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

there, so far as | know, unless II Is my
self. Renewed laughter
THE REPUBLICAN, DOCTRINE AND AIM.
Let us take the whole proposition a
once. We are opposed to the existence
of slavery, and we sum up our reason
for it in word, not my words or thu
words of party, but the words of oul
fathers-that slavery is wrong to The
slave and curse to the white race where
yer it exists Has that institution chan
ged since 70? Not at all. And We
say there should be national wall cree
ted to prevent the extension of slavery
while we the people of the slave States
will take the question into our own
hands, and under and by our constitu.
tons and laws, we will throw it over.
board, just as soon as we can get the
consent of the majorities. That's the
doctrine. Are you Democrats in fa-
vor Of that? yes every time" If you
are not, you are for sitting the popular
voice, for an officious intermeddling with
our institutions, trying to compel US to
keep slavery when we do not want it,
Yes, and that is what YOU have been do
ing all the time-intertering on the side
Of the shareholders to keep us who do
not want it, and the slave, in a common
bondage.
HOW SLAVERY AFFECTS WHITE MEN.
Much as am opposed to slavery on
its own account as being what Wesley
terms "the sum Of all villianies,'' still
more am | opposed to it because il will
not allow my liberty, nor the liberty OF
eight millions of southern white mon,
women and children. so long as il and
they exist together. 1t is one of the
eternal laws OF God, that injustice can
not be perpetrated with impnnity by in
dividu Is or nations. We see that sia-
very is utterly wrong, and we cannot
but see the other fact that the same
chain which is fastened to the ensayed
limbs OF the a African, is attached at the
other end to the limbs of the white man,
dragging him down into the common
ruin What is the basis Of popular lib
erty? The profoundcst philosophers
and statesmen say that virtue is the only
sure foundation for alrepublics. When
a people have ceased TO be just. they can
no longer be free Why Because
the outrage and rapine which they will
perpetrate upon each other will soon
call for strong and despotic govern
ment. Now, what can sooner eat out
the vitals of the State, or more speedily
destroy all respect for justice in the
breasts OF the people than the existence,
the legalized presence, Of such wrong
rs slavery among them Where man 5
wife is owned by another man where he
is not allowed TO teach his own children,
or enjoy the fruits of his own labor or
the right of Intellectual and moral cult
yatiou-where everything that be is o.
has, or hopes TO be, is subject to the will
of another. If justice is in any way
consistent with such system, there i:
no such thing as right OF wrong upon
earth there is no other power under
heaven save that of force and nigh
makes right. Yet that is the system
and there are the laws of slave empires
aHa saw I'luoiiSo'
SLAVERY PREVENTS EDUCATION.
The education OF the people is neces
sary 10 selfgovernment. The Demo
cratic party holds out with nine lives
Ike dying cat, simply because isnor
ance lies al the very bottom OF il, an.
you cannot get the truth before the peo
pie and make them see and unIerslan.
il. la the free States the people are St
much better educated than III the sav,
States, that the best educated SLAVE Statt
is inferior IN this respect 70 the worst ed
ucated Tree State This is aided ia th,
first place, where slavery exists. by thC
strong competition of unpaid slave labor
with the free white laborer Then the
Shareholders viii no, PERM. their child
ren 10 80 alongside OF non.s,ayeholders
for they work, and work is disgracefu
in every slave State because there the
slave works, and the man who will work
by the side of the despised slave, whl
tolls for another without hope of reward
or elevation, becomes himself the object
OF contempt. Labor despised in thJ
black slave. is despised in the white
man. The Shareholders separate then
children from those OF laborers, sending
them abroad or into seminarles and col.
leges NOT as you, who have common
school fund do 10 the common school
where the children Of the rich and the
poor sit upon The same bench. aud learr
from the same book. The result is rs
stated, that il is far more difficult 20 ed
ueate children in the slave States than il
the North.
Then, too. the Shareholders do not de
sign that the people shall be educated
Why. three times ia the history of ny
Stale has there been provided commot
school fund and three times has the o.
igarchy Of the slave yeholders appropriated
it TO other purposes and now although
by long discussion. We have compelle,
them 10 restore It, they Yet eInbarass j
all the time and make il ot comparative
Is no effect So too. in Virginia --tha
poor old benighted S,a,e-look az th,
immense proportion Of grown men an,
women who cannot read OF write Ant
the Shareholders are proud of that
Your Democratic Governor of Virginia
| Henry A. Wise. boasted that in all hi
disuict--the Accomac distrct--ther