere would you be? Your society
would be reconstructed, your esvernment re-.
con s'raeted, ycnr property divided no, "a
they have mistakenly attempted to initiate
such proceedings by meeting in parks with
arms in their hands, but by the quiet precess
OF the ballot box. You have been making
war upon us to our very hearth -stsnes. How
would you like for us to send lecturers or
2gltators North, to teach these people this. to
aid and assist in combining, and to lead
them ?"
This language is a little different from dem
those who rule the administration at Wash
ington, the sentiments will probably soon be
proclaimed as orthodox-unless the fact that
these northern slaves" have votes should
render it expedient to keep quiet. Here is
another specimen which was uttered in the
U. >. Senate last week by Senator from
georgia, during discussion on the bill TO in.
crease the army. He has, it will he seen n
high opinion of uolal,,teers:
Mr.. Iverson (Ga.) explained that he ;na;-
Fldaaily, was not IN favor of the employment
OF volunteer, RAW MILITIA, picked up in oroo
shops, that would be inefficient against the
Mormons They might defend trains posts
or be used on the frontier service, and thus
Eberate the regulars from Texas and else
where. he added that the government weuld
be satisfied with two regiments if it cannot
get four.
Mr.. Pugh lOhio) regarded volunteers as
preferable to regulars, but would move an
amendment that the clause requiring Greg
iment from State" read company"
Mr.. Cameron (Pa.) said that Mr.. Iverson
was wrong in characterizing volunteers an
picked up in grog shops He himself, the
other dag, presented the offer of n nnifnrmed
company Of the most respectable young men