New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-17

al ia I rYUly
nan sustain. 10 God 10 tternRy, dsd 20 future dtgn1y
all sre equally subjects Of tbess Man u uncro W.
All bis fruit is green II be must stand by VIVA: Ne n
how surely u.t be be given over 70 weakness. 70
abuse TO expressions. The weak a natural prey
10 the strong ard superiority is charter for tyranny
But il be be heir, waiting for an Inheritance oil
God eternal in the heavens, wee be 10 him that dare
lsy finger on him because he IL minor
Idse the longer upon this view because il cares
the worlds heart in it. We must deepen our think
pes Of man. AID bore for the springs Of liberty far De-
low TIE DRAWINGS Of surface strata down deep, Afe,
sian, till strike something that shsl be beyond
winter or summer, frost or drouth.
do not believe that there il doctrine OF indivi-
nal rights nor Of civil liberty that stand outside
Of Christianity They are 10 be seen revealed III ns
ture but there il 70 interpret them with autool
ity Chri,t is the Worlds Emaneipator, for be bath
declared To 3, me- n belong TO HIM and an oppressor
thus becomes a felOn, robber, and wfonZer oil
God in The 5erson Of every poor and wretehed VIC
tim
God; his desiiny TO God again; his errsnd earth,
TO grow ward goodness and NJ Ike the mot OF b n
seli-ths Christianity is rank rebellion in despot'
lens, snd iIsurrecton on pla-4ta.ions. l. cannot DC
preached there.
Thee two radical theories Of mE-man, physical
creature 10 be judged by effects produced in Tins or
man. spiritual creature to be judged by the deyel.
opuent TO which be is destined al tie root OF all
tie sntogoniMs between the spifi, Of northern In
.iitutio1s and southern Institutions nor hern policy
and southern policy In the North, II is The pubic
ssrtimeDt Of the people that sl men sre bora free
and equs; that every mau has an inaenasle night 20
life liberty end the pursuit Of happiness, forfeited
OILY by cyimt. The North believe thar personal and
political Liberty ere not Only the TIgkf Of msD but
their n6cessng that cannot thrive nor develop,
with the true proportions If mai hood, without hbsr-
ty Ii is the northern sentiment that sm4r must be
prepared for liberty aEd that tie act az tTtt Is ina,
repsratOn; that no ieAture lives which Is the bet
er Tor oppression and who MI not be the better for
freedom, which is the atural air appointed for the
FOULS breathing. The North disdans every pr tense
that men are injured by sudden liberty fanished
man nav lIjuIe himself by over-ieedng; but that is
ar Mt not against food, but az lnst famine 1t
is the northern teDument and justly detucet from
the Christian theory of man, that society should re-
deem I'll iis own children from ignorance, should
cure their growth, equip ibem for citizenship, aud
make oil the iDfuecces o. society eDure - The benefit
Of tie maze Of men, The southern sentiment is the
reverse Of this. l. holds that all men not born
free sn1 equal that have o. an ipasnabe right
to life, liberty snd the pursuit. OF ha?piness aud that
men sre not in their very constitution fitted for liberty
and benefited by ii. They hold thai liberty
is attribute of power that it Is bios
som, which belongs 10 races, ard rot to mankind;
tbst part born to rule, AID part were ordained
TO serve that liberty is dangerous TO the many that
seryitude tie most rigorous, blessing; that /, ac
cores with the creative intent Of God and With his
revealed Institutions that a DspoD cannot be homo
gereous, and should not aim ct il; that there il
law snt scsle OF grs6a'ion which the too ia Drv
leee and authority tie bottom labor and obedience.
Thee Ms radical then Of the eetire sections
of the land. Men titen are profoundly ignorant of
the principles which control their policy, ship is
uncor scous Of the rudder that steers her Many
found, both North and South, whose conduct over
rules their theory and who are better or worse than
their belief 1bt re are southern men who are more
generous than their theory, end there are northern
men VIC are gros iy untrue to the northern theory,
which with their lips they profess. There ere south
EN- men with northern eonscences, and there are
northern nen with southern cOnsciences. But, in
al ain fite rair md 70
late pubic proc. dure. There is not man poor in
the North, or 60 Ignorant, or 80 useless, az not
to BE- regsJoed "a Men. by religion by civil law,
and by public opinion. Se'fshness and pride, ava
rice and cunning, anger or lust, may prey upon the
heed'essntss or helpessress of many. Society may
be full G. eyils But all these things not
quences Ct bern Doctrines but violations Of the
ii sharks IN great cities consume the too credulous
emierant ia ureTs, Ike moths, cut the fabric OF life
with invisible teeb; iflsndlords sack their tenemenis
and pinch the tenant-all tbese results are against
the sphit of our aw, agains puoic feeling and they
that do such ihiDcs must silk and burrow. They
ere vtrmn that run in the walls, and peep from hid
nCholts ard We ret trsI for them do for rats
or wtazes. But in the South the fubordinaon of
nan TO man. in his eernng- his skill. his tins and
lnhor-in his person, his affs ctions, his very
ohildIen-is part Of the theory Of socis'y dra sn
out into explicit statutory law coincident with
public opinion, end executed Hiibout secrecy. net
spread for those guilty of such wrongs against man
goud catch State and Legislatures citizens, Courts
and Constitutions
In the North the most useless faupsr that burdens
the Aims House-,be nosi un ,ombed foreigner that
delves in dioh-the most abject creature that begs
oTse from door to door, q get a and tcere
IS rot il theory only, but in the public sentiment
sscIedness of rights which mao except by stealth,
violate with impuni.y There is no other Law for
TIE Governor of New York Of Mas schrsetts,
than Tor the btggtr in your streets. That hich pro
'tcts the dwelling and the property o. the rich m,n,
belongs just as much to the hovel Of the begga.
God sends but ore sun, aud II is the came light Ia
I'D oaiI hQ Of a
upon the tbatch OF but The same air comes TO
each, the same showers, the same seasons. sum-
mer and winter. And as IL Nature, so. ia the
North is Jaw, ard the disfiouve benefits OF society.
They battle society from top TO bottom, TIE rich,
the learned The refined the strong may know how 10
make better use Of the air but they have no more
air Ct privilege 10 breathe than the poorest wretch.
in the South, exactly the reverse is true not by
stealth not by neelec, Of recognized principle, but
as the result of mems ideas, ard by organized ar
rapgements. Touch a hrelinys wages, in the North,
and the Law stands 10 defend him and beat you
down Take the lsborers wages in the South and
the law stands 10 def I'd you, and beat him down.
Beat man, in the North, for private wrong
DONE ard the law will strike you. But in the South,
il s the sht Of the white unquestonei and unlUes
tonsbe 70 beat every third person in the immunity
Let the proudest mill owner break but the skin Of
the poorest operative in Lowell or Lawrence and
both law and public sentiment, alike would grasp and
punish him
But in the South the law refuses to look at any de-
gree of cruelty in ohsstisements upon the universal
lsborsr short of manning death, and public senti
ment is but little better than the law.
The lsborer in the North answers TO g tribunal; in
the South TO master, incensed, passionate, vndict
i've in justice executed upon all symptoms OF resisting
manhood
In the North, nothing is more sacred than a mans
fsnily and his children ltwoult not be possible for
man 10 Go public violence 10 family circle without
vindiciiys penalty. Let him separate mother from
her csughters let him employ hireng ruffian TO
cgyr AZ he