New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-08

The Commercials rejoinder compelled us 20
cite facts showing the use made Of their sbso-
lutte power over female slaves by oruers and
oyerseers at the SOuth-fac,s the like OF
which stand abundantly sstested in books long
since written and which will doubtless be cor.
robOrated by still further citations from
Southern history in Mrs Stoves forthcoming
Kcyto Uaele Toms Cabin
These facts were SET forth mainly IN tho
language of pure and earnest woman. who
had personally observed them, and all OF
them in unexceptionable language What
ever WAS revolving therein pertained 10
the outraSes and not TO their descrip-
ton yet IAe Commercial seeks TO break their
force by interpOsiDg wOmanly modesty." and
and saying that Mrs. Tyler cannot any moro
than other Southern ladies, handy bsrdinsss
with Mrs Swissheim !" and The Petersburg
Daily Express (Ta.) insists that our state
ments imply something disparagng to South.
ern white women, and claims that the pu.
rity and unsulied virtue of the Southern Ia.
'dy is of the greatest effect in eleyating tho
standard Of morality" The Express further
says 1t has long been the glory Of the South
ern States that no where upon earthis Woman
treated with so much tender consideration
and discerning respect as beneath their genial
skies Consequently, in no land that the
sun shines upon, does Woman dwell in an at
'mosphere of such purity and guilelessness
Now we presume this to be mainly true, yet
not without important qualifications. IL can.
not be wholly unknown at the South, that the
haunts of female depravity in our Northern
cities are, to considerable extent. filled by
white Southern women. One who was for
years engaged in the efforts Of The ROsine As
sociation" of Philadelphia in behalf Of this
wretched class, assures MS that not only was
the South largely represented therein. but
that these were generally more thoroughly and
hopelessly depraved than any other. They
we're probably, for the most part educated,
and had fallen farther than their associates in
sin-fallen beyond the wish for redemption.
nc tu NuCu VIC 0iU w NutioNto
with our Southern contemporaries they seem
exceedingly willing to belog. True, we believe
sexual vice is far more general at the South
than at the North; but that is not the point.
What We maintain and they deny or seek to
evade, is this-Slarery affords and psrpstuates
extraordinary facilities for Libertinism.-
That RIGHTEOUSNESS prevails more exten.
siyely there than here is the direct and neces.
sary result of Slavery. The public and legal.
lied sale of women tends necessarily and pow.
eriully to the corruption Of the class who buy
aud the class who are sold 1t is so at the
South it would be so here or anywhere else.
The general decentralization Of female slaves
as class is fact never questioned and fire.
quently admitted in our conversations with
Southern defenders of Slavery They would
generally be slow to believe our citations from
Mrs. Swisshelms testimony mainly because
they could not suppose any such resort to vic.
lence on the part Of the masters necessary, as
it rarely is. We believe Northern women Of
the poorer class are generally as vrtuOus as
their wealthy sisters; while every Southern
man knows that no such parity exists between
Southern white women and their slaves.
Should our Southern antagonists see fit TO
deny the proposition that Slavery does create
extraordinary facilities for RIGHTEOUSNESS, We
will respond to them If not, We may fairly
consider this branch of the argument finally
closed