New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-25

".ma osp.,icu, / rel ioe 70 re hu abe ors.n Of
"ttc isw IN decr.siDs liberty to the ru ssrou' sp-
"peites before the Cour"-'s pciio!," he sdds
10 srother giaoe "wdct bss ceria'D'y receive. N
"naty irs'srces, a1d parity hy tito act OF l7o2,
"ihe ecu, teoanoe Of tie Legislature, sut must
".lw,ys Re ttsr 70 every friend Of Liberty ard the
"bam.n race" Esving ttus acc, un'ed fr tie
decision il Pleasant. RS. Plees,pts, tie lesred
counsel then soyer,s 20 the Pets .1se IN pub
lie opinion which has since taken place. Scarce
L.lf & ctutu y has rssssd swsy, AID 20 fl IN
fiat cane Virgins, whose Il my aaJ Js1rrscn
ard Msson sid Wythe sod Washington, ell "aoso
cii,zers, ir feet, e ttat generauor, who have
left ,uy mark behud them. were iesP'rfd With
tie biqh hope Of the complete 'm'ncPat'on
of the eu'iie slave population Of the State
a Constitutional p,07'sion prohibiting even
the Legislature Itself fen SETH ree soee slave;
exptlirg iror the CommoDws s!th al hereafter set
free b their owueIs; giving power to the L'g'"t-
tu,e tot merely 20 restrict buttotake aw,y enureiy
tie power Of msrcipaiio.; siyiog Ike authority
TO reduce the wtole free negro population to per-
peiual Slavery, lot Only With but @Itbout their own
cotsent; AID to croWn 81, q legislative at P'oSid-
ing .olern legal IN de for such reduction INTO
Slavery and still further set iDilictirS ices and
iDprst nment uIOn sny person Who shall De so Oo'd
as TO dare to naintao, In the spirit It not 10 tue
very words of the patriots above referred TO- ttst
Virginia masters have not the right Of property in
tbt ir slaves.
"Was there ever" asks Mr.. John Howard, "a
more radical, thorough and al PeTvAiiOs revOlu-
q" ton in ably .ystem Of laws, upoa any subject of
" Legislation, or q more complete AID unIVersai
" contrast prescribed By public policy ard PuolIc
"sertimest ia any matter of general co Germ :
" Wise eld pr phttc, even TO Inspiration, as we're
"the great fathers Of the Republic az d the Illus
CIRCUS stetesmen of Virgins, their vision failed
" and filtered in the prospective 81 the vast, the
"imnepse and manifold agency Of the ins itltion
" of African Slavery in developing the untold aud
" undesirable resources OF TINS coatinent' IN
" building up tie sold foundations of social order
sand public prosperity in the Southern States, IN
"enIichirg AID su.taiiin all the industrial inter
tests Of the ettire Union, in magnifyitg the
commerce ard manufactures, and advancing
and upholoitg the civilization Of the worlt.'
The fact is, according to Mr.. John Howard,
those ssges OF the R.yOuti,n had not .een nos even
imsgiied "the general socla'istlc and destructive
tendencies Of free society" "the disorder, dis
"tress, lawessress and anarchy Of that commun-
"ity, in Which tie Constitution ard laws, State aud
"Feteral, are suboIdlnattd TO the passions AID
"caplces Of urgosernable masses, hdngeIiog for
dread, at6 mad with fanatcism.' Ayast cnapgs
since their day has been wrought in the publ Q
ni1d-a charge, as Ne. Howard argues, from GER
tan recert articles in The London Tunes, extend
irg even to England. Irstead Of undermining aud
aboIisLipg the Institution of Slavery, it had become
the policy Of Virginia to establish ind perpetuate
it, and tho decision of the Court il the present
case ought to DO made 10 conform to this change
Of policy.
Ttis argument appears to have prevailed with three
out of the five Judges; two judges, Sanuels aud
Moncurc, tissented, the latter sustaining himself
in amelia borate opinion, which heweyer has, we be-
leye, not yet been published. The same t@oJudges
also disseLted from the decision in the Of Mrs.
Coulters villa decision directly in the face and
eyes Of the case Of Osborne rs. Taylor, decided
oily few years ago, and still more clearly evlnclog
than even the Poihdexter case, the determination
Of the msoiity Of the Virginia Court of Appeals to
male the policy of perpetuatiDg Slavery the basis
Of all their future decisions. Probably the deci
sioDs already pronounced wi be made the occaso
for again reducing to Slavery large part of the |
free negro population of Virginia. Niost Of the
wills uLder whlch they or their ancestors were set
free no doubt contain some clause giving, or which ,
cen be construed to give, them a right to remain |
slaves if they prefer i:-quite sufficient, according
to the decision in the Coulter case, to make the |
viii void so far as they are concerned.
Tic Pittsburgh Ga:ene objects to our paragraph |
oxnrossinr q hone fiat the nnuhicars of the XNth |