Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1859-06-17
The Democratic Party on Free Labor
The Morality Of Slavery and Free
Schools--Keep IL before the people

We hapPen to have helore US certain pre-
eious documents putlished by the black de-
moeracy heiorc The last Presidential election,
giving the opinions OF the leaders upon ircc
labor. tree schools. and other matters met
dentally connected with the social system Ut
our country. We here make a lew extracts
Tor the special benr6t Of oar democratic
friends who still cling TO the rotten hulk Of
Buehanan democracy. IN order that they
may see the company they keep. and the
expansive, benevolent IDEAS Of their leaders
in the Soath. First. We will give an extract
from work Published In 1854, entitled
"SociotoGr FOR TuE SoUru. or ruE tAlL-
IRE o. FKEE SOCIETY,"" by GcOrgc FitIhugh.
This work wa, spoken Of aPprOyinsly by
many prominent southern democratic poll
tieians and newspapers.
Make the lahorins man the slave Of one
man. instead OF the slave VI society. and be
would be Ear better UtT." Two hundred
years Of liberty have made white lAb'rers =
pauper hudiJii" - Free society has fail
ed. and that which Is not free mus; b. sub
siitutei."
:" Saw the Aboli,ionis,s: "Man ought
not 90 have property In man" What a
drcAry. cbld, bleak. inh0-pitIhle world this
would h.. with such dortrine carried into
practice, "Sl,very ha. bren too universal
not 10 ba necessary % nature, aud man
struggles IN vain against nature 80 Free
society i a failure. We Shareholders say,
you must rcvur o. domestic slavery. the
oldest. the beet, and most common form Of
socialism
Free society i a monstrOus abortion,
and slavery the healthy, BEAUTIFUL and nat
ural heing which they are irving uncon-
sciously @ adopt" - The slaves are cuy-
erned lar better than the free laborer- at
the North are governed. Our nestocs are
not only better 90 a. 90 physical comfort
than irce labnrrrs, but their moral cOndi-
ton y better.
We do no, adop, the theory that Ham
was the ancestor % the negrO race. The
Jewish slaves were not negrucs and % cum
fne the justification Of slavery {, that race
would BE- 10 weaken its seriptual Authority,
and 70 lose the whole weight Of proiane au-
thority, for We read of no negro slavery in
ancient TINES slavery, black orwhiie,
IL right and necessary =" Nature has
made the weak in mind or body slave"
" The wise and yittuOus. lhe brave, the
strong in mind and body. are born TO COM
mand." Men are not born entitled to
equal rights. IL would ~ far nearer the
truth 20 say, that some were born with sad
dies on their hacks, and others booted and
spurred o. ride them-and the riding does
them good. They need the reins. the bit.
and the spur. - " Life and liberty ara not
inalienable." The Declaration of indie.
pendenee is eIuherantly false, and azores.
Gently fallaeious.'
The Richmond Inquirer Is ihs leading de-
nOerAtie paper in the whole South, aud has
been 50 AeEnowleiscd for years. During the
Pr sidrn,ial canvass in 1856. i, contained
the following. Read it, IL you are a sin
eeTe inquirer alter genuine, .non-pure de-
nocraey.
=. Until recently. the defense of slavery
has labored unirr great difficulties, because I
Its apologis,s-fur they were merely apollo
rists-tOOk half way grounds. They con.
fined the defense Of slavery % mere negro
slasery. thereby giving up the SLAVERY prin-
eiple, admitting other forms OF slavery to u
be wrong. and yielding up the authority OF
the Bibla, and Of the history, practices and
experience Vt mankind. Human experiences
showing the universal success Of slave socis.
ty. ami the universal failure of free society
was unavailing TO them, because they were
preeludej from employing u, by admitting
slavery in the abstract 90 be wrong"
"The democrats OF the South in the pres
snt canvass cannot rrly on the old grounds
Of defense and excuse Tor slavery; for they
seek not Her,ly 70 reiaiH n irhCre I'. bat % |
erfoad u INTO rsgioss ,rhsrs ~ - uHkHoTH.
MNcA less oaa thy rely on ths mere oOH'fiiH.
fionai guarantees Of Starry. Tor such reliance
10 pregnant with the admission that slavery
IL wrong. and but Tor the constitution
should De abolished. This constitutional
argument for slavery, standing alone. fully |
jasii6ss the Aboliti0nlsis They are clearly |
right u slav,ry b. morally wroug, for To get /
rid Of IL under the Constitution, or by |
amending the Constitution, Is ccnlessedly
inpraeticabls."