New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-13

We need hardly remind the readers of THE
TRIBUNE OF the load of obloquy heaped upon it
through the southern press on account Of state
ment it gave some time since of the burning of a
negro alive near Natchez-the occurrence having
taken place, though the account copied in our
columns erred simply as to the year. Since the
indignant disayowal Of such an act of burning in
Mississippi we have recorded similar act of
horror which took place in Tennessee, and is
boldly defended by the southern press. We are,
therefore, perfectly prepared, any day or every
day, to hear of fresh exploits in negro burning,
and accordingly on Monday published, as a mat
ter of course, an item Of news from The Mont
gOmsry County ala advertiser of the Both ult.
giving the details of the roasting of slave alive
who had killed his master.
This is paraded in certain southern journals
under the head of Fruits Of Abotionism, I" and
THE TRIBUNE is made mainly responsible for it.
We are to suppose in this case that the negro in
question is a subscriber to our paper, or that he
is correspondent of person who is subscriber.
But in place Of such rhodomontade, would it not
be well for the South to begin to look the evil of
Slavery in the face, and pave the way for getting
rid of it. Before THE TRIBUNE or the printing
press was dreamed Of the slaves Of the mistress
Of the world rose against their masters, aud
spartacus made Rome howl" The serfpeas-
ants or slaves Of France, too, made the Jacquerie,
whose blood roar yet startles the ear of humanity
aud the second chapter of French popular ven
geance spared neither age nor sex. So, too, the
massacre in St. Domingo by the emancipated.
slayes-resolyed not again to be subjugated-is
the frightfullest Of tragedies. And in 1870,
Charleston was on the brink Of being delivered
over TO FIRE and murder by negro insurreetion,
and Southampton in 1892, to the same fate. No
TRIBUNE acclaimed on Abolition then. There
are truths older than types and letters, and one
Of them Is that there exists limit to the power
Of the oppressor. Every now and then, by the
stern law of compensation, some terrible mar
der individually, or massacre generally, tells that
the pa'rarehsl institution must be uprooted from
the earth's surface, ere man can repose and the
prophecies Of humanity come to pass.
This negro-burning is but natural part of the
system. 1t can no more be dispensed with than
the Overseer's whip. The negro is legally pro-
nounced lone remove above the brute" (see
the late Pandelly trial at New Orleans, and is 80
treated. His manhood denied him, what wonder
that he turns wild beast The South now lives
in social mensgerie, and when one of the biped
animals kills keeper, what marvel that the in.
s'inets Of preservation light the funeral pyre and
burn him alive
There is separate phenomenon attending this
last sroburning which deserves notice. II is
thus detailed in The augusta Geo. Con.titu.
tionata:
=, The negro who committed this murder at Noun,
Megs for which he was burnt confessed that he had
on previous occasion murdered his then owner in
kentucky, and that he ra, nun from tlat Stas, and