Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-03-19

False Philanthropy and sham Sentiment.
The New York Tribune sent reporter all the way
to Savannah to take notes of sale of slaves in that
city The account was written to harrow up the
feelings Of it's readers as much possible and
consequence, a contemporary informs us, there has
been sweeping and snasaing of teeth in the citadel
Of Northern Abolitionism- This melting mood has al
ready sent it's suspirations 10 hot showers the
whole North. and Heraclitus sits, at the present
moment most doefully the roof top Of the Tribune
Office signing sickeniDgly, slsvishly at the South.
The extra Whiupering in the present instance does
not arise because difficulties have dsrkened the door
Of an extensive planter, but because darkies have
had 70 be parted with. The surplus lsmentatioE
now Whooping through the North, and its profitable
oyerfowings spring not from the fact that the do
nestle arrangements of some white families are put
into the sad6est confusion, but frjm the necessity
themes arising, which the disagreeabe difu
sion of SEINE black families Mr.. BUTLER is 'abrute"
because he could not avert danger which even the
vail of philanthropsiss cannot Withstand, while his
servants are ''maryrs' because he parts with them
reluctantly and in legal way. Mr.. BUrLFR is q
savage" because he will not ruin himself and his
family to smooth the ssoRl from the Abolidonisis'
doomed to sever ssociation with such master The
blubterng Of these brawlers has no leg cal parallel
beyond its own contracted sphere We're the howl
thus often raised over Sou hern institutions more
linked to bearl-string than to pursesiring We should
hear it oftener with reference to events transporting
in their own neighborhood But the test is often
applied in va, 10 the tesr-fonfs Of Abolition seDi
ment. that We despair of exciting the sympathy of
the Tribune and its followers unless there be ''Souh
ern nlgger in the wcod-pile."
Not long ago a Western farmer, who employed
large number Of men and women TO minister unto
his agricultural wants, failed. Financial calamity
stepped over his domestic threshold and sternly
routed ALI the fsiciies and unies and other ties of
his beloved homestead. There were no eyes dry
upon the occasion Of inevitable severance Of all
these long interviewer hearts that beat calm
ly-Ro emotions that slept in peace. But there still
vas that impelling necessity broOking sentiment
in its course, and the Mikes and the Bddies they
we're white folk had to quit the of their will
ing toll and leave forever their long respected boss
Has the Tribune word ofpahetic philosophy for this
or any like event? Where were for the White, those
active considerations which influence it toward
the Black? Where that enterprise which tracks j.
to every dreary incident in the nigger's destiny
Has it heart of sympathy only for Africans, or is
all this laerymstiOn mere polish to principles that
are found to payf
Even the blacks cease to fix its attention when
they longer bsubd to the Southern Institution
1t hiss no shrek for their free miseres in the north
ern cties-no outvieing commiseration for their
hateful bondage all sorts of vice in the slums of
New York. No, no! There is no sort of political
capital TO be out Of black wool that is SO free
no species OF mock philanthropy to be served by
loud mouthed or airy efforts to melorate tie deplo-
rnSe condition of the wretcbed negroes who crawl
all around them in Pastures abject and pitiable
than ever eEaggerlton painted tor the worst South
srn PlsntAtion-nO special correspondent to tell an
indifferent world how shoekingy il fares with the
hundreds Of blacts-free blacks-who are slaves to
poverty and to passion, sin and to sorrow within
gun>shOt Of the Tribune Offce-slaves upon whom |
death only work emancipation! No, mol 1t |
dses not answer the same purpose to pule in that
direction.