"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? "Odium has been cast upon our legislation, on account of its forbidding the elements of education being communicated to slaves. But in truth what injury is done them by this? _He who works during the day with his hands_, does not read in the intervals of leisure for his amusement, or the improvement of his mind, or the exception is so very rare as scarcely to need the being provided for."--(Chancellor Harper of South Carolina.--_Southern Literary Messenger_.) This same gentleman delivered an oration on the 4th of July, 1840, reviewing the principles of the two great political parties, and although he supported Mr. Van Buren's administration, in consideration of its devotion to the slave interest, he frankly inquires:-- "Is there anything in the principles and opinions of the great DEMOCRATIC RABBLE, as it has been justly called, which should induce _us_ to identify ourselves with that? Here you may find every possible grade and hue of opinion which has ever existed in the country. Here you may find loafer, and loco foco, and agrarian, and all the rabble of the city of New York, the most corrupt and depraved of rabbles, and which controls, in a great degree, the city itself, and through that, as being the commercial metropolis, exercises much influence over the State at large.