New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-28

eau Sld'c-tTuue, ho gers iVIhaTu Nltuout Hlbth
ing whitherscover tbs gospel given into his
charge may direct his stepP. His ortho
doxy is beyond cavl. He gives in neither to
right hand extremes nor to left hand defections.
| He is as stern in his Tcbnke Of the halfway
| covenants of the timd Shareholders as te is of
the open blasphemies Of the hardened Abolition.
lists. Indeed, little more So inasmuch be
makes allowances for the misleading influences Of
Northern mists, which they cannot claim who
dwell in the full eifnleence Of the Southern sun.
Aud he reprOes the lukewarmness Of those
Southern saints who are slow to confess the full
divinity of Slavery by on ausion which we fear
would nave been thought to SAVIOR of profanity had
we used it in the behalf Of Liberty. =" Even we
ourselves" be expostulates with these short
Corners, I" have hardly yehtured to affirm this.
While the cock crows, in fact, we are ready
TO deny it, and if it ehall not perish on the
cross of human judgment, it must be because
" the Great Eternal has not purposed that still
a. another agent" (the italics are ours) "cf has
mil should come to such excess of human
igncminy :"
We find the words of this text in the Epistle
Of Spratt unto Perkins. q member Of the Con-
cress of the Confederate. States at Montgomery.
IL, occasion was the Incorporation OF prohibit
! tion of tho African sayetradc into the COnsti-
tuition of the Provisional Government. This the
Apostle Spratt justly reprobates, as tantiDg the
very life-blood Of the young Republic with the
| virus of heresy. With unauswerable logic, ne
arqaes that if the slaye-trade be wrong Slavery
cannot DO right; and, conversely, if Slavery be
richt, the save-trade cannot be wrong. lie
therefore complains that by making the prohibit
ton OF tho African trade a cardinal principle OF
the new Constitution, instead Of leaving it among
the reserved rights of the single States, the Con-
yention has virtually condemned Slavery as an
immo raj institution, and that it IS in vain to e1'
meet 10 maintain the institution in the face OF
such an admission to its prejudice. lie intrcpidly
| scouts at the idea Of its being wise to defer IN
! this particular to the moral sentiment OF the
world apanst the slaye-trade, declaring, with
perfect Justice, that il would be just as wise to
be guided by the moral sentiment of the world
against Slavery itself. Every such admission Is
q point against themselves "Ihe slaye.trade 10
90 the test Of the integrity of Slavery" This
| question Uubt NC
cannot be blinked. "Truth mus prevail, and
the Convention has to choose between contrib
"uting and being crushed to it.
We must do our apostolic Spratt the justice
10 say that he does not shrink from taking any
number Of bulls by the horns. No matador or
picador was ever more ready for such taurine
encounters. He does not quail even before the
rush of the fierce democratic" itself, but lays
il rolling in the dust of the arena. This portion
Of his homiy We commend especially to the care
ful consideration Of those men at the North who
have rcjoiced in calling themselves " National
Men" aud exulted in belonging TO party that
embraced the South well us the Bast and the
| West. They viii there find exactly what their
| Southern confcderatcs thought Of them, and how
the present state of affairs approves the political
sagacity Of John Randolph, when he said to the
North, "You hope to govern us BY our black
slaves; but tell you We viii govern you by
"your trhite slaves" AZ lsng as the white
slaves at the North gave the shareholders the
government Of the nation, they were content
with the status quo ; but soon as the white
slaves became unequal TO that work, they re-
| bell.d and broke the Government in pieces. Mr..
| Spratt tells the Northern Democrats just how
they were esteemed while they were useful tools.
| lie says that the fatal error OF the Montgomery
| Convention Is that they have assumed Dcmoc-
racy TO be right. proposition from which 1t lie
logical deduction that Slavery is wrong. The
vice of Democracy consists in its fundamental
principle of the Equality Of Man, and its practi-
cal mischief arises from the Government of o
Democracy proceeding from the laboring class
" from the heels TO the head" instead Of the
head downward Mr.. Spratt cannot void his
rheum on more deserving objects than his some
time CONDUCTORS.
| lie tells his friends at Montgomery the simple
truth that the business Of that Convention Is TO
form q Slave Republic. Republic rejecting
the wild and guilty phantasy Of the Equality OF
| Man as its basis, for the sound doctrine OF the
equality Of equals Only-takipg to itself 1.-the
rounded form of social arstocracy." All at
| tempts TO make Southern Republic rather than
| a Slave one must fail For this end, Democracy
must be mnde to give way to Slavery in the
South. The morbid conditions of Virginia, Mis-
souri,, and Kentucky, spring not from Slavery,
but from DemOcracy-from the growth of Free
| Labor there. Even South Carolina is not as
sound as she should DO in her political morals.
Slaves are selling of westward from the lighter
lands, from tie ricc.swamps, and from Charles
ton ITSELF and free white laborcrs are replacing
them As long as this state of things lasts, the
conflict must continue. Another revolution may
be needed to restore peace and prosperity; but
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