Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-09-28
.,sa'VO(l1...n .s'V Oh. .XII--NO.o 13..

c.l.inI cnu n',I'i1,piesentaton. Applause. There
) fore, 4 40 not always blame them for no.
giving me such an opportunity. They canno,
ai1ord to let me, or any other far-minded
man, get up and correct them when thew
? misstate facts. Ode @ss abH+lA lpO tDsAhl'
Let us go on little further. Your Dem.
ocratlc Governor Hammond gives an explain.
alton OF this matter Coy. Hammond, since
. United States Senator from South Carolina.
says, IN his message, that education and
slavery are incompatible; therefore, of course.
ooV. Hammond, who represents the slave
aristocracy-t Southern King-comes out
) against education. ----4 2 1-e,A"'gf" 1-'>N' Wv
Ir1,.f! WHITE MEN TO BE ENsLAvED,
But they go farther. They make this
OASIS ol their philanthropy, saying that the
man VINO mas the money Or capital should
own the man who labors. No matter whether
ne Is a day laoorer or O. mechanic in anv
department., the man who pays the wages
shouid own the man who does the Service
tne iaoorer; not only blacks, my Democratic
iriends, but white men and all other races
VINO work. Deny it now, or hereafter hold
your peace. Laughter That is the doctrine
OF your leaders-of the men who Law down
the platform by which you must all swear. he
you North OF South, or 60 out of the nartv.
Laughter. He says the laborer is the mud.
Sill OF society-that is the word. repeated in
the Senate, and reiterated in the Charleston
.Mercu1y and Richmond Enquirer. Therefore.
1t is matter of philanthropy not to teach him
to read or write. That would cultivate and
excite his sensib!ity, and enable him to see
and loathe his degradation. Therefore tho
Democratic party, North and South, are
extremely charitable to the laborer. in bind
ing him down with tender care, to keep him
from seeing his own misery and degradation
intend to show you, after awhile, that we
reverse the proposition in our party. ,'% ''2
HOW WNoN-sLAvEHoLDERs ARE NOW TREATED,
Our fathers went into battle upon the
proposition that the British King and Parlia-
ment 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 common law of the slave States
preserves all the offices of influence or import
ance to Shareholders. All legislation is con-
troled by this King-this oligarchy of three
hundred thousand shareholders. 1 have no
doubt, my Democratic friends, that there
are some very old treasury rats here, [laughterl
listening on the outskirts, behind a tree, or
under wagon, taking notes. Laughter
Tell me, if you please, and exercise your usual
modesty, and deny it if misstate, what
President, what Governor of State, what
member of Congress, what Judge of the
Supreme Court, or other officer of note you
can name in the South, who is not or has not
been Shareholder? You cannot name him:
he does not exist. Take the most intelligent
of any other class in the slave States, except
shareholders, and send in his name for any
office of magnitude, and your Democratic
editor would consider it the best Joke of the
season. What this man from the lower class,
this mud-sill, wants is to change his position
and become one of tie aristocracy! It would
excite astonishment.
AN ILLUSTRATION OF DEMOCRACY IN KENTUCKY.
10 illustrate this, just let me 60 little
into detail. In 1S4S the Democratic party
Of kentucky proposed to change its Consti-
tuition, Tor which purpose one hundred dele
gates were to meet in convention. There
were over seven hundred thousand of the
white race, and only forty
two thousand Shareholders This was the
relative popular strength Did they give us
q representation proportionate to our num-
bers. No, sir; every man returned to that
convention was a STAKEHOLDER. Nobody
went there but this King. Just look at it!
Seven Or eight hundred thousand mer, wo-
men and children of the white race, just as
fair and naturally-gifted, and hri ght eyed
and Intelligent, as any other uneducated
mass in the world, without a delegate, with
out a voice in the most important assembly
ever held in the State How overpowering,
now demOralzing must be the despotism, if
n all that OF rht hupfrod thousond tbora ,ru,
lone found competent to serve as represent
alive! If, on the other hand, you take the
other horn Of the dilemma, and say that
;hey were just as competent as the King, the
slave power, how crushing, how utterly
destructive of oil manhood, must be the
aristorcracy that could thus keep US by the
pistol and the bowie knife from the polls,
and let not single man Of US be returned.
Well, We said to them, "Gentlemen, you
have beaten us - not altogether fuirly, it is
true; some Of us were stricken down in the
battle, and by force of arms, but you have
carried the day. We are conquered al least
'or the present. Now make just such a
Constitution as you please; but give us the
poor boon Of carrying out the great right of
the freeman which is essential to all free
government the right of voting; give US
the secret ballot, as they have in Illinois,
where they put the name of their candidate
On piece Of paper and place it in the bal
!ot-box. Let us in Kentucky do the same
thing, that we may no more be stricken
down by violence, as in times past" What
did the King say to US? Why, William S.
of Braeken county, q STAKEHOLDER,
shareholders, said, s'We have
you upon tho hip; we will not give you the
secret ballot. You must still come up and
vote aloud. You must cry it out so that
every man at the place of voting can hear
it; in order that we may maintain the d.
wholesome influence of the landlord over
the tenant.'
LANDLORD AND TENANT.
And do you know what that means? Here
are these laborers, crushed out by the COM
petetion of the unpaid slave, leaning for
existence upon some worn-Out piece Of land,
owned by one of the slaveholding aristoc-
racy. There are at the crossroads some
of heavy articles which can
not readily be brought from abroad, and
must therefore be made at home,-in these
number of white persons are engaged. And
now the day of election approaches, and Mr..
Marshall says to the V hite laborer, 'TCm,
Dick or Harry, we have always been friends,
haven't we ?" 'sYes, Mr.. Marshall, have
paid you your rent, and done your work,
and you have always paid me for it.''
''Well, Tom, am going to be frank with
you. The election is approaching. Go now
to the polls and vote for whom you please;
but if you vote for Cash. Clay, or any other
man in the Republican party, you must pull
up stakes and move your family into the
big road Sensation
That is the wholes ONE influence exerted
by the landlord over the tenant That is
the influence that has driven out of the good
old State of Kentucky two millions of the
white race. To-day you can see them, and
for many, many years you could have seen
these poor people going out. A thousand
times have l seen tkem with their one.horse