The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-07-13

God and our common humanity, and YOU are a
fanatic" of the worst kind.
We have watched with some curiosity the
course Of this Richmond Press. The Enquirer
is serious and arrogant; the Whig, contempt
uous and insolent; the Examiner, reckless,
rsbid, and wild. They all affect philosophy
and eruditiOn, and the Vhig and Examiner,
in addition, fancyiHg that they are witty, fro
quently illustrate their graver essays by what
they evidently consider, smart sayings. They
delight in epithets. The Whig thought it had
demolished the free States, when il called them
" hireling," clearly assuming that it was
very vulgar to pay the laborer his hire. The
Examiner, not to be outdone, hit upon the nice
phrase, Stree 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 so much above tho slave negroes,
some time since it suggested that a certain
class of them should be gradually admitted to
the rights of citizenship.
They affect great refinement too, as much
as the late Mr.. Mason did, when he discoursed
on the low associations of Mr.. Sumner; and
they have an odd way of showing it of. With
q decorum which perhaps is one of the vices of
froe-labor institutions, well bred editors in the
North, in their controversies, avoid the vulgar
familiarity Of calling one another by their sur
names they refer to each other, in their pro-
fessional character, as the editors the Tribune
the editors of the Evening Post sc. But these
Richmond papers, with q kind of provincial
rudeness, ignorant or reckless Of the proprie-
ties of the Press, are forever indulging in Of
fensive personalities. Let any journal offend
their very-ieticism, and from that moment
they conceive passion for profaning his name
Not the Tribune, but Greeley" not the Lib
orator, but G arrison," is the burden of their
defamation; and when they can collocato a
certain number of names which they think
ought to be execrated, they imagine they have
uttered an argument. "Garrison, Greeley, g.
Co.," "Seward, Sumner, & Co.." "Parker,
Pillsbury, & Co.," they catch at as 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-
rer excepted. For the first time, we looked a
few days ago to see who it was that was roll
ing out the magical words, f" Parker, PilIsbury,
& Co" in one of these journals; it was R. w.
HUGHEs, we believe but whether he indites for
the Wig or Examiner, we forget nor is it i'm
portant that anybody should know. Our OBJ
ject is not TO excite hostility against O man,
but reasonable detestation of q system.
These champions of slavery have felt them
selves sorely pressed by Abolitionists. We
we'll recollect that, about year age, the Er-
Gminer frankly admitted that slavery was a
question to be determined, not by the good or
bad condition of its subjects it was question
of right or wrong. The Abolitionists, it said,
were 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 natural
right to be free. If they had this right, they
ought to be free-Abolitionist had the truth
on their side.
Well-how did it escape the conclusion ?
By denying the doctrine that all men are Gre
ated with tho right to life and liberty Far
from it. 1t Te.aDirmed this doctrine ); but
avoided the logical conclusion, by denying
fatty that negroes are men! And it then pro-
ceedcd in an elaborate article, three or four
columns long, to establish the proposition.
That was its ground-a little moro than
twelve months. 1t was taken, to escape the |
logical conclusion from the Jeffersonian dog |
ma. There was another way, in which it
might have escaped, and that was by denying
tho 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 repudiatcd the results to
which its photographic researches carried
it. And no wonder: on the theory that color
ed 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 laws? Why should |
white men be hung for killing, and sentenced |
ten years to the penitentiary for manning,
hem? the theory carried out would knock |
The whole social fabric of the South to pieces.
So the Examiner has quit the study of eth
and now, driven from every subter-
'uge and sophism, it comes out boldly, Affirm
ng that Slavery is good and right, without
'egard to the color or race of its subjects.
Blacks and whites, Caucasian, Malay, and In
liam, arc all on dead level except as they
nay differ in strength and intelligence. Sla-
'ery is the true, natural condition for all, who
IRE poor, weak, and ignorant This is now
he broad doctrine of the Examiner, and, of
ourse, if it be sound, then the great self evident
Truth, as it is called, of the Declaration of In
dependence is what Mr.. Petit styles il, GA
ELF EVIDENT LIE.o
We charged this upon that paper some
weeks ago; it was bold enough to deny the
harge and inconsistent enough to confirm it
It the same time. We quote from its reply:
"He says, 'wo go for the onslavement of
he poor white man, as well as black He
veil knows we do no such thing"
That is the denial of the charge now for
he confirmation of it. We quote from the
amc article:
Nature is the mother and tho protector of
lavery - Nature, that has endowed men
nth different capacities and talents-made
ONO weak, some strong, some thrifty, some I'M
hrifty, some able to give, some requiring, pro-
some to be born to mastery, |
,me to Slavery. Nature docs the whole
Workman is but her passive agent. We do
OF 20 for enslaving Door white men, Nature