New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-27
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
TUESDAY MORNING. JULY q.
The Literature Of Reform.

tutons and Usagcs and improvement in the cOndi-
ton Of mankind Wetrost however that the nun.
Der, not now uncomfortable is steadily increasing
and that even those whose faith in the good time
coming is weaker. do DO. object 10 an occasional
exhibition Of the reasons tor our hope-such as
these
The ExAsIsEs. the new Anti Slavery paper IN
Kentucky, by J. C. VAUGHAN, has hitherto been
barely announced in our columns. We cannot
consent to let it pass so cody. Copies Of IT'S ear
ler numbers fell in our way at different points on
our recent journey, and their perOsal excited our
deep interest and admiration knowing the I'd
itor well we anticipated an excellent paper bat
The Examiner has more than realized our highest
homes Mr. Vaughan, born aud educated 10 South
Carolina knows Slavery intimately and thorough
y having passed many Of the later years Of hrs
life IN Ohio he has had ample opportunity 70 com
pare il with Freedom. The result is what would
be expected from the operations Of evidence on an
enlightened understanding, an unpeTerted heart
and an unsullied conscience. He is an ardent ad-
vocste Of Universal Liberty. bat his zeal against
Chattel Slavery does not misead him into unsPsr-
ing unjust and i'm potent denunciatioDs Of those
whose minds are yet dsrkened on the subject mel
Their does he fall into the error Of narrow minds M
regarding the special evil or form Of evil, he com
bats as more fragrant than all others and alone de
serving Of general reprehension On the contrary
bis earis open 70 every suggestion Of improvement
and bis heart responds 10 the wall Of the wronged
and suffering in the mine or the prison As well as
in the rice swamp or the cotton field Witness
the following extract from an editorial on Crime
and it's Repression:
"Tbe csnker IL seen in the social bOdyesting. eating
eating evefmorci And whereas the cure The gslo"'
does not give 10 PeniteDtiares do not NO VludcuFe
law ands ii All these do their work they take HE
they punish criminals 10 protect property but lhese
criminals increase In every form, and iced the social
esnker which cats deeper and deeper mo the socsi
body. .
What b. be donei Where Is the curei Here
have puzzled--sre puzlltng-ther brains, as they
tug ~ this question. aud seek Out an answer AS D.,
lbs answer comes not As yet Society rests on the old
modes and with the gs0ws ever ia tiRht says 10 the
wicked and bad. There q your doom As yet law
makers and FOUNDERS content with this Bat
bers and indeed all abOutin church
and out OF church-are little under currents suOpg
enough la places bubble up 10 the surface but
generally wanting force and sireng'h TO WASH deep
and safe channel outwardly through social fabric
They exist Let Ne take comfort here. silently BOT
surely. they making their way byand'by ther
surgling will tell where they are and then when
united they will burst out and clean up the csnker II
they do not cure il
80 II. easy enough for any Of us to point out the Ills
and crying Injustice of the criminal law. Take Al eX
ample There's boy educated 10 VICE he b-s never
been at school or church his parents are drunken
brutos they have taken no care of him and nobody
has done thing 10 instruct or belp hun on lie s'esis-
u may be To save himself from ssrving-it may be 10
CRAFTY svceeDgeDdered habit no matter, he steals 10
csus tried, and punished Who Is At fault here He
has done only what each OF us would have zone IN
der like circumstances He Ia what he IT, because ne
could be- nothing else. Suppose Society through IL
laws agents had sent that boy 10 school had taught
him 10 read and write had made him to know rght ana
wrong would he have TALENT No such thing lie, And
all Ike him, (Or the great majority 81 them) nus ~
sfrnefod. would become useful ciuzens-go7u men,
whose lives would give yigor 20 the Commonwealth ana
put wealth In lite golfers As II 49, they are curse anu
expso.e s.,......,..,..o. - ,,,,,.h Zoe or,.,o
but does not undertake ~ prevent II or To cure the Grim
ina IL this ju.tt Is It generousi l ooh At the cues
lion. For siesng yard Of ribbon eir or boy gots !"
jail that step makes them criminals ior lille Tor vice
they taught by rule In ,il all thsr d"ys conse
quenty they either la prison plotting against soci
ETY. putting heavy costs apart from the loss of their
labor) Of IL plunderng aud destroying or worse
sill spreading their ab minsble notions and ba1 habs
wherever they Society does nothing 10 parent Tue
fret step II does nothing or reform after that
step has been tsken What alternative is there then for
youth educated badly aud wrongly but to steal and AT
Ter that 10 become aud more hardened In yisny,
I'LL they dioi or ars hung according u law T.
