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


last number have seen of the Tribune is a
book. 1t consists of about three sheets. each
nearly a. large as this paper The contents OF
this number Of the Tribune would about fill a
due decimo volume OF two hundred pages, as
they are commonly printed.
We look on such monster paper as 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 WaOerley novels cheap
enough ut fifty cents volume. But the Tri-
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 pco-
pie abroad and at home
Wehave been struck with the style and senti-
ment in which these things are done in this
mammoth number, aud 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 everywhere, and
if they had the power, would make the world
entirely over, and reverse about everything we
now behold. They would make people that
tha;p a, ,>ato - 4. r.
and would secure the happiness of everybody
by aboshing all temptations to sin. All crime
is to be suppressed by the feIicitous expedeni
of abolishing the penalty. The corps of editors
in the Tribune office would make capital fac
ulty of professors in SwIFrs academy of Pro-
jectors
The first editorials III this number of the Tri-
bune are naturally enough devoted to the abuse
of slavery. as that institution is somewhat re-
mote from New York. They inform US that
not only are negroes whipped in the South, but
white men for daring to sympa hize with them
whipped until they are frightened and tortured
into submission. Then we are told that the
slavery propaganda are engaged in continual ag-
bors, for the purpose of exten 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 Ttibune, one
would suppose that the shareholders are con.
stantly engaged in lashing their slaves and the
poor sympathizing Whites and what little time
they can spare, is devoted to slave hunting in
the North, and fllibustering expeditions into
Cuba and New Mexico.
All this is bad enough--but it is hardly as bad
nswhat 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 speaker asserted that the
condition of the workingmen 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 same
number of the paper has an editorial on :" Crime"
which il says has increased and is increasing
ave have more grog shops, more gambling
dens, more haunts of public lewdness than for.
merly;" and
2. Tens of thousands are destitute. ont of
employment unable to procure the means of
honest livelihood, and so brooding over their |
desperate prospects in inevitable idleness from
day 10 day, and often tempted to drown spprehen.
sion in the intoxicating bowl. Thus they con. |
tinue or gradually become diseased in mind. in. |
ured to idleness, unskilled in useful labor. and
resigned to a wretched 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 thousand |
groggeres are open and douby active on
Sunday, though the law expressly SAYS thew
shall be entirely shut throughout that day
2 Everybody, including even the police, knows
thnt hfteen hundred groggeries are going ahead |
unlicensed, in defiance OF the laws Everybody
knows that the city is full OF gambling houses.
policy offices and brothels though the law con.
dennis all these, and provides for their extinc-
ton. On every side the laws are violated with
impuDity, and the violations winked at bv those
whose sworn duty iii TO prevent them What
wonder, then, that the ignorant and vicious have
confused idea Of right and wrong, and suspect
that crime consists not 30 much In breaking the
laws as in being convicted thereof?
And all this too in a community happily ex-
empt from slavery, and blessed also with the
daily voluminous celebrations Of this corps off
reformers in the Tribune Office
But not to be partial. the Tribune deyotes
several of its pages to the crime of the rural
North. The celebrated conspiracy in Michigan
has place, in which some forty persons MANY
OF high respectab'l'ty, were concerned for long
time IN the business OF murder and arson, burn
ing railroad depots, and throwing cars off the
track to kill passengers. Such case wss never
known in the South This number of the Fri
bnne devotes several pages to the speech of
Senator Seward in defence of the conspirstors
of whom about twelve were nevertheless con-
victed.
Bot the unsated and untIrng philanthropy of
the Tribune neither begins at home nor ends at