Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-04
Frou the Buffalo Express. 3se
ArIStOeraey vs.. Democracy.

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The day is, at hand when the turning
point in this desperate struggle for supre-
macy between Free Government. and Free
Labor on the one side, and Aristocracy
and Slavery ON the other, is to be deter
mined at the ballot box. Never before
has this people been called upon to decide
as national Jury, facts Of such transcen-
dent Importance or fraught with such tre-
lmendols consequences, either Of glory OF
| infamy, incalculable blessing or unuttera.
BILE woe. And who compose the major
part of the jury, and have the paramount
interest at stake in the irrevocable verdict
| to be rendered. 1t is the laboring men
of the North, aud it is to them therefore
that we earnestly appeal in our character
as public counsellor, to render verdict
which shall not be pronounced convic-
tion of themselves, by the world, and serve
as an encouragement and defense to the
lordly traitors of the south, who SOW not
where they reap, who have drenched our
country il fraternal blood, and made it
mountainous with patriot graves, simply
because the people would not endorse
their despotic doctrine as promulgated six
years ago, that "ISkdOery Is the normal con.
dition of labor"
Witness, laboriug men, the declarations
of their leaders, and then determine Wheth.
or it is your duty to sustain the Govern
meut, which is unalterably determined to
crush them that your equality may be
preserved, or to side with faction which,
inithe name OF Democracy, would sell your
bifthright to them for mess of political
pottage. d, .... ...I- i.......r
for the second highest Office in the Repub-
lie in 1850: awe believe capital should
own. labor.N s...5 ..a
John G. Calhoun long ago wrote-'tthe
hand that is familiar with the plough-han-
die should never be permitted to touch q
balIot."a Ho" lul asa,..F-1o
Jefferson Davis recently said 1--WE could
not submit to any decision except our own.
We seeded to get rid of the rule of the
minority" t s5i ..'- ~ a
Governor Hammond, of South Carolina,
publicly maintained, that I" in all social
systems there must be class to do the
menial duties" having, as he Significantly
added, "a Lov order of intellect and little
ski!l.D He proceeds to appropriate to them
the elegant ppellation-"the mud SiIlS Of
society. ~ go sl. ..'."5I
IA writer in the Richmond E1GminsT thus
wrote: "There are slave races born to la
bbr, and mGster.rGces born to govern and
contreI the fruits of labor"
IGovernor McDufie, of South Carolina,
speaking of the offiOes of labor, once re-
marked-"wheFe these Offices are psEfor4-
ed by members Of the POliti:aL community,
dangerous element is obviously intro oduced
ihto the holy politte." .s .t -
Spratt, of the same State in an address
ito the Confederate Congress at Montgom.
cry, in 1861, openly declared that the treal
contest (between the South and North)
lies between the 100 forms Of society. In
the one. the TeiRs Of gousrIRlent come from
the heels; in ths other, from the head Of so
ciety..' y e.. =, ~. ~ 4 .-3e'H.. ,.,. 4.
But the language Of De Bow's Southern
ReVietO places the Southern dogma in its
boldest and plainest terms. "Ihe theory
ofJree labor Is a deIusioH, Slavery. 10 the
paturalIand normal condition of the labor
ing man, IDhite or 6Idck."- vol IS 49,
We might, did our space permit, or was
additional proof required, fill whole coll
hmns with this insulting and vulgar afis-
tocrstic abuse Of labor. free, labor, North
ern labor; that labor which is at once the
foundation and the safeguard of our Gov
ernment; but We have given enough to call
the aush h-ofindiguationt TO the brow oi eve.
~ man worthy to. be free.
Consider then, ,labOring men, who are
unflinching opponents Of those that hate
andewould degrade you. is it Abraham
Lincoln, with his fearless proclamation of
freedom; OF. the Democratic Committee,
making overtures to the English Minister
for Intervention = Is it Abraham Lincoln,
the rail spliterhapd Andy johnson, brand
ed by the New York World the "boorish
tailor" or Mcclellan and Pendleton, bound
by theirlparty 70 conciliate aud not con-
qaer the, blood stained advocates of the
monstrous doctrine that "the right to gov
ern resides in q very small minority the
duty to obey is Inherent in the great mass
OF mankind r. azah d. I'd. I-..l, 45-.siI Lr.. :- g.
wao ARE THE TRAIToRs4