New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-02
the WAR FOR THE union.
yrRGrNEANs CoNTRABAND.
FROM Our Own Correspondent.


their knowledge, nor conducive to the annual
profit of stock-rasing-a calling to which the |
patrician race of the State has given most assid-
uous attention, studying all ply siological mysteries
connected with crossing of breeds and mixing OF
blood.
Experience has demonstrated that the issue OF !
a Congressman and q cock, Judge and his wiie's
ehambermaid, and Governor and sable gr'- |
ssae, tend to great improvement in color, though |
fear, not in character. In fact, l am con- |
strained by my rigid fidelity to facts, to express |
the opinion that the virtues OF the offspring, IN
their somewhat limited assortment are to be
traced to the female line while laziness, lechery
love Of gambling and love of liquor, are the he
re6taments of the paternal agency. In their re-
latioDs to the annual revenue, and to the supply
and demand of New Orleans aid Mobile, there is,
happily for me, no controversy. / fdlly cOncede
that the privy purse of the Lord paramount hos
been agreeably refreshed by the account sales of
the factor leaving the question of humanity TO
court of higher and more infallibe jurisdiction.
That riches take to themselves wings is the
declaration OF the prsverb and the lesson OF eG-
perience. That Cufes takes to himself nimble
foot for the shelterng tents of Gen. Buffers COM
maDd, seems to have this same yerlhcation OF
observation. One hundred and thirty-iye, with
an uncomputed quantity Of Virginia chlyalry IN
their veins, have carried their alegiances to the
true authority of the Nation. But the question
should be treated with gravity, and have serious
consideration. To them it has new aspect, for
while embarkiDg in mad scheme of overthrow
ing the Constitution, they hardly supposed that
the very bone of the contention was to be one OF
the first possessions which was to pass from
their grasp. Power left tbem when they shook
their mailed hands at the North aud appealed to
the arbitrament of the sword; and the property
which they strove TO protect, along with its In
cidental aids to supremacy in the political system
goes from them in the incidents Of conflict
they have so insanely invited.
i do not care to run the reflections which flow
from this subject into the fOreshadowing of future
results. 1t is not well to cOmplicate the single
puI pose of subduiDg resistance by an examination
of what distant events to follow IN the order
of providentia disposition. Before the wager of
battle has It's award Of victory to one and defeat
10 the other, we need not speculate upon the
basis Of paciGcatioD, or The final status of the
belligereuts. Whether now the negro shall tight
his master on his own fields or run for refuge
to the nearest hostile post, is to be developed by
the progress of the war. One Of these csiami-
ties seems to be inevitable. / repeat, this was
not an anticipated entertainment. They did lot
suppose that, with an organized attempt TO sub
vert all law, except that Of their own passions,
they were taking off the restraint which kept in
subsection the manseled victims Of their cupidity
in which our completely was only not crime,
because it descended to us as a compact. They
did not dream, in their fantasies of wild ambi-
ton, that the infammable elements of social
organization, which was only tOlerable and safe
when force held it's destructive tendencies under
strong hand, that it was only in the peace and
fraternity with toe North that their households
aud hearthsiones were secure from the incendiary
FIRE andthe assassin sknfe No halucnaticn short
of absolute lunacy--nO nfatuatOn one side Of the
thin partitions of madness and method ever before
smOte people seemingly devoted as they are to
their own destruction. Discontinued To retain,
i will not permit the misnomer to call it enjoy,
an institution about as desirable in the body
polite as transmitted govt or hereditary
scrofula in the body physical, they have
asitated, and aroused, and exasperated the will
ling partners of their wrong until the binding
force of our contract TO hold the common infamy
of the iniquty is dissolved In stormy recrmina-
tons and open violence.
OF all wars-Of all scOurges for national trans
gressioD, the servile instruction is most terrible
International strife is bad enough, but the bloody
combat which goes on under the roof and within
the domestic inclosure--the ever present danger
which brOOds IN the wakefulness of noon and the
watch of night-which threaens the babe at the
breast no less than the strong man at the breast
work-whch nvishes not only property, but
person., and srinkles with blood the Intel and
the misunderstanding at those we love most
and cannot defend; this is what pales the brave
mans cheek, and takes the iron from the bold
mans will. These are the shadows which strike
more dismay than the substance Of ten thousand
soldiers. These are the specters which stalk BY
the side Of the arch rebel of the South and his
less guilty, because more humble accOmplces.
1t is feature Of the strife full of horror, from
which we would, if possible avert the eye. But
At Is no painting of our fear. How many pning
hearts and unwilling hands are to cast aside the
implements of their enforced labor, and WELD the
weapon for their freedom while we are striking
for Ours, is to be read with the stained leaves
which We can know only as We write them.
Not encouraged by US, not fighting under our /
enrolment or III our ranks, the instincts of q !
nature which has Dassed into their life NTH +ba |