New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-23
HUMAN EQUALITY.

Messrs. s. F. b. Morse, Sidney e. Morse,
James T. Soutter, Edwin Crosswel, Seth Bliss,
and others, have got up "a new National Tract
Society, designed to save the Union and suppress
agitation by the publication of Pro-Slavery tracts.
The idea is a good one, the project timely, and
we commend the enterprise to the liberal patron
age of our dry-goods men whose Southern Gus
toners have paid up well since last November,
and so enabled them to do the handsome thing.
We hope to read the successive issues Of this
eminently National society with interest and graf
ification.
And as it is always best to know the exact
point in controversy before attempting to discuu
it, we will here set the projectors right with re-
gard to what their programme elsewhere pub
lished) terms the popular declaration that all
"men are created equal" which they propose TO
combat in these issues They say they are OPP
posed to "the more doubtful sentiment Of the
Freach School," which, they seem TO think, az
firms that men are "equal in personal endow-
ments and I" in their relation to prOyidentia ar.
rangements." We are acquainted with no such
"schoo 4" in any vogue whether in this or tho
other side of the Atlantic. But here is just what
those whom the new Morse Society proposes to
confute actually do believe on the point in ques-
ton:
In one of our great buildings on Broadway,
there are domicilcd a variety of people-say On
oyster-deaer in the cellar, a merchant on the
ground floor, some lawyers in the second story,
daguerreOtypist above them, and negro
- III nd in fha aft yyh
wife cleans the rooms and goes ont washing
The FISHERMAN, We will say, can make $1,000
in prosperous years by diligent attention to his
business the merchant from $1,000 to $4,000;
the lawyers and daguerreOtypist from $500 to
-, 600 each; tho Whitewater and bis wife from
$500 to $500. Now, what the champions OF
what our friends Morse g. Co. term abolition
" heresy" maintain is--not that the respective
earnings or winnings of these various occupants
of that edifce should be thrown into common
! fund.- from which they should receive share aud
| alike; much less that it should be divided
with the idle and beggarly mob out of doors;
but that erery one is Justly entitled to re-
ceire and enjoy tie fair proceeds Of his orcn labor
neither less nor more. One of these occupants
may DC hDie 10 earn Soo per udtj huothci put
fifty cents; no hacker of "the Abolition heresy"
proposes that they shall share these most unequal
gains; but we do contend that he who earns tho
fifty cents has just as clear right to that sum.
and should be as fully protected BY the laws In
its possession and enjoyment, as the $50 man in
protected in the use of bis more generous acqui.
sitiOn; aud that any law which would strip this
poor man of his earnings and hand them over to
his more gifted and fortunate neighbor, on tho
assumption that inequality is the law OF Nature
and Of Providence, would be deyilish enact
ment, which all honest and just men should on
deavor TO abate and abolish.
Messrs. Morse Il Co.! here is the gist Of the
controversy between your National" prst6ges,
the shareholders, and the champions Of what you
, term " the Abolition heresy." Dare you meet il
/ like men