The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-03-27

q house in the air, as to build either the one
or the other except on the mud sills. Fortu-
natc'y for the South she found race adapted
TO that purpose to her hand A race inferior
to herself, but emincutly qualified IN temper
in vigor, in docility ia capacity TO stand the
climate to answer all her purposes. We use
them for the purpose, and call them slaves =
We are oldinshoucd Mt the Sonth yet; it is II
word discarded now by ears polite: but will
not characterize that class ut the North with
that term; but You have it.; it is there; it is
everywhere; il is eternal.
The Senator from New York said yesterday
that the who c world had abolished slavery
| Ay, the name, but not the thing; and all the
powers of the earth canlot abolish it, God
only can do it when he repeals the Fai, "the
poor We always have with you;" for the man
who lives by daily labor and 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 mammal laborcrS and
operatives, aS you call them are slaves The
difference between MS is that our slaves are
hired for life and well conpensntcd; there is
no starvation, no begging, no want Of employ.
ment among our people, and not too much en-
lploymcnt either. Yours are hired by the day,
not cared for and scantily compensated, which
may be proved in the most deplorahlc man
ncr, at any hour, ia any street in any Of your
large towns. Why, Sir, you meet more beg.
gnrs in one Cay, III any single street Of the ci-
iy Of New York, than you would meet in Il
I lifetime in the whole South. Onr slaves are
i black, Of another inferior race The aqtus in
which We have placed them IL ~ elevation :
They are elevated from the condition in which
God first created them, by being made our
slaves. None of that race OH the whole face
Of the globe can be compared with the slave,
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 slaves are white Of Your own race
You are brothers of one blood They are yonI
equals in natural endowment of intellect and
they feel CALLED by their degradation. Our
slaves do not vote. We give them no politi-
cal power. Yours do vote, and being the ma
iorty, they are the dcpositnricS of all your po.
litcal power. II they knew the tremendous
secret that the ballot box is stronger than IN
army with bayonctS, aud could combine, where
would You be? Your sorrty woud b, re.
constructed, your government reconstructed
your property divided not ns they have mis-
takenly attempted to initiate such proceedings
by meeting in parks, with arms in ,hcir hands,
but by the quiet process Of the billoi-boN -
iou have been making war upon Us to our
very hcarth-Stones. How would YOU Ike for
Us 10 send lecturers or ngitntorS North, 10 teach
these people this, to aid and assist in combin.
ing, and to lead them?
Mr.. WILSON and others Send them
along.
Mr. HAMMOND. You say, send then
North. There is no need Of that They are
coming here. They are laundering nj our
doors for homcstcads Of one hundred and SIX
ty acres Of land for nothing and Southern
Senators are supporting it. Nay, they are rs.
scmbling, as | have said with arms in their
hands, and demanding work at 81 900 year
and six hours a day Have you heard that
the ghost OF Mendoza is stalking in the streets
Of your big cities; that the nqnsiton is at
hnnd There is aloat n fearful rumor that
there have been consultations for vigilance
committees. You know what that means
already. Transient and temporary causes
haze thus far becu your preservation The
great West has been open to yonr >urplu, 30.
pulaton, and your hords Of scmi-barbarian
emgrants who are crowdng in year by year.
They make great movement, and you rnII it
progress, Whittier? 1t is progress; but it IS
progress towards vigilance committees The
South have sustained you in great measure.
You are our factors You bring and carry for
us. One hundred and fifty million dollars Of
onr money passes annually through your hands
Much of it sticks; all of it assists to keep
your machinery together and in notion Sup.
pose we were to discharge you; suppose we
were to take our business out of your hands;
we should consign you to anarchy and poverty.
You complain of the rule Of the South: that
has been another cause that has preserved
you We have kept the Government conscr-
vative to the great purpose of 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 Sc.
nator from New York says that that is about
to be at an end; that you intend to take the
Government from us; that it will pass from
our hands, Perhaps what he says is true; it
may be; but do not forgct-it can never be
forgotten; it is written on the brightest page
Of human history-tIat We, the Shareholders
of the South, took our country in her infancy
and, after ruling her for sixty out Of the seven