New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-27

within. and sturdy, fair-haired children playing
around il. Pass few years more, and that little DOT
Of backened clearing will have gradually eaten
away the encircing woods and given hand to the
newer adjacent clearings on either side; and soon
commodous dwellings fair Villages, the hum OF
steady. prosperous industry, and al the Manifesto
ton. Of civilized life will have suppanted the howl
If the wolf and all tie suen influences Of perpetual
shade Around no Silistria or sevs'topol, IN no
Crimea or Dobrodjs, i. the Drama OF Mans Lie
Struggle being enacted, but in the freshly
wilds Of Iowa and Minnesota, on the rolling prarle.
of Kansas in the far glens of Utah, and siong the
great future highway across the Continent, where
California beckons 20 her Eastern sisters and points
them TO the Wealth and Work which stretch beyond
her and across the great Pacific and among TIE
Isles of the Indian tropics. Not with the sword,
but with the axe, does Man hew cut bis path to a
higher and purer civilizations and the measure of hs
present attainment is his regard for the humble and
unfinished but mighty and beuefcont arts of Peace.
4 Can it be wondered, then, that /, child Of many
generations Of cotters and drudging delivers should
ponder and dream over THr ELEVATION or LABOR to
something like the dignity and esteem which its
merits and its utility demands What can be moro
natural than that shosd ask whether this fair and
sheltered and shielded must always rest heavily on
those by whom its foundations were laid and It's
walls erected If Peer may without reproach
"stand by hi, Order" why may not Peasant as
well
For STILL to the earnest vision the Condition of the
Worker-even in this favored regon-is rugged
and hard one He is not respected by others; he
too often docs not respect himself. Working in the
:. IN,
order that he may be raised above the necessity of
working he does not accept Labor as benignantly-
appointed destiny, but as Il vindietivey-denounced
penalty which he must endure as unmurmuringly
and finish as speedily possible. Happiness in the
vulgar conception being compounded of idleness
and the most unlimited qualification of the sensual
appetites and this happiness being tic lend and
" aim" Of every earthly effort it is inevitable that
the Worker should be regarded, alike by himself and
by others as one who has thus far failed and who is
therefore obnoxious to the stigma which the common
mind ever afixes to the unsuccessful.
Tie Institution Of Human Slavery appears to me
the logical elimination and result Of the popuarideas
respecting Labor for if Labor be essentially and
necessarily an inficiion-a penaty-a curse-then
il is but human nature that each should endeavor to
do a. little Of it az possible. If the obligation to
work be bolt Of Divine wrath, then il is 20 be OK
pectod that Man should seek to interpose some other
body between his lodging head and the celestial ven
geance. Teach a child that Labor is not good to
be accepted and improved, but evil to be stunned
and shrked, and you have impeled him far on the
road to the saye;jockey's pen as a caeapener aud
customer.
| do not marvel, then, that Slavery has so long
cursed the earhI clearly that it could not have
failed to do So To the premise that Labor is an evil
to lie stunned far possible, add the assumption
that War and Conquest are legitimate and-SaNery
follows of course. | have vanquished my enemy IN
battle and have a right TO kill him. but that would
be too costly aud transient gratlhcailon when can
save him TO take my place in the held or the shop 10
receive that share of the primal curse which was
provdentay intended for me; to be my substitute IN
all cases where would rather not perform a duty
in person. and the butt of my i'll humor, whenever,
through his fault or mine, or neither my plans ms
carry and my hopes are blasted by defeat. My slave
or captive having been spared by my eemencyj ana
living only my mercy, owes me boundess obedience
and service, while | owe him nothing but such food
and clothing as will keep him alive and IN condition
10 pcrform that service. / have become 10 him
Church, State, and Provdonce-Law, Conscience ana
Divinty-and he can only go amss by disobeying my
commands. If he have wife orchildren, they too, are
nine or his only in subodnation to my interests and
my will: those children would not have been but Tor
my clemency: they, too, owe everything to me, and
must live only for my convenience, advantage and
profit. Thus the system acquires selt-perpetuahng
quality and may endure, even without fresh wars and
subiugatiOns to The end of time. And so far as the
onsiaver realize il is most convenient and sats-
factory ysten-supplyng him with hands to do his
work feet 10 his cTrands eyes 10 watch ana arms
TO guard his possessions and ready ministers to every
whm or lust.
But though eternal laws may thus, in one sense, be
defed, their penalties cannot be evaded. The stern
Nemesis is close the heels OF the transgesso
household of masters and slaves of sacrifccrs and
victims can never be loving and happy home. Ii
includes too many crushed aspirations, outraged sens
biltios unayonged wrongs. The children OF Doth
master and slave in false positions; the former
uece liz grow up solf-wcd oyerbearing incident;
tho LITTER abicct seryile false and devoid of self
respect. Nainly shall the master seek, IN such pres
ence to Undue his children with lessons OF industry,
humility, and Differences for To every such lesson, inc
ready response will be: what are slaves f0r, II
" NOT TO minister 10 our convenience and enjoy
"ment If we are to work, to be frugal, to wait
upon ourselves why should we endure the presence
the low moral development, the care and responsl-
bility of these Helos II we do all for ourselves,
at least give us oppOitunity--giye us room! The
moment a master resolves TO square his life and that
of his family by the Golden Rule the presence and
direction of a lot of stupid, sensual INDECENT slaves 10
felt 20 be nuisance and burden.
And while il s true that Slavery IL the logical con-
sequence the COrnthian capital, OF the popular no.
tons respecting Labor it is the less certain that
the Arts-which flourish where the laOorer Is free
from any constraint but that OF his own asplra-
tions appetites. and needs-hicker and die out
where Slavery bears sway. In our own sunny South
answering TO the Italy, Greece Asia Minor, and
Carthage OF the Old ord-there is the best Of ship
timber vet the Cotton and Tobacco there grown seek
distant markets. in Northern vessels, sailed by sons Of
New England and manned by Yankee crews. North.
ern mel chants and clerks fill their seapOrts and buy
their crops Northern teachers instruct their children,
so far they taught at all their time IL measured
by Yankee clocks, and their tables set with Northern
or European Dishes in short, about the only trophy
of human genius peculiar to the SouthrOns s the