Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-08
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

SoIy vulgar w pay tho iopo
Examiner, not to be outdone, hlt upon the nice
phrase free negro States" forgetting that
there are more free negroes in the slave States
than in the free, and that, in its own opinion,
they are 20 much above tho slave negroes,
some time since it suggested that certain
class Of them should be gradually admitted to
the'rights of citizenship.
They affect great refinement, too as much
a. the late MIR. Mason did, whom he discoursed
on tho low associations Of Mr.. Sumner; and
they have an oddIway Of showing it Oft. With
a deoornm whichIperhaps is one Of the vices of
free labor institutions, well bred editors in the
North, in their controversies, avoid the vulgar
familiarity Of calling one another by their sur
names they refa to each othor, in their pro-
fcssional charactd, as the editors ftho Tribune
tho editors Of the Euening Post, &c. But these
Richmond papers with kind Of provincial
rndeness, ignorant or reckless Of the proprie-
ties Of tho Press, hre forever indulging in of
fansive PERSONAL es. Let any journal offend
their slayery-fetiotrn, and from that moment
they conceive p$sion for profaning his name.
Not the Tribune, but g Greeley not the LIB
orator, but I" Garrison is the burden Of their
defamation ard when they can oollocate a
certain number Of names, which they think
ought to be excrated, they imagine they have
uttered an argument. G Garrison, Greeley &
Co.. Seward, Sumner, & Co.," Parker,
Pillsbury s. CO." they catch at az phrases big
with meaning, whenever their ideas run thin
and low.
Now, we confess, we do not know the names
of any Of the editors of these papers, the Enqui-
rcr excepted For the first time, we looked a
few days ago to SEQ who it was that was roll
ing out the magical words Parker, Pillsbury,
g. Co.." in one Of these journals; it was r. w.
HUGHES, we believe, but whether he ndites for
the Wing or Examiner, we forget, nor is it inn
portant that anybody should know. Our OBJ
ject is not to excite hostility against man,
but reasonable detestation Of q system.
These champions Of slavery have felt them
selves sorely pressed by Abolitionists We
we'll recollcct that, about year age, the Er-
aminer frankly admitted that slavery was a
question to be determined, not by the good or
bad condition of its subjects: it was a question
of right or wrong. The Aboltionists, it said
we're right in this. No matter, if it could be
proved that the Southern slaves were better
fed and better clothed, better housed, than the
poor Of the North or Europe, that would fur
nish no plea for slavery if they had a natural
right to be free. If they had this right, they
ought to be free--Abolitionist had tho truth
on their side
Well-how did it escape the conclusion
BY denying tho doctrine that all men are Gre
ated with the right to life and liberty? Far
from it, 1t re-atirmed this doctrine; but
avoided the logical conclusion, by denying
fatty that negroes are men, And il then pro-
decided in an elaborate article, three or four
columns long, to establish the proposition.
That was it's grounds little more than
twelve months. 1t was taken, to escape the
logical conclusion from the Jefersonian dog
ma. There was another way, in which it
might have escaped and that was by denying
the dogma, and justifying the enslavement Of
white as well as black men, according to cir
cumstances. But it had not then reached
that point
Since then it has repudiated the results to
which its photographic researches carried
it. And no wonder: on the theory that color
cd people are not human beings how ought
the mixture Of blacks and whites to be re-
garded in the South? Why should the former
be held amenable to the lawsa Why should
white men DO hung for killing and sentenced
ten years to tho penitentiary for manning,
them? The theory carried out would knock
the whole social fabric Of the South to pieces.
SO the Examiner has quit the study Of eth
biography; and now, driven from every subtcr-
fuge and sophism, il comes out boldly, affirm
ing that Slavery is good and right, without
regard to the color or race Of its subjects
Blacks and whites, Caucasian, Malay, and In
dian arc all on dead level, except az they
may differ in strength and intelligence Sls-
very is the true, natural condition for all, who
are poor, weak, and ignorant! This is now
the broad doctrine Of tho Examiner, and, Of
course, if IL DO sound, then the great sefevident
Truth, as il is called, Of the Declaration Of In
dependence, is what Mr.. Petit styles it. "a
sELF-RvIDEST LIEn
We charged this upon that paper some
weeks ago; il was bold enough to deny the
charge, and inconsistent enough to confirm il
ut the Same time. We quote from it's roply:
"Hc says, I'VE 60 for the ensavcmcnt Of
tho poor white man, ~ well ~ black He
well knows we do no such thing"
That is the denial OF the charge now fol
the confirmation of it. We quote from the
Same article:
aNature is the mother and the protector o
Slavery - Nature, that has endowed mer
with different capacities and talents-madt
some weak some strong, some thrifty, some un
thrifty, somc able to give some requiring, pro
toot,n,,- "a ,,ood anr,a IN ha horn to mastery