New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-27

! memory of his revolutionary ancestor.
The South has borrowed 10 q great extent from
the North not only its leading men. but its ideis.
Its existing religious organizations and doctrines,
| Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist-the Hard
shell Bap'ists excepted, who we believe, are q
| native Southern NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. which,
in the course Of seventy years past have IN great
measure eaten out and superseded the original
Church Of England Establishments of those States
are all ohshoOts from the North. So Of schOols
colleges canals, railroads and banks-tbe South
bas, as to all these taken the North as it's model
though sadly failing, for the most part, as yet to
approach it, And what are all the spasmodic ef-
forts lately made at the South by commercial Con.
yentions and otherwise to build up Southern COM
merce but faint and feeble attempts to set on foot
imitation of the great commercial and msnufactur
ing operations of the North Even the new South
ern doctrine on the subject of negro Slavery, the
attempts to justify it out of the Bible, and to up.
hold it on principles of humanity-whence, by
logical deduction the recent efforts to revive the
African slave trade for these, the South was
indebted 10 the suggestions of certain Of our learned
and piOus Northern dvines, such as the Rev. DR..
Lord and the Rev. DR.. Adams.
The last matter in which our Southern friends
have attempted to borrow improvements from the
North, il in the matter of the Underground Rail
road. This institution in successful operation in
the North for some ten years past, has now its
Southern imitation and rival A track has recently
been laid down, it would seem, extending from the
seaboard Of Georgia and Carolina TO the back parts
of those States, and connected with swift line of
packets to the coast Of Africa and the whole con-
Germ seems to be now in the full tide Of successful
experiment, thanks to the energy and enterprise
Of the owner and master Of the yacht Wanderer
and his associates.
This universal and very commendable system
imitation on the part of our Southern friends
though as yet feebly carried out, has not been
without it's results. Instead Of remaining fast
moored by the anchors of Slavery, and falling
further and further behind the progress of cvllizs
ton as would otherwise be the Gaze, it drags them
along half century or 50 in the rear Of Northern
improvements whence the conclusion is as sstisfsc-
tory as it is inevitable that sooner or later BY virtue
Of this irresistible impulse, the South will be led to
adopt the Northern system of free labor, without
which indeed all its efforts at education mannfac-
t,res, commerce, and intellectual and industrial
advancement generally, must prove, in great
measure, ab0rtive.
The establishment of the Southern line of under
Ground railroad in connection with the coast OF
Africa. 10 which We have above referred, light
seem, at first sight to tend in contrary direction.
But we are far from regarding it in that light. 1t
il in the order Of Divine Providence 10 avail itself
Of even human folly and madness to advance the
great cause Of human development and improve.
ment. II is the constant experience of life that
the wicked become their own eIecutioners falling
into pits which they themselves have dggtd for
others: and this IS fsr more true Of communities
and institutions than of individuals. This practical
revival of the African slave-trsde cannot but have
two very beneficial results. Ia the frs. place, II will
open the eyes Of large, respectable, and to some
extent a very wel-meaning and religious but too
credulous and trusting class at the North, to the
hypocrisy or the ignorance Of the defenders and
apoogi,ts of Slavery of the school Of The Journal
NJ Commerce. The Herald, and the Publishing Com
mittee of the American Tract Society, not to men-
ton Mr.. Buchanan himself, who have hitherto held
I'D the idea of slavery Extension and the revival
Of the slsye.trsde as mere inventions Of Abolition
.ts and politicians, snd unworthy the attention OF
the moders candid and jud,ious. II will attract
the attention of this large class from the times and
opinions of Washington, Jefferson, and Henry,
upon which they have kept their eyes go seadf,'tly
fxed. and will lead them TO see and rsallze insttu-
tions and opinions as they now actually are They
will thus BE- led 10 e,mpreheni-what has been so
sedulously lept from them by their religious and
political guides--the vast change Of opinion upon
the subject of slavery, regarded especially as an
element of political power, which has taken place
within the last twenty years st the South IS well as
the North.
Tue seeoad resal. TO BE- expected from this re-
vvsl Of the slave trade will be still more i'm
portant. 1t viii force the wealth, the Intelligence
the Coincidence Of the South out OF that state Of
tu,id rnconcern, if not suspended aninasion, in
which .hey have been ned, or have held them
selse. for the last twenty years. II will absolutely
.ompe them at last raise their voices aeanstshe
icuo-spce, fanstic.m sophstry. lust OF hlicn gam,
and Illegal violence, disguised for 'he msf part
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