New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-26


want no good words from any ono who is
weak minded enough to consider Slavery to be
On blot. a stain, and stigma" inasmuch as
they are in arms to prove by dry knocks what
dry logic failed TO demonstrate-tbat Slavery il
not blot but blessing, not disgrace but
decoration, not brand but a beauty. What,
indeed. would DO the fate of this suffering
Lord Advocate if he should say in Richmond
what he said at Dumfcrmlnel We can tell him.
They would insert rail between his respect
able legs, and treat him to gratutous gaioP;
or they would take of bis shirt, and give him
another, plumy aud vlscous; or they would
40 far pity his naked condition as to
present him with hempen cravat. His
Lordship would find it no joke to speak
unexpectedly OF Slavery in Rchmond-he
might as safely curse Mohammed in FL Me-
dinah. We can assure him that the slave
holder derives no sympathy from those who
do not consider Negro Bondage to be perfectly
beautiful. Homes and liberties, forsooth Why
the Man Owners insist that without slaves,
that is TO say, without 9" the blot, the stain,
and the stigma" they can have no homes, and
that without dcpriving three millions of their
fellow men Of every yestige OF freedom, they
can have no Liberty So, reasoning from their
own premises, it is plain enough that they
cannot contend for what this Scotchman thinks
to be their right, without also contendIng Tor
what he also admits to be- their wrong. We
very much fear that all the metaphysics III
Ediuboro' will hardly help the Advocate out
of this dilemma.
Home, sweet home, is very pretty refrain,
and garnishes neatly enough the speeches OF
retcent gentlemen who are at q loss for some
thing TO say. But when lawless man makes
his home public nuisance, oil the poetry III
the world will not swecten it. Toe slave
holders idea OF home ia this: He must have
one large and comfortable residence for himself
and many small and uncomfortable cabins for
his blacks He must have sayory yiands and
costly wines, while his bondmen live upon
little meal aud plenty of water. He must
have his white children snugly housed, while
his yellow progeny, the base-born witnesses OF
bis lust and brutality, may bave no root to
shelter them. He must secure elegance at the
cost Of unmitigated squslor, and comfort at
the expense Of unspeakablc suffering. The
home for which be is fighting is half hulks
and half q haIem; in which, before the Re-
bellion, some poor NewEngand gov
erness perhaps stroye and stroye IN vain
10 inculcate the decencies of domesticity. To
maintain THE establishment, TO yndicate his
right TO be thriftlcss in his expenditures and
shiftlcss in his agriculture, the planter is con
tending Nor is this all He demands the
right TO extend the sy,tem which has been ~
him 80 continually injurious, and to blight new
territory as he has already blghtcd the old.
To call = man patriot merely because he de-
sircs 20 give the frecst Indulgence to bis pas
sons, is 70 make very dubious use Of re-
spectacle word To sag that man is brave
In a bad cause is no more a compliment than
10 say that be- is a coward ia a good one. The
seutimentslty of this Sooichman is of a sort
which we thought confined TO sighing cook
maids and romantic Apprenticeship the readers
Of Jack Shepherd nnd The admirers of Eugene
Aram. To fnd Lord Advocate who should
bo sensible aud a Scot who should be cauDy,
nletamorphoscd into Billy LackAday, Is at
once ludirrous and lamentable.