New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-29
4rS THE EYES OF THE WORLD,

All the speeches, messages, prOclamatlons, made
and Issued by Southern traitors, are filed with
appeals to history and posterty, and with attempted
justification of their treason in 'the eyes of the
"world" If such appeals have any meaning, the
world TO which they are addressed must be the
Christian world Of Europe, which has answered
them with a unanimous verdict Of condemnation.
During the whole course Of this century, with It's
FREQUENT violent commissions, no event has received
sucb terrible denunciatiOn from the European
people and the EurOpeau press as has been poured
s,non the reasonable deeds of the Southern slave
holders during the past two months. Every
foreign mail comes to us loaded with expressions
of indignation called forth by the frantic saturna
lia of the South; and yet even down to the latest
dates from the Old World they did not know
there the whole extent of the madness, infamy,
and treason.
For the benefit of these hberticids, We will
extend the horizon of the tribunal before which
they have arragned themselves. Mohammedan
Turkey. in spite of her thorough rOttenness, is
abolisEing Slavery as rapidly as it can be done.
She theoretically condemns the system, and passes
practical ordinances against IT. these, though not
fully executed, show that the MOslems are
ashamed Of that wherein our Southern heroes
and Northern sycOphants delight and find glory.
An Russia under the leadership Of AbsOutists idol
atrOus aud pagan Asiatcs, cruel Kirghees, Cal
muoks Basbkirs, all give up Slavery and the traffic
in men. Throughout the Old World the move
Hent is universal. In this New World, Brazil,
The only independent slayeholding power beside
cur Southern States, looks on Slavery as an una
voidaLe EVIL, and is ashamed of it. The South
en traitors Gun, then, be in no doubt in what
light they stand "in the eyes of the world. !"
But, beside the Secessionists, the selfappointed
and whining UniOn-savers fill the air with Ia
snentations, and implore the people to preserve
fhe good name Of America in the eyes OF the
sworld." To these let an earnest word be said:
Our position in the world, as unanimously recog-
nized by the opinion of the world now as well
as when the light Of our political morning ap-
peared in the harbOr of Boston, is due, not to
our union with and preservation Of Slavery, but
exists in spite Of tins stain-a blot not so disgur
ing when our battle was fought aud our Union
formed as now. We were hOnored because we
proclaimed the rights of man in the broadcast and
Sobest sense, because we recognized the 50 ,red
principle Of liberty which Christianity, civ
'lzation, and morality extend TO the hu-
manly OF every race. 1t was because Lib
erty Oyershadowed Slavery that the world
aas hOnored us, and overlooked the evil.
All this is well known by all those Northern
Union Savers, who have ever come in contact
sith European civilization. And these shelyed
embitiOfs; those fossils; those moral eunuchs
pow come and upplieate us TO save our honor
IN the eyes Of the world" by cOncedng all the
semsnas Of sayehOding traitors! These mourn
so' ohdertakers Of national honor know that
s'eiy mail from abroad showers condemnation
~ s'ayery and fun approval upon the priuei
pes Of the Republican party, al the while