From another number we take the following Ed.
torial on DUELISe one of the best OF the many
excellent essays We have read in depreciation Of
that abhouent relic OF barbarsm
DuEIISe The death of George C. Dromgoole, of
Virginia occssioned deep regret among large circle OF
friends.
We knew him in other days. lie ordinary
man. His mind was unusually clear and strong, aud,
had adverse circumstances occurred, he would
have been ornament to society and an honor to the
nation.
But IL wa. 10 private lie be charmed SO simple, 60
kind so true We never knew a more generous man
he wholly disnterested and knew how TO sacrifice
sell with grace which won him the love OF friends
aud the sc.Y-ct OF ecqu@,otSncee.
In evil hour he tempted acting upon ialse no
lions OF honor, 10 peril his lie, and the lie OF another
His antagonist ter From that hour he Was altered
man he knew no peace aud drown the bitter
that he was murderer he sued his soul still deeper
Ia crime by drinking 10 excess And IN early lie he
was taken from us a dcbased and self GIFTED man.
Yet how like him the last act of his life The
little paragraph below inserted In newspapers without
comment snd glanced Vt by the reader. possibly with
out thought tells at once the ucituda OF HE intentions
and his estimation of the depth OF his crime.
George G. Dfomgoole In bis viii. all his proper
~ the children OF the individual who cll by his hand
In a duel"
1t has fallen to lot in days when thought duel
ing no sin II could be said to have thought about It
Of all to meet With many 10 know we'll some, who bad
killed their men. We never knew ono who lived in
peace after the murder know only two who survive
and they sots
Tue hrst time We were called upon TO witness duel
was Augusta. Georgia IN 1873 We were lusi enter.
ing manhood The parties were iroin our native State.
We knew them both well They were stationed at their
places and at the word fye the elder Of the two
OF promise aud place. fell dead We saw him, saw bis
brother who gazed Wildly into his pale face. just
Toll OF lite. friends they huuiedly took up his
body sud bore him onward to his home. And saw
aiteTwsrd gray haired father he bent that
body hot tears falling down his cheeks tall struck
with palsy tor his prop the boy OF hs hopes taken
away. and there longer happiness for him ON
earth
But the survivor Business relations brought US to.
gother were his attorney, aud We had 10 see him
at bis home. aud our house. Ia company no
change In him he was Il. hi hearted, almost roicsOme
Ia he gayety lie never spoke OF the murder. by an
unut,ered but well understood compact (snd how
riey did this describe the deed referred 10
u But we learned that he never sopt without a
hight In his soon after found that he
becoming drunksd aud scarce three years bad passed
since the duel ere be stricken down in early
hood and laid near his antagonist in the earth.
But his death We were present NJ H. aud never may
witness such smother That subJect-sO long kept
sealed ny by himsrliso long untouched ~ family OF
iflead-the murder Of his school companion snd neigh.
bor wss =, sst broken by himself 4" could not help
H. said he Ne his eyes gsrcd upon ne, snd his breath.
ing became painful from It's quick and audible action
We koe~ 10 what be referred sud endcsvOred 20 ci-
rect bis thoughts into other channels In vain. /
could not helpn was torced into II could help il O.
Aud AL this was, In duehug sense true lie had every
excuse could have 10 hight; but when a. n,,ur3
he exclaimed wildly. IL viii not dol murdered him,
see him pow-l have him IS he lay dead an ,hs
nold. ever since slew him Ny God IN C;oS - anS
..annnna ~ Ia NNmN .