New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-13

1t is a good old saying Of Aristotle, that when o
despot ascends his throne wild beast goes with
him-good because il is true. The spirit Of des-
pOtism and the spirit OF unceasng brutal insolence
a'e essentially one. As the a,cendency Of the des
pot eau only be acquired by force, so it must be
sust aimed by force but he that is obliged carry
o. his existence by force must degenerate into
kind of ferocious animal Nowhere is this truth
more strikiDgly confirmed than In the conduct Of
that Glars of American despots who have un-
deItaken the defense Of Slavery. From the
outset OF tieir career, through its whole length
and brt adtb, they have known no other method Of
sustaining themselves than by the exhibition of
most incorporate ZEAL Boosting their ability to
prevail by argument their perpetual resort has
been to arms. They strikers, aud only strikers.
They make display of other weapons; they pre-
tend that their is susceptible OF the clearest
demonstration in logic; they parade their peculiar
principles of science aud religion; but when pressed
to the wall in the Of these, they instantly break
into a rage and draw the bludgeon or the knife.
l, is as impossible for them to keep upon strictly
rational grounds as it is tor fshing.smack to sail
against the wind or for drunken man to walk a
railroad track.
Ever since Sir Wm. Berkeley, in 1871, I" thanked
"GCd that there were no free schools nor print
" ing-presses in Virginia" the adherents of this
despOtism have shown their natural repuguance to
such instrumentaties and their preference for the
strong arm ard cub.law. Let restless slave be-
come so unreasonable as to run from the benefits Of
the patriarchal family to the miseries of Freedom,
and he is restored to common sense by the musket
or the bloodhound. Let poor woman administer
to black children the slender instructions of the
Sabbath School, and she is sent to prison. Let
high dignitary of the church intimate to body Of
worsbippng negroes that they are human beings
and he is bitterly rebuked and threatened. In
every care it is terror, denunciatiOn, or violence
which is the fayorite means Of producing con-
victiOn.
At the South it is the dread of furious mob
which is suspended over the utterance of any
hoLest doubt as TO Slavery and at the North even,
for years, the same irresponsible and reckless
tribunal interpreted the law and fixed the sentence
Of free speech. The period which saw the CON-
mencement Of the Anti-Slavery agitation among US
was well called the martyr age OF the nation. Ii
was equivalent to taking ones life in his hand to
rise in any assembly and 10 declare the whole
counsel of God against this atrocious abOmnation.
Should an editor do So bis Subscribers fled from him
as from one possessed Did preacher do so, he
was dismissed Popular meetings were over
whelmed with riOtous proceedings; the houses of
oft nding individuals we're burned or pulled down,
and prices act upon their heads. How long is it
that the blood Of the murdered LOvejoy has cried
for justice
From tie tor2uss esq eaverus OF The earth"
This came spirit of brutality has manifested itself
10 the great Areopagus Of our legislation, in the
FEDERAL Congress, principally in the form OF gag.
laws and oveibearing iusolence. 1t aas sacrificed
the sacred right o. petition; il has maneuvered
Con nit ees; ard il has suppressed debate. The
Kan-as-Nebrssks sW.ndle, which unsettled the
policy of nearly bali century. and abandoned an
empire 10 ruiiansm, was legitimate outgro With of
be Southern system of propagation. The civil
var Ike! 20 spring out Of that infamous scheme
il precisely the condition Of things to which i, has
all along tended, ard in which alone il finds il,
proper element
But il the midst Of all the unb,ided audscity of
the sla7eocrats, in toe midst of their rampant aud
diStemPered zeEi, they have heretofore rsftained
ron a:'s4sing TIE .ersors of our representatives