Brookville American

Consistency is a Jewel.
Mr. Voorhees, of Terre Haute, delivered a speech at the Court House on Friday last, to a respectable number of persons, consisting of a majority of Republicans and disaffected Democrats.
He charged the Republican party with being in favor of placing the negro on an equality with the white man, and attempted the proof by stating that the Republicans in Congress, some two years since, voted for, and elected Mr. Banks Speaker of the House. During the struggle which preceded his election, Mr. Banks was interrogated as to his opinion of Slavery. In the language of the Declaration of Independence, he replied, "I believe that all men are created free and equal." Such being his answer, and he a leading Republican, according to the reasoning of Mr. Voorhees, the Republican party is in favor of negro equality.
With reasoning equally logical, we assert that it is a part of the creed of the Democratic party to place the poor laboring man of the country, not only upon a level with the negro, but upon the same footing with the slave of the South; and that, in their vocabulary, they are known as the "mud sills" of society.
Senator Hammond hails from the State of South Carolina, and is a leader of the self-styled "National Democratic" party. Of his genuine Democracy there can be no question. By that party he is honored with a seat in the Senate of the United States. Not long since, in that sacred temple, where the representatives of the freest nation on the face of the globe assembled to legislate alike for the poor as well as the rich, in a speech made there, he said, that, everywhere, in all countries, there must be a class of men to do the drudgery-the servile labor of society-that in the South they were called slaves, but in the North we don't call them so, they are the "mud sills of society."