New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-19


Our Caleb, unterrifed, looks the beast Of Basban
full in the face. Others may run, bat he abides.
The bull may below fortissimo and leap a'tissimo,
but there stands Caleb not in the least scared, and
ready quite for the ANIMAL who will soon be puzzled
BY an extract from Confucius, something highly Inn
pressiye in Greek or a soothing Latin tid-bit Of
philosophy. The bothered bull must yield, since
four of Caleb's speeches would make the animal as
harmless as cow The truth is, General Cushing
is not afraid to speak his mind. Poor, knavlsh,
sponpy fellows. very proud of dirty skin, which
the world by courtesy admits to be white, who
hang about political meetings until destiny summons
them TO hang elsewhere, are shrewd enough alter
ALL They know how to settle the yexatious question
They have but one formula of reply, but that Is
truly formidable. When they hear anything OF
Slavery its wrongs, its barbarity, and Its iouy'
they turn I'D their noses as well as their we'll
crusted facial muscles will let them, and with
crushing effect exclaim "Nigger." That settles
everything There is no more to be said. Omne
tult punetum-the man who can cry "Nigger' IN
good style, yanquishes all addle-headed philanthro-
psts and is fairly enough entitled to one free drink,
if not to o couple of glasses. Caleb, like good
convert has proved his sincerity by taking lessons
of these humble followers, until he can cry "Nig-
"eer" with the dirtiest Of them. To be sure,
being a learned man, initiated, during his
Chinese wanderngs into Heaven knows
what Confucan mysteries, and possessing as he
does an nexhaustible store of rare and impressive
words Caleb can give variety to his performance.
Musically speaking, his hema is "Nigger;" bat
then his variations are all new and ingenious. He
gyes us the largo of wisdom, the andante protest,
the aReero of augmentation and the presto OF ex-
hOrlation. He can talk longer and louder, more
eutertainiDgy and persuasiVey, from that shortest
possible text. than some preachers could from an
entire Epistle of st. Paul. He does not by any
means keep his "nigger in wood-plle"-not ne.
He has him out He enarges upon bin from head
TO foot: he dwels upon him ethnolegically, an
atomically, historically and he comes to definite
conclusion, plainly announced to his auditors In this
wise: "The niger has always been slave, Will
:. ALWAYS be a slave, should always be slave, can
be nothing but slave, and only by bis remaining
ga slave eau light-colOred people continue to be
free" This is the whole of Gen. Cushing's Law
and Prophets We like it, for it is neat, terse and
conclusive. Our only wonder is that the General
should think it necessary to consume 80 much time
in proving propositions which be seems to regard as
selfeyi6ent, and which should be so if evident at
all. However, something must be pardoned to the
cuticular pride which animates The General. No
rose in fable was ever half so proud Of being red,
as Gen. Gushing is of being white. owe" he says
conplacently and daintily "of that soble white
'.race which is the embodiment of all there is most
"many in maD OF all there is most womanly In
woman" 10 be sure, assertions of superiority
of this kind are always just the safest possible to
make. When you have feled a felow-creature
and your foot is firmly planted upon his chest;
when you have made his head sing and blinded him,
and broken for him a few bones, and reduced him
to physical pulp and mental darkness, then is your
time to crow-then is your time to deal in ethno-
logical subtletes-then is your time to call the at
tention of the world to the fact that you are of
oftier strain than is this animal below YOU and to
point out the goodness of Providence in making
you wiser than the sprAwliDg witness of your su-
periority. This is what Caleb does. We have
read his speech in Haven, carefully, and the
,um and substance of it is: "Nggers are down
"Wbite men are up All right ~ No modesty
deters him. His motto should be, 81 know my
beauty, and knowing dare maintain" We are
sorry to say, however, that in maintaining it, he
thinks it necessary to deprecate the sense, talents,
abilities, Of several millions of white men who do
not agree with him in his opinion; and like many
ingenious gentlemen before him, he thus appears in
rather a self-hoisted predicament. For Caleb,
when he finds it convenient to show that majority
of the white men of the Northern States are
knayes or fools-when he asserts that white voters
are dishonest that white orators designing, that
white philanthropists are insincere and that
white preachers are fanatcal-really leaves
the governing classes of the North in posi-
ton little better than that of "Niggers."
He tacitly but substantially admits that his
noble white race" in those essential elements of
character which insure political safety and perpe-
tuity, il no more TO be relied on than if it were
darker than midnight. The General has proved
altogether too much; that u.s. admitting that he has
proved anything which we can only do under pro-
test We have here at the North :" an angry,
" vicious mischieyous, ill-directed, intempered"
set and even our white cergymen. who should be
somewhat in advance of their hocks, only " hound
son the demon of discord." Why no fanatical
negrophobist ever went into such fits of fear at
black faces as Caleb fallsntO when he certain
white once. That he is inOrdinately frightened we
know, Tor be Immediately begins to ask questions
solemn to read and tough to answer. care we
even now decrepit :" inquiries the General. care
+ -, H., tha