New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-01
MINOR ITEMS.

THE RREpREssIBLE NIGER IN THE GARDEN OF
EnEN.

EDEN.
Since the Rev. Dr. Raphall proved the antiquity, Jus-
ice, and righteousness Of Slavery, certain OF his
brethren have grown jealous of the learned kaboi ana
have rushed into print with hot haste to reap tie
honors falling upon his sacred head The last Of these
rivals turns up in the Legislature Of Ohio, and with one
sentence of pitby statement carries Slavery out of
Egypt through the deluge, across Snnar and the Land
Of Nod right into the Garden of Eden, thus getting
about 1900 years the start of DR.. Raphal, knocking
history and ethnology into cooked hat and coming OIL
In blaze Of triumph that must insure the Buckeye
soon fame AZ enduring as brass. Wequote:
"Mr Jonas (sueh is bis namel gave picture of iayti
and the the desoaton Of Freedom and the happy con-
ditiOn of the country when Slavery prevailed. lie
spoke of Africa and the King of Dahomey, and In,
sisted that American Slavery had greatly improved ana
baptized them; aud then he spoke OF the degraded
state of the free blacks. lie complained OF the aga-
ton Of the Slavery question: that 1t had retarded the
work Of emancipation. II we would have the slaves
Free the AbOiouists must cease to agiiate ana talk
Of il. lie then Unlisted that must compromise Win
the South and allow them all territory south OF
36o 80, and the right TO travel with their slaves
through the Free States He then referred to the Gar
den Of Eden, ind commended that the serpent was
negro not of the Adam, and OF an earlier
time-that the negro tempted Eve He said that there
several races of men at that period-some giants,
ID feet high: some jewellers In the land OF Nod where
Cain and Abel found wives and the negroes. lie
quoted the Hebrew Bible account Of creation aud re-
ferred to valious Eastern Traditions, the theology OF
Zeroaster, and the ire-wOrsmpers. From this he
passed into general view OF Hebrew theology, aud
Egyptian antiquity. He concluded that Slavery was
curse placed by God upon the negro for deceiving
Eve"
We are sorry for Drs. Raphall, Van Dyke, Seabury
& Co., but they must brush up their Chadee ii they
would prevent infrngements upon their Union saving
patents
ANOTHER DISCONTINUED SPIRIT.
The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Monitor thus up its OBJ
jections to the proceeding, Of the Alabama State
Convention, and Of the Southern Congress at Mont
gOmery:
"We hold, first, that the ordinance Of secession
should have been submitted 10 the people Tor their raj
ifcation or rejection secondly that the ordinances
passed by the Convention should have awaited the Is
sue Of this deoision thirdly that the people had the
right and it should have been given them, to have
chosen the delegates TO Congress which was 70 have
framed for them a government for veal or for woe.
And we now demand that the Government formed
its President, Vice President, and ocen-should be
submitted the people for their approval dsappfo-
val. Ii it is not, shall, come veal or woe, at
tempt TO fire the peoples heart TO educate the peoples
mind to know their rights and to dare MAINTAIN the
We submissionst, but night Tight ana wrong
is wrong and we viii not betIay our trust. we as.
sert that the people have night TO be heard, and
being heard TO be obeyed. And we intend TO keep
them posted In what consder 10 be an infringement
Of their rights and Of their privileges, let the worst
come TO the worst. If 1t is treason against the new
COnfederacy, make the most Of II. We know we are
right, and untrammeled and unswed, We will defend
The right"
WHIPPING THEM IN.
The Richmond Enquirer cracks the lash over the
Union men in the Virginia Convention, after this man
ger:
From present indications there going TO be prac-
ticed upon the people Of this State tie most unpaal
leed deception. Men, whose pledges OF falthfuness
Virginia gained them seat IN this Convention, We
IN uiola UieOQeH
the people. Men who were understood as pledged
sanst coercion, it is hinted, Will be found IN this Con-
vention maintaining, that collecting the Terenne and
relaxing the f0rts not coercion Should the rumors
that have reached prove true, shall endeavor to
tear the mask from the deceivers,
"And put whip in every honest hand, 49,
To Lash the rAscals NAKED through the land"
There is nothing better calculated IL exasperate the
people TO acts Of outrage than deceptons which IN
veiele them of their influences and defraud them into
disgrace. Mr. Seward may have many comiorta6le
places at his dispoSai-the ernine OF Chef Justice
fancy may be purchased by the sale of Virginia, but
the transfer and delivery cannot be made peaceably
The people Of Virginia will not be sold IN the shambles
20 Seward. That man who would deceive the people
and deliberately betTay his State is not hi 10 hold the
scales of justice between man and man. We may
speak in parallels now, but will bold no doubtful
language as 70 whom refer when the hands Of GER
tain members shown"
WHAT CAPT. BoBADM WILL DO.
The Eer-O Orleans Delta, in long article, says:
eff war be forced upon the Sosth by the incoming
Administration Of the Northern States, It will be the
obvious policy OF the South 70 keep war from her own
borders by invading the enemys territory. No South
ern woman should hear the discharge OF hostile mus
ket no interior Southern village should be startled
with the echoes OF hostile cannon. AS the North
would endeavOr TO make the most Of her naval advan-
tages the South should at take steps TO get pos
session of the chief Northern seapors and harbors and
thus leave the enemys navy without point dappu1
for its operations, and cut oil from supplies OF men and
money ammunition and provisions, and means OF re-
pair. For the South, then TO construct an adequate
war marine would be only question OF unei but
meanwhile priyateers, hired from Ntw-EDgAhd ana
other slipowners would form very effective subsii-
tute. This is no visionary project NO country ones
many vital points OF attack as one that thlckly
populated, manufacturing, and highly commercial An
agricultural country such most OF the South Is COM
pIratively invunerabe TO invasion. The denhe popu-
Iation OF large unwaed city augments its weakness
when an enemy has once reached IL, IL Bls be de-
Tended at distance, if at all. Southern army once
victorious beyond the Southern boundary, and N the
direction OF Philadelphia NewYork and Boston, those
= would not be long before the South would command
the whole Northern beabOaId and In due time bhe
| would command the sea-"
LIVELY IMAGINATION.
i The Eew-York correspondent of The NJ o. Delta
reports the following desperate condition Of New.York
IChy:
1.-THE question now daily asked IT, "Who has
iiled 7" Nothing is heard Of bank SUSPENSIONS
and failures Of heaviest houses business il very
u in fact there Is nothing doing goods are imported
but left In the custom-b0use, hotels look quiet, whole
ale stores deserted few orders ana fewer Gus
onen. Hundreds formerly in receipt Of good incomes
IRE now penniless. i know Of one fuan who was
worth, two months ago, $4,000 and last week found
ne endeavors vain TO raise $50. Another who received
toO year, offered bis services in OF our whole
ALE houses for any amount they chose to give him,
ls'en 10 81 per dey. And vet aDOther who has ever