The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-03-24
The Rebe, Aristocrscy.

EF- Slavery breeds aristocracv. II
has been the experience Of the world,
and in modern times, and in our own
country, the rule has shown itself mex
orable. Slavery debases labor, despises
il, splits upon il, contemns it, is at war
with it. 1t makes OF the laborer brute,
regnrds him AS unsuited for mental
aspirations, and his rights as only those
natural to a condition Of inferiorty and
Of service. 1t calls him, and regards
him, the substratum of society, whose
plane is next the earth, and whose
shoulders are given only to lift the favor
ed few above the danger Of contact with
the soil He is tied to the soils q
part OF IT, And thus we find labor soil
with the soil-the white saxon serfs Of
Feudal England, the fair-skinned serls Of
Russia, AS well as the black slaves OF
America Slaveholdng pays no distnc
ton to the color Of the skin. It's pr;nci
Pile is that labor is penalty, and that the
laborer should not escape from it-that
the laborer is bound to his condition, and
must not be raised obove it, INSOFAR
able from that condition, it regards 10
norance and poverty-and because of
ignorance and poverty, it denies the
laborer the rights Of citizenship Thus
comes the property qualification for tia
citizen in the aristocratc governments
Of The old world-thus comes the propo-
sition for property qualifications in the
Southern Confederacy. We have seen
the general contempt for labor and for
laboring men, which slaveholding has
infused into The minds Of the ruling
classes in the South, in the contempu-
Gus sheer Of HAMMOND al the " mudsWs :"
Of the North, and in the silly taunts Of
their press, at greasy mechanics p"
and /" small listed farmers" Since the
war commenced, that same press has
beer splitting out a great deal more of
such stun, coupling their own pretensions
OF blood ana chivalry with the vi'esr
abuse OF us as pisbeians and laborers.
Their entire sto k in trale of denuncia
ton against us they have fouad in ON
industrial habits, and in the tendencies
of our system to the upbuilding of III,
interests Of labor. They regard this as
the great fault Of our government, and
gravely warn the Young ConfeIeracy
against it.
The Southern Literary Messenger,
always a prominent organ Of Southern
opinion, in its January number, has an
article on the War. Although giving a
rather doeful view Of Southern prospects
ut present. it does not distrust the even.
tual result, and procaims that the deter
mination Of the South is either separa-
ton or eternal war. A ssuming separa-
ton and Independence as a fixed fact, il
goes on 10 prepare a chart for tie new
confederacy, that the new ship may steer
clear Of the breakers which will have
destroyed the oil The trouble most 10
be dreaded according TO the Messenger,
is the tendency towards Democracy.
after enumerating several checks against
this tendency, which the confederacy
possesses il says
+" The benign institution Of slavery, which il
is now the pride and glory OF the South TO
nscribe to Divinity. and which war has proven
~ be next to the devoted patriotism and un-
dauntcd resolution Of her sons, the great clc
ment of power in the confederacv, will prove,
in preventing too heavy influx from foreign
shores Of that class Of population devoted TO
mental pursuits. another bulrorl against The
sncroachments Of those tendeaci.s TO Democrn