New-York daily tribune., 1844-01-11
NJ The Rev. DR.. DEweY's Lecture at the


1- The Rev. DR.. DEweY's Lecture at the
Tabernacle last evening, by the full house it drew,
demonstrated the possibility of sustaining ect-
ures, if the right kind Of men We're obtained.
Dr. Dewey took up the main charges brought
against US by foreign writers in order. The man
ncr IN which he met the first made on account of
our public debt we were not in time TO hear. The
second charge made against US nation OF
swindlers on account OF the great and frequent
failures. involving so many IN their rum, he
thought untrue To show the alleyiating ciEcun1-
stances in the case he gave a history OF our con-
dition during TIE period OF great speculation, when
property, suddenly rising IN value, brought Tor
tunes as suddenly to It's owners. lie said that peo-
pie supposed 1t would continue to rise; til, led
away by their not entirely irrational schemes.
they became involved beyond the power OF re-
demption, and fell Honorable men were among
this number, who felt deeply the stroke that cx-
posed them TO suspicion Great frauds also had
been adduced as evidence of our want OF national
virtue: but these we're isolated cases-the heart
OF the nation vas yet soand. Banks had failed
not national honesty. On the Continent, anong
the mass Of the people, WIS found mostly more
dishonesty and robbery than here.
The third grave charge against Us was Sla-
very. TIE right 10 discuss this question, he
said was ours-even the right to form Abolition
Societies, if VIC would; and no ma1 should take
it from US. Slavery was wrong, radically
wrong, and must sooner or later, cease: yet he
he had no sympathy with the -hboll;ionisis as
such. They had cxaspcrated the South, and
retarded, By their honest slough ill-judged inca
sures, the very object they sought to accom-
plish. There were scris in Russia and oppressed
operatives in England, but what would be the
result if one class, who deprecated these evils,
should rise up and array the community against
itself-what would those who were charged
with the wrong naturally think and do and
what would the nation think if ncighboring ma
tons should form combinations against their
peculiar Institutions, and send agents to preach
and operate against them Why, just the
same as England thinks Of our Repeal meet
ngs, and think remarked DR.. d. none the
better of them. All these subjects, so lnwrought
into the existing order Of things, should not be
treated with the rashness of head!ong feeling,
but be left TO grave legislation. On the evil ol
slavery, he sympathiScd with the Abotlonst.-
That man should be propcrty-bought ana sold
and bartcrcd away like brute-was revolving to
every principle of our better nature. No one
could hear man say. IN reckoning up his
wealth. '' [ own so many horses, so many cows,
and eighty slaves, worth s>:50,000,' without IN
dignatlon.
Slavery must end, and he who thought it would
be perpetual, didnot know the age that was rising
on the world. Man may bind the the fetters of
Slavery with tcnlold strength, the seal Of that
bond would be melted by the influence that was
spreading over the world THE short episode
here of DR.. Dewey was full of truth and beauty
The Slaves of this country were not In so de-
plorable physical condition as to demand the
swift rush Of our sympathies towards them They
were better off than the poor OF the cities OF Eu
rope. They were not beaten, and scourged, and
starved, but on the contrary were the most gay and
Joyous Of all laborers. 1t was the moral wrong
that called for our efforts and synpathies. But
the great question was how was relief to come 2?
The answer is-from the action Of the Southern
States. But how are they to solve the problem
TO cnancipate their Slaves would not heal the
evil Emancipation only commences the work
it docs not reach the whole difficulty. Emancl-
patton has taken place here, SAID he. and yet the
Free Blacks are worse off than the Slaves OF the
South--not being SO well clothed, fed or ohappy
The truth is, there is an impossible chasm be-
tween the black and white races III our country,
and while they are together, the black must be
the scri to all intents and purposes whether free
or not. The doctrine Of amalgation he did not
look on with so much horror--on the contrary if
it could take place ii would be a sure remedy by
destroying IN time all distinctive features that
constitute the two races, Bat it never could be-
and free separate black race could not rise 10
orr equality IN our midst. The only remedy left
was to assign them q State somewhere in the
West, and furnish them with the means OF self
elevation Before the Abolition excitement COM
menccd something was done. The entire South
felt the need Of doing something. Their land
wasted in unfruttulness until bought By Northern
worAingmen, who simply by driving lhe plough
three inches deeper than the ndolent Slaves turn
ed the desert into a fruitful field. The Planter
felt the evil upon him, and asked the remedy, and
itneeded an angel voice to tell him what it should
be--but that angel would not come in the guisc
of O'Connell or Dickens.
The third charge against US was our manners.
DR.. Dewey freely conceded that IN the more pol
ished forms of society, the old world csceIcd us,
but in sincerity, independence, and honor, the