The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-03
Montgomery Blair as a Democratic
stump Orator. f.,a .a

According to previous appointment,
Montgomery Blair, a live member of Mr..
Lincolns Cabinet, appeared in New York,
on Wednesday evening of last week, to
address democratic mass meeting. His
views on negro suffrage were thus ex-
pressed:
1t would bring in it's train other incalculable
evils, the worst Of which would be the creation
of mixed, degraded cast of laborers, much
more fatal to the peace of the government
than negro slavery during the first two centu-
ries of its existence. In its first stage, four
millions of black freedmen as laborers in the
field could not but give character to the whole
class engaged In agriculture, to say nothing of
the mechanical classes. Every white man in
the field would find himself reduced in wages
as in function TO the negro standard and negro
equality thus established would bring down all
the white operatives to their level; and thus
reduced in their political importance and man.
ual pursuits every Anglo Saxon who had ca
pacity and enterprise for the effort would fly
of superiority and his instructive prejudices of
race were humbled. Those of the dispirited
class of the whites incapable of effort from long
indulgence and dependence on the servile in
stitution, would sink beneath the negro. or at
least become his fellow, until the whole de-
moralized class OF white laborers, in common
with the already adopted class of black hire
lings in the South, weuld be the subjected vic
Tins of the monied and landed aristocracy of
that region. This new ifeudal system of white
and black and mixed serfdom would then be
more than oppressive and degrading because It
would be that Of hireling, mental service not
military, under lords paramount
The sturdy independent laborers Of the
North and of Europe would be more thor
fhov
tiOn to the sunny South, where they find up
start landlords and monied capitalists aided
by clOser-fsted and more lynx. eyed agents and
Overseers than the titled gentry of the old
country or the cotton lords of the new ever
employed to subdue the masses to bear the
burdens of insatiate ambition and avarice
If ever a government of white and back is
to be established the white race must be as
thoroughly subjected to the blacks as ever the
blacks were to the whites. The or cal of SER
vitude must prepare both TO submit in peace to
the equality proposed I here never can be
peace between the two races until the vicissi.
tudes of master have subdued both to under
Stand that servile life is better than no life
do not think the white men OF the South
have yet been taught this lesson so perfectly
as to permit the negro ~ take their place with
out struggle. , ~.
Does Mr.. Sumner mean to leave the arbitra-
ment of the blacks aud whites to the South:
or does he mean that the North shall step ia
and subjugate the whites t. tie negroes Il
would be dangerous experiment for the
friends of negro equality to nave the issue 10
be decided by the two co'ors in the South for
more than twO-thirds of the slaves stood by
the side of their masters In the late fight and
W thout Northern army to give promise of
success to renewed struggle for emancpa-
ton. it is not improbable that many who have
been delivered by our soldiers would 20 into
the camp Of their old masters to secure their
freedom on easier terms than by fighting
against them. The controversy practically
comes to this: The North must conquer and
hold the South for the negroes, and make them
and it dependency; or freedmen, if they re-
main in the South, must relapse into q servile
condition to Northern or Southern masters.