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1 The New Democratic Doctrine: Slavery Not to Be Confined to the Negro Race, but to Be Made the Universal Condition of the Laboring Classes of Society 1 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/nddslvy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE ' EMOCRATIC, 'DOCTRINE. SLAVERY Not to be Confined to the Negro Race, But to be Made the Universal Condition of the Laboring Classes of Society. THE SUPPORTERS OF THIS DOCTRINE VOTE FOR BUCIANANI THE People of the Free States have so long yielded to the arrogant demands of the Slave Oli- garchy in the South, that the latter has come to think it can carry any measure it sees fit, no mat- ter how degrading it may be to the character of the free white men of the North. Not many years ago the Southern slaveholders were contented to have their human chattels protected in the States where they held them. Nezt, they demanded and secured five Slave States #from acquired territory, (La., Fla., Ark., Mo., and Texas,) while the Free States have only secured two,-Iowa and California. .Next, the Slave power demanded all the terri- tories, and broke down the Missouri Compromise, which secured a part of those territories to free labor. I Nex, they demanded the right to come into the free States with their slaves whenever they choose, and stay as long as they please, and the United States Courts seem about to yield to them, and grant this outrageous demand. But the last, the crowning, the diabolical assump- tiori is, that Slavery is not to be confined to, the NEGRO, RACE, but must be made to include laboring WHITE MEN also. This doctrie, which is so monstrous and shocking as almost to seem incredible, is now openly avowed and defended by very many of the newspapers and of the public men of the South that support James Buchanan. The doctrine is also proclaimed by some Northern newspapers of the so-called Democratic party,' but not'geinerally With such boldness as IA the South. To show the exact extent and nature of this doc- trine of enslaving WHITE MEN, the following ex- tracts from 'Buchanan papers, and from the speeches of Buchanan men are given. The Richmond Examifter, one of the leading De- mocratic papers in Virginia, ardently supporting Mr. Buchanan, holds the following language in a late Issue: Until recently, the defence of Slavery has labored under great difficulties, because its apolo- gists, (for they were mere apologists,) took half- way grounds. They defined the defence of Slav- ery to mere negro Slavery; thereby giving up the Slavery princile, admitting other forms of Slavery to be wrong. The line of defence, however, is now changed. The South now maintains that Slavery is right, natural and neessary, and does not depend upon differ- ence of COMPLEXION. The laws of the Slave States justify the holding of wmm E iiin bondage. Another Buchanan paper, the leading one in South Carolina, says: Slavery is the natural and normal condition of the laboring man, whether WHITE or black. The gkeat evil of Northern free society is, that it is burdened with a servile class of MECHANICS and LABORERS, unfit for self-government, and yet clothed with the'attributes and powers of citizens. Master and Slave is a relation in society as neces- sary as that of parent and child ; and the Northern States will yet have to introduce it. Their theory of free government is a delusion.' There's Democratic doctrinefor you, with a vengeance; our theory of free government a de- lusion,-laoring men, whether white or black, to be slaves. Verily, matters are coming to a pretty pass with us. The Richmond (Vi.) Enquirer, Mr. Buchanan's confidential organ, and considered by the De- mocratic party as its ablest paper in the South, speaks as follows in a rdbent number: Repeatedly have' we asked the North, Has not the experiment of universal liberty FAILED ? Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY INSUFFER- ABLE ? And do not most thinking men among Reproduced with permission from the University of Illinois at Chicago A,-

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