New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-20
A BLACK ARlEY.

We presume that eyerybody-eyen the IN
happy esssyists of Tie Journal Of Cornmerce--
will acknowledge that negro is, in a certain
sense as Shylock claimed for .he jew, man.
Ii Will hardly be denied that he hath eyes,
that be hath hands, organs, dimensions, senses,
affections, passions; that he q fed with the
same food, hurt with the same weapons, SUBJ
ject 10 the same diseases, healed by the same
means. warmed and cooled BY the same WIN
ter and Summer, a. the white man II; II be Is
prirked, he bleeds If ticklol laughs; if POI
soned, dies; and finally that, having not learned
much su!erance BY the white mans example,
the yillainy be is taught by his master he will
be likely 10 execute, especially IT 1t Is Tor his
own benefit. Now. though the Supreme Court
had affirmed O thousand times, aud bouad the
decision up in ever so many yolumes of law
calf, that the negro has no rights which q
white man is bound TO respect, we doubt If
any body viii have the hardihood to dispute
that this view Of the black man, as g human
creature with hands, aud eyes, and passions,
and affections, liable to be hurt by and likely
20 hurt back again with weapons. is not n far
fetched and oyer.strained one. We put aside
the Declaration of Independence for this occa-
,ion, aud refer TO Shakespeare.
OF these bimsna, with not civil or
social right among them, il you will have
it So there are, in this country four nil
lions, Of whom we may family compute
that sir hundred thousand are good fight
ing men. Six hundred thousand men, we
mean, not capable simply of bearing arms, but
who can be taken into the field and set to
/ fighting. For il must be remembered Of these
bimana that they have no home duties, OF their
own and no homes 10 detain them; that TO
/ these Elk hundred thousand men are SIX hun
dred thousand women, differing from the others
in no important particular. except IN the power
of ild.bearing, but in oil other resPects' mere
/ laborers, accustomed, Ike men, TO all the agrl-
cultural work of that region and that of the
nearly three million of children leit-to make
up the whole number-they never know child
hood. are put TO work before it is thought
necessary to clOthe them, and tie larger proper
ton Of them therefore is ineffective aborng force.
II would be an easy thing to spare, aud, IN
these times. not miss, the si1 hundred thousand
men out of the whole body, and even that is n
small estimate.
Six hundred thousand strong men. used to
the toughest life; capable OF, and accustomed
TO. living upon lees food than any race this
side tho Straits of Sunda able to do and
used to doing with less clothing than any other
people not set down ar absolutely savage; pa
tient Of hardship; not likely TO be oyoF.senti-
mental about killing white folks--such II six
hundred thousand though with not right
among them, cannot be safely disregarded as
friends, nor despised as enemies.
They are waiting TO be counted in" in this
fight; nor have they been backward, when they
have had tie opportunity, in showing on
which side their preference les But We have
not as Jet taken them into consideration.
Nobody prctends now to believe the old lie, n
foolish as il is old, that they do ne want t.
leave their masters, for the evidence, given hourl,
for nine months, is that the one thing they d,
care for in this world is to get away iron
Slavery. They are the heartiest if not tho onl,
Union people ut the South who will tolerat
and welcome any measure. even tLe interier
ence with the peculiar institution. for the sup
preston of the rebellion. Shall We count then
in on our side
Suppose we do not. Their masters know
hem better than wo do, ind they know thu