Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-01-24
declarations of Shareholders, Pol
iticians and Editors.

The Richmond (Va) Examiner, on
!, Of the leading democratic papers in Vii
gina, ardently supporting Mr. Buchar
an, said, in 1856:
Until recently, the defence of slave
: ry has labored under great difficulties
because its apoIogists (for they wer,
mere apologists) took half way ground
They confined the defence of slavery tc
mere negro slavery thereby giving NJ
the slavery prjncjple, admitting othei
forms to be wrong. the line Of defense
however, is now changed. The soutI
now maintains that slavery is right, nat
ural and necessary, and does not depend
on difference of complexion. The laws
of the state justify holding WHITE men
in bondage"
/ Another leading democratic paper in
South Carolina, said:
Slavery is the natural and normal
condition of the laJortag man, whether
white or black. The great evil of nor
thern free society is that it is burdened
with a servile class of mechanics and la
borers, unfit for self government, yet
clothed with the attributes and powers of
citizens. Master and slave is a relation
in society as necessary as that Of parent
and child, and the northern states will
yet have to introduce it. The theory of
free government is a deluSion."
The Richmond Enquirer, Mr.. Buchan-
ans confidential organ, said:
Repeatedly we have asked the north,
Has not the experiment of universal
liberty failed Are not the evils Of free
society insuIerable3 And do not most
thinking men among you propose to sub
vert or reconstruct itY Stilno answer
This gloomy silence is another conclusive
evidence added to many other conclusive
evidences we have furnished, that free
society, in the long run, is an impractical
bic form Of society; it is, everywhere
starving, demoralizing and insurrection-
ary.
We repeat theE, that humanity and
policy alike forbid the existence of the
evils of free society to new and coming
generations.
1.-Two opposite and conflicting forms
of society cannot, among civilized men,
co-exist and endure. The one must give
way, and cease to exist, or the other be-
come universal.
"If free society be unnatural, immor-
al, unchristian, it must fall, and give place
to slave society, social system as old as
the world as universal as man."
The Richmond Enquirer says, fur
ther:
While it is far more obvious that ne
groes should be slaves than whites-for
they are only fit to labor, and not to di-
rect-yet the principle Of slavery is it.
self right, and does not depend on diff
ference Of complexion"
in another article is the following:
Freedom is not possible without
slavery. Every civil polity and every
social system implies gradation of rank
md condition. In the states of the south,
an aristocracy of white men is based on
negro slavery; and the absence of negro
,Iayery would be supplied by white men"
This confirms what we said of the the
1ry and estimate of Henry Clay. The
distinctions Of color aud race would dis l
appear in a century or century and
lalf, and then all the slaves would be as 5
White as their masters. ?
George Fitzhugb, Of Richmond, Va,
writer Of high reputation at the South, G
n his work, Sociology for the South" (
in 1884, says;
"Ten years ago we became satisfied
hat slavery, black or ,chiie, was neces-
AIRY. We advocated this doctrine in ,
'ery many essays 9
These may seem like the rawlings of |
nad-man, but they are rational in COM 7
,arison with the dream of maintaining
he liberty Of l0hite laborers in a nation a
hat permits the enslavement of colored v
lborers, nation in which, as Henry c
LAY shows, Gin the speech before men e
oned) few generations must obliterate c
Il distinctions of color.
The Muscogee (Ala) Herald said:
Free society! We sicken at the -
anne. What is it but conglomeration "
f greasy mechanics, filthy operatives,
nall listed farmers, and moon struck
leorists? All the Northern, and espe- ei