New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-08
THE YEGHO AND HIS PERsECU-
TORS.

A man, rushing ont of gambling house late
at night enraged by his heavy losses at play,
found belated wayfarer STOPPING under the
dim streetlonp tying his shoe, and iercely
kicked him into the gutter. What have
done TO deserve this abuse " demanded the
kicked of the kicker. Damn you SAID
tho other, "you are always tying your shoe. "
About ns good reason os this can the Demo-
cratic politicians, enraged that neither by coax
ing nor downright war they are likely to get
back the cruel deity Of Slavery they have 50
long worshiped, give for the late bloody out
RACES they have melted against tho colored
citizens of different Western cities, and which
they are now about to repeat against those OF
tho sea-board towns.
They are angry. and want victims. The
Abolitlonists have grown too numerous for them
to indulge their homicidal propen'ities upon.
A sckly public sentiment has interdcted the
tar kettle, the lean rail, and the rope festoon-
ing the branches of stout tree. 1t is only q
poor salts action to shy rotten egg at Wen
dell Phillips from the dim corner of a crowded
hail, or to boot at some othe. harmless
gentleman from tho outskirts Of Union
meeting. But here is the African always
stopping. always humby helping himself,
aud perfectly safe to kick, upon whom. in
some bebighted corner of the North, it is still
possible to wreak more corporal vengeance.
Hence the late frightful riots at the West, n
rated TWO days ago in Brooklyn, wherein the
drees of the populace, stirred by emissarics OF
the great conservative reaction, foamed with
murderous rage against the blameless negroes
filling the humbls.t places, aud leading the
most quiet and nofeusye liyes
From an American mob one might expect
some sense of Justice and love Of thir play. and
wonder how poor and unofsndiDg people should
ever meet such treatment from decent men,
not criminals. II ia brought about first By ac-
cu.atlou of an actual or imputed crime. This
Of itself. however, would 60 no luther than
tho criminal Because the man Who poisoned
bis wife last week was a shoemaker the mob
do not lunch all tue shOemakcrs in the city.
|
Of rape is a New-Eog'ander VIII oil the Yam
kees 10 the county be 10 danger of the lamp
post So the iomebters of these riots make
them blaze out into an ndscrininate massacre
by appealing to an ilstluct and al interest.
From that savagery, out of which We bave
all spruug aud to which We owe few instincts
Of which pure Christianity does not make III
ashamed, comes that anhpathy Of race to race
,n:..ch made tho Jew hate tbc Gentle, and the
Greek coutemn the Barbarian. This IA re IN
s,inct that has hlndered the blending of man.
kind into harmonious societies, ard kept the
feuds and wars by which the Gotbs aud Moors.
saxons and Crlts, Sclaves and Germans have
,iundered, eoslaycd, aud murdered each other.
Ii is stronger among the Chinese than among
tue French, aud among the same people lie
strongest in the least enlightened and cult
waited The poor white OF the South, and the
lllterate man who boasts he has always voted
The Democratic ticket, readily mistake a per-
sonal prejudice for law Of human nature.
One would hardly pronounce that Statesman
ship, however which bases permanent laws and
expensive policies upon temporary whin, and
gropcs for the great principles of human So
cie,y and government among the animorities of
he savage, rather than among the sentiments
OF tho civilized man.
| The race which hates another imputes to it
some olIeDse too great to be- forgiven. The
Gentle idolator. The Moor was III
unbeeyer. John Chinsman is filthy. and tie
Negro lacks manliness and independence. But
these impu.atious are all exuggerations, and
convict TIE hating ne Of just as odIous vices.
The quiet citizen, alarmed by these riots,
shudders to dwell, not amosg the piuolisss and
s-rvie negroes. but among the fierce and brutal
white men, capable Of deghtng themselves
with hunting aud stoning aud numbering ne
groes. Thus this base instinct draws down
upon itself the isolation aud eSpatriation il
| threatens from everything that is truly human
and civilized.
The appeal to interest takes this form The
success of these emancipation schemes VI the
Republicans will bring the negro North TO
compete with tho white laborer in every
field. False in every respect. Nothing
ever drove the negro away from his
genial. South but Slavery. and the over
throw OF Slavery will fix his residence
where his welfare and his tenacious local at
tachmeuts prompt him to stay. Least of all
have the laborlng white men OF the United
States, native or foreign, cause to hate the
negro. He takes oil from them the discredit
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