New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-01
TWO TOMR.sTONEs.

Asa general rule, human beings in selecting the
rewards of their own labor prefer cash to tomb
.tone.-a fact which Mr.. Thomas Moore noticed in
bis monody upon the death of Sheridan. II
master mt chanic should assemble his jonrneymen-
carpenters and should say to them: My dear
Z" {, lows and devoted friends have noticed the
"ex,reme yigor with which you plane and the
"splerdor of your saving, and how ch,rmingly
",ou hit the nails ON their heads. shall not
=. insult sou BY Offering you money, which you
"would only fociishly squarder il should give 1t
"to you; but have determined, IT you will only
work for me during your natural lives, and work
" well, and not grumbe, to give to each OF you the
pre ttiest grave stones in the world, all with Hat
" teriDg inscriptions setting forth your many vir-
" tue., ard particularly how you cheeruly worked
" for me without making any charge therefor. All
/" Of which doubt not will be satisfactory to your
in genious minds" Our own impression Is thit
the famous hammerers aud dexterou' aa"yen
would decline the offer 81 one unsuted to their
modest tastes. At the South, however, and under
the be autful influences Of the Institution 1t "eihs
10 be d,fereIt-a grave stone being the grea' -',-
ect Of life with the faithful African At least that
sppears to be the opinion OF Inc faye'h-
rule IN. Co. ObSrrr. The Gdisor oil
that paper recently had occasion to go
into a graveyard, doubtless for purposes oi
moral re &. ciion and philosophlc study, and While
there actually Uncovered in the part allotted to
slaves 1.-TWO marble tomb stones What proper
ton these " two" monumental wonders bore to the
undistingushed resting places Of lea" fortunate
chatt.l,, We are not told; bat they 30 attracted
n. attention Of this able ed Or that he immediately
went home and wrote leading article on the sub
ieet, headed "Wbx is African sSlaveryl" He
seems to have come 10 the rage conclusion that
whereas the system occasionally gives a grave
stone 10 departed slave, it j, altogether beaut-
full one, to be sustained by the united intellectual,
moral, and political energies of the Republic. lie
writes, evidently, upon the presumption that free
negroes never have their mortal lives cheered by
the prospect Of monuments after death, and that
they must therefore be unhappJ-a gravestone
being the enc thing worth living for, or rather
worth dying for. His citations upon these points
are charming ly humane and sympathetic, and, in
fact, the hiehest water cart style.
Tombstone No. l. wa erected "by the mistress
"of the family over the remains Of moat valuable
servant and friend, and it bore the inscription
my OwS COOP LUCY" There is consldera-
tion-tb,re is loving rsquital for you Twenty,
h.rtsps thirty, it may have been forty years OF
chamber work or Of kitchenwork, Of dressmskins,
or of hairdIes,ipg, Of daily obedience, Of hourly
devotion, and when the weary toll il over, and the
faithful feet can no longer como at call and the
10y al hands can 20 longer minister all this service
is repaid by . place in tho black quarter Of the
cemetery, by marble slab, and an eplApa OF the
Ly dis Dguish description Ample reward wh'
would not have been my Own Good Lucy,