New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-21

The Richmond Hhig regales IFS readers with an ac-
count Of the bSrbarous cruelties practsed IN Africa
of the sacrifices of human victims on the deaths oil
Niger kngs-of wholesale assassinatons as mere u-
bilees darkey demon of a monarch laughing in
ecs,acy as the blood of hundreds or thousands flows,
and indeed of series OF atrocities which make it
doubtful whether man is better than beast, and
whether if humanity would not gain were all Africa
suddenly submerged in the ocean. As bit of cyclic
padc knowledge, The Wing does well to parade the
horror. of the fetische the newspaper should Keep
its readers acquainted with the contents OF books old
and new nothing in fact like placing such knowledge
under the eye each morning. But here Inc Hhg
does not stop. Ii would make tetische murders in
Africa 4 reason for Slavery in America; 1t would
prove that the execrabe savagery of that continent
now and from time mmemorial is a reason for keep
ing her children in bondage. Suppose we admit that
the African slave is better off in America than in his
native land suppose ignore the fact that the Scandi-
uayan heaven contained equal horrors-that Morse
men were =. the original blood-drinkers': suppose
we leave OUT OF view the crimes OF Shaksperean
Richard or Macbeth, which would not dlscredt the
fsche nggers suppose upset the tact that the re-
eous procvities OF the slave in the South are marked
almost to aprOyerb and his ecstasies thatwsyn Rich
mcnd among the most interesting phenomena OF the
place supposewo do all this, and allow that the negro
bought sold and whipped in America Is better on
than the negro bought, sold, tortured and eaten IN
Africa: then the commonplace question occurs; what
does SIavery do for the white man what effect has
il on his moral qualities aud material ARRANGEMENTS
As regards its effects on the moral man we have re-
Gently in an article on Virginia quoted the father OF
her Democracy" showing that he agreed with
Pinckney of Baltimore in believing that it reared
race of brutal little tyrants Then, to the effects
of Slavery on the materiaweath of State: will The
Uhg inform us how disastrous they Virginia and
much more so would they be had she not lived so ih
eray ON the National purse, and been in humanizing
and cyilizng influence with the North Virg ina has
properly speaking no city; measured with the North
she has only villages now and what will the comparison
be when the City of Newly York contains two millions
and when Philadelphia is hardly behind that number,
and Boston and Cincinnati and Chicago are OF metro
potan strength and splendor How shall we esti-
mate the absolute nOthingness Of Norfolk, the chief
port of Virginia, in such company How shall we
portray her scientific artistic and suggestive nothing
ness. out OF political mill horse tracks, compared
with the North which is fast rvaling Europe IN oil
matters of high culture, as it has already exceeded
Europe In many details oil the prnhary ecohohioS ="
civilization Who inyents in Virginia Who caryes,
paints, sings Who changes the destiny of peoples
by bold thoughts in positive science which upset pre-
cedent and consign the " immortal" speculations OF
this or that Senator to the lumberroomo of BuncOmbe
Will Tie Uhig give up its raying and look the devil
in the face Will it acknowledge that negro-breedlng
and Hosging and selling is not the grandest effort OF
ingenuity and that the boosted aristocratc pride OF
Virginia. which consists in being ffth-rate member
of the Urion in comparison with the State OF New
York now with the prospect of being twenteth-rate
State in the of the next quarter of century is
like the pride of Congo chiefw no puts cocAed'hat
on his head and then struts about in pur's ndtnral6vs
as an object enviably elegant
Let The Wing give over it's rococco and freshman
like rhetoric, and remember that - the hand OF the
''diligent maketh rich," and that though African
kings treat their leOw-Dggers as the Cincnnatians
do pigs, yet that will not save Virginia from
much greater poverty and unhappness than at pres
ent are her lot so long her first citizens breed
slaves and then sell them, even their own lovely
daughters, on whose cheek the rose-blush nantes,
and cries shame on the nation, and the very name
of manhood.