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THE REAL ISSUE.
FACTPS FOR NORTHERN LABORING MEN.
THE NEW DEMYOCRATIC DOCTRINE.
Slavery not to be confined to the Negro race, but to be made the
universal condition of the Laboring Classes of Society,
I
SHALL FREE LABOR OR SLAVE LABOR PREVAIL?
Working men I the plot thickens-the crisis is upon us. We are to be made slaves ourselves if
Southern men shall get the power. They have boldly 4nnounced their determination to sub-
due us, and they mean to do it. They have made us coinpromise everything-then taken away
their side of the bargain, and afterwards robbed us of ours. We have been so tender and yield-
ing to them, that, like spoiled children, they think we r ust yield everything to their arroganee
-that nothing is too sacred for-them to violate.
W.e have hoped and prayed for peace. We have yielded to demands that well-nigh robbed us of
our manhood. We have promptly performed every duty we owe to the South. We have peti-
tioned in the largest numbers, and in every formn, and in the most earnest terms , that our
brothers in iKansas might be spared from butchery, and their humble cabins be saved from mid-
night burning. The President and the Oligarchy have puvrned us with contempt, and we have
been told in the bitterest mockery, to go to the Courts for redress-to courts where judges make
systematic warfare upon Free State men-courts thrt have'indicted and destroyed, as nuis-
ances, the most valuable hotels and bridges-that hav,3 silenced the press, and thrown the editors
and Free State men into prison, on pretexts more un.founded and infamous than ever were put
trth by the worst, Government in the worst ti s e-that look with complacency on one mur-
derer holding a high office under the General G overnnient, and thit have brought tojustice not
ONE SINGLE VILLAIN WHOSE HANDS A-RE RED WITH OUR BROTHERS' BLOOD.
We can never bear that the Union, which we have always cherished and do still cherish as the
very apple of our eye, shall be made a mockery and delusion. We can never bear that murder
and the foulest crimes on the fairest portion of our public territory, sball stnlk not on!y ui-
avenged, but smiled upon Iwy a venal President and a Lordly Oligarchyl.
TuE people of the Free States have so long forms of Slaeery to be wrong. The line of defense
yielded to the arro-ant demands of the Slave however is now changed. 7te South nw ma2V-
Oligarchy in the South, that the latter has come tins MatSlavery is right, natural and neces-
to think it can.carry any measuie it sees fit, no sary, anddpesnot dependupon difference of COXL-
matter how degrading it may be to the ehracter PLEX.tON. The LAWS of the Slave States
of the free white men of the *North. JUSTIFY the he 1OLDING OF WHITE 3[EN
Not many years ago theSouthern slaveholders IA' B0NYDA GE.
were contented to have their human chattels Another Buchanan paper, the leading one in
protected in the States where they held them. South Carolina, says:
.Yext, they demanded and secured five Slave
tates from acquired territory, (La., Fla, Ark is the natural and ormal condition
Mo., and Texas,) whilethe ree,-tate, have onY o/ the LABORING MANI, wihether WHITF
secured two,-Iowa and California. or BLA C1.: The great evil of Northern FREb'
Next, the Slave power demanded all thc ter- society is, that it is burdened uith a ser ile class
ritories, and broke down the Missouri Compro- of -M11ECHANICS and LABOREVRS, UNFIT
fr wc secured a part of those territorio to 'OR.SE.]I.:O VERNJIEL 7 andyet clothed
ma bor. ',ak the attributes and powers of Citizens. Mas-
- they demanded the right to com into ter and Slave is a relation in society as necessary
therfree States with their slaves whenever they as t ai o arent and child; and the Northern
choose, and stay as long as they please, and tie tat8 w1i yet have to introduce it. Their theory
United Stat es Courts seem about to yield t them. f rce !ovcrnment is a delusion.
and grant this outrageous demand. There is Democratic doctrine for you with
But the last, the- crownina, the diabolical a vengeance ,our theory of free government is
sumption is, that Slavery is not to be confined to 'a dlusion,-laboring men, whether white o r'
the NEGRO RACE, but mustbemade to include black, to be slaves.' Verily, matters are coming
laboring WHITE MEN also. This doctrine, to a pretty iine pass with us.
which is so monstrous and shocking as almost to The Richnond (IVa.) Enquirer, Mr. Buchanan's
seem incredible, is now openly avowed and dc- confiden ial organ and considered by the De-
fended by very many of the newspapers and of mocratie party as its ablest paper in the South,
the public in,.n of the South that support James speaks as follows in a recent number:-
Buchanan. The doctrine is also proclaimed by 1? ep.eedly have we asked the North, ' Has not
some Northern newspapers of the so-called De- the experiment of Universal LIB-ERTY FAIL-
inocratic party, but not enerally with such -ED? Arenot the evils of IRE, SOCITETY
boldness as in the South. To show the exact ex-I. UFj.AB.E? td do not
tent and nature of Iliis doctrine of enslaving I UF'ERAB LE? y ony youpropose to subert and recon.
WHITE ME', the following extracts from u? Still aswr. Thisloomy silence
Buchanan papers, and from the spee,.Ies of sr i ? Stll no ',. etom l oo se
Buchanan men are given. o n 2l1u8U eiidenc c . .f a i . . . .ter
conclusiveevices we ba1-Pf;,rrnits-hcd. that _ 'Rg.E
That they despise, and flout and mean to sub- '() -I inl the lone r7M ';s an impraciabl
duetl -We eanno h-nger doubt. ;Re d- .i..e y; ;t r, '
their J!)ding new spapers and their loading m en ' li ,d ¢ , - ' t
now say of us all, fellow-workmen. ,
The~ ~ ~ Rihmn on;fte111i1 We r~peat, then, that policy a),d humanitalk
' pr , , e forbid A? extension o/' the evils of free society to
Democratic papers in Virginia, ard ,e v support-', --Ol (d coming (enerations.
ing Mr. Buchanan, bols Iho following, tam . I .. nd -o fs o e
,CinRt. liong ciriized VW', C'e i s and endure.
Unti recently, the de?6',.e f sb'v1ry has labor' d The ou1e must give wvy anl' rse to exist. T7ne othe'
u a dr ,treat difeulties, 6eca 'mse its apologists, (foi become universal.
they were mere apolbqgst.?,) took halfway ground,h.. Iffree society be unnatural, inmoral, unchris-
l7heu confined th,- ltonsq of Slavery to VFREbRL tian, it must fall, 'nd give way to a slave society,
V 1C( R 0 Slavrrq ; thered, giving up the ..o& ar, S .ru stw obl, as the inorld, universal a,
'I T'ERY PRIA'CIPLEK (a btlimng other' - nt
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