Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-10-01
From the Nashville Union.
Southern Philosophy-A Chapter for
the War-Slaveholders of Ten.
neSsee,
neSSee.


We call attention 10 the following cx
tracts from the speeches of leaiing South
ern speakers. and the articles of Southern
journals. which we find embodied in q
speech OF Hon. Emerson Etheriige OF this
State. delivered in the House nf Represen-
tatives of the United States, Feb. 81. 1857:
have now before me book published
at Richmond. Virginia, in 1854 1t is
styled "SocI.LoeY OF THE SOUTH, OR THE
FAILURE OF FREE SOCIETY. by GEORGE FITz.
HUGH" Many southern Democratic news
papers and politicians have spoken Of it
approvingly. or advanced sentiments quite
as indefensible as any avowcd by the au-
thor. Among many other things. quite as
Objectionable, he says: iaa
"Make the laboring man the slave of one
man, instead of the slave of society, and
he would be far better off," 1.-Two hun
dred years Of liberty have made white la
borers a pauper banditti." "Free society
has failed. and that which is not free must
be substituted.
"Say the abolitionists: MAN ought not
to have property in man." What drea-
ry. cold, ,bleak. inhospitable world this
wonld be, with sneh doctrine carried in
to practice!'' es - "Slavery has
been too universal not to be necessary to
nature. and man struggles in vain against
nature" Free society is
failure. We Shareholders say. you must
tectir to domestic slavery. the Oldest. the
best, and most common form Of social
ISM" Hnr aa f-o1 ~
"Free society is q monstrous abortion,
and slavery the. healthy. beautiful an inatur-
al being which they arc trying unconscious
" to adopt" I "The slave,
are governed far better than the free labor
ers of the North are governed. Onr ne
groes are not only better off as to physical
comfort than free laborers, but their moral
condition is better. xss m
| 1--WE do not adopt the theory that Ham
was the ancestor of the negro race. The
Jewish slaves were not negroes; and to
confinc the justification of slavery 10 that
race would be to weaken its scriptural au-
thority. and to lose the whole weight of
profane authority. for we read of no negro
slavery in ancient times.
"Slavery. black or white, is right and ne
cessary. ''so4lgee97 -ea - etra - saF
Mature has made the weak in mind or
body slaves" ID "a. .tshe. vi q
..The wisc and virtuous,
the brave, the strong in mind and body are
born to command" a "Nfen
are not born entitled to equal rights. II
would be far nearer the truth to say, that
some were born. with saddles on their
backs. and others booted and spurred to
ride them-and the riding does them good.
They need the reins. the bit. and the spur.
- - Life and liberty are not
inalienable." = < 1.-The Decia-
ration Of Independence is 'exuberantly
| false. and aborescently fallacious."
The Richmond Enquirer is one of the
Oldest, best established and most ably con-
Quoted Democratic journals in the South.
Its influence is felt and acknowledged sv-
erywhere. i submit the following extracts
| from that paper. portions of which arc
startling. and in my judgment, indefensi-
bic: I'D 5ea} - .lss' - = 80 s's :
"Uutil recently. the defence Of slavery
has labored under great difficulties. be-
cause its apologists---for they wero merely
apologists--took half way ground. They
confined the defense of slavery to mere ne
|ero slavery, thereby giving up tho slavery
principles. sdmittire the other forms Of
slavery to1be wrong, and yielding up che