New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-09

reeponse 10 your call many a black re- giDent wouli
have come forth and distinguished Itself Tor va'or and
power NJ highly Gid the famous bhode leland blaek
regiment of the Revolution Tristan BURGESS says OF
hi. regiment; NO brayeF men met the enemy IN
battle" How eublime an instance OF devotion to q
leader tie defending by biz guard OK the nofty
wounded Colonel of this regiment Not one OF them
would consent 10 leave him. Every one was clam.
God alone J. OWE how far success IA the hevClnlh
WIS owing 10 the black patriots: and lie alone can
fathom the deep ingratiiude Of peieecnting ard o..
pressing their descendants. Ia response TO your call
there would have been black troopr whom their COM
manders wonld have eologized as mglly as zen.
jackson did the black troops who rendered him 70
essential service ia saving New-Orleans. That great
General who was not dainty as TO decline Tire help
OF black muscles said TO his black troops: eXperteu
much from you-you have done more than eXI Ie,tn' ,
We have seen that had all the Shareholders rebellfd
YOU would have been in no doubt of your duty, ard
you would have saved the country quickly ana cheaiy
with no wrong to God nor maI-wlth no deiaDte 10
tue One nor insult to the other But the care, which
wond then have been plain, became in your esteem
greatly complicated by the continued fidelity aud alleg-
lance of very small part of the shareholders. Here
was your error. The salvation vi your country de-
named your call for the help OF the bond and free,
black and white less than If all the savehold-is
bad urned traitors. Az q war meature--as military
necesstyit Is justified clearly iu the care as IN
the other For there not one in ten OF the slave
holders who was even proiessedly loyGl-and why
sould you accommodate your policy 10 TIE gr1'inca-
ton OF 70 small share OF the Shareholders to me
qualification of exceedingly smalf fraction OI Tue
American reople Again, among those wne are deter
mined slavehOdep and who insist as all such no. on
the maintenance of Slavery At whatever hazhId 10
other interests, there is not one who IL loyal. lhc
truly loyal man goes for the country at Whatever
hazard to Slavery or anght else. The Govertiinent
offered command TO that wise and brave az well as
rich man, James s. Wadsworh. hid he, ere a,s.pl-
ing it, sipulate for the safety from the hhDus Oh Gov
ernment Of his hundreds OF oxen aud thousimis OF
nd he
want of loyalty and would not have been commission
ed But the General ID patriot; and Therefore does
he hold lis sheep and oxen and a his great estate suO-
iecto tie needs of bis country. 50, too, does he
raveholier who is patriot and who is deserving OF
bis couutrss favor, recognize the like paramount LAIN
10 his possessions his slaves not excepted. No slave
holder hss particle of loyalty who when t.ois are
striking ri the life of his country and bi- slaves are
needed TO save it, is not wiling nay, Is not glnd
to surrender them to a service infinitely more
sacreo, important and commanding than his own
THIS is the one test of the loyalty Of saveolders and
hence, yon may be that ali those slaSeLoiders
whose loyalty Is TO be secured by securing slavery,
are traitors As General Wadswoqh would rejoice TO
See the Government take bis hocks and her,isy and
even his % sacred bome when the necessi les OF his
beloved country call for them, so will the truly TO- al
STAKEHOLDER, however highly he may prize Slavery re-
ce 10 rec II bOtted il the salvation of his country
shall require the sacrfce II il said that the Govern
ment will pay Geueral Wadswofth | answer that
tie STAKEHOLDER as well General Wsd,worth shoald
trust the justice and generosity OF the Government.
But tits whole matter il III tue compass oi nut
shell. Are the layes property l-theD, like all other
property tley 70 DO regarded a. bought and Sold
and held sube ect TO the superior claims OF the Govern
ment and 10 such as the Government may clgoso
TO put tuem to. Are they not property, but men =
them when Government calls for them, neither must
they refuse to come nor must Others hold them nor
hide them.
Why is it that our Government may not have the
help Of black men, as well as white, when it Is in need
OF bothl Or, Why is it tlht, in tie exercise OF iIs
War Power, it may take this mans gram, and that
mans borees these mems railroads, and those mems
vertels, aud all simply because it needs them, and
whether they belong TO friends or foes, and whether,
too, does does not pay for themand yet may not
take take the properly of slaveholdersi L. their
property sacred and so privileged us 10 be exempt
IRON Ihe liabilities common 10 the property of all
oiherl We are educated into deep deluson AZ this
point
add that nothing so much az this insane respect for
slave property mas contributed TO oyefshicOw the
eains Of The Country with the claims O the Conftit1
ton. Constitutional as well m other Pleas for the
absolute aud unendng preservation OF Slavery in the
Border States were put IN, and the Government WAS
unwe enough to listen 10 them, and 10 make tho qucs
ton of Constitution rather than OF ConLtry-o. The
construction Of IA Paper rather than Of the rights II
Nation struggling for life.
We find then, that there has not been the least occa
,ion in pOt of fact for all the fas,idiousness and all
the fear of giving oiierse which have ma ked the
course of the Administration on the slave question. To
no degree whatever shOuld il have been embansrod by
this ouesop Ii should have acted lust b. freely IL
there had been no loyal Shareholders in its way-for
there really was none, end there really can be none
snce truly loyal man cannot put himself in the way
Of his country. Those Shareholders, who annoy the
draw IL from the line OF i's duties, and
damage it's reputation at home and abroad by their
mpudent and absnrd claims upon il for persons they
aege TO be fugitive slaves and by the expression Of
their fears that the slaves will rise against their
masters d6 Of course, find eIpedien 10 put OIL the
n fAr H..
p enence Of Federal roops, and the fear Of eventual
Federal sosce,s they would Lot trouble themselves TO
profess loyalty.
II IL ali for nothing then that the Administration has
forborne TO bring the nearly hve millions OF blacks
counting bond aud free, 10 the side Of distro.sed
and deeply endangered country all for nothing that IL
has nsuted thsp and let its Armies insut, threaten
aud outrage such OF them trying TO get their
own freedom and were eager to help the country Sc
cure hers nll for nothing that it driving these five
millions 10 hate the North and make the best terms
tbay can with the Solh all for nothing that il suffers
tens Of thousands d black men TO work upon Southern
Forfcations instead Of their building our and thus
saving tho strengh OF our troops for the battlefield as
the enemy does hers all for nothing that il suffers the
Traitors 10 compel black men to produce the immense
ouanlites of grain tobacco, cotton ard sugar which
these Traitors putting into the hands OF their Gov
ernen for the sole purpose OF enabling to ke the
Rebellion successful all for nothing that u Ia draning
the country OF men and money, aud drenching It III
tears and blood instead OF letting black become s
chief and inexpensive sayios all for nothing that it is
protrscng the War until the npatience and interests
Of other Nations combined with their contempt of
Nation too foolish and fastidious to use whatever
meaus for it's salvation shall impel them to throw
their weight In the scale against usi all tor nothing
that il prefers years Of civil war, when by word
from your lips il could suddenly block every wheel
In the South the land of speedy peace aud Of
a united, prosperous aud happy people.
IL is true that am an AboliIopistand that such
may be fairly supposed to have some knoveGge OF some
the ways for meeting Pro-Slavery War Neverthe-
Il, though in writing you have used the kno eedgc
of an Aboionist it is not ss an AbolitiOnist that
have written you. To tell you the truth, have as
mere Aboitonisi felt no anxietes rince the Of