New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-06
INFLUENCE or AMERICAN TNSTITU
TICNS ON OPINION IN EUROPE.
E,.,. The London Pye., dpril le.

A long extract lrem The NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE por-
trayipg The horrors OF q slave auciioo in Auarics
given u The I'mcs ot Tuesday. The literal facts it is
cl. ~ to f.cHIi uaic. Uuce Tom il faint pic
ture # the d-s -ilg spectacle which shone unob-
sru,t,d an American run, and in which citizens Of
" the ficest country on earth took active part
IL is tcatcty porrble to exaggerate the vi-ble mise
lies of tie crowd Il sable victims m they were diso-
cate" by the hamr er Of the aucoucer. There might
bc seen AZ each act the agony II the father when he
witnessed his son sold 10 Icenary mater, and the
keen glFt Ut the mother while she 5eheid the
hands Fl bIuHliZed dealers examining her daughter
arrived at womanhood, after manner that outraged
all the dccr cies atnre and not the least remark
able the preferences and anxeries each slave felt and
reflected from bis that he she might be
knocked down to some purchaser on whose face they
fancied that they detected some lingering lights of hu.
aui;y aid loving kindness. Nor the evidence Of
tie vicious hueIces Of this infamous traffic les- strk-
lug OH the other side. The purchasers might b. heard
u,ieriIg ob.cene jpkes At the expense Of likely"
yGurg feu.9e wtoee 81 " crime her color OF cal
culatiug the probabilities Of offspring in the VI
a black couple recently married. or insisting with bru
tai fciocy, that the blanket might be- removed from
III Their under the hammer who had been only fifteen
days confined. We rest verdict against this
deiIo,alifrg and Infamous usage, not only on the
wrongs Inflicted the bnck-, hut on the ut
ter Generalization that invariably brands the whites
that are implicated in it, or by choice or neces-
sity take part in it. We marvel al the patience,
amounting TO acGuiescence, with which America en-
dues this oathsOne stain Oh the " Stars aud Stripes
This "pure democracy" this model FL Dorado, sitter
which Mr. Bright seeks to shape the policy Of En-
gland has been vauutingy called by its most eloquent
orators "ihe natural ally of Slavery. In Congress
ana Senate it las upheld the revolving traffic of the
Sou,h. The free-sufrage convention at Rhode Island
called heaven and earth TO witness ts readiness 10 en-
counter tie horrors Of rather than surrender the
right # uriversal suffrage, and meanwhile d.sfrsn-
chlsed such of the Rhode Islanders had innitise
mai trace II African blood ~ their vcins. In the con
vertious cf Michigan and Iowa Democracy declared
all men equal with the exception OF the cOlor;d lnhab
anti We tre reurdrd by this Boosting vi freedom,
H. eoiug in universal suffrage, this trumpeting Of
Liberty ard equality, 81 that SCENE where the nobest
woman # France on ascending the scaffod turned to-
wMd statue Ut I.bery, placed beside the guillOtne
ard el claimed, "Ol Liberty, what crimes nave been
con uitt-d IA thy name 60 WHAT means that American
slang Low largely Imported into political Excursions
among ourselves, " the dignity of labor, "the equal
"ny oi all =" "the extending Of the area Of freedom
1t is the hypocrsy al speech, the gliding OF the slaves
Eur, pcan eyr.. In America We have all that Bright
& Co. contend for, in suffrage, in political power
iei,ler al Aristocracy, nor a Prelacy, nor State
Chmch, bor Queen. Yet this sacred Democracy
hugs to III bosom the most eXecrabr system of Slav
ery that polluted Gods earth Slavery Is a deep
ard de. etabl eya greater evil ~ the whites than
to the wr,ched black iraly, socially, politically
evil Il seems 10 be suffered 10 continue IN A nerlca
that the psrti-sIs If Democracy and Republcanlsm
may leai1i that their favpit- political heaven has
ba;ker clouds gu than far less boastf institutions,
ard n at there 10 good for uprooDg our old
English royal oak aud spauting into England that
miserable furz- bush Of Democracy in which nestle
and grow up many more venomous reptiles than We
have any liking Tor. Our English people, per-
susded, think Bad are, England Is a. entlre
stranger 10 tle slave market.