New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-11
slavery Ira America.

This IL, IN Tact, Communism, Of the QrO8est
kind, enforced by their masters aborinQ pOuula-
ton Of three millions. Slaves must not form 70.
guar families, united by recognized religious and socisl
ties. That would interfere with selling families BY
ton ia several lots But they must increase aud multi
ply by polyghmy or otherwise. That Is the only try.
ing trade their owners drive with them d the
older Slave ststes-in which, Lyel justly observes:
Emancipation (an0Dg other benefits TO those oder
slate) would eectually put stop to the breeding col.
hpg and exporting Of slaves 10 the SUGAR growing te1
OF the South where unless the accounts usually red
OF Slavery be exaggerated and distorted the life Of he
negro II shortened by severe toll and suffering"
We have said that this regimen, which ignores sn.
iy well as all other human rights whatever stanS Ia
defiance TO degree unprecedented OF 1.-The great syD'
paihies OF mankind" In ancient times philosopfGS
and morasts, like Aristotle, could defend the nsiao
OF Slavery on principle. In the middle sgss the pse
gress Of agricultural economy the growth of towns
anu the lnterpostion Of the priesthood humadSe4
Eery.,udc, enabled serf3 to slip of their yoke AS
society advanced in Europe" says Hssm, "tbe mass'
mission OF slaves grew more frequent. BY the iDeu.
eence OF custom in some places, perhaps by ontnaI
convention, yleins might possess property, and thss
purchase their redemption. Even where they had =
legal title TO propertyit accounted nhuman % ..
yest them OF their lule poss eesion Che pecuino Re
law" In teudal Europe generally the marriages q
yilleins were not valid wthsut the ords consent -
Adrian ", in the twelfth century, declared them -
soluble. Wha, the Great Republic" declares coneas'
ing the marriages Of her three million vleDs Of Ane0
extTactof.j f-smply and buntly-that Msy lace -
,stenee. American Republicanism in general docs =
much lean toward Communism; but here Is Atne~
Communism forced ON hres millions Of people.
This cannot endure; orsModem Civilization iro
IT. hearts core, must be Atheist and ComInunst ~
lemma worth bordering, and pregnant OF some OF ~
sequence, which Time will not fail 10 developc
There Il an ultimate solution Of the Slavery pro1s
which perhaps may be not least probable; and -
even the shameless breeding for Southern'nihkep.
the reckless cupdity OF territorial conquest Tor me
alton Of new Slave Stoes in the end may p.oniote
farther south the African race Is transported tne ~
congenial the cGmate To their constitution, ana
10 10 thst Of their masters This may bring about M
Ascendtncy on the ultimate tleater OF neyv
"Such Is the Indifference Of the negroes to neat "a
serves Lyell, "thst they often found slccpngSr
their faces upword in broiling sun, instead {" -
under the shade % a tree hard by 80.
In nothing that we have written have we desrc
disguise the practical difficulty Of dealing WIN VEL
seal problem Of eiiecting an euthandsia of AmesL
slavery. In NOTHING that we have written Lave Z
signed TO cost any the slightest slur On the
nianity OF the greater number Of the American -
toward their slaves But il the treatment A -
the system Is inhyman and wherever there 49,
owner or ticye dealer OF brutal chsThctsI "o -
dulse his brutality with perfect impunity oeeaT -
cut legal evidence TO convict him. But me Ian
u not exceptional brutality II "a sys.emsus ~
sicn Of human training and human rea'ons - -
millions of people The men, we know wD;,ns ~ =
black, better than the system eniorcea 1880
termo.t would make theur But laws which - -
oursges on huiaeiity viii prodaee tooe cu. sasruj
in few inftsnces then worldwide odfiru " ns -
without adequate object II IN many ins'an' ~
Tie tyrants plea, necessity proyokes the re'yn'
true necessity & tie overthrow OF the tyrsnhy' -
sti,l the difficulty Of conceiving the nseaao -
Abolition OF American Slavery is NOT TO De axsS~ss
The negro viii not be improved Cut o. -,
They will NOT, Ike the conquered races ~ lew
rope melt into lgamation with those OF saeu 800
mas,eTf. They will not-wShin, M iean' a"' '''