New-York daily tribune., 1862-11-05
G.. y, TRAIN-O. M. CLAY.

You may as well attempt to argue down ios
as a fool, and a rattle-headed, swiyel-tOngued
fool is perhaps the most hopeless Of aay. III
be could only be compelled TO silence. some
ray of conviction might possibly penetrate hls
sconce; but the noise that he persists in making
renders him Obvious to everything but the
sound of his own babble
The drunken hclot bore u useful part in the
public economy of the Spartans He was a
lesson of sobrety to their children. Aud
so the presence among rs of an open-moulhed,
outspoken Scymourlte, whose faith in Slavery
az Divine and benclicent institution, which
ought TO be universal aud eternal, Is pro-
claimed on the hCusc-top, ought 70 do great
good Great is Slavery and the Union
armies are lighting TO uphold and strengthen
it. Greater is Mcclellan! the ft leader and
hero of such crusade" But what, then, ~
jeff. Davis Sighting for and why should there
be any fighting at all Either JEFF. or q. +.
evidently don't know what he 10 about, aud
we III bet it is IT JEFF.
Cassius NJ. Clay was born on slave planta-
ton, and reared in just such paradise as
John Mitchell sighs for and G. +. Train would
make universal. lie lived STAKEHOLDER TIL he
Lad obtained the lall maturity of manhood,
when he emancipated his slaves and declared
for Universal Freedom. In doing this, he sac
rGced property, neighborhooi friendships, home
popularity. political ambition, and exposed him.
self to hatred, calumny, violence, and a'sissi-
nation. Is it likely that be dd all this through
ignorance and misapprehension, aud that he
can now be instructed in the ethics and econo-
mics of s!ayeholdiug BY Geo. Francis Train
The Justice and humanity Of Slavery are no
longer open to argument. They were fairly
controverted for half century, and the Juds-
ment Of Cbristendom thereon irreyocably pro-
nounced Papal Bulls and Protestant councils,
il they egree in nothing else, do agree in this
that it is wrong to make one man the chaitel
Of another. French Convention ard Holy
Alliancc have this common article in their else
antagonist crecds In all the civilized world,
only tho small and dwindiing class Of slaFe-
holders and those who aspire 70 power or proiit
at their hands pretend any longer to JUSTLY
Human Bondage. POygamy is'in our age BET
ter defended than Slavery.
The history aud progress Of the respective
States composing our Union afford an argument
against Slavery that ought 10 numne the mnd
even of Train. After he las convinced him.
self after his fashion, that one man should
have tie legal right to sell another mans fair,
Young daughters (and even his o"u) IN the
Slave auctions Of Richmond and New-Orleans,
where a., 900 each for quadrOo8s that neither
toh oor spiu is eomucn 80 ster bo has
assured himself that 1T ID peri ~ .ight that
man who can earn 500 per w'cs shall take
$40 per month out Of tho bard earnings OF one
who can make at most bn, S20-ihere It'll re-
mains the ques,on-doss Shrsry Payl Gran;
that free Lecroes won't work--that they are
nuisance that ought TO be Ibaied-aud still, II
Slavery curses und bligLts, nnpoyeri'tes and
scourges the community that toeraies tit
mus, somehow be got I'D of-and uH be.
Now. on this point, mere glance over thc
last (Gr any recent Census Of the United
States is conclusive. Massachusetts and Mary
lan1-New-York and Nirginia-Pennsyly ylyan!a
and the Caroliuns-Kcntucky aud Ohio
Illinois aud Alabama-Wl lsconsin aud Arkansas
compare their area, their population, their
products. their common schools, their news
papors--in short, put Slave as against Free
sao N an thing ike fair balance, aud you
cannot help seeing that justice aud Policy are
never 1t variance, aud that laws which enable
ore uan to steal ;.noiher's labor are as rum
ogs as they are inequtabe.
Let us take an illustration that cannot be
lodged nor cried down.
NEw-ESGLAND aud VIRGINIA ore nearly
equul in area, but in every other natural ca
pscity Virginia has immensely the advantage.
She was the earlier acltledi she WAS "A favored
colony; SIZE suffered immeasurably the less from
'rcncn and Indian hohiities; ,he has immeas-
uraby the finer climate, the moro genial soil,
The DOber rivers. .he greater natural fscilites
for manufactures. d.. In minerals and in
tnbor her superiority is very great she has
central and shielded position, while NoG
Eue'a'd - always held ,housaud mlei OF
frontier aganst foreigners 81 10 are able rival,
ia pee aud lormidlalo iors in war. Now
looE o, thcse igo rcctioas u our oourtry 70
they s,aud revealed in our new Federal Cen.
sUs lOI l5J0
Nlr fsFG.tsb 'fnCfsfA
Are. iu rfH-re ries............ fst.A bl.a..
l4,.,....d .-ui in sc..s......... l2'stZ 1855 20
taA Nd ic ,f farms ............a los 3fbS iaa ti
DO of ... lnprltlts......... aI .JalI. 80
C.ti.rll 4 .unfsc,ule,........ l6s fglf GtiOfDJ
.,if.. Product o ao............4liG.t td t. $1,000
Totsi iPo.Hati0u................ fIrtI l.ehJB
Total t4iI9 9f Property .....a l,tl t, oS hphA9t'i
ln lhor,--NeW-Enslmd, tlOlgL her settle
ueut brcan later. her climate and soil are IN
Gltely lsss genial, her postion exposed and
exterior. has to-day about double the popula-