New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-12

We have bad repeated Occaloh W Eeiot w INC
remarkable change of position which is being exc
cuted at the South on the subject Of Slavery ana
slayeholdipe. To all earnest sincere aud logical
.Isyehoding minds il has become obvious that the
grounl hitherto occupied in the speculative discus
sion Of that question is no longer teaable. To
sdmit tbst saveholding il an evil and wrong, is TO
admit every thing necessary TO make out the case OF
the Aboliionists. II the institution be an evil and
a wrong Instead Of studying apologies and excuses
for it, ard seeking preten,es for persi'hng IN TINS
wroDg ard evil little longer, it is evidently the
business Of men of intelligence and energy, who
have the good of the public really at heart 70 SCI
themselves at work persstenty to root this evil OUT
If slayehodipg is to be persevered in with the in
ward satisfaction Of an approving conscience, II
can only be done on the ground that the practice I"
innocent. To inspire enthusiasm in its support, it
must be exalted into positive good.
A considerable rumber Of publications have ap'
peared st the South, within few 5esrs past, hav'
ing this object in view. We have now before Us
the first number of "The Southern Dial; Monthly
Magazine devoted mainly TO discussion OF Afrl-
can Slavery, and the interests, moral, social ahd
political, which it involves" This ne~ periodical
is published at Montgomery, Alabama, BY the RsV
]. D. Williams, as the imprint states, who has EN-
barked in the enterprise, not out OF any sordle CAL
cuaton of gain, but from "a disntere'ted desire
"to DO good to . degraded race and distracted
county" This magazine already has, we are
told near five thousand subscribers scattered from
New-YOrk TO Arkansas, and in few weeks they
are expected to come in from one extremity Of
" the Union to the other" Bya slight deviation
apparently from tho theory that the planters are
entitled to live upon unpaid labor, the publisher
inaisss in bis own case upon the doctrine of pay a.
you 60. In fact no pushes the point little fur.
Their, and demands in advance the two dollars which
is the annual subscription. Looking at tho enter
prise az "patriOtic and humane and strictly benev.
" olent," and being advanced in years a. well ~
limited in mesns" be docs not feel called upon to
risk more than be already has done in getting out
the first number. II this african Advocate aud
"Expositoro Of Domestc Slavery" is to be sustained,
the subscribers must como forward and pay up.
In the list Of contributors we notice the Of
five doctors of divinity of six or seven presidents
and professors in colleges aud institutes, aud of
large number of clergymen. The periodical, in.
deed, is evidently designed for the class that pro-
fesses to have a conscience. II takes the Bible
for its starting point, as the source and safeguard
of all morality, and proposes as its ain object 80
4" Bible defense of Slavery, not merely as an ab-
straction, but in its application to all the phases
" and relations of Southern society" MANY men
at the South" We are told by the editor in bis
Introductory address, "do still doubt the righteous
- ness of the institution, and this doubt makes us
" towards, and the dupes and slaves of cOmpro-
" misses" 1--WE have discredited tho power of
L" the Truth-the omnipotence VI Justice-ths
wisdom of Provdenee-the almighty protection
I" of the God Of our fathers, who gave US those
" broad plantations. We have been content TO rest
our cause on side issues, and to plead the bond Of
"our Federal compact But the vanity Of this
reliance has abundsntly appeared. Political part
sanship and Government influence have been in
voked in vain TO put stop to an agitation which
has gone on spreading daily wider and wider. Rea-
sopabe men, we are told, no longer calculate upon
arreatiDg this agitation by party combinations.
The only sufficient defense Of the institution Of
Slavery is in its Righteousness The South needs
to educate itself in tho science, the thorough
ralty, the social commercial and political adapt
" alton of Slavery"-and that is the great object
which this periodical is designed to promote.
1t would appear however, not to be the intention
to stop short at mere euloey Of Slavery a. it 10.
The Dial maintains not only that Slavery has its
sanctions in the Bible but that We are TO look there
fer the principles of its police. 1t seems to be sug
se,ted that alavehodng needs not merely to be do
Tended, but also to be regulated out Of the Bible.
"lf We have abused the institution says the
editor, " have imprt perly defined or effectively
enforced the duties, rights or Obligations Of mas.
"ters or slaves. it behooyes US, for Ourselves to
inquire in what particulars, AID to VIVA. extent
"we have been betrayed into such grave aud haz.
"aIdous errors. These subjects will open up to
" the real thinkers and genuine Christian phil,n-
" thropsts Of the South q wide fed Of hopeful in
" vestisation and activity" We have noticed this
new magazine at the more length, because we feels
strong intereat in it, We are anxious t. see what
can be said ard done not 80 much in the way Of
defending Slavery out Of the Bibie-for We have
had plenty Of that-as in the way Of regulating 1t
after the B bic model.