The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-09-24
mud silisv Read.
The issue which Involves the
Rirhla of Eran Lahnrnra.

5NlNeuh tNNhu bilaf ho WhN HNt''f"'' f"t
ioal, and he who performs intellectual Ia
Dor are equal in natural as we'll as civil
rights. No law should make disiinc-
ton in favor one to the disadvantage OF the
other. Both should have the fullest right
10 enjoy the fruit Of their own labor Ev-
cry kind Of labor is alike enobling, whether
Of the head or hand. No kind Of labor
should be regarded IS degradng-rather
let this be said Of those who are willingly
idle and vicious, for they are really the onos
who meritonously deserve TO be thu'
We hold the truth 10 be self
evident that he who seeks TO degrade
physical labor, is an enemy 10 his race. But
such degradation is the support Of all aris.
tooratio systems, and especially that which
seeks to encompass domains once con.
secraled 10 freedom. It divides mankind,
in regard 10 natural and civil rights, into
two classes--tho superior and the inferior.
Il makes the one masters and lords, and
dooms the other TO drudgory and servili-
ty, rs we'll as intellectual and moral dark
ness. According to the leading organ Of
Democracy Il is necessary thus to degrade
what is termed the inferior class, (labor-
ers) in order that the superior may be
elevated. This plea Of the necessity
Of the case is no new thing (;
for, Il has always been the argument Of
tyranls, aristocrats aud monopolists.--
They say II is necessary that part Of the
human family should be doomed to hard
physical and hopeless toll, yea even bond
age, in order that their superiors, as they
style themselves, may DO supported in
luxury aud idleness, and keep the under
lngs who labor in order aud subjeotion,
No better proof is required Of this fact
than tho subjoined extract from speech
Of Senator Hammond, delivered in the
United States Senate on the 4th Of March
ast, on the admission Of Kansas.
''ln all social systems, there must be
class to do the menial duties, to perform
the drudgery Of life-that is, class re-.
quiring but low order Of intellect and
but little skill It's requisites are vigor,
dooiity and fidelity. Such class you
must have, or you would not have that
other class which leads to progress, civil
izatiou aud refinement. IL constitutes the
yorl msI sU of sooietv and nnlitin"l gov.
ernmenti and you might as well attempt
to build a house in the air, as TO build
either the one or the other, except on
this mud sill. Fortunately for the South
she found a race adapted to that puipos,
to her hand--a race inferior to her own
but ominently qualified, in temper. in
vigor, in dooility, in capacity, to stand
the climate, to answer all purposes. We
use them for our purpose, aud call them
slaves, We found them slaves by com.
mon consent Of mankind, which accord
ing to Cicero, Ger natur0 osf'--thC
highest proof Of what is Natures law
We ara old fashioned at the South--yet
it is a word discarded now by tears DO
lite" ] will not characterize that class
at the North with that term; but you hav,
il; it is everywhere; il is eternal"
Free Laborers Of the North are you
willing to subscribe to the doctrine pro,
mulgated in the above paragraph? Tho
ineffable scorn aud contempt with which
tho slare holding aristocracy regard tn,
laboring classes, is here most forciby and
deliberately portrayed, That class is The
mud sW of refined society, Of civil gov
ernment - without which neither can b,
built or can stand, The laboring men
those who toll in the field or in the shol
must lie aud wallow in the mud, Will
their betters are elevated upon their bodie
to a higher position and breath a pure
air, Such is the estimation. fellow labor
ers Of the North, in which you are hell
by the champion of slavery extension
and the leaders Of tho so called Nations
Democracy" Read over the paragrap
quoted above until you understand It
full meaning, and we don't think you wi
accuse us of misrepresentation. Senate
Hammond speaks, as will be seen, 70
the whole South, aud usos the pronou
"iSs," meaning himself and brother slave
holders They, says he, found tins ma,
sW in the slaves, He will not call tha
class at the North by the name Of slave
what class does he mean but the laborin
olassG-yet he aliirms the mud siH q
slavery exists here, it is everywhere. il
eternal Here, then, according to Sen
atOr Hammond, aud the same principle
have been enunoialed by the leading OF
gan Of Democracy in the United States
the hboring class is doomed eterually
whatever their pedigree, foreigners O
Americans, TO state Of irretlieyabl
slavory--to constitute the mud sW Of so
oiety and Of government. These are th
degrading epithets made use Of by IN
leaders Of the Democratic party, an
to the ,0isdom of the party Judge Hal
yields up blind adhesion.
Free Lahorers Of the Ninth Congress
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