The New York herald., 1860-09-18

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performance, for when the frightful chssm was
passed in safety be Ia said to have thanked
God that il was all over.
1t is very curious that 20 many people In this
country are seized with an ambition to dsti n.
guish themselves in the very jaws OF death.
Here We have our Blondins, Farinis and De-
Iaves tempting Providence upon tight rope;
our wonderful balloon fanciers, like Wise and
La Mountain. and the others who aspire to
transatlantic voyage in the air; or like Coppia,
Who seems determined to make an ascent In
paper balloon, without valve or any other ap-
pliance for guidance or safety, but trusting to
the winds, the Almighty and few sheets ofpa.
per, where and how he shall come down again
Then we bad Van Amburgh, the menagerie
man, who loved to sojourn, like another Daniel,
in den OF lions, varying his amusement now
and again by tantalizing one of the monsters
with tidbit in the shape Of his head; and Herr
Driesbach, who used to 20 about with q fero-
cious tiger in his arms, as though it were pet
lamb. II Is told OF Van Amburgh that an Eng
lishman, who was certain that some time or
another the great lion tanner would get his
head bitten of by one Of his favorites, accom-.
panied him all over Europe, so that when the
interesting event took place he might be there
| to rec. But Van Amburgh carries his head on
bis shoulders still, and we suppose pops 1t into
| the lions mouth with as much nonchalance as
| be lays IL down on bis pillow.
L D.aIlp - ;c xap1 our;o,c hot cora ro
| matter whether they be Frencbmen, or Dutch
men, or Irishmen, when they come to this coun-
| try, seem to get strong infusion of the dare
| devilism Of the Yankees into them. Whether
it is that they imbibe II from the atmosphere
! with its big thunder and splendid lightning its
comets, meteors. tornadoes and so FORTH or that
hey want to realize the saying of the Kentucky
man, that Yankee can dive deeper, come up
dryer, swim farther, jump higher, drink more and
eat faster, and do everything better, than any
other man in creation. Certainly they perform
more extraordinary feats under extraordinary
circumstances, and with apparently as little
object, than any etherpeople in the world and
Of this the Prince Of Wales has had one example
on the very borders Of the country.
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/ UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE FOR NEGROES N TINS
SrATE.-Tbe Tribune Of yesterday came out
with strong editorial in favor of universal
| negro suffrage In this State, and says the ques-
ton TO be voted on in the November election
is not whether negroes should VOTE for they
are already voters, but whether those of the
black race who have not "S250 worth of Dirt
should be deprived of the suffrage. BY ''dirt"
| the reader Is to understand real estate, which
Greeley used to call robbery"
The philosopher of the Tribune cannot see
any good reason for the property qualification
in the case of negroes and contends there
ought to be no distinction between them and
white men. This argument proceeds upon the
assumption of the black race being equal TO
the white, which is contrary to notorious fact
The negro never was, and never will be, equal
to the white man; and the qualification of $3.50
ID therefore very proper provision, and Is in.
tended as stretch of nberality to meet the case
of negroes (probably with white blood in their
yeins) who rise above the average leve, of their
race, and prove their superiority by the industry
and temperate habits and intelligence which
enabled them to accumulate 30 much property.
Very few Of them In the free States ever get
beyond the profession Of walters or boot
blacks, or BARRIERS or whitewashers, or steve
the negro Is in his normal condition, he does
much better. In the free States the compe-
! ution Of white men, who excel them in skilled
labor and intelligence, keeps the general mass
Of them in an abject condition, greatly inferior
to their status in that modified servitude under
Christian masters which prevails at the South.
Giving them permission to vote would not i'm
prove their condition, but, considering their
general want Of education and their vices In
large cities IL would prove a source OF corrup.
tion to them, and an injury TO the community at
large BY the last census the negro population
in this State was not quite 10000. 1t probably
does not exceed that figure now, for Northern
freedom is fatal to its growth. BY the pro
posed change their votes would number, In
rtead Of three or four hundred, from nine 10
ten thousand, made up Of the inhabitants Of
the Five Points and all the purlieus Of vice and
crime in the city; and this fostering mess the
republican chiefs calculate they can sway By
prejudice or purchase with money, SO as to be-
come balance Of power in their hands 10 carry
their elections. The Tribune boasts that even
the pretent number Of negro votes has turned
the scale in an election for Governor. What
\ might II not do when swelled 10 ten thousand.
The Tribune contends that there is an incon-
sistenoy in not allowing all negroes to vote or
in not preventing all. Very well. The best
way to cure the Inconsistency, If II exists, is to
amend the constitution by taking away the
suffrage from every negro II must either come
to that at last or to fraternity, equality and
| analgamation, which il the grand object the
republican party b seeking to accomplish by
rciCn of terror