New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-22

,onccr acoressire-it has quito as much az IL
can do to detsnd itself. If anybody doubts
tbis LET him mark the vote in the Senate on
tbs 14th inst. on Mr.. Powell's appeal from the
decision of the Chair. "The decision was sus'
tained-yeas a. nays (Mr. PowellC That
tells tho whole story. 1t seems like dreain'
that such vote as that should be taken in
tho United States Senate Then, if tho reader
had been in Washington on the same DAY, ana
had gone into the House, he would have heard
pathos of the prettiest kind. 1t isn't tho Phil'
anthropsts who do the crying any longer. IL
in the shareholders who have out the pocket
handkerchiefs, in these latter days. 1t 10 Mr.
Crisfied of Maryland who beseeches honorable
gentlemen "not to ignore the dear safeguards
of freedom in o free land" and who has IN
Magma Charta with very little of tho air OF a
Cavalier, and with something of the air OF
Puritan. "Do MT confiscate niggers, cries Mr..
Crisfeld-" it g really against Magma Charta-
tho result Of years of experience and the child
of wisdom" o dear poor, old, fusty, worm
eaten Magma Chana is really becoming valu-
able then to King Cotton himself! Who would
have believed it, and to King Lynch! who
would have believed that? One of our con-
stitutiona duties, it would appear, in these
pcrous times. is to have exceedingly short
memories, and to forget all manner OF outrages
upon persons and property, from the hogging oil
Yankee clergymen in Alabama to the combus-
ton Of Yankee settlements in Kansas when
We talked, not century ago, about our rights
such rights for instance, as those OF ireo
speech ard of petition--what did we take,
with all our talkiDg' No slaveholdIng gentle
men. we believe cried then, or whispered q
syllable of Magma Chari0. Anybody who al
luded to that dreadful document was an incen-
diary Anybody who asserted free speech was
an agitator, Anybody who spoke OF Freedom
as National, and of Slavery as Sectional, was a
Dlsunionist And now Jefferson DAVIS and
bis co.Catipes having declared that Slavery as
Sectional, Mr. Crisfel1 bursts into tears be-
cause we take these consplrators at their
word Really, there is no knowing what to
do with certain gentlemen. Especially with
Mr.. Wickfe of Kentucky. who has his pet
grievance, viz: that contrabands within Inc
limos of tho Army of the Mississippi have
been provided with uniform-red trowser'
and specked waistcoat." Certainly we
must admit, with Mr. Wicklifle, that this Is
going quite too far. The red trowsers may be
within the limits of the Constitutions; but VINO
shall say that a speckIed waistcoat is not con-
trary to the fundamental law OF the land
The honest men of the country will not ap-
prove of this said Mr.. Wickllfe. Oh what
OF the red trowsers and the speckled waist
coat Ii seems to us TO be a question for a
jury Of taors.
1t is the clearly recorded opinion Of the gen.
tleman from Maryland that " humanity will be
shocked" by tho passage Of confscation meas
ures. He meant Of course, Humanity" oil
the Southern variety-of the kind which has
displayed itself in the slaughter Of the wounded
and the semi starvaton Of prisoners OF war
of the kind 20 graphically described by Parson
Browplow when he said: "In Last Tennessee,
Union men filled the jails, were hung on every
limb, were shot down in our fields, were tied
to trees and whipped upon the naked back
until the blood ran down to their heels" This
i. the Humanity that will be shocked at meas
ures of simple Justice between man and man
at tho restoration of rights too long withheld
ut the triumph-ah shall We say lat the
triumph of the principles of Magma Char'a !
Really, Nr. Crisfeld should have said nothing
of Humanity 1t is humanity that is des.
tined 10 be shocked, after all. And Anti-Magna
Charta, perhaps
Well, as we cannot without hurting the feel
iugs OF Humanity, confscate slaves AS legiti-
mate penalty of the crimes of their pretended
owners. what shall We do Mr.. Crsiield says
we must make the knaves fly" Not literally
On wings, but fguratiyely upon their feet. o.,
Mr.. Crisfeld Have you thought Of the in
humanity, particularly in warm weather, OF
making these unfortunate creatures run-how
it involves uncommon fatigue and perspira-
ton d" Flight is submission" says Mr.. Girls
/ field" let them fy." Exactly. But after
flight, what is TO be done with the poor,
deserted negroes the abandoned OF fugaclous
Abrahams A patriarch cannot "hy' with a
dozen men, women, and children under each
arm. May we not coniiscate tie black goods
of those why "hyl" o no " Humanity "
forbid O excellent and consistent Crsield
We have nothing more to cay
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