The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-11-03
PICTURE or MODFRN DEMOCRACY. i"o
What the Southern Democrats think Of
,7srN Northern LabOring Men. ai2ljoil

what the S0uthern Democrats think OF
/" la9r Northern LabOring Men. alsi5oi
II This war is the laborriing mans war ;; !;
conflict between free labor and slave labor
g Shall the North be subjugated to slave labo
2 ortthe South to free labor? +, The slaveocra
cylandi their Copperhead apologists at, tn
> North claim that the South represents CAPT
taL and the North, abor; that the Sout
), is the capitalist and the North the laborel
By slavery the South means labor; b
Shareholder, it means capitalist; and b
slave, it means laborer That labor an
slavery, and laborer and slave are one am
Z the same thing; is the pervading sentimen
of the South. Thus, the report of the Vicks
burg Commercial Convention, in 1859, says
: g.'SLaueTy IS nothing more than labor obey
7 ing unchecked, Qnregattttted, 5rreSponSi5y
capitaJ' -.'' Ni<-h r-Io}-ll l04 HTO7
! The following law governs labor in ever,
slave State: ~ '7.a0| g ~ -aaoaJ -I
"a slave Qaborer is one who is in tn,
power of the master (capitalist) to whom h
belongs; he can do nothing, earn nothing
2 and possess nothing but that belongs to hi
personal in the hands of his master, to al
intents, constructions, and purposes whatso
ever" a'@ ob-ihauEo 916 o7f'' .a8haa
This is the idea Of rebedom in regard tc
labor and the llaborer. This war is an effor
| Of the slave driving capitalists to enslave
the laborers Of the entire nation and cont
nent For forty years they have labored tc
bring the nation to regard labor as slavery
and laborers as slaves. G. Now they are fight
ing to reduce the laborers of the nation,
white as well as black, to slavery. Labor
ers of the North, here is the proof:
- Slave labor black or white, is right
Nature has made the weak in body and
mind for slaves. "I[Ge2 Fitzhugh, of Vir-
ginia. ssiiE uosdi9 l1a4 5n 6s-lrir,a fie f.
oJ'The theoryIof free labor is deIusion.--
Slavery is the natural and normal condition
of the laboring man, white or black. "-Dt
B04e'S Southern Re0ieso. 800 adt .5gu1tfT
u5@The enslavement of the Iaborer is right
in itself, and does not depend on the differ
encc of complexion Experience shows the
universal success of slave labor and the uni.
versal failure of free LABOR "---Rickmo2ad En-
quirer, organ of jeff Davis.
\ "a s.STwo hundred years of liberty have made
white laborers pauper banditti. -[Geo
Fitzhugh apj 5JA ) a9bia5 Set . sd
snake the laboring man slave and he
would be far better of. 1.-THE same.
''The eDslavement Of the laborer alone
oan save society against the dangerous vice
of legislatice intermedding betw6en the labor
er,ppd the capitalist. n---[George McDuffie,
Governor Of South Carolina in 1851 .+,.;-
-1Gs'The free laborer works when be pleases,
for whonoshe 1pleases and for what he
pleases. FL But the fenslaved laborer works
not as he pleases, but as bis master (the cap
| italist). please5, "-E Report of Southern
Commercial Convention, May, 1859. 73;f5at
Iuoi''In all social systems there must be
class to do the mental duties, to perform the
.drudgery, of z life; a class requiring but a
How order ofintelleet and little skill This
class constitutes the MUDsILLs OF society,
and of political government. The manual,
hired laborers of the North, the operatives,
as they are called, rtare mere slaves. -
Hammond, of South Carolina -, IA 7ea,
q There must be class of men whose bu-
siness is to dig the soil and tend tile herds,
and who MUST. NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE
ANY REAL OR Personal PROPERTY OF THEIR
OWN. This class never will, never can. and
neverought to take any part in the political
affairs of the country" IL Hon, B, Watkins
Leigh, of Virginia. " .2guBs5r,.--fa a. l'srs-.
Stree labor has failed and that which is
not free must be substituted. ~ Senator
Mason, of Virginia. sa.E, ef f..,g z...e..
and u humanity alike forbid the
extension of the evils of free labor to new
peoples and coming generations. ''AE Rich
mond Enquirer. - .''' pa iil..''' ga
''Slave labor should be allowed to pour
itself abroad without restraint, and find no
limit but the Southern ocean. l would in
troduce it into the very heart of the NORTH
T Hon. Henry A. WISE Of Virginia
81 would spread the blessings of slave la
Dor, like the religion of our Divine Master,
to the utmost ends of the earth. Wicked
and rebellious as the Yankees are, | would
extend it even to them. e., enslave all
Northern as well as Southern laborers ~
Brown of Mississippi 1a3 slilgsad 3i5
''There is not democrat in all the North
who is opposed to the extension of slave la
bor'-i. e., who is opposed to the enslave-
mento the laborers.-(New York Day Book.
i"We will call the roll of our slaves ON
Bunker Hill."---(Hon. Robert Toombs, of
Georgia.
an the slave system the laborer himself
is property--a negotiable chattel. "+-(Com-
mercial Convention at Vicksburg. gji5
slave laborers of the South are far
better off than the free laborers of the North
Our slave laborers are not only better off as
to physical comforts than the free laborers
hut their moral, social and domestic condi-
ton is better."- Richmond Enquirer. Iii
tThe condition of the slave laborers of
the South is heaven on earth compared with
that Of the free laborers of the North" y
REV. JIG Potsell, South Carolina. liz"
s'The Northern States, in rejecting slave
labor, have destroyed order, and rejected the
strongest argument to prove the existence
of Deity Richmond Enquirer.
t'tFree labor is irnpracticable,a and is every
where starving, demoralizing, and insurrec-
tionary.'' Richmond Enquirer. / .a
'oE The following basis of the slavemongers
-Confederacy was put forth in May, 1861, by
"a Virginia State Convention called to revise
the State Constitution H 10 aeLl9a 81 -
''The great interests of every community
may be classed under the heads of LABOR
and CAPITAL" Capital belongs to the fen
labor to the nany."G tdat sa3 5Jsnea ell
SIN the North, the clement of labor pre-
dominates in the South, Capital predomi
mates. t I'd SEQ s90I -af J2G-
In the North, the laborer of to day may
be the capitalist of to morrow the laborer
of the South can never become a capitalist"
&c In the North, men of every character
and condition are entitled to vote in the
South, all who are in the condition of servi-
tude Qaborers) are excluded from voting and
holding Office. "Im ?" s3aa5& lis
I" In the North, the capitalist employs the
laborer, Cpays him for his labor in the
South, the capitalist owns the laborer."
z :" In the North, the children of the poor
(the laborers) are educated at the expense Of
the rich (the eapitolists) !; in the South, tie
children of the laborers are not educated, :"
lint If is a crime a felony +o teach labor