New-York daily tribune., 1853-12-27

,dsts se4uctoas and other crimes waish take plaes
As Free States axe not melted or shielded By the
those States ba, are condemned aud resis'ei
-, ,ws; ?. II there be any laws o, institutions
" states which facilitate sa6 Increase crime,
~ " observer at the SOl:h or elsewhere,
Nc =. 50 hat We may wage exssTnias,ing
. ~ - -. are now doing uPOa the Liquor
wa rsa sstituEOa Of Slavery lsss directly
- -. -, crime aud wDay Wherever il
-. "a $500 a. Sld be speedily abolished
Let n, Offer few Illustrations oi tni' lAs' Poni:
Perhaps the South has never 'i0o-sed Ae7aef
obssrver or one more able to trace enec'S oseA 70
c.uses. than Thouss Jefferson. tIe was no iaals's'
but politician. Philosopher, maj oi tas Feiiu AIi
slsveholGer and be, ina passage ofiSa q4o'ea Rom
bis Notes Oa Virginia, declares slAver' PefPesaA
lesson Of despOtism and violence 70 the whie c-dfea
Of the South educating them into habits of inasnse'
unroTernable temper snd self lfin3algencs. No" con
s1er the fact thzt the Slave caste G the South we
absolute ard ndeeasbe property OF the masters aud
their fanes-thAt inpiiei. and un4aes'i0aing o0ei-
enee In al things is exacted Of ths former bF the ai-
ter that most gangs Of slaves are isolated on Pi1ia
tons where croees and 0str4ges on the deieassiess
nsv b committed with liftle apprehension that they
viii ever be reported or heard Of elsewhere; that
slave children may st any tine be legally sold away
from their mothers and mothers from their children
that most Of The transfers OF saves are made through
regular slaversdsss class prcTer5isl. e7ea AZ the
South for avsrce and nhumaniiy thar young girls all
but white and Of conspicuous beauty are almost daily
uut 10 a auction in tie great Southern cities aui
knocked down to tAehighest bidder-no questions be-
iug asked except 70 TIE sbiy OF the purchaser to
pay-said purchaser acquiring al master desPotc
rights over TIE slave By the mese hr; o purchase all
PAYMENT, ard being n3T at perfect liberty to re-
move bis ehAtte 20 any stronghold where bis physical
orce viii be absolute and her cries unAear!-:he
slaves testimony being never available against White
ran-aud Judge whether there be not IA STrsry issJ
perpetual ami tremendous incitemeni snd facility 70
lust cruey aud crime such IN Free States are ai-
tery unknown Mind We are not arguing that slave
holders are essentially worse thsn other mea- or thst
they do not often cherish kindly feelings for these hu-
nan chattes. snonc whom they have been reared we
are only urging that there is II Tcrsry strong pro
clyity to evldoDg through the imneasursble debase
ueut and seTilty of caste and tie bou1iless pow
er and facility accorded to the other.
This is our ground. and its justice we hold 10 be
stundantly established by the " Facts OF Slavery, as
exhibited IN the advertisements OF qusiroon girls.
manned and branded rgnawsys. negro bOOdhcunds and
rewards for fugitves &c dc, il the Southern journals
Tie trials Of masters for extraordinary cruelty the IN
effective suits for freedom OF slave misresses who have
been virtually but not legal! manumiited b. masters
suddenly deceased and Perhsps worse sill, the ju-
dci. euandng ntoeternsl bondage OF slaves who have
fsy bought their freedom and slmOstf not quite paid
for 1.-THE w enforcing such bargain as against the
nssster-sl combine 10 prove the syse one Of the most
internal engines Of wrong and wekedness ever devised
by nan. If the North cherish anything ike is pray
point II ont and let us hasten It's extirpation.