New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-19
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
COTTON AND SLAVERY

By AN AMrRcIs. Cincnaafi Moore. wlstsek. Keys &
Co PIP 2io
We had occasion Dot long since, in critical
notice Of Mr.. Fitzbugh's Sociology for the South,
20 call attention to the remarkable impulse
given by the Anti.Slsvery movement to the dis
custom Of deep and difficult questions involving
the very foundations Of morals, theology, polit-
zeal rights and social institutions. Here is
another book, by no means as pretentious as
Mr.. Fitzbugh's, but which has similar origin,
and. to considerable degree, the same general
object.
Mr.. Fitzhugh feeling the Abolition hounds at
his launches, and unable to kick or to shake
them of, and despairing much longer TO be able
70 keep ahead Of them, boldly turned to bay,
pitching into Freedom in general as blunder
and folly, and setting up Slavery as the only
basis on which happy and prosperous society
can be built. He fully avowed his hatred OF
liberty and the North. lie preferred to be
southerner, STAKEHOLDER, Christian-and
nothing more. The present author-nOt less
pious than Mr.. Fiizhugh, and to judge from the
tenor Of his work, an editor at the SOath-calls
himself on his title page Gan American
The fine psper and elegant Typography OF his
book-eot out in style which does high credit
70 the Cincinnati press from which it Issues
shows him to be also one Of those thrifty Amer
icsns, we'll 10 DO in the world and able to pay
the printer, since no publisher as mere book
selling speculation would venture upon such an
outlay. he too claims, like his Virginia COM
peer, to see into the dark good deal further
than the rest of us; but he is too prudent and
sagacioas TO 90 Mr. FitzhIgh's extravagant
length; nor X deed does the object which he has
in view require him 10 do so. Mr.. Fitzhugh
having Slavery to justify and the Shareholders
10 defend, found himself forced either to aban-
don his case or boldly to insist that liberty is an
evil and Slavery positive goOd-at least for
black men. Hi. argument went the length of
including all men; ii his logical bucket was not
tight Ell ugh TO hold every body, il was incaps-
bic of holding anybody; yet out of respect for
prevailing Anglo.Saxon prejudices, and because
that was all that the justification OF the existing
state Of things in-the South seemed to require,
he was disposed to limit the capacity of enjoy
ing the-according to his view of it-bessed
condition of Slavery to black men alone; white
men it would seem being utterly graceless, and
from lsck Of inclination to be made slaves Of,
predestined forever TO sin and misery
The object Of the present author is somewhat
different. tie does not undertake, at least di.
rectly, the defense Of slayehelding, but only the
defense of tbose'Nortbern professors of religion
who, during the last thirty years and more, have
done so much to uphold Slavery by tctto'oshiPing
Shareholders, as the phrase is--that is, taking
them by the hard, receiving them into Northern
pulpits welcoming them to Northern commun-
ion tables, and giving them on all occasions the
highest seats in the synagogue, treating them as
In all respects unexceptionabie examples OF
Christian morality, and shining specimens Of
Cbristian grace.
This procedure, generally adopted by ell our
lurking religious acknowledgements have SUI
fored themselves, as the Aboliticnists allege, to
be domineered over by their slayeholding breth-
rem even more, if possible, than our poltlcai
pa,t;es have done-has drawn from the Adolf
tjoujs.s fire upon these alleged sympathizers
with slayebolding hardly less sharp and cOntinu-
GUS than that which they have poured 10 upon
the Shareholders themselves. Our present au'
thor evidently belongs to the party who have
suffered by this FIRE; and in the desperation TO
which it has reduced him, feeling that II cannot
be borne any longer without the destruction OF
those against whom it is directed, he aspires to
do for them what Mr.. Fitzhugh Undertook to do
for the Shareholders, namely: by vigorous sally
not only to silence the eneny's batteries, but to
transfer the war into their own camp That he
attempts to do in this wise: According 10 his
representation Of the matter the battle against
Slavery has been fought and has been lost. Cot
ton ia king and Cotton being king, the slavehOld-
ere as producers Of cotton occupy commercial
and so :ial position which makes them lords and
masters not only of their slaves, but of us, and
in fact of the whole civilized world-a position
from which there does not appear any present
means 81 dislodgiDg them. For this triumph oil
Cotton and of Slavery our author undertakes TO
hold answerable the parties named below, thus
relieving the innocent and falsely-sccused
Northern churches, by shifting of upon their
shoulders the responsibility for the existing
state Of things.
The liberated slaves Of the United States are
charged in the first place, as responsible ior the
triumph of Slavery. Their failure TO become
forthwith upon being emancipated shining ex-
amples Of thrift, sobrety and virtue, has served
70 satisfy the South, so our author rePresents--s
point il lie to be spprehended upon which they
were quite too easily satished-that black men
ara not fit for freedom, aud are better Of en-
slnyea than they would be liberated. In the
eharf I'M a g