New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-18

Californian sits upon tbe Declaration Of Ir ispepd.
epce and affirms thai "sll men are nst born free
"snd equal" the noodles are at once of his mind,
and wonder that they ever thought differently, the
truth being that they never thought of the matter
at all. When some half educated ethnoogist talks
learnedly about the affinity between the negro and
the chimpanzee. the asses al agree with him.
When some Dr. Adams prints book to let the
world know that the slaves are sybariticaly situa-
ted. sleeping upon roses, dining daily upon orto-
lans. and dancing nightly to the music of luies and
soft recorders, these wiseacres shake their heads
and say that they always supposed that il was 50.
They haze a gorge immensely wide for apologies
and extenuatons, with the singular popularity oi
contracting itself whenever distasteful pellet of
truth is presented. They believe al the romance'
N b,eh they hear of slaves who refused to run
AWAY and leave good msssa;" they dote
upon anecdotes of pious chattels who pray
for good massa," and profess to think that the
negro passes many hsppy hours reclining affection
stely upon the bosom of his good massa. leh
them of a slave burned, of slave fogged, oil 4
slave branded, of slave hunted through swamps
and over mountains by bsyng boodhounds, OF en-
forced prostitution, of the separation of husband
from wife, and of parent from child-and they are
ncredulous. Tell them of some white-headed
negro placidly seated at the door of his yine-ead
cabin, alternately eating water-melons and playing
upon the banjo, and their eyes run over with
manly tears. Describe to them the distress, the
degradation and the despair of the human yendi-
Al. IL. in.
but tell them that slaves never sold except at
their own desire snd for the betterng of their con-
diton, and these amazing philanthropsts VIII
grasp your hand and pronounce you good fellow.
To these men, ParsOn Brownlow viii be godsend
His shalowness. his sophistry, his amazing i'm
pudenee and his egregous vanity will be like cold
water to their thirsty souls.
A sketch of one Of Psrson Brownlow' speeches,
msde during the Phiadelphis discussion. is before
us. Its value may be deduced from his concluding
question put to Mr.. Pryne, his antagonist. Would
he (Mr. Pryne) wish his daughter to marry " the
son Of buck niger ," This is the clinching
query and great prostrating argument ot the
Brownow school. 1t is an amazingly popular one
with some classes of hearers and considering that
such alliances have been, still, and are likely To
be very few, the fear of them which agitates some
minds strikes us as sufficiently ludicrous. Mr.
Pryne might very well have replied to the Parson
that, as a Christian and a member Of civilized so
ciet., he should infinitely prefer to his daughter
married to negro rather than to know that she
was living in state of prostitution with that ne
gro; and that it would be better for the souls and
| ham. fha h.t of Sop AZ
instead OF giving loose rens TO their appetites, they
would select single slave woman and even marry
her. Another assertion made by Mr.. Brownlow
was sufficiently startling: There more
" mulattoes at the North, aud consequently there
"was more prostitution among the blacks Now
any one who has investigated the subject at all,
knows that Illicit intercourse between whites and
blacks at the North is very far from common. 1t
is TO great extent prevented by prejudces which
| do not prevail, at least generally, at the South.
If there nsre more mulattoes at the North than at
| the South, it would be only fair to inquire what
part Of the country might justly claim them as chill
dren; but as Mr.. Brewnlow's statement was u
naked assertion, unsupported by any figures, and
| it will not be credited by any person wenformed
upon the subject is unnecessary to give it further
attention. But il is in assertion that Mr. Brown.
| low principally deals. There are students in
| the colleges from the South than from the North
the Southern Representatives in Congress are bet
ter educated than the Northern; there are more
failures among Northern merchants than among
SOuthern-if We may credit Mr. Brownlow. II be
means to say that the aggregate of college students
ia at h. thaD Datt he he SIS
what not true if he means to say that some lone
some college at the South-a cross between hedge
school and third.rate classical academy-can show
longer catalogue than any Of the great Northern
Universities, be may say what IS true, and is not
at the same time Of any importance. The Southern
Representatives better educated than the
Northern Educated in what In swearing and
smoking and chewing tobaccol in the my steres of
bluff of poker and of bragg in the nice conduct of
the bowie-knife in the neat handling of the bud-
geon, in mastery Of the dueling-pistoll We yield
all these points. But if Mr. Brownlow was lse-
nous, We can only express our grief that he did
not name his prodigies of learning. We read the
debates much oftener than they deserve, and thus
far We have not encountered Mr. Brownow's
learned SOutherners Ia the matter of failures,
we must allow that Mr.. Brownlow has US upon the
hip. But, then We may humbly suggest that in
order to fail it is necessary to do business first;
and We have heard of people who were 80 poor
that il impossible for them to fail. 1t is sim
pie equity to compare like with like; nor dove
what argument is for slavery, if "a crisis"
which prostrated our trading communities did not
reach the sugar and tobacco and cotton plantations
1t only proves, so far ss Southern staples have
their market here, that if great many of us fail
ed q great many Of us paid our debts. That is a