Lewis Tappan

So the way to prevent plundering mobs, is to enslave the poor!

Where these offices are performed by members of the political community, a DANGEROUS ELEMENT is obviously introduced into the body politic.

Hence the alarming tendency to violate the rights of property by agrarian legislation, which is beginning to be manifest in the older States, where UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE prevails without DOMESTIC SLAVERY.

It is impossible with us, that the conflict can take place between labor and capital, which makes it so difficult to establish and maintain free institutions in all wealthy and highly civilized nations where such institutions do not exist.

So far as the MERE LABORER has the pride, the knowledge, or the aspiration of a freeman, he is unfitted for his situation.

Is there anything in the principles and opinions of the great DEMOCRATIC RABBLE, as it has been justly called, which should induce us to identify ourselves with that?

What are the essential principles of democracy as distinguished from republicanism?

The first consists in the dogma, so portentous to us, of the natural equality and unalienable right to liberty of every human being.

The second consists in the doctrine of the divine right of majorities; a doctrine not less false, and slavish, and absurd, than the ancient doctrine of the divine right of kings.

In reading the foregoing extracts, it is amusing to observe how adroitly the slaveholders avoid all recognition of any other classes among them than masters and slaves.

It is worthy of remark that in their denunciations of the populace, the rabble, those who work with their hands, they refer not to complexion, but to condition; not to slaves, but to the poor and laborious of their own color.

If we are permitted to apply this rule in testing the moral condition of the South, the result will not be favorable.