New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-08
y.r,o,. ant Of slavery.
NEw.Yokx, Saturday, July d 1904

-,.a. Editors Of The Tribune:
A colored person called at my once anu
"a 10 purchase bis children from slavery, In
rcq'e J,eserred him TO you as known philauthrO'
h 49, friend oflberty, and as one who devotedsp'en
and the columns Of sninhuential journal to
Go s-.nceu,eut of progress and happiness. He re-
,h,, he had been 10 you at drsi that you refused
phe" "a because you were opposed TO buying any one
BEE Slavery and that the principal aid ne had reeeiVea
u fr,m SOnthan1s ,h
ryessed friends Of the black only friends for ths
bcy 20 how Howisi, Please lie! US hear ifomyou-
Friend TO HIS COUNTRY
Rtmarks.-Our correspondent has DIS
covered very old mares nest-one from when
tbe eggs have long vanished. We DO not H"'S
,,,ecisely what motive animates him, though we
n,,c,, Atall events. we give him all he.can
make by it. Io,,,-
We have given something toward 'le 'eu0'"l
ZION bv purchase Of forty or fifty slaves rom DUN"
.,e--soue of them within the last year. We my
again in cases of special urgency, Ike that
sf,hs Tdmondson girls but, as general rule
ne are ayerse to the Slave Trade in all ITS phaSeS'
and mean to stand sloof from it. It'll bad trace
and we prefer to keep clear OH
p,ohablv our correspondent does not need to De
..c,oed that we hold the ensavement OF human
te;nrs and their subugaton as chatels to the VIII
I'D pleasure Of other human beings fragrant
- ,,rono--a subversiOn OF natural justice--a
J.espce of the Golden Rule-an implOus violation
,rtbe great fundamental law, Thou shalt love
,by peigllbor as hyseD' Now we insist that no
.l.veboder would desire to be himse5a slave and
70 decent man would wish to subject his daugh
,e,s 10 the chances and almost certaintes OF
,oung and comey female slaves condition
slavery therefore, with its necessary denial OF in
,ellectual development and culture to its victims
and the subsection Of their persons to the unlim
Sod control Of the masters is essential lniquity
not merely something which may be abused, but
,condton which is itself an abuse, and tends in
eyitably to oil manner Of practical wrongs and
denominations.
So regarding il, we anxously desire to rid our
own country first, md ultimately the whole world,
Ct It's balefu and corrupting presence. The res
cue of few individuals from the seryile condition
Is Of small account when compared with the over
throw of the accused system.
Now we regard the buying of here and there
slave out of Slavery calculated, in its general
influence. to strengthen and perpetuate the sys-
.em Each purchase is naturally regarded by the
slayeholding class as in some sense an admission
of their right to their slaves. We apprehend
that they are strengthened and encouraged in
their evil ways by our buying their slaves. 1t IS
MS if pirate ship were to come into our port to
cell of the goods she had accumulated by bucca-
neering, and we were to buy them off her hands,
The act Of buying at such sale would be bad one,
though the motire might redeem it. Our buying
would certainly not be calculated to ill the cor
sair's breast with any thrilling sense of our abb
florence of his bloody and atrocious career.
We have been struck with the fact that the
most active and efficient supporters of the SyS-
tenn of Slavery at tho North-thOse who mani
testify expect and labor to make money or office
out of it-are generally foremost in the Northern
Slave-trade. The idea of making Sj,OsO year
out of Slavery and cheating the devil by giving
500 wear toward the emancipation of here and
there fugitive slave, is one of large family
which is very naturally popular with Cotton traf-
fckers, divines and politicians. We do not con-
slider il our duty to increase that popularity.
II is quite possible that our correspondent has
heard, and even applauded, the sentiment MIL
LIONS FOR DEFENsE-NoT A CENT FOR TRlBUTE!
II so, as this is about the 4th of July, will he
please study and ponder it while (! ri.