ABSTRACT
“In all social systems, there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life; a class requiring but a low order of intellect, and little skill. The Declaration of Independence is exuberantly false and arborescently fallacious. Men are not born entitled to equal rights. It would be far nearer the truth to say, that some are born with saddles on their backs, and others booted and spurred to ride them; and the riding does them good. The great evil of Northern 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. Civilization and Christianity have spread over slavery their humanizing influence. In the slave system, the laborer himself is property. The man himself is a negotiable chattel.
