New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-08
HOW TIE NORTH IS REGARDED AT
TIE SOUTH.


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HOW TIE NORTH IS REGARDED AT
TIE SOUTH.
The Northern and Southern States of this COnfeder-
acy having together braved the pers and shared the
suferings of their stern Revolutionary struggle, and
having together passed, since the full recognition OF
their National existence and independence, through
two generations of common Nationality, it would
seem but reasonable to expect that the convictions
representations and principles of one section should
be treated by the other at least with common courtesy
Yet one of the serious difficulties and dangers of the
Upion is tie stubborn resolution Of the South rep
resented in her politicians and journals to place
false and dishonOrng construction on all that the
North says or does respecting Slavery.
Let us illustrate this truth by few familiar exam
pies:
sympathy for negroes" "affection for negroes,
philantbropy that orgets objects of charity at home,
.o lavish it all on Southern woolly heads, who nei
ether need nor wish it such is the burden of the
song on which all manner of changes are rung in
Southern journals and speeches denunciatory of
Northern opposition to Slavery. Yet all these assump-
tions are utterly at war with the fundamental truth.
The Northern People as whole do not, and never
did sympathize nor associate, nor amalgamate with
negroes, nearly easily freely the Southern
whites DO. Northernborn men who migrate south
ward are very likely in time to conquer their pre-
"udices' on this other points, but it is noto-
riously undtniaby true, that honest, hearty dislike
and aversion to negroes is stronger and more general
at the North than at the South-probaby because
they are not so well known here there. In fact,
the eternal chatter about 'niggers 'nlggers, and
ali possible combinations of that term, by the pro-
Slavery Organs and politicians in this quarter proves
that Northern prejudice against negroes is really the
.lsst card of that miserable fraternity
The earnest and deepening opposition of the North
to Slavery and its incidents is in no manner mPeled
by the fact that the victims of that system are ne
groes-on tie contrary is weakened and married by
that circumstance. 1t is not because negroes are
robbed and imbrued by Slavery, but because men are
that the Northern conscience Is touched and the
Northern sense of justice revolted. He was not
negro, we believe, though African by birth and
slave, who first said, II am a man, and whatever
ssconcerns Humanity concerns me-" Is this senti-
ment hard to understand Is there any thing senti
mental or rhetorical about ii Who can fail TO rea
lie that when slaves publicly bought and sold at
auction, they are men and women sod-fathers and
mothers--brothers and sstfrs-tender children away
such sales must inevitably tend to destroy all the vital
sanctions and sanctities of msrrsge-all the respon
sibilites and dignity of parentage I Can that be n
Cbristian-nay can it be truly human-society, in
which the relations of husband and wife, parent and
child may at any moment be violently and ccnclu-
syely upturned not only by the interest the passion
the caprice but even by the sudden pecuniary mslor
tune, OF q master
BE it ever understood then by the South, that North
ern hostility to Slavery is impeed by especial gym
patty for negroes nor is it founded any theory
sound or unsound, of negro character or Of saye.ho
ders barbarity. That some slaves are treated very
kindly aud others very harshly-that some are over
INDUCED while others are under-icd aud ovcr-dryen
siust as well understood here "a in M.issppi. Anti
Slavery rests On no assumption tpa bacon ID too scarce
or beds too hard in Alabama negrOquarters whether
that be or he not tie fact What IL doe' rest IL the
immortal truth proclaimed by Thomas Jefferson aud
accepted by the American People a. the cofpcraionc
Of the temple of their freedoin-nlmely -"TLnt all
"nen have iualienable rights-amOng which nfr Life
Liberty and the pursuit OF Eappness." This declara-
ton we feel TO be true-thereore we know Slavery to
be usurpaton and a crime. The simple fact that u
human being is ensaved is demonstration 10 that he
is the victim Of terrible wrong. That slaves are
beaten and abused snd famshed is a necessity Of the
system, which nobody pretends % deny. But whether
these are ninety per cent, only ten OF the whole
number, the wrong of enslaying man-of depriyng
children Of the society of their parents diyOrcng
wives from husbands &c, at the arbitrary beck OF
pecuniary interest not at all their own is the
The stsiem which dOoms men TO delye aud sweat for
the profit of owners. and mothers TO bear and rear
children to the same sordd end is a5horrenI to IIu;
mainly and at deadly war with Liberty.
-" But" says Southron let police force or
sherif's posse be seen in pursuit OF rhe man in
enc of your Northern cities, and nobody is excited
or perieres in tie fugitives behalf; but, LET the
chase be negro, and all you Antisavery men are
at once On his side and against the oficers-how is
that
Why green Sir, we all feel confident that the white
man. if arrested will be treated justly aud only pun
isled upon being fairly proved guilty OF crme-sO adj
judged by jury of his peers The black man, on the
contrary, is liable to be sent into exile doomed to
life of hardlabor with privation of al recOmpeuse