New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-18

course, a." strict discipline" meant nothing bat A,
"A or the fear Of it, and this flL teoderas.. =,
g.. slaves 10 their kind master shov. ths4 "A.
,hn,.. If the cat-onne tails were only tie. vsi,I
h,nnS IA. 4 hearts the closer to that Of their o.,,.
Al .,,.,a'. We remember that the pedsso,1..
Of our youth 'ed to agsnvate the smart Of u.
cb,.t;,emen,, u y inflicted by the assurance tat
The .us.rer, vouA thank them for il The loa,,,,
day they hsd 10 live->n assertion which, % far a,
we are personally concr,ed, we beg leave mott
unequivocally to deny. Bus these happy SLAVES
have evidently found it good 10 te afflicted.
The satisfaction We felt in resdii'g this pregnant
proof Of how much the rhetorical founshers arc b.
side themselves when they balance their brsgs about
Liberty with dispangng anltheses about Slavery.
was made perfect BY finding another brief psss-
graph, about half an inch below the one We have
just quoted, ~ this effect
"Mr. Jcseph Emmett Of 0nslow CoOnty, n. c.,
killed one OF bis slaves, by brutsly whipping him y
death. last week. He managed 10 make HE sscspA
and has net been srrensd.'
OF course be has not, as why shoah he' He
had only carried the strctness of bis dsciplincA
its extreme legal limit. He had only exercised ~
right of moderate correction" to the extssk
recognized and sustained by law, Of the dead Of
the slave. Sill, this case, following a. Is ID 70
Immediately on the heels Of the Other cord NJ
but make US appreciate the hardships not to nea-
ton the loss, to which parental masters are thus
exposed in the exercise Of their pare ntal corrcc-
tcp, as well as the trial il puts upon the Affection
ate disposition of the slaves, whose da tenderness
e happily not to be shaken by the probability Of
Ia being put to such proof.
We must beg our Democratic contemporary ef
The Boston Post however, to be little moro
chary Of his harsh language, and to refrain fros
cbsracterizing an administration of parental 40
thority like this as "a brutal whipping He may
have TO defend just such doings yet as national
constitutional and essential to the salvation Of the
Union. The majority Of the Supreme Coors
having proclaimed their private opinion that
sayeyrnsy be carried in transin into any Free Ssats
there is nothing to hinder New-iork and Boston
being made the chief shipping ports OF tho vigent'A
crops of Virginia and Msrya Though little
out of the direct road still We cannot doubt thst
the enterprise of cur merchants will be able to tsko
this profitable carrying trade into their own hands.
In .uch case of course parental restraint must DO
exercised here as well as in North Carolina. Aud
if it be necessary to chasteu them. like as father
cbssteneth his children, that, too, must follow tho
slaves a. On incident Of their condition. And even
if one of them should die under moderate cor
rectop, the laws of Slavery, which must accomps-
py i. in its constitutional progress through the con-
quered provinces, would and should hold the master
harmless. If the Constitution gives tho right it
must give everything that is necessary to enjoy IL.
We would, therefore a1ectiona'ely beg our National
patriots, Of every stripe, to be careful as 20 tho
words they use, lest peradventure, they find them
selves ere long obliged to make q meal Of them,
with nothing but humble pie for dessert.