New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-20

,,,,,io, Of despotsm is in danger from the fanatic
cruet;es Of Bomba, we suppose, and it is necessary
% that divine institution from the evil rePute
such frantic excuses are like to bring upon H. we
will not Quarrel with the motive, however IL ne VIII
ioin with his new ally and open the prison doors OF
po9r;o and the other political captives put an end
TO the sudden and the slow murders which are well
ccmed BY them as messengers of mercy, and break
,ha stck with which the cruel bastonnHde is inflicted
on accomplished gentlemen and even on dehca'e
women. guilty only of having loved liberty and De-
Geved in the promises of despot.
But this is not what moves us 10 write at TINS
present moment. 1t is America and not Naples
that BOmbas reply brought most yisby to our mind.
Itseemed as We read il as fit might have issued from
some Democratic conclave of shareholders in Caro-
lima or Louisiana The same spirit pervadesi it, and
it employs almost identcally the same language as
the meetings held to welcome Brooks home Us the
incarnation of Southern chiyslry and the accepted
e1ponent of the slayeholding idea. The good OF
the subjected classes is, of course, the only ann oil
the master class. No more severity is ever used
than is necessary for the preservation OF Law and
Order. And rs to such rebels against the Divine
Right of this Dynasty to reign over the whole
country as its rightful domain, as Senator
Sumner at Washington, and Barber and Holt In
Kansas. the stick or the bullet or the knife are the
appointed and only means Of chastislng or removing
them. The infamous Prime Minister Of Bomba
ayowed that the stick was the only law which the
Nespotans were capable of understanding This
philosophy our sayeholdng lords avow as the one
they hold for white statesmen as well as the black
slaves, and hence the ubilsnt receptions and hord
presentations of canes and of pitchers to Brooks,
who has begun to reduce this philosophy to actual
practice.
This identity Of effects comes OF course from an
identity of cause. The principle of despotism-the
irresponsible power of dsposing of other peoples
bodies souls and earnings, without their consent Is
the same everywhere that ii is tolerated and oil its
incidents are of the same character, modified only
BY accidental circumstances. Every Despotism ex-
lists only BY Terrorism, and Terrorism springs from
the terrors of the terroriss. The standing armies,
and the marvellous police and the wonderful espion-
ace of Continental Europe are proof enough of this
as to the European despots, as are the midnight
tramp of the horse patrol in the rural districts,
and the glistening of the bayonets of the guard in
the cities of the South as to our own The severi-
ties of the penal code there, not to mention the
supplementary ones of Judge Lynohs tribunal are
match for any of the public or secret edicts of
Paris, of Vienna, or of Naples. These are all signs
of the fear which ever broOds over great or little
tyrants, conscious of the doom with which strict
Justice would visit them, and of the ever instant
possibility of its demanding them as its due. The
necessity of proppng up system resting on the
rotenest of foundations, calls for the crueties OF
the slave code and those desperate efforts to silence
Free Speech in Congress, and to exterminate Free
Men in Kansas which have made this year the
blacket of the long series which have been marked
BY Slavery as her own.
The parallel is perfect throughout. There are
the same intimatiOns that the interfering Powers
are no better than the to be regulated, and the
same pregnant hints that they should mind their
own business, and leave the tyrant to do he will
with his own. And both Of the petty yrannies-the
pettier the greaterdeclare that, in the inter
ference is persisted n an appeal to arms and the
God of Battles will be the inevitable result Bonba
interfere with his God-given prerogative of bast
nadoeing his subjects, and Brooks intends to seize
| on the Treasury and the archives Of the Govern
| ment in case Col Fremont should be elected; and
We it is said that Gov. Wise is in correspond
| ence with sundry other Southern SanchOs to
range the withdrawal of their respective BaratariOs
from the Union should that catastrophe endanger
their divine right of larrupng their nggers all over
the Territories. For there is this difference between
the two cases: that the Republicans do not propose
to interfere with the exercise of this paternal
privilege within their hereditary dominions, while
the French and British do intimate their purpose
of regulating the internal affairs of Naples in spite
of BOmba if be does not mind his manners very
briefly. And We rather think that the Northern
States are quite as much of match for Brooks and
Wise, and all their chvalry, England and France
are for the puny whipstsr of the Two Sicies 1t
is altogether likely that these knavish partners
would like, as Brooks suggests, TO rob the till and
carry off the books of the concern and then make
tracks for foreign parts, if they thought there was
no danger in the operation. But We rather think
that the consciousness of their weakness will make
Brooks and BOmba alike in their submission to their
fate, as they are in their theories their principles
and their practices.
We see that some of the Absoutst journals on
the Continent affect to deny the authenticity of this
letter or document of the King Of Naples, and to
give another version of it. But we imagine that
this is trick of diplomacy to cover up step
which is so manifesty false one. 1t is something
as if The Charleston Mercury or The Richmond
Enquirer should deny the authenticity of Brooks's
gasconade or of Wse's Bobadilism. For our own