New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-14
FAIR PLAY.

This is jewel worth setting IN something
better than gold, to wit: the light Of truth.
Ii has been the fashion, which We ourselves have
fol owed TO some extent, to compare domestic
or industrial despotism with Free Labor, BY
comparing the two sections of this Union
which exempify the one and the other. This
is somewhat more than fair to Slavery and far
less than fair 70 Free Labor. Among those
whom the pious Eness slew in Italy was fagi-
tive despot by the name Of Mezentius, who had
lost his throne, or perhaps plantation, BY his
cruelties. One of these is said to have been the
habit of binding dead body to living one
probably for contempt of Court, for there was
10 release or separation Of that union till both
were in the same condition. Now tho Philoso-
pier who, during the lifetime Of the Iiee partner
in such firm, should undertake to demonstrate
the superiority Of life to death, by pbysIologi-
caly anatomically comparing the phenomena
presented by the two bodies, would not do
more FOOLS silly unfair thing to living humanity,
than he who rests the whole claim Of FREQ
Labor to our acceptance and approval on ito
results in union whose whole policy for peace
and war has always been directed in subservi.
eDcy to the interests of Slavery. The living
be dy was sure to be injured from the frst by
the loatbsome contact with the dead one, and
the dead one was very likely to have its putre-
factive tendency somewhat retarded BY the
application to it of some anti-septic or emb,ln-
ing process, either by the living partner or his
sympsthisisg friends. Just so it is with Slavery
and Freedom in our indissoluble National Union.
To make the comparison Of results at all fair,
the two institutions, as we have said perhaps
twenty times before, should be embarked in dis
tipct and separate political ships. The readers
of THE TRIBUNE do not need to be told what
damage the industrial interests Of the Free Labor
section of our country have suffered from the
z'gzsg direction which the slave interest has
managed to impress upon our tariff policy.
Resembling the lightning, it has been more de.
structive. 1t is very true that the South has
not been benefited Ia proportion to our loss, but
beirg less injured. capital and enterprise have
been attracted to her cities by tho relative ad-
vantage.
But to say nothing Of foreign commercial policy,
look at the domestic commercial relations To which
the Federal Union and constitutional guarantees
have given breath and being Such relations could
not possibly have existed between tho citizens oil tho
two Distinct COVE rpmonta, onoof thcm FREQ Labor
Republic aud tho other n Slave Labor Oligarohy or
sham Republic. II was because thcy evidently
could not that tho short sighted dovotoos Of trade
were aud always have been al ready to sacrifice
almost every thing Tor union, And what have boon
tho ,esults Of these fels tions 40 written in or
,oneous. unbeatable fguies In o,ery commercial
panic. crisis. and grand snash This only aud
always millions upon millions of tho life blood Of
,es lsbe, sheo'bsi by tho pus,eseent veins Of tho
asad slave ,eeion. aud exhaustion moro 90 less az
preaching desth. On tho Pa't tho iiSe Did anrs
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