2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/29/2022
Handbill, "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", 1856 1pp., 6-1/2" x 9-1/4", minor spotting. Brutal review of the Democratic Party's support of slavery. Includes "The people of the Free States have so long yielded to the arrogant demands of the Slave Oligarchy in the South, that the latter has come to think it can carry any measure it sees fit, no matter how degrading it may be to the character of the free white men of the North. ... But the last , the crowning , the diabolical assumption is, that Slavery is not to be confined to the NEGRO RACE, but must be made to include laboring WHITE MEN also. ... To show the exact extent and nature of this doctrine of enslaving WHITE MEN, the following extracts from Buchanan papers and from the speeches of Buchanan men, are given. ... 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 great evil of Northern FREE society is, that it is burdened with a servile class, MECHANICS and LABORERS, unfit for self-government , and yet clothed with the attributes and powers of citizens. ... There's "Democratic" doctrine for you, with a vengeance; "our theory of free government a delusion,"-"laboring men, whether WHITE or black, to be slaves." Verily, matters are coming to a pretty pass with us....."
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