Year: 1859

Legislation for the protection of slavery in til
Territories, but that they must also have tn
sanction of Congress for the re opening


the slave trade. Both of these they mus
have or dissolve the Union. What does tn
Express think of these loyal sons of tn


South p


What does it think of the late Southern
Convention at Vicksburg-a more treasona-
T. BILE body than even the eyer-memorable ant
ever-execrated Hartford Conventon2 Dc


the views of the Southern Democracy il
that Convention suit the Gwinocratie notions


of our cotemporary


How does it like the views Of Mr.. Spratt,
of the South Carolina legislature, who asserts
that the South has lost its political equality
with the North ever since the suppression OF
the slave trade, and that nothing can restore
it to its former position but the re-opening Of
that traffic" piracy" as it is now denomina-
ted everywhere else but among the Southern
extremists? Furthermore, how does it like
Mr.. Spratts declaration that the South is not
properly speaking a democracy, but an aris-
tocracy? That we may not misrepresent
this Southern advocate of piracy" we will
briefly quote from his speech. He says:


" But while this Union is a democracy, the
South is not democracy. 1t is so in its external
character, and so in sentiment perhaps, for there
are very many of us who vet sympathise in the
feeling that equality Is the right ofman, but in it
social condition the South Is not dem0cracy. Oh
the contrary it is perhaps the purest form of ars
tocracy the world has ever seen Elsewhere ars
tocracies have been erced and artificial here it i:
natural and necessary, and the cases are rare as
comets, that individuals of one class have passed
into the other.


Let the enquirer look at the fearful vibrations
| fOm anarchy TO despotism in Rome. Let him
look at the rivers of blood that flowed from free
and equal France along. the streets of Paris. Let
him look at the brigandage that rules in Mexico.
Let him look at the fearful portents at the North.
Let him look at the prostraton of all that is ele
vatcd-at the rise of all that is low Let him
look at the reptiles that crawl from the sinks of
vice to brandsh their forked tongues about the
pillars of the Capitol-at the hands off thousand
patriots that march in TIE streets of New York,
with banners inscribed with ''liberty" on one side,
1--WE will have bread" upon the other, and then
say whether, if equality be indeed the right of
man, there be no conditions in il that render it



whether distinct or social orders, no matter how
Objectionable in theory, are not of necessity in So
cal practice"


Does the Express indorse these sentiments
Either it must, or repudiate n large portion
of its own party, for we venture to say that
the classes who entertain these views sus-
tained, to a man. the Kansas policy of the
President


But, let US follow Mr.. Spratt little fur
ther, and see what he thinks of democratic
institutions in the North. Aristocracy in the
South, he says, works much better than de-
mocracy in the North. The latter, he thinks,
is productive of social discord and every
species of evil Hear him:


an every state of society that is artiicial-and
all are artificial where classes are placed in un-
natural relations to each other-there must be
collisions ofconhicting interests and the throes of
an hregulated nature. 1t is so, that social revo-
lutions have disturbed the constitution of almost
every nation. 1t is so, that the props of social or
der have been stricken down in France. 1t is so,
that Democracy advances upon the conservatisms
OF every European Constitution.


But from this source Of evil the slave society is
free there can be no march of slaves upon the
ranks of masters. They have no reachings to a
higher sphere. There is no contest of classes for
the same position each is in its order balanced
and have perfect confidence that when France
shall fall again into the delirium of liberty-when
the peerage of England shall have yielded to the
masses t0hea Democracy the North shall hold its
cdrnlUat-in which all that is pure and holy shall
have been dragged down-when all that is low
and vile shall have mantled to the sLrface-when
woman shall have taken ne places and habili-
ments Ofman, and man shall have taken the places
and hablments of woman-when Free Love
unions and phalansteries shall pervade the land
when the sexes shall consort without the re-
straints OF marriage, and when youths and maid
ems, drunk at noon-day and halfnaked shall reel
about the market places, the South will stand Sc
rene and erect as she stands now-the slaves will
be restrained by power, the master by the trusts
of superior positon-she will move on with a
measured dignity fpower and progress as con-
spicuous as it is now and If there be hope for
the North-a hope that she willeve ride the
waves of bottomless perdition that roll around
her-it is in the fact that the South will stand by
her and lend q helping hand to rescue and to save
her"


Fine picture of the doctrine of American
equality in its practical operationsi What
does the Express, which is such great stick
Ter for Southern Lecomptonism, have to say
to this slanderous representation of northern
society2 Does it, too, think that the South
is an aristocracy and the North democracy,
and that aristocracy is the better of the twoI
We say it must think so, or openly denouncC
large portion of the Lecompton party. II
will be recollected here, also, that the view,
thus expressed by Mr. Spratt are very nearly
the same views uttered by Senator Hammond
!


in the debate on the admission of Kansas
He declared that the free white laborers o.
the North were hard to be kept in subiection
to the upper classes upper classes y and that
the South had great advantage in this re
spect, for she could always keep in subiec-
tion the "mudsills" of her society. Highly
complimentary this to the working men Of
the North, who feel justly proud of the dig
nifty of labor


Now, we hold the Express responsible fol
these sentiments of the recent Lecompton
supporters of the President; that is to say, il
must bear ali the odium attached to such
views because they are the views of leading
men oil the party with which it is identified.
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INDIAN VALLEY, EY,-Extensive improvements
OF permanent character, are being made in
this valley. The Plumas Argus says:


From the character of the BUILDINGS fan.
ces and other improvements that are be;na
made, it is evident that the inhabitants g
that picturesque valley are preparing future
HOMES, and places to stay at until their noct.
cts are full, as is the case in many localities