New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-31
NEW. WORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 81. 1850

srt Rcm.rs mad, slaves. Spsrt>eus, TIE isedef
Of the ctest servile instruction Il lay, ~as
Thr,ciap ff, m the batts Of the Dsrobe, snd tee
sl.yts who reyolt-d witt tim were nosaf ircm the
same region. The slaves OF the Hebrews were OF
the 'h, ahsn round about them that Is 20 say
Phenicisrs, SJrians, Arabs, &c. There cot 'he
slishtest recon to suppose that tie hebrews ever
held a single regto slase. The nearest oeefo ns'
tioIs we're roaIl7 two thousand miles from fHi-
estin~. and we're entirely cut off from Intercourse
uitb the Hebrews. And in tho Middle Ages the
.lsres were s.ii Of white races. The great slave
holding Mshou medsn natiobs If the north of AZ.
rics. through tie Middle Ages, AID down almost to
cur own 6ay. drew their slaves CHIEFLY from
Europe f,om Christian prisoners OF VAT Acc7rd'
inc 10 Mir Davis then std to the lie Wight propn-
e,s Of Southern theology, the pans of Providence
were thwarted, the scheme of the Scriptures WAS
uniul6il.d, snd the sccursed Children of Ham
eyseed OF defied their destiny for more th.a four
thousand years-.h.t IT, from the Deiuge down 10
TIE beginning Of the fifteenth century OF our era
when Spanish Bfhop, the god LsS Ca'as, "wIth
philosophical humanity sod in the true sP'Iit oil
ex,gesis, "in,uguraed the importation Of Guinea
negroes into America and unfoded " the Christian
world the right Interpretation Of Holy Writ
To expose al the faliacies to wAi;h Mr DAVIS
has given u,tersnee on this topic would consume
much more space than We care to give to the sub
iect Foce1.mple, he asserts ttst :" no where has
=" the negro shown capacity to found civil govern
"ment'-in the face Of the existence OF hundreds
of ne gro Ststes In Afric, where civil governments
existed for ages before Mississippi was founded;
land at no time has be asserted his equality by
separating himself from the master race to estao-
"lish an indepeI dent community OF his own
Has Mr.. Davis never heard of liayti
Mr.. Davis takes decided ground against the " non-
"iutervention" doctrine of Mr Douglas in regard
toSlayery in the Territories. lie empbaticsl! uain-
tains the right of Congress to lessate for the pro-
lection Of slave property in the Territories aud
declares that the acque of the South in thst
doctrine st the time Of the Compromises of 1850
was OILY "to gain the time necessary for the people
"to reflect and rally" In other words it was only
q tub thrown to the Northern whale to divert its
attention for while. We commend this candid
ayowa Of the policy Of the South to those who are
yet disposed to rely upon the moderation and good
faith of the Shareholders who doubt the existence
of settled purpose of encroachment on the free
institutions of the country The march Of aggres
sion may pause for moment and may even seam TO
yield to opposition, but let that OPP 'tion for
mcmens relax, and il will become evit,n' that the
seeming REIMBURSEMENT was 0nly trek to gain
time.
With regard 10 Cuba, Mr. Davis urges its acqu-
sition upon many grounds-amoDg others, for the
reason that the Island would be Of paramount im-
portapce to a Southern Confederacy, whenever
that shall be formed, and its formation be seems to
regard as almost inevitable. This is 8 vie y of the
CubaAquestion which is assuredly well calculated
TO attract the attention Of the 4" Unionl loving
Democracy Of the North No better field for the
exercise of their peculiarly disinterested devotion
to their Southern rulers is likely to offer than this
In conclusion, Mr. Davis explicitly says: In
" the contingency of the election of President on
"the platform of Mr.. Stewards Rochester speech,
" let the Union be dissoired." AS Mr.. Stewards
speech was in accordance with the Repub-
lican platform of 1885, this may fairly be construed
into declaration on the part Of Mr. Davis thai
the election Of Republican President will be the
,ieDal for an attempt to dissolve the union Of the
States We do not believe that the attempt will be
made; but We believe nothing will prevent its being
made unless it be the fear of the consequences per-
sonal and political, likely to follow the attempt.
What those consequences will be We do not now
propose to show. We suspect, however, that if
Republican President shall be elected 10 1860,
and Mr.. Davis and the State Of Mississippi under
take to rebel against the Government it is prob
able that any dissolution that may will be the
dissolution, not of the American Republic, but of
the connection between tie souls and bodies of Mr.
Jefferson Davis aud his fellow. traitors.
Meanwhile, we hope no one will fail to read this
speech. 1t presents in concentrated form all
that the be intellect of the saveholdDg class has
to say on the whole range of our politics as they
now stand. 1t is the manifesto of the South. Let
Ter be heard and judged calmly and reasonably.
The effect of her argument on any we-informed
Northern reader will only be amazement that the
slayeholdng class has really SO little to urge in It's
own yindicatOn.