New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-17

Butler agtated upon the subject. Going to
the house of the President, we find that he,
too. is beset by the negro. Attending divers
Democratic State Conventions we are treated
to long resolutions setting forth, with moro or
less. but principally with less lucidity, not
what is to be done with the negro, but what,
if we would DO prosperous and happy, end
contented and wealthy, and wise, is not to be
done with him. If we then swing round to
the other extreme, aud 90 to church, ten 70
one the pastor has put the negro into his SER
mon. 1t is negro here, negro there, negro
everywhere How highly improper! 1t Will
never do
Now, if we were disposed to be cynical,
and if, in these distracted times. it were the
fashion to laugh, nothing could keep US from
hearty roar at all this evidence of our own
sugularity. which, after all, does not turn out
to be so singularly singular. We are not, 1t
appears, the only people who are interested in
tho blsck.. We, it would seem, do not, by
any means, do oil the talking about Sambo
There is the person who manages The herald
be is troubled; there is that other person
who manages The E1press-he is anxious;
there ia that extraordinary person who man
ages The Boston Coprier-he is agitated; there
are tue strong beaded persons who guide and
control Democratic Conventions-they are con-
cerned; there are terrible Msjor.Generals-
they tremble in their uniforms; there are
Senator'S and Representatlves-they must De
talking; there is the President, and he must
DO northumberland all about Sambo We
assert nothing about the quality. but absolutely
we were never in such a quantity OF company
in our life, before. Those who say thai We
nlone are interested in the African race, do US
either too much honor or too much dishonor,
just as men may please to consider it.
We wish that it were possible, in the nature
of things, to give these gentlemen who desire
TO carry on and finish this Civil War, without
considering Slavery as even the smallest OF its
elements, an opportunity Of astonishing man.
kind by such an undertaking. Ii would be 20
delec,aby droL, in spite of all the bloodshed
and suffering. to see them founder and iall,
mauger the most decided elimination OF the
principal quantity in this veIatious equation.
We have never heard or read of any war with.
out sone cause, nor Of any war either, waged
without the slightest reference to, or thought
Of tina. which occasoned ii. But it may be
that the world is madden then ever before
il may be that we, as people, are crazier
than Don Quixote--for he did suppose the
windmis to be real enemies in the flesh. 1t
We are not fighting merely for the supreme
ard exquisite pleasure of capturing ard killing
for the incisable satisfaction OF burying our
selves under mountain Of debt-for the sheer
multiplication of widows and orPhans-for the
embarrassment Of commerce and the degrada-
ton Of curreney-for the thrilling romance and
tantalizing excitements Of WARRIOR the gratlh'
eaton of malice or the sssuagement Of petty
passion-for the poor honor Of bringing home
and Of hanging up q dozen tattered trophies
for the generous purpose of enrching the con.
tractors, and adjoining the shoulders Of new
made offcers-f We are not fighting like boys,
like lunatics, like drunkards, or like drabs,
why We must now and then-as seldom as
possible, Of course-mention the inevitable
negro. IIe may be a nuisance. and chronic
botheration-Le may be conioundedly in the
wny-we may all wish him in Liberia or
Heaven; but there he is, fixed fact, al in.
d.putabls entity; nothing short of general
massacre can rid us Of him; and for this we
believe hardly anybody except it be The
Herald and Tie Journal of Commerce, is yet
ready.