"All society settles down into a classification of capitalists and laborers. The former will _own_ the latter, either collectively through the government, or individually in a state of domestic servitude, as exists in the Southern States of this confederacy. If LABORERS ever obtain the political power of a country, it is in fact in a state of REVOLUTION. The capitalists north of Mason and Dixon's line, have precisely the same interest in the labor of the country, that the capitalists of England have in their labor. Hence it is that they must have a strong federal government (!) _to control_ the labor of the nation. But it is precisely the reverse with us. We have already not only a right to the proceeds of our laborers, but we OWN a _class of laborers_ themselves. But let me say to gentlemen who represent the great class of capitalists in the North--beware that you do not drive us into a separate system; for if you do, as certain as the decrees of heaven, you will be compelled to _appeal to the sword to maintain yourselves at home_. It may not come in your day; but your children's children will be covered with the blood of domestic factions, and will see _a plundering mob contending for power and conquest_."--_Mr. Pickens, of South Carolina, in Congress, 21st Jan., 1836._ 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._