New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-05


We are told in Holy Writ that the t:tt!e is not
always to the stroug-s text strikingy eNemPliied
in the battle which for upward of fifty years past
has been sosg on between the shareholders and the
Southern free negroes. The hsvsbOlders beng leg
isstors also, have exerted their utmost Ingenuity IN
passing laws to make the position Of the free ne
groes as uncomfortable as possible and 20 to DIVE
them away. But the negroes proving very pigsish'
recourse Was had 10 the Colonization Society
to aid in thu process, which, holding out tie
prospect of liberty equslity and sef-government,
and the accumulation Of wealth in Africa, 1t was
hoped might entice them to 60. III this, however,
has been TO no purpose, and these unlucky
neeroes-niaDy of them, by tie way, or the fathers
side, oH.hoots Of the first Southern ianilies-stu
remain Is much nuisance as ever, proving, as the
shareholders aege, about their premises aud in the
most annoying manner fully setting up to the Viz
cnia clhOrtaten, root little pig or you lie.
As q last resource, 1t has been pro?Oeed, since
they will persist in remaining, to reduce them to
slavery. This project, which, some time since.
wa suggested bya Governor of Virginia TO the
Legislature of that State has been again revived by
The Richmond EIaminr. That journal proposes
10 kill two brds-we may say three birds-with Que
stone to get rid Of tie free-negro nuisance, 10 add
many millions of dollars "a our annual product OF
cotton and at the same time t. furnish the treasury
Of Virginia with large sum Of money, sadly needed
TO fnish the internal improvements OF the State,
fa.i coming to stahdstill for lack of funds. A.
ready the State Of Virginia has made pretty little
financial ala Huntington operation out of the free
NEGROES. Under pretense Of raising fund toward
enabling them 20 eHigrste to Liberi,, poll-tn
was imposed upon them, the proceeds Of which,
however insucnd of being handed over to the olo-
niraton Society, have gone 10 help I'LL the gap IN
the empty 6 ate treasury. hu; the money thus
squeezed out Of these people ls mere drop 10 the
bucket compared to the amoun. which Tie Eron-
ia,Y now proposes - set out of them. Instead OF
extracting from them paltry sum drcp BY drop,
that journal proposes 10 convert them bodily IN"
gold The nfty-isur thousand free negres OF VIZ
sinia If sold south a; the moderate price OF S4OO
head-w bich /, hardly bali the current rates-woud
produce 10 the STATE treasury fund Of $40 OOo OVe
That is something e. speak of. Il throws Gov.
Wise and his project Of oyster taxation quite INTO
the shade Az enyiou. AID fanstica Congress
may prevent tie revival of the African slave trade
but her. are at les, itycur thousand free negroes
whom the >tsts Of Virginia is a, liberty 10 EdnaP
and 10 sell ioT the common benefit Of the Southern
cotton crop the Northern cottcn-.p nners, and the
Virginia internal improyements-to s'y nothing Of
tie advantsee "a accrue 70 the state in Kidding itssi
II dangerou. and useless sort Of population.
Wheihe, the fusion snong the cotton plantations
81 these Il. ouc negroe. laiely free aud smartmg
ss they would under sense of iDiury, would par.
t,clAiy tend 10 The quiet Of those plantations, might
perhaps sdni oi some doubt. In proposing this
!arge State speculation in negroes, II, EIamiE.r
.een. e. ~ on tie prncipl of ,Gteai ~aptor. The
buyer ]. 10 look our and to Purctss. ST his Own
ptr. which IN iii. case Ne ihink be would be very
apt 10 do. There Is, however, another and far
more se1ou. obstacle in the way Of thus filing up
the treasury and finishing the internal improve
IaeAts Of Virginia. The free negroes. IN spite Of
al that sad IN Their ds 3irsgeGent, are an essen
iAl part Of tie system OF Southern society. Every
hoJy abuses nem, every body denounce, them, bu:
ir al that they are indispensable and not To De got
! "a OF. They Lave tie sane strong hold upon tue
Weaknesses ofthe white population, that eros shops
snd gambling Shops end some other confessed ngi-
sances have upon Us j. tie North, as Well as upon
olr trends at the South, against which journalists
write and mo-aEsts dtcain, and economist.
rumble, aid legislators pass laws-but all 10
very little purpose, since all the while very larg.
psrt Of tie persons thus writing declsiming grum.
bling and lcgslatng, have Certain private Personsl
interest or pleasure which runs eniirely counter
TO the interests Of the public AID their PROBES. oas
lake fef itsl,ncr, tse fslO~ as cQucal Confession.