New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-21

called to account for it; ii it sfgui6es right to
carry it, peculiar municipal regulations TO every
part Of the globe under the Gag Of the Union
let rs assure the South that il never can nor will
nor ought to enjoy its much desidersted repose.
The moral convictions, the commercial interests.
the future hopes Of mankind. are all alike at war
with such q repose and will battle against it to
the crack doom. As well might the highway
man who is tracked to his hiding-plaee by the
police complain that his repose is disturbed, az
the abettors Of system which violates every
notion Of social propriety and justice complain
when the indignant voice of nations is uttered
against them. As well might pirates Of the
seas cry out against the long carronades Of
serenty-fours when they sweep with balls their
guilty and blood-stained decks. Ia the common
sense and conscience Of mankind Slavery il one
of the grossest of political and religious wrongs,
and that common sense and that conscience will
not cease TO protest against it as long as a YES
tige Of il remains on earth.
Ii is one Of the most preposterous and insane
Of delusions which induces the South 10 suppose
that Slavery is new form Of society and TO
hope that it may be perpetusted. All, no gen.
tlemen of The Charleston Standard, you are not
"inaugurating form OF social life which is new
"and strange" but you are trying to prop up
and preserve ore that is decayed and ehete
The domination of one race BY another is as old
as the time of Cain. 1t is the Distinguishing
mark and Characteristic Of that stage in social
progress which is called barbsrism. Its birth
place is not the United States but the interior
ofAlrica. All the facts of history, all the gencr-
alizations of science, all the prophecies of the
Scriptures 90 to show that as nations advance
ia civilization they either leave Slavery behind
or they are destroyed by Slavery. II was
Slavery which undermined the glory of Greece;
il was Slavery which made Rome an easy prey
10 the Yisgoths and it was the change from
serfdcm to freedom which gave the nations OF
modern Europe their first and lasting impulse
in the career Of national prosperity, yigor, and
hope.
When you talk, then, of giving mature and
scientific development to your miserable debris
Of the barbaric state-a condition of society
which but for its connection with the elastic
and living forces of the North would not be so
much advanced as the remnants of feudollsm in
Europc-you talk just so much absurdity and
jarqon. You talk of what is impossible in the
nature of things, as much so as ii would be 20
convert rotten apricot into u fair, round and
blooming peach, or to make the Hudson run up
the Catskills A condition Of Slavery cannot
be made permanent condition except by force,
and the u.e Of force we know is inconsistent
with the attainment of sound social relations.
The only method in which Slavery can be i'm
proved is one which shall regard it as a transit
tional state, and which shall direct its cares to
the preparation of its unhappy subjects for
Freedom. AS Gnality it is hopeless, but "a
means to better system it may be matured and
perfected. Ii is possible TO mitigate its evils
and 10 do a great deal of incidental good by
changing it into scheme of gradual apprentice
ships looking to Freedom as their end; but the
hope of rendering it fixed and unstersble
form of social existence is the muddieSt that
can enter the human brain.
We have one more word to say in reply to the
extract we have taken from the Charleston pa
per. 1t is this: that no one has undertaken to
coerce the Shareholders of Kansas into the
50 confession Of o wrong which is not wrong;'
but the people of the North having been de-
'rauded of the freedom of Kansas by the infa-
nous legislation of the last Congress mean to
wall themselves of such rights as they have
eft. As citizens of the United States they mean
o settle in the new Territory. If they are
'outed thence by bands of conspirators and BAN
Its they will first appeal to the General Govern
nent to sustain the laws and then, if that should
DO found too weak or too wicked to protect them,
-hey will defend themselves as best they can.
The emigrants to Kansas are bona fde citizens;
hey have removed with their households with
perfect integrity of purpose TO push their for
.unes in the world; they look 10 the laws FOR
protection against the savages whether Indians
DR. Missourians; and if they do not get II they
know where there are friends who will do what
the Government will not. We are by no means
anxious or impatient to see this contest, but 1t
is for tho South to say whether il shall arise OF
not. IL has only TO direct its agent, General
Pierce, to maintain the cause Of justice impair
tally in the matter, and there will be no DIM
Guilty: but if it shall determine on different
course we think the people Of the North are
ready.