Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-11-02

Northern Slaves.
1EascHEL v. JonSsoN, the Democratic
hdidate for yice.Pfcsident, and the associ-
Of STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, the mah who
MY and boldly proclaims that "Capital
puld own its abor,"-lately made speech
Pittsburg, in which he paid the following
h compliment to the working men Of the
rth:
LOOK AT THE SLAVES IN YOUR
vN WORKSHOPS THEY ARE DRIV-
TO THE POLLS AT THE BECK OF
Err MASTERS UNDER PENALTY OF
ING DISCHARGED"
according to the peculiar doctrines Of the
p. Mr.. JOHNSON, every man that earns his
I'd by the sweat of his own brow, is .
e; every man, no matter what his calling,
3 he but labor for the support Of himself
family, is slave, and as such is entitled
70 more respect, and should lie the recipient
10 more rights and privileges than the ne
es on Mr.. JoHNsos's own plantation in
prgia. We would like to ask the sturdy
manry Of the Cedar Vallcy,-you who left
lr homes in the East and the Old World,
came out to this new country with no
pital save your own strong hands and
hrts, to build up for yourselves home and
name; you who have always considered
ourselves fieemen, and as such entitled to
70 rights and immunities of freemen; you
no are the pioneers, who first followed the
lar of empire as it took its westward course,
md have laid the foundation Of our western
we ask you, are you willing to
stand tamely by and hear this Southern
taunt you with the name Of
Slaces! The man who uttered this vile cal
jimmy comes before you and asks for the
office second to but one in the gift Of the peo-
pie; asks it at the hands Of Northern Slaves,
you, who are driven to- the polls at the
beck Of your masters; asks you after this
high compliment to your manhood, to make
him your master. Will you pocket the in
suit and do it. Or will you rather 60 to the
polls and exercise your inalienable rights as
acting Independent of any body OF
anything, save the dictates of your own con.
seriousness of right, and there prove to the
niger driving JOHNSON that you are not
slaves ? that you have the right, the power,
and the will, to thrust him and his slavish
dogmas back to the obscurity that he and
they till lately enjoyed, and the contempt
they deserve.
And by what right can STEPHEN A. Doue.
LAS claim the suffrages of the bone and sinew
of our land, the workingmen Of the North,
when he allows himself to be associated on
the ticket with such man as H. V. JOHN.
SON? In the many speeches that he has
made during this canvass, never has there
been word of reprove, or even apology, for
the obnoxious sentiments uttered by his col
league. Does not his tacit silence give assent
Have you any reason to suppose that the pei
sentiment Of JOHNSON does not meet with the
full appreciation of DOUGLAS? Surely, no act
or word Of the latter has ever gone to prove
that he does not hold the laboring classes in
as much contempt as the former.
Now, Freemen of the Cedar Valley, If you
are possessed of the common attributes Of
if you have in your bosoms a
spark of manliness and independence, you
will 60 to the polls next Tuesday and pass
such verdict upon these servile tools of the
oligarchy, that they, or none
that may come after them, will ever dare to
breach the subject again.