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

Oy CDWpBssiDil. ny fOnc'' -
oo.ice to guard the ion, but his teeth and claws
no for; or city for the bird, but his wings; no
r, seue for flies and mites, but their spawning
numbers. which no ravages can overcome II
deals Nth men after the same manner. Ii they
are rude and foolish, down they must 60. When
at last in race, new principle appears an
ides-thas conserves it; ideas only save races
lf the black man Is feeble, and not important TO
the existing races, not on parity with the best
race, the black man must eerye, and be e1terInl-
nated But If the black man carries IN his bo-
som an Indispensable element of new and CON-
ing civiliz ation, for the sake Of that element, no
wrong, nor strength, nor circumstance, can hu',
MIN he wili survive and play his part so now,
he arrival in the world of such men az ious-
saint, ard the Haytian heroes, or o. TIE leaders
of Their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, out
we phs in good omen all the English ard Amen
can humanity. The anti.slavery Of the whole
world, is dust in ihe balance before th!s--;s
poor squeamishnsss and nervousness the might
aud the right are here: here is the antl-slsve ;
here is man: and if you have man, black or
white is an insignfcanee. The inteieet-thst
is miraculous. Who has it, has the tallsman :
mis- skin and bones, though they were OF the color
Of night were transparent, and the everlasting
stare shine through with attractive beams. But
a compassion for that which Is not and cannot be
useful or lovely, is degrading and futile All
the songs and newspapers, and money-suoscriP-
ton, AID vi,upefsion Of such as as do not think
with ua, will avail nothing against fact. say
IN you, YOU must save yourself, black or white,
man or woman; other help is none. l esteem
the occasion of this jubilee to be the proud dls-
coYery, that the black race can contend with the
white that, In the great anthem which we call
history. piece Of many parts and vast compass
after playing long time very low and auo-
dued accompaniment, they perceive the time ar.
rived when they cen strike in with effect, and
take masters part in the music. The cIvllty
of the world has reached that pitch, that their
more moral genius is becoming indispensable,
end the quality of this race is to be honored for
itself. For this, they have been preserved IN
sandy deserts, in rice-swamps, in kitchens and
shoe shops, so long: now let them emerge, clothed
aud in their own form.
There rtmsins the very elevated consideration
which the subject opens, but which belongs to
more abstract views than we are now taking,
tpis namely, that the civity of no race can be
perfect while another race is degraded. 1t IS q
doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest
philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot
,niure any member, without a sympathetic injury
TO all the members. America IS not civil, While
Africa is basbarous.
These considerations seem TO leave no choice
for the acton of the intellect and the conscience
of the country. There have been moments IN
this, as well as in every p;eceofmoral history when
there seemed room for the infusons OF skepti-
cal philosophy when IT seemed doubtful whe-
ther brute force would not triumph In the eternal
struggle. doubt not, that sometimes despair
ing Negro, when jumping over the ships sides
to escape froCl the white devils who surrounded
him, has believed there was no vlndlcauon OF
right: it is horrible to think Of, but 1t seemed So
doubt not, that sometimes the NcgTO's friend,
in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds OF
traders and drivers, he's felt his heart sink. Es-
pecially, it seems to me, some degree of despon-
dency is pardonable, when he observes the men
of conscience and OF intellect, his own natural
allies and champions-those whose attention
should be nailed to the grand objects OF this
cause, go hotly offended by whatever incidental
petulances or infirmt cs of inGlscreet defenders
of the Negro, as to permit themselves to be ran
ged with the enemies of the human race; and
names which should bo the alarums OF liberty
and the watch. words of truth, are mixed up with
all the rotten rabble of selishness and tyranny.
| assure myself that this codness and blindness
will pass away. A single noble wind of senti-
ment will scatter them for ever. l am sure that
the good and wise elders, the ardent and gene,
rous youth will not permit what is incidental and
exceptonable to withdraw their devotion from
the essential and permanent characters of the
question. There have been moments, said,
when men might be forgiven, who doubted
Those moments are past. Seen in masses, it
cannot be disputed there is progress in human
society. There is blessed necessity by which
the interest of men is always driving them 10
the right; and, again, making all crime mean
and ugly. The genius of the Saxon race, friend
ly 10 liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular
vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with slave
ry. The intellect, with blazing eye, looking
through history from the beginning onward
gazes on this bot and it disappears. The senti-
ment of Right once very low and DIST dstinet net but ut
the universe, pronounces Freedom. The Power
that built this fabric of things afiirms it in the
heart; and in the history of the First of August,
has made sign to the ages, of his will.