So the way to prevent _plundering_ mobs, is to enslave the poor! We shall see presently, how far this expedient has been successful in preventing _murdering_ mobs.
"In the very nature of things there must be classes of persons to discharge all the different offices of society, from the highest to the lowest. Some of these offices are regarded as _degrading_, although they must and will be performed. Hence those manifest forms of dependent servitude which produce a sense of superiority in the masters or employers, and of inferiority on the part of the servants. 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.
"In a word, the institution of domestic slavery supersedes the _necessity_ of AN ORDER OF NOBILITY, AND ALL THE OTHER APPENDAGES OF A HEREDITARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT."--_Governor M'Duffie's Message to the South Carolina Legislature, 1836._
"We regard SLAVERY _as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world_. 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. Every plantation is a little community with the master at its head, who concentrates in himself the united interests of capital and labor, _of which he is the common representative_."--(Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, in the U. S. Senate, Jan. 10th, 1840.)
"We of the South have cause now, and shall soon have greater, to congratulate ourselves on the existence of a population among us, which excludes the POPULACE which in effect rules some of our Northern neighbors, and is rapidly gaining strength wherever slavery does not exist--a populace made up of the dregs of Europe, and the most worthless portion of the native population."--(_Richmond Whig_, 1837.)
"Would you do a benefit to the horse or the ox by giving him a cultivated understanding, a fine feeling? So far as the MERE LABORER has the pride, the knowledge, or the aspiration of a freeman, he is unfitted for his situation. If there are sordid, servile, _laborious_ offices to be performed, is it not better that there should be sordid, servile, laborious beings to perform them?