The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-01

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Review Of the View York Tribune Of Sept. %.
II is unusual to review newspaper. But the
last number We havc seen Of the Tribune is a
book. II consists Of about three sheets. each
nearly AS large as this paper. The contents of
this number of the Tribune wonld about ill a
ducd-cimo volume of two hundred pages, as
they are commonly printed.
We look ON such monster paper rs an out
rage on human patience-and it contains only
one sheet more than the regular daily size of
the Tribune.
We used to think the Wlrerley novels cheap
enough at fifty cents a volume. But the 7ri-
bune is published every morning--nay, three
times day at two cents each, or little more
than the cost Of paper. 1t has six editors, and
more; and seventy thousand subscribers or pur.
chasers of the several editions in the aggregate.
The profits result from the advertisements.
THIS paper undertakes to give intelligence
from all parts Of the world, and to present correct
views of the condition and institutions of peo-
pie abroad and at home.
We have been struck with the style and senti.
nent in which these things are done in this
mammoth number, and therefore refer to several
Of the articles.
The editorial is principally devoted to social
and political questions in which the editors take
great interest. They are extremely Disguised
with the existing state of things every where. and
if they had the power, would make the world
entirely over, and reverse about everything we
now behold. They would make people that
would walk on their heads inste I'd Of their feet
and would secure the happiness of everybody
by abolishing all temptations to sin. All crime
is to be suppressed by the felictous expedenl
of aboishing the penalty. The corps Of editors
in the Tribune Office would make a capital fac
ulty of professors in SwiFT's academy of Pro
jectors.
The first editorials Of this number Of the Tri
bune are naturally enough devoted to the abus.
Of slavery, as that institution is somewhat re
mote from New York. They inform us tina
not only are negroes whipped in the South, bu
white men for daring to sympa hi.e with then
whipped until they are frightened and tortured
into submission. Then we are told that the
slavery propaganda are engaged in continual ag
gression on Mexico, Cuba, and all other ne ign
bors, for the purpose Of extern ling the institu-
ton. And the meek and impotent North is
called on to make battle, in order to retain the
little remnant of Northern right which has been
saved in its battles with the Southern Hydra
According to the accounts of this Tribune, one
would suppose that the shareholders are con.
stantly engaged in lashing their slaves and the
poor sympathizing whites; and what little tim.
they can spare, is devoted to slave hunting in
the North, and fillibustering exped tons into
Cuba and New Mexico.
All this is bad enough-but il is hardly as bad
aswhat the Tribune reports as to things at home
in New York. This paper contains the proceed
ings Of workingmen's meeting in that city, al
which the principal speak .r asserted that the
condition Of the workingneu there, was worse
than that of the negroes of South Carolina =
And the meeting denounces the city council for
not paying higher wages, and for not attending
to the demand for land reform. The very sam,
number Of the paper has an editorial on Crime
which il says has increased and is Increasing.
"We have more grog shops, more gambling
dens, more haunts Of public lewdness than for
merly;" and
2. Tens of thousands are destitute, It O
employment, unable 10 procure the means O
honest livelihood, and so brooding over theil
desperate prospects in inevitable idleness from
day 10 day, and often tempted TO drown apprehen
sion in the intoxicating bowl. Thus they con
tinue or gradually become diseased in mind. in.
ured 70 ideness, ~ killed in useful labor, and
resigned TO a wrerched career Of Incidence, in.
temperance and crime.
3. Our laws in favor Of morality are not en-.
forced by those paid 10 execute them. Every
one not stone-blind can see that five thousa nd
grogReries are open and doubly active on
SUNDAY, though tue lsv expressly saws they
shall be entirely shut throughout that day
Everybody, including even the police, knows
that fifteen hundred groggeries are going ahead
unlicensed, in defiance OF the laws. EVERYDAY
knows that the city Is full Of gambling houses
policy Offices and brothels, though the law con.
demns all these, and provides for their extinc.
ton. o. ey side, the laws are violated with
,mPunify, |e violations winked at by those
whose sv w tits 10 prevent them. What
wonder, the ignorant and vicious have
confused<11Nof right and wrong, and suspect
that crime consists not SO much in breaking the
laws as in being convicted thereof
And all this too In community happily ex.
empt from slavery, and blessed also with the
daily voiuminou. eshortatiors Of this corps OF
refomers in the Tribune Office.
But not to be partial, the Tribun. devote.
several Of It's pages to the crime Of the rura
North. The celebrated conspiracy in Michigar
has place, in which some forty persons, m IN,
Of high responsibility, were concerned for a Ions
time in the business Of murder and arson, burn
ing railroad depots, and throwing ears of tn,
track to kill passengers Such case was neye,
known in the South. This number Of the Tyi.
b1f,s devate. seve,.l nara. g. IL. -