New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-13
several States, ard insure tie psrpetui'y Of the
Union. We peed hardly add that in this we en-

- perceivei that TIE kind Of domestic insttutloas
90 which would suit New .H.u pshire would be TO-
tally uLG. for tie ice plantations OF Ca'onna.
No; they were, in the maio, far wiser sAd more
Truly de mOcrstic than this would make them IhsT
recognized Slavery as present and pAlpsoie evil,
which could not be sbclished 10 day; but they
never imagined that radically diverse domestic
institutions we're required for the North and
the South respectively. Why sh0tad they have
supposed IT. The temperature OF Carollnsm fervid,
and much Of lie coil is sandy or marshy While New
Hsmp.hire is colder, with harder, rocker crust;
but how should this difference affect the question
of the right Of every laborer TO bis hire! Why
should mn work all bis life for coarse food and
coarser clothes under torrd sun and not
under more frigid skies Wherein lies the diff
Guilty Of paving tie growers Of cotton, rice and
sugar, for their labor, which Is not equally an OBJ
stacle to paying growers Of wheat beef AID pota'
toes We recollect that in Russia the opponents
Of serf emancipation apprehend that, should it be
copsummsted. the laborers will desert the northern
or more incement estates, migrating southwark;
VIII here il is feared that they will fly from the
South ard overflow the North. We ymp.thze
with neither Of these pabics. AS general rule,
laborers will remsin where they were bora, if they
can there secure steady employment and fair-re-
comperse. Men run away from Slavery when
they can; not often from good treatment ard good
wages. Aud the best " domestic institutions,
whether for Vermont or Georgia, are those which
are most equal and just. 1t is Slavery, not Ensn-
cpaton, which casts any shadow on the prospec' OF
our perpetual Union. Men 10 South Carolina re-
qure different clothing, with somewhat diiierent
food, from men in Massachusetts,; not different
institutions" And if there were nobe of that
L" dissimiarity" in the " domestic Institutions OF
our States respectively which Mt Douglas deems
so precious, there would be no call for Southern
or Northern Conyentous-no threats of dissoving
the Union. The barmonizng of our discordant
domestic Institutions" is not an easy task it can
not be accomplished in hurry; there is no power
in TIE Free States nor ia Congress TO abolish
Slavery IN the South; We must await the gradual
melting away of Southern prejudice, or the still
slower action of time; but this should not blind US
to the fact that the death Of Slavery would benefit
every class, sectop, loc,ty and add enduring
vitality to the Union.
Mr. Douglas is reported by the telegraph as say.
ipg that
Gle did not sgree with Mr.. Lincoln, that it was
great wrong to deprive negro of the rights OF cti-
zenship. He did not believe they were ever intended
to be citizens Our Government was founded on a
white basis and was created by white men. True hu-
aniiy required tibet regroes and other inferior races
should be permitted to enjoy only such rights and
privileges as they were capable of exercising con-
sisteIt with the good OF society,"
We think the issue here made up with Mr.
Lincoln unwarranted by anything in the speech OF
the latter. And, though Mr.. Douglas has doubtless
chosen the popular view Of this issue, we cannot
deem it sound OF just Where is the evidence that
"our Government was founded on white basis y
1t ia certainly not found in the Declaration of Iude-
pendence, nor in the Articles Of Confederation nor
vet in the Federal Constitution. No sentence in
either of these documents restricts the privileges of
citizenship to whites. We know that many black
men fought in the ranks Of our Revolutionary
armies; We know that some of them poured out
their life blood to win the freedom we now enjoy.
We know that the JehersoLan axiom, "All men
are created equal" simplfes and renders easy the
great problem of the bases of Government; while
the contrary rule indicated by Mr.. Douglas leads
to infinite japglipg ard confusion. Mr.. Jefferson
never meant t. assert that all men are equal in
natural capacity, in wisdom, in virtue in knowl'
edge; he proclaimed that, notwithstanding their
notorious, admitted inequality in these respects
they weIe nevertheless, justly equal before the
Isw-equa in natural and political rights. Mr..
Douglas thinks " true humanity" requires the de-
90 tba
bgoted and proscriptive Know Nothing accepts his
principle ard insists that tie Irish Cets form one
of the "otber inferior races, who according to Mr.
Douglss) ought to be treated in the same manner.
If we are to vote each other "inferior" to our
noble selves, and thereupOn proceed to dsffsnchse
and prescribe those We thus disrank, where shall
We end The negroes in the Free.States are rela-
lively few; they are powerless, humble, insignif-
can't Is If wise for their sake to repudiate the
great and plain principle for which our fathers
fought and on which they conquered Who
woah be harmed, who wroDged By our making
Manhood the basis Of suffrage and regarding all as
entitled to equal rights until forfeited by
crime We can see no safety, no justice, no
fidelity to the great Democratic idea, on any
other basis than THE; and, while We re-
gard the negroes as, on the whole, infe.
rior morally and intellectually, to the whites, and
heartily wish they were all happily settled in Africa,
we stand by the Hsg Of Equal Rights, and demand
that the State which taxes, judges, imPrisons and
hangs negroes as men, shall act with reasonable
consistency, and accord to them the rights and
privileges as well IS the burdens aud penalties per-
tsnirg to manhood. If there b. fairer juster
rule than this, Mr.. Douglas has not indicated It,