New-York daily tribune., 1859-05-31

| There is not an entire uponlmity among the
American public as to the character and quality
Of what the Anti-slavery people have been DONG
for the last thirty years. Patriarchal politico
economist. at the South assure us that that pesti
eDt generation has only made the condition OF the
slaves wOrse-the pious owner, 1t is to be supposed
visiting upon their yicarous shoulders the stripes
due to their oiicious adSOcates-htting them again
because they hare friends. This doctrine is repeat
I'd ard enforced at the North by many gody diyre.,
bearing the iuiagc and superscription Of the Ameri
can Tract Society, and patriotic journalists not few,
who seem to believe that the only reason why the
masters and slaves are not at this moment dancing
round liberty pole together, 10 celebration OF the
voluntary emancipation of the one By the other Is
the damning fact that certain persons at the North
have said that in their opinion it were right and
good thing to do. These theories, at once cred
table to the humanity and common sense of our
Southern brethren, and 20 the common sense and
intelligence Of our Northern instructors, az well
clerical as lac, we have no intention of coDroscrt-
ing on tho present occasion.
But whatever diversities Of opinion philosophers
and philanthropists may entertain as to the inha-
ence the AntiSlavery movement has exerted on
the condition Of the black Of the South it will
hardly be denied, BY ary persons acquainted with
the facts that it has been productive Of very posi-
tive improvement in that Of the black men OF the
North Thirty years ago slave could be seized
in any Northern city aud taken back under the law
of 1898 with no more ado than if he had been 40
escaped fcon. Much within that time, if the
meeting house were the gate Of heaven. il was not
one by which co!ored Christians could euter into
the kingdom on equal terms with the whites, bat
they were obliged to sneak ia through back donr
called the Negro Pew On all the railways there
were negro-pens provided, called Jim. Crow Cars,
in wh hch men aud women Of good character aud
manners and respectable appearance were herded
Ike beasts, because the sun had looked upon them
and they were black. So Of all the steamboats, and
omnibuses; cclOred persons were either not per-
mitted TO use them ut all, or on ilcony enent aud
degrading conditions. And at the very outset Of
life, the wbte and black children were sde t. feel
the unjust distinction made between their races
by the segre CATION of the latter from the former in
separate and inferior schools
Now it is undehiable that great change has
taken place in all tbess particulars. A slave can
not now be reclaimed without an excitement that
shakes the city where it is attempted like an earth
quake, felt even to the ends of the country In the
New-EngAnd States, and very generally at the
West, if not unver sally, the Negro Pew Is as obso-
le.e barbarism as the stocks and the Pillory. To
the same territorial extent, We believe, black
mans money buys as much and as convenient
transportation a. u white mans. The color of his
money and not that OF his face, is all that is looked
at in the premises. We are well aware that We
are not writing the eucgy of our own city in this
particular; but of the New-Ergland States, at
least, We are confident our statement holds gen.
orally good So as to the Separate or Caste Schools
In Massachusetts,. OF al events, AFTER long and
persistent agitation Of the subject such schools
we're forbidden b. law and fer several years the