New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-11

qualities Of affection and docllity rather
than of ambition and executive indepen-
dence. submits to it more patiently than any
other race. But even he proves his hu-
mainly by his thirst for freedom St
Domingo proves that he knows how to as
sert and maintain his right to be his own
property alone. The fact that Caesar es-
canes from bondage and that Pompey longs
at whatever risk to follow him proves 1t.
Would our correspondent war against all
original. universal impulse of human ma
ture1 The notion is absurd.
Security, stagnation, immooillty are not
the end and aim Of man, black or white.
Movement. Progress, Development, form
his true condition. A great step is accom-
plished when labor passes from Slavery into
hirelingism, and yet the slave is secure OF
his livelihood and the hireling IS not. Would
our correspondent advise the restoration OF
all the white proletaries to the security and
other blessings of Slavery? We presume not
Whv then contend for keeping the blacks IN
that state7 Far better for them their own grip
mo necessities for taskmasters than the pa
ternal care of owners. The former may
spur them to improvement, the latter must
seek more and more to reduce them to the
state of brutes.
The argument that slave does wrong to
escape we commend to the meridian of South
Carolina and Mississippi. For it is equiva-
lent to saving that he does wrong to be any,
thing but beast, favorite idea in those
regions.
Here is the whole question Whether
blacks ought to be animals or men. If men,
then whatever increases their discomfort
with Slavery is good, for it strengthens
manly feeling.
To say that the abolitionists have caused
slaves to be prevented from learning to read
is absurd The abolitionists have merely
reused slave owners to understand that their
slaves are men, that TO educate them is
dangerous, and that there is no safety but IN
making them brutes. Hence these repress-
i've laws.
But if we at the North will send back
every fugitive, then our correspondent
promises that the States which most plainly
need to have Slavery extinguished within
their borders will take the necessity into
consideration. This is promising too much.
If their own palpable damage and decay
will not induce them, will the return of
few dozen negroes! If Slavery costs them
millions every year, will they be led to
abolish it by our helping them to few
thousands Let us assure our correspondent
that the way to end Slavery is to circum-
scribe and annihiate it as a great political
power in this Republic. When it can no
longer make Presidents, and distribute pa
tronage, the Slave-holding States will hear
reason, and cease to trample on their own
interests.
The fact is, that in the border States, Slave
nv is sure soon to die out. Fifty years will in-
evitably see the end of it in Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri Whatever may now be said or
done, we predict there will hereafter be no
thought of denying that those who have de-
voted themselves to the discussion of this
subject, have rendered substantial and
valuable service to their country.
We oppose the Fugitive Law because 1t
does not give sufficient guarantees to Free
dom, while it secures everything to Slavery
1t does not render it morally impossible
that free man should be sent into bondage
Better that ninety-nine guilty should es-
cape than that one innocent should be pun
ished, SAYS the criminal law. Better that
ninety-nine slaves should be released than
that one freeman should be enslaved, say we.
But Slavery is to be regarded and treated
as an exceptional institution, not subject TO
common reason or the ordinary rules OF
right and wrong This is pretty well, con-
sidering that 1t comprises one-siXth of all
the population of the country, and is as old
among us as our national existence
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