New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-09
now SHALL AGITATION BE STAYED
AND The UNION PHESRBsEDs

To the Hos JAMES ". BBxxxAs:
DEAR SIR: Your name appears in to days paper
as that Of the chairman of meeting held last even
ing to make arrangements for the call Of public
meeting 10 express the sympathy Of the citizens
OF New York in behalf Of the South in the present
I" crisis" further note thatyou arc the chairman
of the committee Of arrangements charged with
the duty Of getting up said meeting, aud infer that
you will necessarily have q voice 10 preparing the
resolves which it is to pas. Pardon the liberty
taken by sometime friend and ielow'labOrer In
the old Wing caDse in addressing TO you some sDg-
gestions with regard to those resolves and shat
meeting.
Youare doubtless familiar with Jeremy Bcntham's
foi cble exposure of the fallaclous terms and
phrases under which Tyranny and Wrong are for
ever seeking to hide tLemselvss-such IS Louis
NapeleOn's zeal for the preservation Of Order,
and his warfare on Z" the enemies OF Society"
The most INSCRIPTIONS, thorough-eong tools OF
tyranny never venture 10 plain words to avo| them
selves just what they are. The moat brazen
champions of the Slave Power, even in this Cotton
debauched City, seldom declare themselves advo-
Gates or spoogists OF Slavery but choose rather
to proclaim tbemseles lovers OF =" the Union and
defenders of f" the rights Of the South" Thus
note that the call which drew you TO the Lafarge
last evening, cOntemplates an expression OF " the
s,mpathy of the citizens Of New-Yerk in behalf
:. of the South" What does that phrase mean
VIA, do you an by 1t
Between -Four and Five Millions OF the native
population OF the South are this day held IN
bondage more ahject and rigorous 'han pen can
depic,-able 10 he sold at the block like horses or
boos. often torn frm their homes aud families with
ON, momeni's warning. aud driven hundreds even
tbousands OF miles, To the Cotton aud Sugar plan
tations of Louisiana or Texas, without the taintes
hope of ever returning. even for a visit. Boys aud
girs, just old enough to hoe aud pick cotton ara
peculiarly exposed 10 this doom. The female halt
of these Millions are from childhood utterly at the
mercy in all things Of the males Of the dominant
caste-Oiten the victims first of Mans lusf, then OF
Womnu's jealous bate. This unhappy race per-
forms nearly all the hard, repulsivo labor, and pro-
duces most of the wealth Of the South, yet receises
no wages, and owns no fraction Of toat wealth
II is felony by statute to teach Of them to read
or write. The moot industrious, faithful, frugal
Of this race cannot console himself with the
T. 1ection that be is laying up competence for
the settlement in life of his children. No good
conduct on his part secure hun against the
tearing away from him of his wife and children at
the necessity or esprce Of bis owner, aud Their
ssle TO a remote plshtaion whence they can never
return. Such sale is held by Southern priests a.
well as politicians dissolution of the marriage con-
tract leaving tho parties fres TO DO married again
whenever their masters' interest sba1 require or
their pleasure permit it, Even the little savings OF
this dowu-tIodden caste from labor In hours
snatcbed from sleep or gained BY tass-work do not
legally belong ioihrm hut 10 their masters. II one
has bought himself from his master for $1,000
and paid $50 Of the money, that msster may
sell him TO q negro.drver tomorrow Tor
another $1,000. pocket the cash, and Keep
the other $500; and there is no law TO make him
disgorge it. Finally, the Supreme Court, 10 its
Drtd Scott decision, has sol-Innly adjudged that
by the laws OF tho Slave States, negro cannot
maintain action at law, matter how wicksdy
he has been abused or how fagrantly robbed sash
is to-day the legal and practical condition Of very
large share Of the uatve-born population of the
for them : You Know il does not Thea why speak
broadly of sympathy for the South - Why not
say frankly sympathy for the shareholders Of the
:" South FOR the men who buy, or sre 10 be
coaxed TO buy, A. T. Stewards siks aud Ben.
whiilock's extended brandy II you are not
ashamed Of what you mean, why not say just that
But there are in the South several Millions Of
Poor whi'es--people who own no sls,es, asd are
0 wise profted by Slavery, but who, On the con.
rary, are deprived BY it Of the blessings Of Com
mon Schools, Of the Industrial Arts and Of almost
every opporunii, To nse 10 eminent usefulness or
onreteuce. Nothing can be more forlorn or
iopeess than the condition OF the great majority of
bis class, ms depicted by Mr. Gregg of s. c., sGd
other distinguished citizens Of Slave States. You
krOw that your meeting does not contemplate any
expression Of sympathy for them. nor any eorttOre
move the incubus which weighs them down Reared
in ignorance web g. sbect poverty, daily taught
to believe the sbomnable le that I" tins NORTH
or at least its citireas hostle 10 Slsvery--hst
" the South" and seek il. destruction. they are