The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-09-19
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uttered or promulgated IN any ago or
country, the most atrocious is that stat
ed by Herschel V. Johnson, the associate
of Stephen A. Douglas on the Squatter
Sovereignty ticket, now being run for
the purpose of destroying the one power
full Democratic party, viz: We 0et'eVe
capital should oOn labor
"This doctrine, the very quintessence OF
dcspotism, was publicly announced by Mr.
Johnson in recent speech, and it correct,
ly represents his own, and the views OIL
more than one half of the Douglas faction.
"Mr. Johnson believes that the man
with money in his pocket should absolute
" own the man who works for him. lie
approves of slavery because 1t rests on
this principle, and disapproyes OF free So
ciety because no such doctrine would be
tolerated by it. We can como to no 9th
or conclusion as this language has never
been disavowed, nor the opinion express
ed in that speech recanted. Nor has MIR.
Douglas ever disavowed it, or in anywise
differed from or protested against it. SO
that we are fully justified in taking it as
the authoritative doctrine of the Douglas
and Johnson party relative to the relations
that ought to exist between the capital
lists and the laborer.
"Therc is no possibility of placing two
constructions upon this language; it is di-
rect and unmistakable, too explicit for eva
sion, too emphatic for denial"
We clip the above from this weeks
Clarion. If such utter disregard Of truth
is to be the course of the "CAMPAIGN
PoLITIcs" we pity the credulousness of
its worshippcrs. 1t is disgrace to com
mon sense, and we are still disposed to
believe the editor miSted and mistaken,
and not that a man of his ability and can
dor would deliberately pen such stvf.
This glaring and odious falsehood was
first propogated in 1859, by the NORTH
.American. Mr.. johnson promptly re-
PEELED the charge in letter to the NORTH
american, in which he not only denied
the whole inference drawn from his re-
marks, but proved that what he did say
applied solely to the slave labor OF the
planting States of the South.
Mr.. Johnson says that in those States
it was better that the negro labor shoulc
be owned by the white man, for the rea
son that their agricultural products were
of such character that they could no
hire labor to cultivate them. They coul(
not hire labor TO cultivate the rice swamps
J ditch their low grounds, and drain thei
> morass. And why? Because the eli
. mate was deadly TO the white man, AM
he could not live in it," He says:
at was not because they wanted t
degrade the aohite men," and that to max
negro labor e6ectiUe, "it must be owne
= by capital" He then goes on to say
al entertain no feeling of contempt fc
the white laboring classes; nor does sue
g sentiment obtain at the South. l b
: lieye they are treated aOih more respe
d in tie slaveholding than an the non-Sldv
"a hoZdinq States. So far from degradin!
J. by enslaving them, IOO'ld see them RI
n ing, day by day, IN thrift, Intelligence an
,e moral sOorth." Such are the opinions al
~ feelings Of Herschel V. johnson, as give
lc by himself, long before he was thougI
in of as q candidate for the Vice Preside
le cy, in answer to this very falsehood'whl'
10 is now being propagated by the Repub
rt can press. Is it not monstrous inJustl
m to so wilfully and knowingly malign al
Islander candidate before the honest
boring men of the North, who are to pa
upon his claims for office9 Free LAHORE
ST, of tho North, spurn such paltry and ba
ng tampering with your rights and with 20
Ter intelligence! Herschel V. johnson is
he friend, and not the enemy, OF the VIII
be laborer of the North.
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