New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-26


S,.c,..;or Of the subject has come up. AZ
te,wsrd they went on to deny that slavery was
either A political or an economical evil Inc
o,ourd taken BY the South in favor OF the exen-
sion of slaveholdibg at the time OF the Missoun
Coupromise, forced the N al upon tlis platform,
since il would have been too atrocious to argue
10 favor Of extending confessediy economical
ard political evil TO all the vast regions west OF
the Mississippi
Such wa the state Of Theoretical opinion among
the tlsveholders when the modern Anti Slavery
INT took its rise. Since then the slsvehOld-
erssnd their Northern allies have gone a gteatwsy
further in the same direction They no Y hold that
Slavery is not an evil of any sort, but in fact,
positive good-a great source of wealth, mskiag
the Southern States, as q New-YOrk Quaker un-
dertook to prove for them, great deal richer
than the Northern Ststes-s firm basis, and the
the only firm basis Of democratic institutions;
thus giving to the Southern States grand poli.i-
cal advantage over those Of the North and wha;
il more, state Of society resting upon divine au-
tho,ity, and therefore unqdestionably righteous
and good. All these doctrines we hear now un-
blushiDgy and most dOgua.ically maintained not
by shareholders merely, but BY New-Eagaud
Doctors Of Divinity Of the strictest aud most
orthodox sect pastors OF Boston churches, aud
Presidents of colleges
Undoubtedly, so far as theory and speculation
90, Slavery has of late exhibited a biazen front
tuch as it had never before assumed. No. content
to be tolerated as confessed evil, bat one easier
to be winked q. than corrected, |: nov
boldly claims admission into the best society not
only demanding to seat itself on the bench with
Our judges, but insisting upon sharing the pulpit
with our ministers And for all this it must be
confessed that the Aboltd u are in a great
measure responsible. But 1ofthew' Slavery like
Satan at the ear of the Unconscious Eve, would
have been contest to lie for indefinite years YET
"squat like d toad" ds.ilng its slow poison INFO
the ear of drowsy aud stupid people. Touched
by them az the seemiDg toad was by 1sburiel's
spear,
Cup it starts,
Discovered and surprised. As when sspMk
Lights on hesp OF nitrous powder. iald
Fit for the tun some magazine 10 store
Aeainst q rumored war-the smutty grain,
With sudden blaze Giffused, infsmes the air:
SO started up. in bis own shape, the fend.'
And in causing him and 1t so to start up, Thu
riel snd Zophsr in the Garden of Eden, AMI the
AbOlitionists here in this bear garden Of ours
have merely done the duty which Heaven i'm
posed upon them 1t is the lurking devils that are
most to be dreaded. Satan is half conquered
from the moment he lie detected and made to as
sume bis true form. Everybody has read the
story of the proAigste attempting to stink iato
Heaven under the disguise Of Capuchin friar.
1t msy not be quite so easy to impose upon 81.
Peter in that way; but in this undiscerniug world
of ours, that is trick which is often successful
So long as Slavery SUNK about in the Disguise OF
q peDitent, sIiveliDg over its sins, and cius
ing prayers TO be put up for 1t in all the
churches, it seemed to be little too harsh to
call it very severely to account, or TO re5uke
very decidedly one who seemed already so over
whelned with the consciousness Of sin. Blu.
now that the brazen old creature bias been driven
to throw off all her bypocritical DISCUSSES ani to
show herself exactly as she is, undertaking to
lord ii over us tOo-we utterly disclaim any al
fusion to the President of Dartmouth College
a. well a. over the negroes, it will certainly not
be long before she is expelled from all decent
society, if not shut up in some house of correc-
ten, or at least put under guardianship.
The new position which Slavery has been
driven to take, imposing as it msy seen to q
few thoughtless and weak minded persons, has
stripped it Of its most available dogmas; aud,
surely, in thus laying it open to the batteries OF
moral sense and common sense the Aboihonsts,
30 far from strengthening it, have taken most
essential step toward its total destruction.