rditelobe)lion. They tell us, as Vice Presi dent Stephens has done, that slavery is to be the cornerstone of the Southern Confederacy. Its leaders and their as* soeiates denounces Jefferson as a sophist, and the Declaration of Inde-. pcndenceas ‘Red-Republican doctrine/j djThey speak of the laboring millions ot[jjfc\ ‘the free States as the ,tuudNills of Ho-i, o eioty/ as a 'pauper banditti/ as ‘greasyiPrta tonerbeImechanics and filthy operatives.’ They 3J declare that 'slavey, black or white,is ‘right and necessary/ and this doctrine-j has been advocated by the Southern{ablt; pulpit, and by the leading newspaper of CoiHe*iCharleston,Riohmor*d,*udNew Orleans HjTbey believe with Culhou(s,that Slavery, .r ii the most s:;fe tod stable basis for tt0 *frei institutions in tbs world/ Tfc'ty '«ss