New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-13
evidence elected before the Grand Jury, and
trust he will keep the matter in view until 1t
shall have been thoroughly ventilated.
THE SLAVES.

Shallow and iDconsequent thinking ~ vi
vice of this age; and, perhaps, did we feel
them an immediate interest," We should fiD
that it has been tts vice of all past ages. Gu
business. however, is with tho braoble of tn
present, of which TIE following may be takel
as pure specimen:
"The slave. who are employed in ginning cotton are pal
80 rer month for their work some of these feowa woH
very vel generally they on tee watch to escape tn
eye Of the oyeee and be or ont Of the way OF oil work
Pay to be induceuent They are born slaves an
ignorant and incident. and TIE pnsnthspi't will Rave
broad field to WORK ia to bring hea to paper state Of In
dusry Certain emspcpatouists ought to travel AEON
negroes Soaih to know whs, negroes are"
1 This is from the letter OF correspondent
in Port Royal, to Tie Mspestsier American.
The answer to it, first, ~ that "certan
" emancpationists" hare "trayHed among
negroes south of Washington some OF
the most notable of them, the Grlmkcs, Mr.
Burney, Mr.. c. NJ. Clay, to mention no others,
not only " travsled among negroer," bat, what Is
more 20 the psint, lived among them, owned
them, and had thousand opportunities for
daily observation. In the second place, GER
&" tain enancpationists," without his adVan-
tages Of travel. have sTrived at CONCLUSIONS
Identical with those Of This Port Eoyal letter
writey; and have becoae more aud more
enapcipaionists, because one inevitable effect
Of Slav,rv was 10 make TIE blacks Ignorant
and int emit" This is, they have con-
tended, part, and great part, of the wrong
OF Slayery-that it murders the minds and
scatters the energies Of it's victims.
Whey do know what negroes are, md they
know. too, who have made them what they
are. This Port Royalst is telling Us ne news.
Did he expect these chldre, Of oppression,
with 10 notion of requitcd labor, and with
habits Of doth and of deception fixed by years
upon years Of oppression and wrong-did be
expect them, in the very first month of the Port
Royal occupation, TO bolrgeon ato all the car
dinal virtues, and TO become patterns of Thrift
assduity, aud candor If he did, he was more
hopeful than any emancipatioBist, Travelled
or home keeping, immediate or gradual, wlth
whom we are acquainted. The indolence and
deceitfulness of the Port ROYAL negroes are
perfectly natural; though it is bat far to say
that We have seen quite other and widely dii-
ferent statements, and such a. were much
moro TO the credit of these particular blacks.
Slavery" said Dugad Stewart "is the
:" abuse OF service" OF course, men 50 abused
for several centuries will not become the best
of laborers in fortnight. How should they
To tell 10 that Slavery fosters in the en'a' ed
habits Of deception. is not to communicate to
rs any startling novelty. The snne thing has
been observed of the Greeks, who do not hap
pen TO be black; and yet We do not remember
any writer who has been simple enough to
claim from Greek lies and thievery deduction
of the original infcriori.y of the Greek RAGS;
and any attempt to do 80, in face OF the fact
that, during 4 short but splendid epoch, the
Greek man is the finest in history, would cover
sciollst end sophist with ridlcule and contempt.
He who pleads the cause Of the black slave
wisely loe+ no. sentimentaIy claim for him
that hs 10 an object Of Rosa Matilda
interest. lie isn't. That. once for
ALL may be admitted Thers he stands,
not beautiful in body, quito deficient
in drawing-room graces, with small knowledge
Of the Vine Arts, or even of the Coarse Arts,
If We except the Arts OF Lying and Theft; with
terrible lusts and iRsatiable appetites and rem
less passions; poor creature, little higher than
the beasts Of tho field, except in those last
lingering endowIpents of Thie,iDg and Lying
which remain to attest his hidden Humanity;
there he stands horribly merry sometimes in
his niSery-the thing which Slavery has made
him lie has fallen among thieves, and he has
been plundercd and that is considered sufficient
evidence that he never had any money, and
never should DO allowed to acquire any. You
have stretched him and lopp'd him-you have
cut of his limbs, and put out his eyes-you
have lied to aud cheated him, the most lmita-
tive of creatures, until he has become Liar
sad Cheat-and then you turn to this poor,
MANNED creature, and contemptuously e1clam:
" Poh this man Don't tell Us so We
81 know better We are men, and is he Like
"usl Nonsense! DOM say that again "
To arguments like these, there can be, Of
course, no answer; and We therefore turn to an
other view of the subject We drop the negro;
and We direct our attention to the poor enslaved
creature who calls himself master. We don {
demand pity any longer for the African, since
it is so disagreeablo topic to men OF the
nicer sort; but we do, in the name OF the
commonest charity, demand pity for the white
man who is really and truly owned with his
body and soul and all his progeny and all his
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