New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-14

Liberia, who left America for the sake OF the LIB
erty and equality denied them at home' Seethe
Liberian responsibilities at their midday repaH'
waited on with due respect at table-while the
rurse keeps the brsts in their proper depirt-
ment to squall ad iibitvm. See the decorum OF
manners and the thrice formal formalities oil the
occasion-the soup, fish, meats, entremets ana
80 forth, in due order-abd all the little indes-
cribabe hexibilities Of good breeding which marx
the comedy of the dinner-table But go into the
kitchen. There, more richly varied than the gene
rality of high life below stairs, you will ind the
contrast of an upper and lower table. Cook
and maid have their proper board-inferior' to be
sure, to the splendors and prides Of the colored
massa and missus, but yet above their interiors,
and marking the great fact that they are no CON-
psny for the "niggs trash born among de croco'
" dies" If the second table were required to
eat with tie third, our correspondent assures US
that there would be rebellion In the house and
the very aristocrscy itself would be compelled to
soil its bands, spoil its complexion, and tire it's
back, at its own cooking and washing.
But not only do we find these venerable distinc'
tons drawn between the black lords aud ladies'
and their attendants downstairs, and these
attendants downstairs AID the IMAM and the
brother" the original edition. bound in ebony,
but the status of the sristocracy 10 farther
enforced by whips in the hands of almost every
colored Christian to whack and larrup the native
into decency and respect Quashee is logged
there, and so we hope DIR. Carlyle is satisfied.
The heavens are just and occasions make their
Necessities Yes, according to our black brother
of i, Liberia, in nearly sll families it Is Gus
"tomaIy to keep raw hide or cat-o'-nine tails
"bandy to fog them when they please. And this
"foggipg. kicking, and cutting is done to shame
"ful extent by upstart boys, scolding, brainless
women, and gentlemen of rank and standing,
ealing themselves Christians. Not only the
"poor but the rich, do the greater part OF this
" castigation with impunity. Such state OF
things appears strange to newcomer; but we
become accustomed to seeing such things-we
" soon learn to think them no wrong, but neces-
:" sary evil" Likewise, we learn " that the ma
{" tves 40 treated are literally hewers of wood
"' and drawers of water.
One Ting is certain. that the American
negroes who fay right and left, them
selves said to be compelled by the lash
of necessity so to act, have profted by their
American training. There is an old plantation
proverb, which says that the most cruel overseer
is niger. So we must wait for the slow out
growths Of civilization before we arrive at
milder treatment of the natives in Liberia. The
lessons learned on the plantations of America are
not readily forgotten, and the natural instinct
of superiority, gross in proportion to tie ig-
norsnce and imperfectiOn of the social state re-
quires long process of culture and refinement
before it can lay aside all inhuman and degrading
Manifestations. 1t is q great thing for the ne
groes of Liberia that independence and selfgov-
eminent have opened to them the path that can
eventually lead to that higher social condition.