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


"you can urge in support Of your own claims
might be employed with far greater justice, in
" favor of the emancipation of your bondmen.
"When that event shall have taken place, your
demand will deserve consideration. AT present.
what you require under the name Of Freedom is
" nothing but Unlimited power to Cypress. 1t is
" the freedom OF Nero"
And the threats of disunion, coming from the
slave drivers, are also anticipated, and treated with
the scorn they merit. "Who,' says Macau-
lay. "can refrain from thinking of Captain Lemuel
CULVER, who, while raised sixty feet from the
ground on the hand Of the King Of Brobdignag,
claps bis hand on his sword aud tells his Majesty
/" that he knows how to defend himself You will
rebel But this is mere trifling. Are you, in
point of fact, able to protect yourselves against
/" your slaves without our assistance Ii you can
still rise up aud lie down in security-if you can
stil eat the bread of the fatheress and grind the
faces of the poor-if you can still hold your petty
+" Parliaments, and say your little speeches, and
move your little motiOns-if you can still outrage
" Parliament aud people, to what do you owe 1T ?"
The sensitiyeness of slave property-the same in
our Slave States as in the British West Indes-is
aptly described, in the remark that pamphlet of
Mr. Stephen on speech of Mr. Brougham is suff-
cient to excite all the slaves in the colonies to rebel
And it is shown that in servile war the master
must be the loser; for his enemies are bis chattes.
Whether the slave conquer or fall he is alike lost
to the owner In the mean time the soil lies uncul
tivated; the machinery is destroyed. And when
the possessions of the planter are restored to him,
they have been changed into desert.
Here also, is an exhibition of the incOmpatibility
between Slavery and Christianity which ought to
be read in every Southern pulpit
"The immortality and irreigion Of the slaves Says
Macaulayl are the necessary consequences OF their
political and personal degradation. They not con-
sidered by the law as human beings. They must
become men before they can become Christians Can
preacher prevail on his hearers strictly to fulfill their
copjugal duties in a country where no protection Is
given TO their conjugal rghts-n country where the
husband and wife may, at the pleasure of the master
by process of law be in an instant separated for
ever In opposing religious instruction, they are in
the right. They know, though their mslntormed
friends in England do not know, that Christianity and
Slavery cannot long exist together
Such is the philippe against Slavery BY the first
writer Of the English language in our day, and one
Of the first writer's Of all times. AS testimony to a
sacred cause, it is priceless; as contribution to
literature, it cannot be forgotten. Why it was
suppressed by the American publishers, who made
the earliest collection of Macaulay's Essays ever
printed in England or America, 1 know not. I'm
happily, this suppression was too much in harmony
with the received American system from that day
to this, whether in publishing Humboldt's work on
Cuba the Bishop of Oxford's work on the American
Church, or the engraving of AIRY Schefier's
Ch,istus Consolaor from all Of which the slave has
been shut out. That this blame may not fall upon
the author himself, it may be interesting to know
that the American collection was made without any
st supplied BY him. In the modesty of his nature,
he regarded his contributions to the reviews as
fugitive pieces, which be abandoned to the world
without caring to gather them together. 1t will be
for posterity to rejudge this judgement.
In making this statement, rely upon personal
recollections. More than twenty years ago-as
well as more recently slsO-I was in the habit of
meeting the great writer in the society Of London;
and cannot forget that at one of the earlier of
these occasions, when told that an American house
proposed to make a collection Of his articles he
very positively protested against such collection,
and said that he was much against it that he was
unwilling to furnish a list. Nor do deem it out
of place to add here, that while his wonderful con-
ysrsatiOn left on the mind an Inefaceable impress
sion of eloquence aud fullness, perhaps without q
parallel, it also showed character of singular in
tegrity.
But this article is not alone in showing his SYM
patty with the Anti.Slavery cause. The first pub
lie appearance of Macauay, while yet very young
man, was at an Anti-Slayery meeting; and one of
his most singing speeches at the maturity of his
powers in the House of Commons, bore testimony
to the depth and constancy of this sentiment. And
this was natural; for no was the son of Zachary |
Macaulay one of the devoted AbOlitionists who |
helped carry frat the abolition of the sayetrade,
and then, at much later day. the abolition OF
Slavery itself in the British dominions.
The services of the father as the friend Of the
slave have been aptly cOmmemorated by a cenotaph
in Westminster Abbey situated in the nave, on the
left side of the great door as you enter and close
to the imposing monument of Fox. The sen now
lies in the same historic burial-place and beneath
the mighty roof but in Poets Corner distant
by mere than the whole length of the nave from the
tablet erected in honor of his father In all that
multitude of monuments TO the illustrious dead if
we except the line of kings, there is but one other
instance of father and son enshrined in the Abbey
and that is Lord Chatham and William Pitt, whose
monuments are also distant from each other by
more than the whole length of the nave. Such is
the conspicuous fellowship of the two Pitts and the