New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-06
THE sLAVE-nOEDgNG UTOPIA.

THE sLAvE.uOLDgNG UTOPIA.
| 1t is related that, when the Utopia of ST
Thomas More was first published, 81 the learned
Budaeus and others took it for o genuin,
history; and considered it as highly expedien
that missionaries should be sent hither. in order
TO convert so wise nation to Christianity
Should the political dreamers of the South, by
any stroke of fortune, be left to fler abom
nabe desires, and thus be enabled to try before
tho world an experiment of promoting the
genuine prosperity Of the few BY reducing the
many to the lowest pitch Of moral and physical
squalor, it is possible that missionaries might
as often DO sent from tho North to South Caro-
Ina, rs they are now sent to Central Africa;
and that some new Livingstone might win the
noblest of laurels at the risk of his life, BY carry
ing Christian civilization to Alabama or Missis.
sippi. For it is very certain that whatever per-
fiction the South might attain in the arts of civil
government. it must still want the very elements
Of religion Indeed, if we understand at all
this little extract from The Richmond Wig
which is now before Us, it is the ayowed pur-
pose of q portion, ut least, of the Rebels to
be rid in the very beginning Of the new Em-
pire of all musty notions Of the equality Of
even White Men before their Creator, which
is the essence Of Christian brotherhood. The
Dhig complains that in the tempest and tor
rent Of the Rebellion, men are plotting for the
establishment of something Ike q Monarchy,
and for an Aristocracy founded upon wealth.
The Wig, in an exceedingly bilious way, rep
rehends these schemes against Democracy and
Human White Equality; because it fears, as
we fancy, that in the good time coming, Editors
will hardly be made Royal Dukes, and Print
ers hardly Baronets. The titles to this new
nobility will be found in bills Of the sale Of
Slaves; we may have Count Cuaec, or Sir
Benjamin Barracoon, Prince Cotton-Pod. or
the Marquis Of Fine-Cut; but, although all
these great people MAJ condescend to take The
Wig, and although few Of them may pune
tualy pay their yearly bills, and BIO hugely
gratified by reading his illusions, il will be
hard for tie Editor, in the new arrangement,
to achieve so much as the simple SquIrehood.
he does well TO protest. in advance, agains.
scheme which will just as much fix him in
lower social status as it will fix the Black
His vision is already, 10 o certain extent,
purged; and he will see clearly by and by,
that the lristocrat cares nothing for color;
and would just as soon, if the law permitted,
enslaye White as Black Man. We have
no, the satisfaction OF knowing with just
how colorless q cuticle Providence has
endowed this ready writer but, if he
be winter than many poor fellow
who, maugre his aristocrstic grand.
fathers, has been sold for price, then our
Editor must have what we venture to call
corpse. colored couutenance. No: it isn't the
tint of the epidermis that my Lord of the
Lash will care for, when he. has brought the
Middle Ages back to Virginia; for then he |
will throw overheard the Book Of Genesis ard |
all tho other Books, and if lie can catch and
sell the Editor Of Tie Wig, he viii catch and
cell hm-and SO we tell that unhappy and ap.
prehenSiye gentleman. Slavery is Power-it is |
Might fancying itself Right--it is Laziness
loving 10 eat but disdaining to work-it is
Coyetousness of other mems houses, and wives,
and man-seryants, and maid-servants, and
oxen, and acres, and all else that is
other mems. A pretty time the Poor
White Men will have of it in tho new
kingdom 1t will BIO charming to live in il as
, prince, but will it be charming to live in it
As a printer or q peasant How nicely the
L. e A
it tho necks of wretched Caucasians, light
,olored but niggerless! Who knows but We
nay SEQ revived there the feudhl tenures-
naiden.right, wardship, baronal robberies, the
seizure OF white children for the market, mill
ary service. and all the horrible hardships Of
hat yillenage which men have iondly deemed
forever abolished by advancing Christianity
1t may DO thought BY those who have given
an insufficient attention to the subject, that we
are speaking somewhat extrayagan'ly but if
We are deceived, then the best thinkers in the
world, since tho PRONUNCIATION Of Christianity, |
nave been deceived also. This, We are aware, is
but We venture to refer to writer 80 well
known and 80 little likely to be carried away
by his emotions as DIR. Paley, who says:
- Christianity has triumphed over Slavery
established in the Roman Empire, and, l trust,
gill one day prevail against the worse Slavery
Of the West Indies" So, too. DR.. Priestly:
- Christianity has bcttcrcd the state Of the
world in civil and political respect, giving
men just idea of their mutual relations and
natural relations, aud thereby gradually abo-
shing Slavery, with tho seryile IDEAS which