New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-27


been reduced to less than four hundred housand and
the productiye capital, other than land, had been
mainly annihiated, the exports of of Toussaints
beet years compare with those of year 10 the pamiest
period of Slavery, in regard 10 three principal items,
as follows:
iasIssss t2sfr ssrsTs 'nSst ss.ac'"oc aG0.'i9' Is
sss.s 9 sss5ss sss5ss X as5sSSS .sSSS
This is pretty well for a colony that utterly
ruined by emancipation.
How ali this was lost to France by Napoleons costly
attempt 10 restore slavery is of no further importance
to our present purpose than as proves that the spit
of liberty once aroused in black men, s no more tenn
noray or evanescent than in white ones.
What is the lesson Of this hi-tory1 Is it not this
Negro slaves ignorant, contented jolly, cowardy,
massive a. they may be- can be educated 10 insurrec-
ton in such school as the two very different govern
msn,s at Washington and Montgomery are now estsb-
fishing, and probably will be.
Though both these governments should at first agree
nercecty v in ignoring the negro, and even join their
ares 10 suppress "sedtous movements Of saves,
ono or the other will at last be obliged to recognize
black men as raw material Of su..tary power.
Though the black .;.terial may be very raw, under
pro-s5 guidance it may be made Very effective,
on either side
Had the French Commissioners, when they first
landed in st. Domingo, instead OF proclamlng then
purpose 10 reduce the slaves snbecton, and Aeep
them subject made the proclamation which they 'ld
one wear after ,ney would have saved some ten thou
sand white and thirty thousand colored bves; they
would haze saved the capital city from conhagraon,
and their own consistency from shipwreck. 1t cost all
that TO sacrfce the principles Of the Revolution in the
mother country to temporary supposed eEpediency In
the colony.
Slave insurrectons easly put dowr for the time,
but when they occur while the country s disturbed ana
excited by war, they can never fail TO increase the
chance of success in subsequent rising by the expe-
rience which those who are sure TO escape VIII Lave
acquired There wss really but one regular slave in
surrecton in ST. Domingo, and that was promptly sup
pressed but out Of it grew least four guerilla Chiefs
and one accomplished military leader, whom Bonn
psrte could conquer only by falsebood and perfdy.
Nobody who understands the world expects that the
maanimty Of justice, or regard for the fund
amenal principles Of Christianity, IN the people who
are now engaged in life or death struggle to sustain
the of their cboicesentments and princi-
pes that have not been strong enough in peace even
to cause them to apply file TO the roughness Of the
negros chain-wil now in time Of war, mpel them TO
apply the cold chsel. But if they will not have the
manhood self-respect fnsticism,' whatever else
it may be, to crafty sense of justice and wipe off
bio, of inconsistency from the beloved institutions of
the country will they have the pure folly not to sacr.
fee little prejudice of race and complexion, II at that
cost they can effect speedy and favorable solution Of
the difficulty
If we have not justice philanthropy enough to do
spontaneously what France obliged to do for st.
Domingo, ought We not to have rit enoughi Nations
are saved after all, only by their ras. The Yankee
nation has saved itself from poverty by its wits. In
its own geographical domain it has wit enough not 10
work against the grain Of nature, but with it. Wind,
water fire, foreiguers-men, animals vegetables, and
minerals--a free in their way, but all have to work
for the Yankee. Yankees have tastes, loves, and
hates-more perhaps, than they give good reasons
for But who ever heard Of a live Yankee saving hs
boards and grinding Lis corn by hand, because he
thought the stream running by bis door, coming oct Of
q peas-bog too black to be beautiful
We are firm believers, at present advised In the
intellectual and physical superiority Of the white
" race " over the black, ethnoogcay speaking Bot
the great Spirit Of the Universe who delights in vai-
ees contrasts parallel differences rainbows, success
sion wave after wave and all that is always stronger
than any race" matter how pert and proud Of
itsef When he is going to raise anything particularly
high, be likes 20 begin mighty low. Witness Ia the
old Roman slave-msrket stupid natives Of Britain,
hardly worth selling His law for all races s, to bap
tize their infant greatness n nsurrectiOu. 30 he did
special Yankee race at Lexington and Bunker
HILL So he did the ebon brothers that for more than
half century have held the most toothsome island on
the globe against the whole white race, including
the very Slave Powerwhich has ruled us all that ame
and against which we have only just rebelled' ls
not about time to expect baptism of blood for the four
millions of the same this continent, when has
manifesy already cost the conversion OF several mil
lions Of white men into s TO hold them TO the con-
dition of brutes II the blood must flow, why not
regulate the howf a.
II the white race has not yet rsschsd the summit