The Nevada Democrat., 1858-05-26


The Mud-SilIs-Mr. HammOnd's Speech.
In common with the leading Lecompton pa
pers of the country, the S. f. Globe, few weeks
since, quoted approvingly that portion of the
speech of Senator Hammond, in which he calls
laboring white men the mud-slls of society," and
ranks them on par with the slaves of the
South. The Globe goes farther than the most
OF its co-workers, and in its issue OF May goth
gets off a labored defense of the sentiments ut
tered by the South Carolina Sena tor, and asks
if there is an intelligent man who denies the
soundness of the philosophy, or the correctness
Of the assertions contained in the following
quotation from the speech alluded to:
Sin all social systems there must be a class TO do the
menia duties to perform the drudgery of life That is
class requiring but low order of intellect and but little
skill Its requisites vigor, docility, fidelity. Such
class you must have you would not have that other
class which leads to progress civilization and refinement
1t constitutes the very muds Of society and of political
government; and you might as well attempt to build
house in the air as to build ehe. the one or the other
except this mud-si Fortunately for the South she
found adapted TO that purpose to her hand-a
inferior to her own but eminently qualified in temper in
yigor in doclity, in capacity, to stand the climate
swer all her purposes We them for purpose and
call them slaves We found them ST. YES by the common
consent of mankind which, according to Cicero, Ter
h1G est; tie highest proof of what is Natures law We
odfashoned at the South yeti ii word discarded
by ears polite will not characterize that class
the North with that term but you have it, II is there it
is everywhere; it is eternal
awe do not think that whites should DC slaves either
by law necessity Our slaves black of another and
inferior race The status in which have placed them is
an elevation. They are elevated from the condition in
which God first created them, by being our slaves
None of that the whole face Of the globe can be
compared with the slaves of the South. They happy
content piring and utterly inca pabe from ntcec
tua Weakness to give any trouble by their asp
ntions. Yours are white, OF your race; you are
brothers of one blood They your EQUALS in natural
endowment of intellect and they feel CALLED by their deg
radiation Our slaves do not vote We give them no po-
litical power. Yours do vote. and being the majority
they are the depositaries of all your political power. Ii
they knew the tremendous secret that the balotbox is
stronger than army with banners and could combine
where would you be Your society would be reconstruct
ed your government overthrown your property divided
not as they have mistakenly attempted to initiate such
pr cecdngs by meeting in parks with in their hands
but by the quiet process of the ballot-box You have
been making upon our very hearthstoncs How
would you like for us to send lecturers and agators
North to teach tfee people this, to aid in combining and
The above sentiments were we'll and nobly
answered by Mr.. Broderick. II am glad" said
he, "that the Senator has thus spoken. 1t may
have the effect Of arousing in the working men
that spirit which has been lying dormant for
centuries" And while he admits that the la
WI /" b ihiii'Ouo ouoHliG tOO tdtHety 10 OpVrcS-
sion, and are too prone to neglect their rights
and duties as citizens he predicts that the day
is not distant when they will assert their polit-
cal rights, and control the destinies of this ma
tion. 1t is not surprising that the earnest ut
terancs of these sentiments by Mr.. Brederick,
and his well-known sympathies with the toiling
masses, should call down upon him the Gercest
dcnunciatiOns from the mushroom aristocrats
who flourish for brief hour upon federal pat
ronage, and riot for the time being on the
"spoils" wrung from the "mud-sills of society," y
whom they denounce as slaves.
The speech of Mr.. Hammond would have been
considered orthodox by the old Federal party
and it is a singular fact that the LecomptoniteI
are compelled to resort to the long since repu-
dated doctrines of that party, in order to sus-
tain the minority rule in Kansas We would
not attempt to array one class of the commu.
nifty against another, and should have deemed
the remarks of Mr.. Hammond as scarcely wor-
thy of notice had they not been aequiesced in
by the leading Lecompton papers. We very
much mistake the character of the American
people if they sustain such doctrines or those
who advocate them.