New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-14

per ment OF fraud, despOifm, bribery, uNpii lop cd
and ignorant political surgery and we are hauled and
dead body in the dlssecting m and Congress moth
irg but class Of raw, headstrong, roaring medical
students with their knives in their hands and Dun-
gsons Ar stomy il their pockets. The body does not
vince, does not kick does not even protest. aud so
they keep cutting and carv ng outrage as yet at
tempted being 80 monstrous as to have gone beyond
tie peoples tame endurance.
Our Diquitous and cruel career against the Atriosn
race came to its climax in the Dred Scott decision tor
when lniquty takes the place OF national law, and Is
enthrored in the tribunal of justice, II cannot well go
higher and now that decision. unresised, incorrect
cd is producing its fruits II like the star worn
wood cast pom 81 fountsns Of waters, and men drink
and die. Our public officials Of justice and OF policy
from the highest to the Lowest every tine they are
about TO enact violence against the oppressed,
only have to refer to the bred Scott decision ad the
basest, meanest most detestable acts OF fraud and
cruelty are converted iLtO righteousness.
From the Secretary OF Stste down through files OF
msrshas judges, bailifs, lawyers, to the conductor
of the street raic8r the word passes, and the polcy
il established and it is officially announced. and the
judicial dictum is reverbersted and appsuded and sp-
Piled, that black men have no rights that whlte men
are bound to respect. This dictum Is last osin9
welded into chains kinto political preccdents sealed
ard made sure and snare after snare 10 the iron
net is on by les by perversons OF the Const-
tuition and Of history by rev measures OF usurpauon,
unrested by preeumptuous unauthorized interprete-
tiCn of law Til the very breath of the black man is
almost beaten out Of bis body and he is refused the
privilege of expanding his lungs In kepuoican az
mosphere Our judges, Cabinet ministers, attorneys
and local. and Secretaries OF State are hunting
up examples Of old injustice, for precedents OF new VII
sipy. They thus get immortality and cruelty in the
fountains Of justice, injecting all ITS elements WIN
death just vile assassns poison the wells OF their
neiehbors by throwing dead dogs into them or the
csrcasses of cats ard skunks.
As God declared in q case fearfuly similar, they
have turned judgment into gall and NORWOOD, and
tie fruit of Righteousness into hemlock. They hunt
hia hyot will n they
evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh,
ard the judge asketh for reward and the crest MAJ,
be uttereth his mischevous desire, and so they wrap
il up. The best Of them is as brier; the mos up
right is sharper than a thorn hedge; they trust 10
vaLity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and
bling forth niquity; they hatch cockarices eggs aid
weave the spiders web he that esteth of their eggs
dieb and that which is crushed breaketh out into
yiper There is no judgment in their goings; they
have made them crooked paths speaking oppression,
concevDg and utterng from the heart words Of false
hood 30 that judgment is turned away back ward and
Justice standeth afar off They never so happy as
when they conceive absolute mischief the dregs OF
profound social ignorance, prejudice and deprayty
framing Eoischef by law which thenceforward they
iu pose as the supreme political and moral state goo
They sci up the sin Of Slavery as law enforce 1t by
the Constitution under Judicial opinions 10 which they
swear allegiance, and they cannot discover prece-
dents they make them.
The Secretary of State dares publicly to affirm that
no black man ever received passport and cannot, as
a citizen, receive one and sha not. The bred Scott
decision has prepared this lid for the black mans y-
ing sepuc re- and Secretary Cas- acts the undertaken
for the body and screws down the coffin with in
coDtrovertble aleehoOd. Then the Secretary of the
Treasury declares that free negro cannot receive
register for bis own vessel nor be master OF his own
vessel nor such, have any title to his own property
by United States marDe papers-fOr by the Dred
Scott decision he is ctzen and Gao be none, and to
be the rightful owner ard master Of his own MART ne
property man must be citizen. AS he MS none
Of the rights of citizen, aoy seafaring mat nay own
him, but he cannot himself be the owner Of so much
as a plaI nail Ill mis- own vet sci. Tnen comes
on tie heels Of this outrage, the United States Land
Commis sor err and from the General Land Office, with
the despOtic authority under the same Internal
act declares that persons OF color have no night OF
purchase and ownership IN tie public lands tha prV
ilege also being restricted by positive Law to citizens
of The United States those that intend to become
such-and by the bred Scott dec sion man with q
colored skin neither is nor can become nor can WIN
cut treason intend TO become, citizen So by tnis
decision and these magesteria interpretations and en-
fo.cemerlts of it, the human being with skin not
colored like our is alienated and expelled from
land and ses-is an exile everywhere, and even Oh
tie great highway Of natiors no better than log or
a sneg or a shred Of drifting seaweed, over which
the Keel of Christian civilization plunges, with al
on board grinniDg appreciation of the cruelty. Ana
certainly, if Gods word be not Numbered against such
crIne the Church and the ministry do. by their 81
ence set the seal of a Christian appreciation TO all
tile Ourievivals of religion become accessory to IT,
if a fawling, Dgirg whining pety. trembling IN the
fear of an refuses to bear testimony against such
wickedpefs.
And thus more and more the common heat and IN
sceIce hardened against all renorse and repent,
ance in such viaDy, and each new Administration OIL
the Slave Power becomes the executor OF some new
ard more atIocious scheme of fraud and tyranny LETT
in trust as q legacy by ts predecessor And men that
have kept silent up to the present Crisis nave nai
their capacity Of dumbness their grace OF silence,
thoroughly tried they indeed dumb dogs, that NJ
proyocation is likely to set 10 barking. II they have
lot vet spoken they will forever hold their peace.
What form of this wickedness can be transacted worss
than the shapes which 1t has already been enthroned
and legalized Would the open revival Of the slave
trade be any greater atrocity than the decision that
human being with coored skin, though born in this
country, and free born, and under this Government
capnot be citizen of the United States, and has no
rights that white men are bound to respect
When this iniquity was, by this declaration and ds
csOn, publicly nauguraed IN the supreme tfipuna' OIL
rational justice; when, IN dehance Oh uou ePP put
ment and conservation of the judgment for HIM
self this most astounding cruelty and robbery were
proclaimed ar the rule of national justice, ny whch
men were let loose fl all manner OF vainy against
whole race of human beings, we imagined that
the pulpit would have spoken out, II II never
had before, in reprobatiOn of an enormlty In
a Christian nation atrocous, 40 uniivaed;
The Sabbath after that prodigious judicial
erin e. it seemed a. if the very Bibles would have
burst open of their own accord and that in living fire
the lightning of Gods Word would almost have
burned its sentence the walls, and Kissed along the
coDgreg atlons. We thought that even en- whose ips
Rad been sealed up 10 that time would have broken
that silence forever, ard directed the thuuders Of
divine truth against such fearful public enshrnement
and enforcement of uudssembled, undisputed inhu-
marty and falsehood. Instead of that, there was a
tame ard almost uuquestioning acquescence and the
that did speak out themselves denounced a.
ad accusers and revilers of Gods appointed dgoi-
ties Instead Of denouncing the sin, mep ministers
trd editors denounced the denunciation of it as the
greatest SIP 1t had come to pass literally, in the
5h chapter of Iaish that jud ,ment turned away
backward, ard justice stood afar off, for truth was
fallen in the street and equity could not enter. Yea,
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nself prey; ard the Lord it, and il dsl leased
Him that there was no judgment