The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-06-26

ciple in accomplishing : thing which destiny
has already decreedi
But the Tribune denies that there is any
such moral relation between master and
,lave, as we assert, and says that I" a great
many slaves are every way better men than
their masters, tried by any conceivable NOR
al standard--that many slave owners have
no moral character whatever, and that many
pious Christian women are bought and sold. y
The sense in which we used the word
moral, in applying it to the relations Of the
two races, was too obvious and well recog-
nIzed to be mistaken by the Tribune. Moral,
in its more general sense, includes intellect
as well as conscience, and we so defined it
in the very passage quoted by the Tribune.
We referred 10 the superiority Of the wise
as well as the good, over the foolish as well
as bad,
Now, can any man dispute---will any
man deny--that the intelligent, the wise,
must and do control the ignorant and foolish'
Yet, do we not sometimes see men Of great
genius and attainment indulging in vices
from which some Of the ignorant are clear;
Why, we suppose that not even the Tribune
or the Socialists will deny the right Of .
parent to control his child Yet are there
not some parents who are in the Tribune's
language without moral character, whose
children are yet moral and pious? The
Tribune might as well attempt, BY that ar
gument, to deny the right Of the parent to
control the child, as Of master the slave.
The existing relation Of husband and wife
would fall by the same logic.
The Tribune caricatures the character
IF slave-owners and puts his own language
in their mouths "Those are my niggers,
and stand no preaching about them--ii
they don't mind me, | fog them, and if you
interfere with me, iii run you up to the first
reese be off," But what is the principle Oh
which things are done at the North-evel'
N the office Of the Tribune. The editor OF
that paper is proprietor, and is understood
20 e wealthy. He gives to the hands EN-
,,loyed in that Office, so much wages TO-
heir labor. Is that voluntary relation
Does any man voluntarily assume the rela-
ion Of laborer for anotheri None. The
employer in New York can discharge, a,
my moment, all his laborers, and turn then.
,ut in city, where, as the Tribune admits
md conte ads, labor does not receive its
value, and where want and starvation abound.
rais power is now possessed by the editor
IF the Tribune; on what principle--by wha,
tight' Simply the right Of the rich. Why
are the rich entitled to such control. Are
they more moral than the laborers' The
Tribune says no. Then why exercise this
power? The Tribune may say he desires
the existing system changed. Yes, but II
ne admits the injustice Of the system, why
loes he not act on his convictions, and re-
louncc his uarighteous control over others,
and divide with them the property he has
acquired by the present fraudulent system,
and which, therefore does not Justly belong
70 him;
The editor of The Tribune may have his
boots BACKED or not, just as he plesses to
pay for it, as STAKEHOLDER may or may not
please to employ that much time of servant
in that manner Is there any man in New
York that becomes boot black voluntari-
lyi Is there any man who resorts to that
degraded and degrading vocation except
from want, from necessity, from the fear Of
evils even greater than the iashi The edi-
tor Of the Tribune monopolizes a large
amount of property, Including the share (by
natural rightly of New York freeman,
and thereby compels him to black boots 70,
a living; and then, acting on the neccs-
sites he has thus, on his own doctrines,
created, he gives or withholds employ
ment at pleasure, and regulates price
And is it for this parsonage to turn up his
pious eyes to Heaven and to thank God that
he is holier than slaveholders Nay, is it for
him to send abroad daily, by the sweat and
toll Of men as good as himself, sheet to de-
nounce all violations of natural right, and to
assert tie universal equality of men, and
then cody at night pocket for himself the
profits of their labor'
Why, every number of the Tribune that
issues with the imprimatur of Greedy and
McElrath, publishers, presenting to us the
evidence that a hundred men toll to send
it forth, to propagate the opinions Of its one
editor, and to swell the fortunes of its two
proprietors--every such number, we say,