The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-10-23

so. III L say any thing that Is not true
do not be grumbling around on the out.
side Of the audience, but come up and
take the stand and | will sit down until
you can make your statement or explain.
alton, and then, if cannot prove all that
| say to be true | will acknowledge the
corn and take it back. Is not that fair
You are not in the habit of doing that in
your meetings. But | always invite
you, both in the free and in the slave
States, to come up and take the stand ;
and believe il is the best policy, for |
expect to win by stating the truth, while
they depend upon covering the truth up
under falsehood and misrepresentation,
Therefore, / do not always blame them
for not giving me such an opportunity.
They cannot afford to let me or any 9th :
er fair minded man, get up and correct
them when they misstate facts.
Let us 60 on little further Your
Democratic Governor Hammond gives
an explanrtion of this matter. Gov.
Hammond, since United States Senator
from South Carolina, SAYS in his mess
age, that education and slavery are in
compatible therefore Of course. GOV.
Hammond who represents the slave aris-
tocracy-the Southern King, comes out
against education.
WHITE MEN To BE ENSLAyED.
But they 90 farther. They make this
basis of their philanthropy, saying that
the man who has the money or capital
should own the man who labors No
matter whether he is day laborer or
mechanic in any department, the man
who pays the wages should own the man
who does the seryice-the laborer; not
only blacks, my Democratic friends,
but white men and all other races who
work. Deny it now or hereafter hold
your peace. That is the doctrine oi
your leaders-of the men who lay down
the platforms by which YOU must all
swear, be YOU North or South, or go out
Of the party. He says the laborer is the
mud sill OF society-that is the word re-
peated in the Senate, and reiterated in
the Charleston Mercury, and Richmond
Enquirer. Therefore it is a matter OF
philanthropy not to teach him to read or
write. That would cultivate and excite
his sensibiity and enable him to see and
Ioathe his degradation. Therefore, the
Democratic party, North and South, are
extremely charitable TO the laborer, and
binding htm down with tender care 10
keep him from seeing his own misery
and degradation | intend to show YOU
after a while that we reverse that p!opo-
sition in our party.
HOW NON SHAREHOLDERS ARE Now TREATED
Our fathers went into battle upon the
proposition that the British King and
Parliament taxed us without our consent
That was the cause OF the Revolution
What DO the Shareholders do in regard
to the eight millions OF whites Of the
South Why, we are not represented
in practice--it is all theory the com
mon law of all the slave States preserves
all the offices of influence or importance
to Shareholders. All legislation is con.
trolled BY this kine-this oligarchy o
three hundred thousand Shareholders
| have no doubt my Democratic friends
that there are soma very old treasury
rats here, listening on the outskirts be.
hind tree or under 4 wagon, taking
notes. Tell me If YOU please, and cXer-
else your usual molesty, ana deny i. il
missate, what President what Coy
eruor ol State, what member Of Con
gress, " hat Judge Of the Supreme Court
OF other officer ot note YOU can name Ia
the South, who has not bsen slave
holder You cannot name him, be
does not exist Take the most intelii-
gent OF any other class in the slave States
except Shareholders, aud send in his
name ior any Office Of magnitude, and
your Democratic editor would consider
il the best joke Of the season What
this mau from the lowtr class. lhts mal
sill, wants TO change his position ana be
come one OF the ar,~tocrary I. would
excite astenishment,
AN ILLUSTRATION - DEMOCRACY II HsE-
rueAy.
T. illustrate this Just let M e, lit
tie iato detail In iS48 the Democrat,
party OF kentucky proposed - change
its Constitution. tor which purp Sc one
hundred delegates were 10 meet IN Con.
yeuhon There were over seven hun
dred thousand OF the uou -slavehoiding
white race. aud only iorty.two Thousand
Shareholders TINS MAS the fo..giye pop.
ular strength did they give us = repre-.
senUdon propornonate 10 our members
No SIR; every man returned g. that Con
yeuli0n Was a stakeholder. Nobody
weul there but lhis King jas, book a
F il! Seven or eight hundred thousand
men, women and children oi gAe white
race, Just "a fair aud naturally gifted
and bright eyed and intelligent as any
other uueducatei mass ia the world
without delegate, without voics N
+ The most important assembly ever hel.
i IN the STATE How oycrpunurins, how
\ demoralizjug must be that dcspou.m. i
IN AL that eight hundred thousand there
was none found competent TO serve A.
representative Ii on the other hand
you take the other horn Of the dilemma
and say that they were just aS compe
tent rs the King. the slave power, how
crushing, how utterly destructive OF al
manhood. must be the alistocraoy tina
could thus keep us by Tie pistol AM th,
bowie knife from the polls. and 1t not
slurla man of IA ha raIlrpal ,