New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-27

&c III sensible persons, exploding in every d.
,ecto, and going out with q stencil OF gun
powder. Enforced emigration is about inc
most cruel and wicked thing of which We READ
in the worlds chronicles Hog'heads oil tears
have bee, shed over the suiIerinss OF the
poes and thousands of volumes wrttea IN
confederation of our Puritan Pilgrims. Ii we
nleased 70 take 9 pathetic or sentimental view
Of the project We might dwell upon the 90
mestic affections and local attachments Oh Tue
negro. brutal disregard OF which has peeh
among the cbiefest crimes Of the Saye-sysfem'
But it is dangerous in these times 10 DO DE-
rovolent. or to say word OF the sheer saw
scery Of slaye.holding; and so we RESTRAIN our
sympathy as well as our indignation. we
wu,t regard the pitable condition Of tho blacks
=. matter not for signing, but for cipheripg.
We must be stolid. hard-hearted, blind to
everything bat tho price-current OF cotton
must WEI Very well: having stripped tho
Cotton States of labor, in the name OF com
mon sense. how do you propose to grow cot
toni Who will prepare the ground who VIII
plant the seed who will weed the fields VINO
will watch the plants who will pick the
cropi vino will gin and pack the cot
toni White labOrers Why from our
childhood to this day. we have
been told that white men could not do that
particular work in any of its varieties; aud
now, it seems, they are 10 do 1t IN al. Again.
admitting the competency of white men, where
will You get them There is no surplus OF
labor il this country now. in times oil
peace ard prosperity; ard in the good t'me
coming having taken eight millions OF hands
ont of the land, and of the same time, having
incrsased the demand for cereals, you propose
TO withdraw four millions Of men from the
production of cereals, and employ them In the
production of cotton aud tobacco! If, in pur-
susnce Of any such crazy scheme, You do not
very soon find yourselves in eAt'cmtes, Then
we know even less than we think we know OF
Political Economy. Do you rely upon the
Door white trash-the animals VINO che" ditI
and swallow il, moistencd with whisky IN
fortunately, in one point OF view, there are
not maDy of them; and fortunately, in another;
since any honest planter will tell you that he
had rather have grub-worms and locusts upon
his estate than these semihuman specimens OF
the amclioraiing influences Of Slavery upon
whites. Wneee and twist as We may We
cannot escape The fact that the wealth ana
weight OF Southern production are IN the ATT
caa race. An unpalatable fact, perhaps, but
still fact rs fixed as the pyramids.
: If what We bayc stated be true, and nobody
honestly can gansay it, the terrors Of those
nice Northern people vino believe that Eman-
cipation Will be followed, unles, some colonizing
expedient be hit upon, by an instant stampede
of all the black people to the States now tree,
are sufficiently grglutous. Other things beng
equal. the negro had far rather live IN Georgia
than in New-York. When slaves run away, it
i. from climate which is agreeable to their
physical constitutions, from empoymenis wnich
long habii has made pleasant, from scenes en-
deated to them by thousand moral assoc'a-
tons. They hy. no. from cotton tillage, or
any other field labor, but from unrequited toll
from nakedness and hunger, from bereavement
, and degradation, from the lash Of TIE o'erseer
, aud from the lust of the owner. Change all
this; pay fair wages for faithful service; secure
the right Of the black man to his own family
!, aud his own earnings; treat him but half as
Well rs tho white laborcrs of the Free States
f are treated, and he will become the happiest Of
all peasants who toll upon the face Of the
T carlh-chceriu, willing, light hearted, indus
trious. aud frugal. Tear him from tie place
OF his nativity; transport him into what to him
is foreign country; compel him in the very
! homage of his int lccual faculties to engage in
| novel ayocations; and you take him only from
, one scene Of suffering to another, and only
, nominay change his condition. A black man
who is brave and enterprlsing and intelligent
! enough TO Try his fortune il the wilderless
has our hearty sympathy and gOdspeed; bu.
| We have yet 10 learn by what authority we
can tell him that, wiling or unwilling, ho must
| adopt THE course or any other.