New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-14


s,- =, so~e-r;-n p4srure The South intends thsi
is existence shall be coeval with that Constfa1on-
each STATE retaining the right 10 asollsh or nosRd
others 70 institute Il or not Don't IKE tnis aoctne
It's the doctrine OF the Onlon snd Hu-t seA"1 w S-
with IL - a.,
master" &c. we can say thai our experience Oh to7Ey
Tear. IN proximity with Slavery IN All is rsmifcatiOns
dos not authorize such language There are evils We
sSn,it-but thsy are not common We heard. some
time ago ths. creditor in Boston kept the mother in
;s for debt in order 70 corrupt and accomplish his
wicked designs upon her daughter-but we suppose
| ssch thing are not common there, neither"
TO which we answer:
The Free States did formerly have laws
whereby mother might be confined in jail for
| debt while the ruin of her daughter was &C.
conplished; but those were bad laws, and
have been Eve think without exception) abol-
ished The Commercials case proves that.
wherever bad laws exist, there bad men viii be
found to take advantage of them. We con-
slider the property-hoders of the North quite
as moral and just as those of the South yet if
our laws gave them absolute control over the
persons and services of the poor, we are sure
that much injustice, hardship and licentious-
ness would thence result. Nay. we insist that
such laws, being essentially unjust, immoral.
inhuman, would necessarily corrupt the moral
sense Of the class invested by them with des-
potic power. An unjust law does not merely
permit evil to be done. An immoral influence
flows out of the mere fact of its existence.
Law is part Of the education of the people
and bad law tends to corrupt and confuse the
moral sense Of those living under it. A state
of the law which gives mpunity to moral
wrong is mischievOus even though We could
prove no specific otfense melted BY it. II our
laws said thou shalt steal with impunity,' they
would impel not TO theft alone but TO burglary
assault and murder
The Commercial is doubtless aware that it's
judgment on the comparative prevalence of
Happiness North and South is adverse to that
of the great mass of observers and travellers in
both sections But, even were it true that an-
imal qualification is as abundant and universal
at the South as at the North we should only
need TO contrast their Churches, School
Houses, Libraries, &c, &c, respectively to
prove an immense difference between them as
respects the elements of Human Progress aud
Development, which land not mere enjoyment)
are the true ends of Mans earthly existence.
The Commercial thus concludes:
$50 long as the human heart prone 10 evil long
will there be abuses and wrongs everywhere. But the
Slave the South Is protected by the laws but these
laws may not reach every here, any more than
they do elsewhere The Slave at the South IL also pro-
tecied and guarded by Christianized public sentiment
influential, charitable and az humane, as IN any
part OF Christendom
"Mr GEEELEY ought to come to the South and for
hasef send an agent who Is not an abolition oiso
fanaica fool We promise that he will be treated
with kindness aud hospitality II IL is known that he
10 learn the truth by observation, and to speak
for honor and for consciences sake when he returns to
his home
-Hop is the slave protected by Southern
laws, Is he protected in his earnings Do
those laws say to him, BE industrious and
frugal, and you shall be protected in laying up
a competence for your old age, and an outfit in
life for your children Do they protect him
against bis masters beating Do they protect
che pu,f,y OF his wne against the lechery Of
her MASTER Do they protect his daughters
from sale TO any libertine willing TO pay tempt
ing price for them' Do they protect his fam
lily from being broken up and scattered to diff
ferent States by the cupidity or even the misfor-
tunes of their masterl Verify if the rights of
slaves are protected by Southern laws, then no
human beings were ever destitute of such pro.
lection.
We assure The Commercial that we hare
been South, and, beside good deal of time
spent in Washington, have looked over part
OF Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. We
found Slavery neither better nor worse than
its intrinsic character and inevitable conditions
had prepared us TO expect. Human Nature is
the same North and South but bad laws tend
to depraye it every where. And we beg leave
20 assure our contemporary that We have never
hesitated and never shall hesitate, to visit the
South when inclined TO do so, and ask no safe
conduct from any one. But when We travel
Southwark TO see Slavery as il is, we shall pre-
fer not TO tax the kindness and hospitality"
Of Shareholders, nor notify them to put their
slaves in holiday attire for our inspection. We
would far sooner go TO the quarters than the
planters dinner-table TO learn what Slavery is,
and would rather listen to what Pomp or Cuff
fee thinks oft than hear what Massa has TO say
in the premises. The nature of Slavery is to
be learned like few other things) in few les
sons ritAout master and the fable of the
stoning Boys and the stoned Frogs throws
good deal Of light upon it. Esop was slave,
clearly enough.
NV HAxPsHIRE.-The vote just taken is
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