New-York daily tribune., 1854-03-14
THE BLACK POWER.

We are as 4 nation, ruled by the Black Power 1t
il composed OF y rants and very base tyrans at that
Tie fellows who propose to grab Nebraska are equal 70
s1y erornity. They are par with sackers Of
cities and punderers Of nations the cOnscators of
torales and the betrayers and robbers liberty in
every age. Ought we TO polite and measured in our
lar guage in speaking Of them! Il is hardly worth
while.
We had Vhig party once, and many of these men
belonged to it, What Of that Shall not the truth
be told Are to falter in double sense and hesi-
tate to expose and denounce fraud because decayed
gentlemen in the rags Of tattered gentility and with
the odor of past associations of respectabiiy about
them are among its abettors No sir Shutting dogs
are they all They have kuuckled to the Black
Power shouldered the conspiratOr's musket and EN-
borked in expedition to pllnder the unoaending. If
gentlemen even, viii turn out upon the road, they
must expect the highwaymans fate Yet these be, many
Of them, honest men, as the world goes. AT least,
they have been so considered But We know that now
as always the downward road is easy. We know what
tie poet says of vice. We first endure, then pity,
then embrace Men are always liable to temptation
and seduction In practical life there is 40 such thing
as rot falling from grace. We have sinners who begin
their rafcaties after their heads become hOary. Ne
bTaska shows it. But We may allow ths-that they
are more reluctant sinners after long years have frost.
cred their locks. Then to educated TO the law,
aid en- old practitioner, we can forgive much. So
warped and narrowed do legal minds become BY their
profession and practice that they can and show
anything ley desire to see and show. No proposition
is too absurd for them to undertake to establish It
should so hard with them TO play the rascal but yet
they 90 il easily. What better man than Pearce of
Maryland or rather, rho was better man He
voted for Nebraska, but he had the grace to say
nothing, snd we therefore tread lightly on his
ashes But there are Clayton aud Jones, and
Badger snd dreadfully small successor of CLAY
fIom ken'ucky, who deserted Nationality and
Freedom, ard went 70 the ack Power hurrabino
and eoriDg in their desertOn. Il is hard 10 see them
take the position Of serfs Of tia. Power They have
been upright men, after the worlds fashiOn.-i1st
generous men, with an exception or two. But they
are al gone, deeper than ever plummet sounded
Then there are noble men in the House trembling in
the balance. We won't call names They have their
OWE trials Il is time enough 10 hang them when they
prove guilty. But the blatant dogs who quickly and
cheeriuy turn pirate at the first hint that their ser.
wees are wanted deserve nothing but contempt
ard swift justice. We want 10 see them 60
to the yartarm before they have had time
to 'isn their shipping papers. Look out New
Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New-Jersey,
See members from the State of Wm. Penn and Ben.
Franklin playing the Overseer to the Black Power.
Beiold the Pettits, Doug,ses and Cases. See the
roropoly tools rom the State of Camden and Amboy.
Who can listen to the drive of Norris and of Thon
son sEd not bury hs face in his hands with shame and
mortihcation Slavery Wen, we believe in Slavery
We can pick out men in both branches Of Congress
who deserve 60 better lot than TO serve uuder negro
task masters in the rice swamPs Georgia and Florida
ind their masters should be 10 gentle Uncle Tons
either.
But alas how natural Wen as yillAnous /, i an