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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856<br />
Abstracts 3472 - 3476<br />
SLAVERY (Cont'd)<br />
man, and tlJat men are not born enti tied to equal rights; that slavery is<br />
the natural and normal condition of the laboring man, whether white or<br />
black, and that two opposite and confl icting forms of society exist among<br />
civilized people. They hate everything with the word "free," as free<br />
farms, free labor, free society, free thinking, free children, and free<br />
schools.<br />
"Men of the North, and all true-thinking men feel that the battles of<br />
the Revolution are to be fought over, not with guns. but with the ballotbox.<br />
The right of man, of self -government, the equal ity of race, the<br />
superiority of Freedom over Slavery; these doctrines for which our fathers<br />
fought, are all again in question. Let us follow the lights of the Revolution!"<br />
(36)<br />
3472 - L Oct. 2; ed:2/3 - Southern speakers claim that it is best that<br />
capital shall own its labor. while we in the North contend that capital<br />
should hire it at remunerative wages.<br />
"Mechanics! upon what side of this question do you intend to associate<br />
yourselves? Is it your policy to strengthen that class of politicians<br />
who believe that it is right to own labor?" (3)<br />
3473 - L Oct. 7; ed: 2/1 - The question now before the American people is<br />
freedom or slavery. "Shall slavery be extended over our territories, made<br />
legal in all our states, everywhere disgracing and crushing out Free- Labor,<br />
or shall Slavery be restricted to its present limits, tolerated only by<br />
municipal law, while Freedom remains the watch-word of the nation?" (3)<br />
3474 - L Oct. 22; ed:2/2 - "Keep it before the people that the Richmond<br />
ENQUIRER says that • the South now maintains that slavery is right, natural,<br />
and necessary, and that it does not depend upon the difference of complexion.<br />
The laws of the slave-states justify the holding of white Men in Bondage. '"<br />
(3)<br />
3475 - L Nov. 3; ed:2/3,4 - Not an inch of territory has been purchased or<br />
acquired from any foreign power since the constitution was adopted at the<br />
instigation of the free-states, or which was intended for their benefit;<br />
yet the free-states have paid more than two-thirds of the entire cost of all<br />
these acquisitions of territory. From the territory thus qurchased, five<br />
new slave-states have been admitted. The free-states, if any, are yet to<br />
be admitted. In view of these facts staring men in the face, we are told<br />
the South has been oppressed and outraged. Now their great claim is<br />
for state equality, and the Democratic party is compassing earth and<br />
hell to extend the slave institution; that justice may be secured for<br />
the South; that the South may enjoy state equality. (18)<br />
3476 - L Nov. 17; ed:2/2 - The South has suddenly produced some able<br />
writers who are endeavoring to make Negro slavery popular. On every hand<br />
it is admitted to be a highly conservative political element in society.<br />
It restrains within the bounds of decency and morality, freedom of speech,<br />
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