Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-09
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niles and debased the ideas of many who have
professed to be democrats. Foremost in this
country, among the journals that profess to be
democratic, is the New York journal of Com
merce. 1t aims to be more decent and re-
spectacle than some of its contemporaries of
the same school; but it illustrates strikingly
the power OF the southern institution TO
transform or eXterminate democratic ideas
and create hostility to free institutions. The
other day the journal of Commerce suggested
theory of. society, which, it says must
sooner or later be adopted. This sug-
gestion was put forth in connection
with some remarks on the condition of the
poorer classes in Great Britain, which, ac-
cording to an English report on the subject,
is much worse than that of the same class
in most European countries. Speaking of
this report the journal of Commerce said
'The simple truth to be learned from the
lessons taught by such books is this that II
system OF free labor has not yet been invented
in Europe which pays the laborer a support
for himself. wife, children, and aged parents,
in sickness and insanity, as well as in health,
from the cradle to the grave Such a system
is what we want To devise such a system
should be the labor of the philanthropist. 1t
may, and probably would, require law ope-
rating in two directions, the one to compel
the employer to pay, and the other to compel
the employed to work; and this would give
the one such control Of the other as to make
it look much like forced instead OF free labor.
But ii must come 10 something like that, prob
ably, after ALL
That is to say, the only remedy is a modi-
fed and regulated form of slavery. 1t does
not occur to this ''democratic' journal that
the vested privileges, prerogatives, and mo-
nopolies, of the upper class in Great Britain,
should be reduced, in order to create for the
oppressed class possibilities OF better fortune.
Its sympathy with the privileged class is so
complete, that it seems unconscious that the
privileges and power OF this class have, to a
very great extent, suppressed the rights of the
other class to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness" To rescue this right and estab-
lsh in Great Britain just and satisfactory
condition of free labor, is the aim of the
Liberals of that country; and they do not
propose to do this work by means of such de-
vices as that suggested by the journal Of Com
merce They would remove the existing in
equalties and emancipate the people from
subsection to the power of pampered and
arrogant aristocracy. In their view, liberty,
and equality before the law, furnish the
best remedy for the present deplorable
condition Of the poorer classes. While
a small minority of the people in that country
confne to themselves ownership of the soil,
and monopoize political power, the condition
The acknowledged fraternity between the
ruling class in Great Britain and the slave
power in this country is very natural. 1t is
the business of both to suppress and trample
under foot the natural rights of man. Botl
are necessarily at deadly feud with any ear
nest endravor to establish freedom and equal.
ity and vindicate the rights of those whom
they Cypress. 1.-The contederates," says one
of the organs of the English aristocracy
''are our natural allies, and why should We
offend them?" 1t is the principle of elective
affinity that has led the British ruling class &c
favor our southern traitors, while our onl,
sincere friends in that country are the Liber-
ais who advocate free institutions. The
habit of defending slavery has trained such
democrats" the journal of Commerce tC
talk as if the masses of men should be serf.
and slaves of privileged few, and rep
resent that whatever evils the so-callet
''lower classes" in Great Britain anC
elsewhere, suffer, come from their re
fusal to accept this condition. And let i
not be forgotten that the present doctrine.
and demand of slavery, in this country, dc
not confne the business of that institution t.
the chattelzing of black men. The doctrn
aries of our confederate traitors hold tina
white men should be ensaved. What til,
Journal of Commerce says is a faint anC
timid echo of their doctrine, which has latel,
been stated, with considerable care, in De
Bows Review. Here few paragraphs
from this oracle of the ''confederacy
'Too mach liberty is the great evil of GU
age, and the vindication OF slavery the hes
corrective Of the spirit of lawless licenlious
ness that threatens to subvert society"
sour first proposition is, that land monopoly
or ito express our idea more COMPREHENSIVE
and accurately that the power exercised by
capital over labor begets and sustains civil
ization. Our second That property in hu-
man laoot \"Ich Is properly IN mani Is the
only property. Our third That the white race
Is the true and best slave race "To
say the white race is not the true and best
slave race is TO contradict all history and in
effect to assert that there is some superior
race; for the race that is most social tame
domestic, Ski5fut, educatable, and most 9eadiIl
submits TO government IN all its usual forms
is certainly the highest race. Nine-tenths O.
government is slavery, even in so-called free
society,"" ''Mules and negroes are ar
intermediate class, who can only be hal
tanned, domesticated, civilized and en-
shaved"
1t is in behalf of this doctrine that on
southern traitors have undertaken to de
stroy the republic; and it is the Institution o
slavery that has given currency to this doc
trine, and bred the traitors who seek, by fore
of arms, to establish it on the ruins of the re
public. They have made the issue distinctly
and dehantly, and we must either submit t
them or crush them The world never saw 8
more important ''war OF doctrines" and we
must iully comprehend the issue, or we shall
not be prepared to do our whole duty as loyal
anu resolute supporters of free institutions