New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-13

gested, and pressed by philabihropic and literal
sta esmen the occasion failed call forth the
most angry and d;spaTaging arguments and assaults
upon the ITish race.
alleged iuferory of the oppres ed is also the plea Of
ivliflts. The effect upon those against whom 1t Is
rected is TO snite them as with Tho hand Of DEATH
Under ire nerayzing touch all manly aspirations aud
s-reiance die out and the snitten race comes al
most to assent to the justice Of their own de9rada'
ton.
No wonder. therefore that the colored people in
America appear stupid, helpless and degraded. The
wonder is that they eyiuce 30 much spirit and man
hood as they do. What have they not suffered ana
endured They have been weighed, measured,
marked and prized-in detail and III the aggregate.
Their estimated value little while ago was twenty
hundred millions. These twenty hundred Dlllons OF
dollars are twenty hundred millions Of arguments
against the negro man ana a brother. Here we
have mountain OF gold, depending upon the con-
iinuanee OF our eUslayement and degradation. No
wonder that it has been able to bride the press
against us. No wonder that il has been able TO
ploy learning and eoq uenoe aQaI 1t us. No wonder
that it has bought up the American pulpit and OBJ
famed the sanction of religion against No
wonder that IL has turned every department OF the
Government into engines of oppression and tyranny
toward us. NO nation, however gifted by nature,
could bear up under such oppressive weights
But to return. What shall be done with the four
million slaves, if emancipated. l answer, deal
Justly by them; pay them honest wages for honest
work; dispense with the biting lash, aud paw them
the ready cash; awaken a new Glars Of motives in
them; remove those old motives of shriveng fear
Of punishment which benunb and degrade the soul,
and supplant them by the higher and better motives
of hope, OF elfrespect, OF honor and of personal
responsibility. Reverse the whole current Of feeling
in regard to them. They have been compelled
hitherto TO regard the white man a cruel, selfish,
and renloreess tyrant thirsing for wealth, greedy
Of gain and caring nothing as 10 the means by which
he obtains il. Now, let him that the white man
has nober and better side to his character and be
will love, honor, esteem the white man.
But II is said that the black IL naturally indo-
lent and that he will not work without master.
know that this is part Of his bad regulations but
| also know that be II indebted for his bad Tepn-
taiion TO the most iudoent aud lazy Of all the
American people, the slayehoders-rnen VINO live in
absolute deness, and eat their DAILY bread IN The
bfiny sweat OF other mems faces. That the black
man in Slavery snrks hbor-aIns to do IA little AZ
he can, and TO do that little in the most slovenly
proves tina, lie "a a man. Ihackeray
says that all men are about ~ l1zy they afford
eel ton to this rule lie loves ease and abundance
iu.f IA other people love ease and abundance. II
this il O crime, then ul men are criminals, aud the
negro no more than the rest.
Again il il aft rned that the negro, If emancipated,
could not take care Of himself My answer to this
II, let INN nave lhlG CudIt' ~ w II. tut NV
wears he has taken care Of himself and his master
ia the bargain. rec no reason TO believe that he
coll not take care and very excellent care, OF him
self when having only hlusot To support. The case
Of the freed slayes Ia tie Brlisb est Indies has
already been dwet upon in the course Of these lee
lures and facts arguments and statistics, bave been
presented demonstrating beyond all controversy that
iha black man not only has the ability and the DE-
posjtion 10 work, but knows well bow 10 take care
Of his earnings. The country over which ne has
toiled So "a slave is rapidly becoming hls property
that freedom has made him both better producer
and a better consumer.
LIBERTY An EXPERIMENT.
II Is one Of the strangeet and most Illuminating
triumphs Of human selIshucss and prejudice over
human reason, that it leads men TO look upon email
cipaon 40 IN experiment, instead o: beng as II IS,
the natural order OF human relations Slavery, ana
not Freedom, is the experiment. and to witness its
horrible failure we have to open our eyes. not mere
is upon the blasted soil of Virginia and other Slave
states, but upon q whole land brought TO the verge
OF ruin.
We are asked if we would turn the slaves all
Loose. answer Yes. Why not They are not
wolves nor tigers but men. They are endowed with
roason--can decide upon questions Of right and
wrong good and evil, benefits and inJuries-and
are therefore subjects of government precisely AS
other men are.
they not What better is here than thersl What
cass Of people show better title to the land on
which they live than the cOlored people of tie
South They have watered the soil with their tears
and enriched il with their blood, and titled with
their hard hands during two centuries; they have
leyee it's forests taken out the obrtrucliOns to the
plov aud hoe reclsimed the swamps, and produced
whatever las made It goodly land 10 dwell IN, and
IL would be shame and crime little inferior IN
erorulv 20 Slavery itself If these natural owners of
the Southern aud Gulf States should be driven away
from their country TO make room for others-eyen n
others could be obtained 20 fill their places.
But unjust and revolving 20 every right minded
sud humane man az th. talk OF the eXQatriaon OF
the slaves the Oense Ii not more shocking than " II
uuviso For a nation 10 driye away ts Liboring
popuaton is 70 commit political suicide. II is like
rutting of ones night hand in order 20 work the
better and 70 produce the more. To ray that ne
roes shall not live IN the Southern States i Ike
ssyIng ha, the lands OF the South shalfhe no longer
cultivated. The cry has all along been. We must
haze negroes 10 work IN the South for white men
cannot stand the bot un and the fell dl.easeg Of the
rice swamp and the sugar plantation. Even the
lenders OF the rebellion made u one OF their grey-
puces that they could not yet more negroes, though
from motives of policy they have now dropped this
plank from their platform. No one doubts that the
s;ulf States mean To have more slaves from Africa
inst 20 soon as they shall get well settled in their in
dependence. Again, why not allow The eolorcd peo-
rlr OF the South 10 remain where they are VIII
ibey occupy more room In freedom Shan IN slavery
Ii YOU could bear them objects OF yOur injustice
can thew be more offensive objects Of your justice
and YOUR humanity Why send them away Who
wants 10 take heir places III the cotton field, IN the
rice swamp ull sugar field, which they have titled
for apesl The whole scheme OF colonization would
he too absurd Tor discussion, but that the madness of
The moment has drowned the voice OF common sense
~ well ar common Jasilce.
There isa measure now before Congress, duly re-
ported from one of is Committees, proposing, INST
10 make tho negroes leave the land OF their birth,
and secondly to pay tie expense OF their enforced
remoyul. ii such measure eau become a law, tie
nation is more deeply wicked than any AbolitOnist
has hitherto yentured 10 believe. IL is most mis-
ch,eyous and ecandalous proposition, unworthy Of
any man not dead TO the claims OF every sentiment
"f honor and humanity predict that ii il passes 1t
L.. AInrn WIFI In