The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
All Laborers should be Slaves.

Though the more unscrupulous of
the pro-slavery papers have falsely de-
MED that the Douglas candidate for
Vice President declared during the last
Presidential canvass that capital should
own labor-or i'm other words, that all
laboring men should be oac,,ed by their
employers, the sentiment is in accor-
dance with the whole spirit and ten
dency of slavery, and is the opinion
entertained by all who believe slavery
is right. Mr.. Johnson but repeated
what Southern shareholders believe.
and what they and all who sustain
slavery must believe, if they are con-
sistent. That our laboring men may
see that the Douglas candidate for Vice
President is not singular in declaring
that all men who work for hire should
be slaves, we quote few passages from
Southern papers and speeches. We
will begin with the Richmond Enquir-
er, the leading Democratic organ South.
1t says:
"Human experience, showing the
uaicersdl success Of slaue society, and
the uaiversdl failure Of free society,
was unavailing to them, because they
were precluded from employing it, by
admitting slavery in the abstract to be
wrong. The defense of mere negro
slavery involved them in still greater
diffic ulty. The laacs of all the South
ern States justified the holding Of
WHITE MEN IN slavery. provided
that through the mother they were de-
scended, however remotely, from me-
!. gro slave. While it is far more obvi-
Gus that negroes be slaves than whites
for they are only fit to labor, not to
direct-yet the principle Of SLAVERY is,
itself, right, and does not depend on
DIFFERENCE OF COMPLEXION"
Then it is stated that the laacs of all
Southern States justify the holdiny of
aohite men IN slacery! Does not this
man then sustain the position taken by
Mr.. Johnson? But the Enquirer is
not alone. The Charleston Mercury,
another leading Southern journal, says
Slavery is the natural and normal
condition of the la6orisag man, wheth-
er WHITE or black. The great evil
of Northern free society is, that it is
burthened with sercile class of ME-.
CHANICS and LABORERS, unf,
for self-g0Uernment, and yet clothed
= with the attributes and powers of citi.
f zens. Master and slave is relation
E in society as necessary as that of paren,
and child; and the Northern States
will yet have to introduce it. Their
theory of free government is delusion
q The Messenger (Ala.) Herald, like
the two preceding leading Democratic
papers though it does not assert thi.
doctrine quite as distinctly as they. still
believes all Northern laborers only Fl
g for slaves. 1t thus gives vent to it
> hatred for them: sas
!. "Free Society! we sicken at til,
name. What is it but conglomeratiol
; of GREASY MECHANICS, FIJI.
! THY OPERATIVES, SMALL FIST
j. ED FARMERS, and moon-strucl
n THEORISTS? All the Northern
), and especially the New England State
. are devoid of society fitted for well-bret
IL gentelmen."
], The following from the South Sid
W Democrat, paper devoted to the in
q terests of the Virginia Democracy i
its day, though we believe it is no,
merged in another journal is in th
same spirit
i. "We have got to hatiug everythin
.. with the prefix FREE, from free M
70 groes down and mp through the whol
a catalogue-FREE farms, FREE labol
FREE society, FREE will, FREE
thinking, FREE children, and FREl
schools = all belonging to the sam
le brood of danana6le isnss. But tn
at worst of all these denominations is tn
at modern system of FREE SCHOOLS
" The New England system of fire
schools has been the cause and polif