New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-07
AN INCREASING EVIL.
10 he ESitsr Of The n. Y. Tribune.

10 he ESitsr Of The N. Y. Tribune.
Sin: More than reasonable doubt may be enter
tanned as to the amount of good in the way Of peace
mating which will be effected by that Virgina- invited
Convention which has assembled in Washington. Il is
Low patent to all men that little nothing can be done
to assuage the madness which has seized upon the
Southern chlvalry. Ii ia not divine rage but popu-
lar fury. 1t is rita robb+ry-a reLellion--which
must be very grateful 10 the old Ariocracies Of Eu-
rope. That there ID divinity which shapes eur
ends' is in Ibis tumult, most evident While We were
Boosting ourselves Of The largest liberty" on earth
and'inviting hther the Oppressed OF all natious,"
there silently stealing over mole Ian one.haH the
territory of Republic tie worst aud most horrible
despolism III the world; not q despoism Will ell
shved the negro, but the whie man! Imagine CON-
mgIiiy where, from necessity The mott Important po-
iticsl questions decided 10y IeasoD, but by ste
where free thought and Tree speech tFeaeon and
where man e driven into exile for selling book A
spOsm which prevents you from iug at TIE grave
Of Washington what Wasi ington said, from avon ing
over the grave If Clay what Clay aSo..d and which
pronounc.s Jefferson fanatic In the AIDES Of
MODticello; despotism wi ich puuLhes without trial,
and condemns without evidence. Tor merely b heUisg
tie simplest truths OF religion and moras; Reign vi
Terror under tie =" Lon DE- SuSpect Z" ii NV Cunning
as The Arch Fieud TO brig ulI this about under our
very noses! And, now that he fact j. APPARENT how
men stand stupeied, agape with wonder-but without
a remedy
Four millions of negroes, increasing at the rate Of
thirty-two per cent IN ten years have chained the
whole people Of the Slave Stat Elm bondage " which
History affords no parallel 7Brty-tro per cent de-
cate Aud these barbariaus, without ether educa,in,
Lave sill been educated 10 believe-careuy taught
by their Southern maserr 10 tLink that all northern
Aboltiohists, coming TO strip of their fe,iers
AID lit them TO al equality with Themselves. Thus,
they prepare them by Of tbi- upeBd0us lie to
rec al the first, hahce in regular Saint Domingo all
over the South. Wb.Ie, We usk, will IL eud Patch
il up by compromises borrow Rom the States few
more ears Of peace; and The tLirrytwo cent in
cree 81 It'll in the face. -Four millions
IL twenty years there vii be eight millions. Tiis 10
aeo By Southern philosophers Institution which
viii bring tie blacks 10 civilization aud redemption
God bel their teichers say IL is wonder that
tie slave-OwBers mad in the presenGe VI such
prospect. Secession DisuliOn, log, IL "A relief IN
iiew OF it. PhsIau puzzled in Ike straits, tried
il ianticide failed, and saved only ny exodus.
We canot hope for the latter, except through Red
Sea OF blood where cha and horsenen aud slaves
will all alise 60 down tosether-wh but small hope
OF a Canaan beyond.
We very much fear that Conventions can effect
anything in grave contingency. Tue evil Is too
enormous for the remedy il We, eILebs of what
used 10 be common country, Of OI ion; but
all at with anoIb.r; every nun persists
in misunderstanding lis fellow, till all Is hope
less confusion. Odt Of this chaos who Ia 70
evoke orderl What spell is potent 70 exercise
those evil spirits who exait 10 ruin Not those few
Commissioners, who at tie summons, or on the
H. yitatiOn Of Nirgia assemble at the sea OF gov.
eInment-a WitenagemOe of Sag.s and Pstriois,
doubtless but not vice enough, patIitic enough, 10
the order Of nature cOrTce statistics. 30 long
the shall continue TO show tie negrv more
and more power in the State. long will the diff
cptles limiting or directing that power 10 insuper
able. u.