New-York daily tribune., 1844-12-03

lst August. s4', on tDe w
THE EnAscirATlos or THE NEoIors T. fnE INIisa III ~
@s:3 fpss So..:a u vi Muas g. M
rConcuded.l
/ will say farther, that we are indebted mainly
to this movement, and TO the contnuers OF II. ioi
tbs popular discussion of every point OF practical
ethics. and reference Of every question to the
absolute standard. II is notorious, that the Po-
litical, religious and social schemes with which
tho minds OF men are now most occupied, nave
been matured, or at least broached, IN the free
and daring discussions OF these assemblies. Men
have become aware through the emancipation,
and kindred events, of the presence OF powers
which, in their day sof darkness, they had overlook
cd Virtuous men wilinot again rely on political
agents. They have found out the celeterlous ei-
feet of political association. Up to this day, we
have allowed to statesmen a paramount social
standing, and we bow low to them as to the
great. We cannot extend this Difference to them
anv longer. The secret cannot be kept, that the
seats OF power are filled by unde:ngs, Ignorant,
timid and selfish, to degree to destroy all claim,
e1cep,ing that on compassion, To the society oil
the Just and generous. What happened notorl-
ously In AN American Ambassador in England,
that he found himself compelled 10 palter, and TO
disguise the fact that he was slave breeder, hap
pens To men of state. Their vocation IS a PEE
sumption against them, among wel-meamng
people. The superstition respecting power ano
Office, is going to the ground. Ihe stream oi
human affairs flows it, own way, and ID very lit
lie affected by the activity OF Legislators. What
great masses of men wish done will be done; /;
and they do not wish it fer freak, but because
il is their state and natural end. There are now
other energies than force, other than political,
which no man in future can allow himself to dis
regard. There is direct conversation and intu
ence. A man is to make himself felt by his
proper force. The tendency OF things runs stea-
div TO this point, namely, 10 put every man on
hir merits, and to give him so much pnwcr as he
naturally exer;s-no more, no less. Vi course,
the tinid and base PERSONS all who are conscious
of no worth IN themselves, and who owe all their
place TO the opportunities which the old order OF
fbings allowed them TO deceive and defraud men,
shudder at the change, and would lam silence
eyerv honest voice. and lock up every house
wheTe liberty and innovation can be pleaded for.
They would raise mobs, for fear is very cruel
But the strong and healthy yeomen and husbands
of the land the self sustaining class OF inventive
and industrious men, foar no competition or su-
psriority Come what will, their faculty cannot
Do spared.
ins u..e of August marks the entrance OF
new element into modern politics, namely, the
civilization of the Negro. A. man is added to
the human family. Not the least affecting part
of this history of abolition is the annihiation OF
the old indecent nonsense about the nature o1 the
Negro. In the case of the ship Zong, III 1851,
whose master had thrown one hundred and thir-
ty.two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the un
dcrwriters, the first jury gave verdict In favor
of the master and owners they had night to
do what they had done Lord Mansfield is re-
norted 10 have said ON the bench, "The matter
iei, to tho jury is, Was 1t from necessity For
they had no doubt-though 1t shocks one very
rnuch-that the case of slaves was the same as
If horses had been thrown overheard. 1t Is
verv shocking case" But more enlightened
and humane opinion began to prevail. Mr.
Ciarkson. early in his career, made collection
of African productions and manufactures, as
specimens of the arts and culture of the Negro !;
comprising cloths and loon'' weapons, poisaea
stones and woods, leather, glass, dyes, ornaments,
SOAP. pipe.bowls, and trinkets. These he showed
TO Mr.. Pitt, who saw and handled them with ex-
treme interest. "On sight of these" Gays
Cl.rkson, "many sublime thoughts seemed to
rush at once into his mind, some OF which ne
expressed !" and hence appeared to arise pro-
iect which was always dear to him, Of the civil,
zstion of Africa-a dream which for ever esvates
his fame. In 1891, Mr.. Wiiberiorce announced
TO the House of Commons, "We have already
gained one victory VIC have obtained for these
poor creatures the recognition of taeir human
nsture, which, for time, was most shaneiuliy
denied them" 1t was the sarcasm OF Montes-
Quieu, q. 1t would not do to suppose that Negroes
werc men, lest it should turn out that whites
were net !" for the white has, for ayes, done what
he could to keep the Negro ih that hoggish state,
His laws have been furies. 1t now appears that
The Negro race is, more than any other, suscepti.
bic of rapid civilization. The emancipation is
observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the
Negro benefit us sudden when thermome-
tar il brought out of the shade into the sun. 1t
has given him eyes and ears II, before, he was
taxed with such stupidity, or snch detective vis-
ion, that ho could not set table square to the
walls of an apartment, he Is now the principal,
ii not the only mechanic, in the West Indies;
and is, besides, an architect, physician, law
YER n magistrate, an editor, and d valued aud IN
creasng political power. The recent testimonies
of Sturge, of Thome and klmb,li, of Quincy,
of Philippe, are very explicit on this point the
capacity and the success OF the coiored and the
black population in employments of skill, OF
profit, and OF trust; and best OF all, Is the teSti
mony to their moderation. They receive hints
and advances from the whites, that they Will DC
GLADLY received as subscribers to the Exchange,
ss members of this or that committee of trust
They hold back, and say to each other, tina.
"social position is not to be gained by pushing
have said that this event interests us because
u came maoly frou, the concession of the whites
add, that In part 1t is the earning of the blacks
They won the pity and respect which they have
rac.,ved. by their powers and nauve endoWmen's.
think this circumstance of The highest aui-
no,, Their whole future is IN II. Our planet,
bsforo tho age OF written history, had It's Races OF
savayes. ike the generations Of sour paste, OF
the snimalculcs that wrigg!e and bite IN d'oP
~ nutrd water. Who cares for these or ion
,h.,s ,y.rs3 We do no, wish world OF bugs
=, If birds; neither afterward Of Scy,hians, Ca
y;bs. or Fseiaes. The grand style OF nature
her great periods, Is al we observe N mem =,
Who cares for depressing whitss, or opp'eseo "a
blacks, twenty centuries ago, moe man 'or on
of nsture; and ihsre too is tho germ Tor ever
protected, unfolding gigantic leaf after Leaf, a
F,.., aowsr = richer fruit, In every period, yet