New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-05

never can arise, who ought TO be free
Because no one ought to be free.' luis
NJ Ftzhugh claims as his discovery,
and as emitting him to the glory of founding
new southern slayeholdiDg school Of philoso-
ply. Taking this principle to start with, it fol-
lows that it is the slaves and not the save-own-
ers who are the gamers by the system OF Slavery.
The slaves have all the comfort, pleasure aud
security of being taken care Of and provided for,
while all the care, responsibility and perplexity
fall upon the masters. Mr.. Fitzhugh, II will be
seen, rivals the divine who attempted to dispose
Of the Universalst doubts which had begun to
prevail in his congregation by preaching eternal
punishment as purely benevolent Institution.
Slavery, according to his accountof 1t, Is purely
benevolent, all for the benefit of the unem-
ployed poor, the weak in body and mind, the
simple and unsuspicious, the prodigal the
dissipated, the improvident and the vicious,
one portion Of whom need support and pro-
lection. the other much and rigorous gov
eminent. Our author has read "Alton Locke"
also ga book on society,"" by stephen Pearl
Andrews, and thirdly Alexandra Damas's
"French Milliner" From the two first of
these works he has been led TO conclude that
the free competitive system of Europe and our
northern States is a failure, while Dumas's book
confirms him in the opinion that Europe and the
North have no other resource against general
starvation except TO return TO Slavery.
We are very much obliged to Mr.. Fitzhush
for his philanthropical concern for us and Tor the
IL IipIly pointa
But we are under nc cessity Of going TO Virginia
to find on slave plantation that provision of
occupation for the unemployed poor, of shelter
for the weak in body aud mind, and of salutary
control for the rrodigal, the dissipated, the i'm
provident and the vicious, which he so much
vaunts as at once the justification and the Pc
cular and GROWING glory of the slave system.
We make ample provision for such sort of
people in our aims houses, pententlaries and
PRISONS and if he will take the trouble to visit
the North-we apprehend he has never yet been
ont of Virginia--aDd to inspect some of those
institutions, be will find their inmates so
far as respects food, lodging, the labor required
of them and the discipline to which they are
subjected, decidedly better off than the best
treated slaves anywhere in the South. One
aims house to a township, or Jail to county,
answers our purposes without the necessity OF
turning every farm and every mandatory into
one or the other, or into both combined. we
prefer to have our Overseers OF the poor CHOSEN
in town meeting rather than have that Office de-
yolve by Inheritance on a child, or an imbecile,
or by purchase on q shark or sharper Nor
ait bar fba palipv nj in 3ticp OF
treating as paupers and criminals able-bodied
men and women perfectly able and willing to
take care of themselves, and disposed to do SO
by honest labor. But after ringing all possible
changes on this excellent institution" this
beautiful example of communism, where
each one receives not according to his
lsbor but according to his wants"-especially
the master-aftor showing that Slavery is the
natural condition of man; after exciting our
sympathes to the utmost by pathetic descrip-
tjops Of the miserable condition Of the great
mass of the population in all free States for the
want of it, after tantalizing us, as it were, with
the prospect of this glorious remedy; Mr.. fltz-
hugh all at once giving way to his inyincible
passion for swallowing himself, upsets his own
III
ing up to the beautiful Virginia model which he
has taken so much pains to set before us by
coolly disclaiming any purpose OF reducing
the white man anywhere to the condition oil
negro slaves" at would be very unwise and
unscen tifc" he tells us, "to govern white
men as you would negroes" (page 7f). We
must be content then with admiring at dis
lance the lovely social system of our Southern
States, without any hope of ever being able to
rival it, unless indeed we should go into the
slave-trading business for ourselves and import
negroes from Africa or Virginia.
But while thus Wanting the slave States in
general ard Virginia in particular as the only
part of the world which philanthropist can look
at without the heartache, Mr. Fitzhugh still sees
room for some improvements even there. Those
which be most insists upon are the substitution
of home manufactures for exclusive agrici 'lture
and complete system OF common school educa-
ton for the whnes-neither of which ever can be
so long as Slavery lasts-to which he proposes
to add the sale of all the free negroes into Sa-
very, for which he argues with great zeal, and
the re-intrOducton of the law of entail aud pri-
mogeniture One Of the reasons which he gives
for insisting upon the introduction Of domestic
manufactures is original and Characteristic:
The slaves ef the South" he says Up. 37),
" are cheated of their rights by the purchase of
Northern manufactures, which they could
produce"
We are sorrv not 10 he able To furnish our