New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-23
NORTH AND SOUTH.

NOhi IL AMI SUI
"a Virgnian in our last gives his view of the sub
ect of Slavery and the relations of the North to the
South affected thereby. His position is substan-
italy that Of the humaner and consderate minor
ity of the Southern people, and therefore we are i'm
PEELED to consider and comment upon it.
a VirgiDian freely admits that Slavery is essen
italy and grievOusy wrong-that il produces revolving
barbarites and inquities-that the negrOtraders vo
cation ought to be broken up-that the separation Of
families by sale ought to be stOpped-tha there
drunken masters and brutal Overseers who wholly
unfit to be clothed with absolute power over human be-
iDgs-tha the shareholders sefnterest is no adequate
safeguard against the abuse of his bondmen &c. &c
So far, he allows his better feelings fair play and we
thank him for his testimony.
But when he goes on to complain of agitation, and
to assert that Northern people totally misunderstood
the question, he only sulies himself If the evil be
fragrant even he comedies it to be, then there
ought to be agitation it is not agitation but indfer-
ence tLat is inhuman, un-Chrisian and perOus. For
no community fall into greater deluson and
danger than that Of adopting the AheiStc presumption
that their private and special interest may be advanced
by acquescence in and cOuntenance TO that which stands
opposed to Immutable Justice and Eternal Right In
the presence such controversy is Anti Slavery
but ProSavery which is short-sighted mpolitic and
fanatical
a Virginian' evinces gross inconsistency in talking
Of Mrs Stoves imaginary cabins" and the tauntng
AbotiODists firebrand of insult" His own article
proves Mrs. Stoves cabins not imaginary for he ad
mts the truth of the main propositions that Mrs.
Stoves book written to establish There is
nothing more unlike "taunting" than Mrs. Stoves
writings nor even those of Abotonists generally so
far as they contemplate the humane upright generous
STAKEHOLDER. But when we contemplate that large
class who talk of Slavery deplorabe evil inflicted
on the unwilling South by British cupidty, and then
ask to pay the South Sixteen Hundred Millions of
Dollars as a compensation for her saves-when
men asking us to consider and make allowance for the
difficulties and perpexities under which the South
labors-the impossibty of governing her Black popu
laon providing for it's subsistence otherwise than
in Slavery, and find them the next minute hunting and
bounding poor fugitive who has volunteered to re-
lieye the South of al! farther perpexity his
account-nay, not content with hunting him them
selves but insisting that too shall join in the cruel
COW ardly chase-what We think of them We
defy any man to state the case of protested con-
dcmncr of Slavery IN The abstract who yet insists on
adherence and enforcement of the Fugitive Slave
Law in the pursuit and capture of Southern fugltlves
by Northern rccmcn so that it shall not seem " fire.
brand Of insult The fault is not in the statement but
in the thing TO be stated which dexterity Oness
Of statement can render otherwise than absurdly in
connstcnt-a mark for satire so broad that every
dom arrow must Int II.
A Nirgininn INSERTS that Mrs Stowe does not prac
Il. H.. JnaS h.E pou ba
mems that she does not literally devote her means to
the elevation ol the unfortunate COOred Race are
ruro he wrong Why is 1t that every one is accused
Of atnrcc aud parsimony who does not see t to trum
pct his charities from every bouseop And do younot
know Sir that far more is devoted to purposes of be-
ue6cence By those who carefully shun notorey than by
nil who are known as liberal giyers' We know that
Mrs Stowe does devote her earnings generously to the
benefit of the Colored Race but even if We did not
know it, we should never think of inerrng her lack of
beneyoence from our ignorance of the particular chan
nels of her bounty.
But A Yirginian evidently implies that each ear
nest Abolitonst ought to prove his sincerity by de-
scendng into the slavemarke and there expanding his
means in buying of Vrgnias shareholders her children,
and perhaps theirs as well. He has right TO his
opinion but Abolitionsts do not concur in it, and they
have considered the matter, in all its aspects much
longer than he has and more searchingy The buying
out of Slavery of few negroes by Yankee philan-
thropsts" is not felt reproaeh by Shareholders but
rather as an admission of the rghtfulness of their
claim of property in their fellow men; paying them to
set some of their slaves free is inducing them to hold
fast the residue until paid for them also Now we are
morally bound to consider the effects of our action not
merely on the half dozen slaves might emancipate,
but also on the -Four Millions that would still be left in
bondage. With every disposition to agree with our
hating Southern friends cannot embark in the
Slave Trade even to gain their good opinion. 1t iss