New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-27

| Not long since we commended the Southern Aid
Society TO the favorable confederation Of our read
ers, inforcing its claims with what small ability
we possess. We are happy to perceive that our
| labors have not been ubblest; for we cannot but
hope that me portion, if not the whole, of the re'
cent contributions it has received are due TO our
| humble suggestions. Our readers will remember
that this Society is missionary enterprise, under
taken for the conversion Of the Southern States to
Chr stianty. The necessity OF some such effort Is
but to apparent to ali intelligent observers, while
the difficulties and dangers to which it may be ex-
postd d, msnd the most cautious and prudent
measures Recent developments have disclosed
an amazing depth of barbarism among some OF
those unfortunate people; a. common hum unity, as
well as regard for the spread of Christianity,
loudly call for immediate action for their deliver
ance from the horrible pit and the miry clay in
which their feet are now entaDgled.
1t appears from authentic accounts that the peO-
pie in question live in state Of continual warfare
as ia the wont Of savages. By certain craft and
cunnirg not unusual among uncivllized tribes, .
small minority have obtained the mastery over the
greater number whom they treat in the most de-
porable manner They compel them to do such
rough and coarse work as the low state Of their
idea. suggests They rob them of all that they
can earn. They depend entirely upon them
for the necessares of life of the low grade they re-
quiie, and for suchluxuries "a they know of-which
contist chiefly of filthy narcotic herb and the
fre.wa,er which has been the delight and the de-
structiop of 80 many Of their fellows. And in re-
e. <ha nanfp asta
these their benefactors to live in more sordid
woy than they DO Themselves; they force them to
herd together like brute beasts they do not permit
among them the lite of marriages. they try TO keep
them more ignorant, if possible, than they are
themselves; they sell them among each o'her, hav-
ing no regard to the natural relations of blood;
they Gun torture them even unto death without in
t.rference on the part of the tribe provided no
witness is present except Of the Pdrah race.
Like savsgcs in general, they are cowardly,
PREACHER ous revengeful and boastful. They always
70 armed, sure sign OF cOwardice al well az OF
barbarism. They delight in taking their enemy ut
al advantage as to get the better of him without
incurriDg any personal rifk themselves. About
month sgo for example, young warrior Of ono Of
he nect ssary regarded as his natural enemy, the
ra her that be had been rebuking of the beasy
barbarties of his race he stole upon him prvy and
snote him over the head with war-club until he
had lett him as good a. dead. At the same time
another brave (if the term be not sOlecsm) stood
BY brand ishing war club also with one hand while
he held .pecies of fre-arm in the Other-in the
use Of which these ssvages have acquired considers.
bic eXpertness. This action, Characteristic as it
was of the treachery and cowsrdice of the savage
nature, might have passed as merely that Of the
individuals concerned in il, had not the tribes all
over TIE benehted region made haste to adopt it as
their own. As toon as they heard of it, they held
pOw.wows, and war-dances, and eOuncil.fres, aud
dog easts and sang the praises Of these their worthy
soDs, and magpi6ed their deed "a the most glorious
in the history Of their tribes. And they sent new
clubs and other offerings to the chief asssilsnt
to testify their admiration of his prowess, and they
ssluted him by reclamation the hero Of their race.
Nothing could prove more incOntestably the base,
wardly and depraved heathenism of these be-
nehted people than this worshiping of acts which
Hottentot or New. Zelander might blush to
think Of And nothing can prove more conclusisely
the necessity of some missionary movement for
their elevation from their present condition.
This charitable in.erpositiOn is the more imper-
atiytly demanded Of us when We consider the re-
lscn Of these unfortunate hordes to ourselves. The
Roman Empire, our readers are probably aware,
was Overrun by Barbsrians from the North; it was
the Northern Hive from which swarmed che clouds
of brute force and more brutal ignorance which
settled down upon and extineuished the Civiliza-
ton Of the Elder World. The dangers to our
Civilization lower from another quarter OF the
heavens. 1t is the Southern Hive from which the
barbsrous hordes are to swarm that are to make
desert Of paradise, unless they be repulsed at
once They are already making incuisons in;o
our borders, marked with all the cruelties aud f.
r, cities of the GOths and Vandals Of old time, and
they insist upon their natural right to make the
whole county waste like their own, and to re-
duce all the Inhabitants to their own AFFECT aud
degraded condition. Assisted by some sordid
traitors among Ourselves, they have broken over
the barriers our ancestors and theirs had agreed
upon as boundary between US, and are DOW dsvss-
tating some Of the fairest regions Of the Wes',
after which they hope to subdue" US oil. /. is
clear, from the whole history of the world, that in
q contest between Civilization and Barbsrlsm, one
uutt subdue the other. Unless we can put down
the Barbarians, the Barbarians will most assuredly
naniy toward them, but of life and death to our.
selves, bow they are to be encountered and treated
In this state OF things if the Southern Aid Soci.