New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-22
PLAY WHY AND BECAUSE.

Where il John limbs, the EDglshmsn, who,
some year, ago, printed little books to let the
world know phy "irosi-bitton potatoes are
sweet" etc, etc.. These are days in which
Truth, although Der company was never before
so desirable, vii stay at the sot.om Of her
well, iuauger incessaut rhetorical pumping.
Ask the first acquaintance you meet In your
morning walk down town what the cause OF the
Rebellion is, aud he will tell you. " Slavery
tue poor ignorant gentleman But Mr. Garlic,
tue Virgilian loyal Senator, said in his speech
ag4inst the ConGscaiion bill: "Those people
3" who say that Slavery Is the cause Of the Re
- bellion. aud who are trying 10 make this war
cause for nh unjust attack upon Slavery,
will bring down upon their heads tho judg-
ment of righteous God and the denuucia-
elton of the civilized world" Slavery, then,
il not "tho cause OF the Rebellion" Not only
is 1t not the cause. but it is SO wicked TO cay
il is the cause that whoever shall yentGrc so
10 cav NAV expect thuuderbots. SO Slidell
aud Mason, the mock ambassadors. are
yehementiy announcing that Slavery Is
"not the cause" It's the Tarif-it 3 the
Goldfish Bounty-it's anything but Slavery
And yet it is q curious fact, and one painfully
Illustrative of the waywsrdness Of the human
mind that nobody can talk declaim, or write
for i've minutes about this revolt without say
ing something about Slavery. The Pro-slavery
people, lie amateur man-owneTs, the theoretical
patrlarchs of the North, who tell us 20 hold
our tongues about Slavery, never set US good
example. They may pitch their discourse in
high constitutional KEY, utterly ignoring the
negro; but very soon YOU viii be sure
to md them moduating back to pm
triarchal strains and they never leave
Of without having something oi the old
Abrahanic fashion 10 sing IL seems 10 us
that there is slight logical hitch in their
chroma'icf Why is it any worse for Mr..
Garrison 20 talk about the negro than Tor Jhe
jourAai n Commerce t. DO daily doing the
same! Why j. our passon for reyerting to
the ,ubject any more culpable than Or. Lords's
or Or. \. Adam-s What you want is
nothing ia the Constitution, to our knowledge,
which says that Pro.Slayory gentlemen may
palayer, but that Antl-Slascry iolk must keep
STILL The theory il, according to the Senator
from Virginia, that "tbe restoration of the
Union will destroy both Seccssionisn aud
- AbotiOnisIu. 30 1t will, always provided u
first destroys the cause Of both. Our solemn
opinion is that the best way to DO lid of "Abo-
=. I.tionisn" lie TO take away tho meat upon
which It feeds. BY the utmost stretch OF our
small metaphysical faculties, we cannot con
out The previous existence of Slavery; for sou
cannot "abolish' without you have something
to he abolished" On the other hand, We
venture to predict that, while tho present solar
~ stem continues, like causes viii produce like
effects. Given Slavery, and there mu,t always
be many thousands Of conscientious women and
men, clear thinkers. dauntless agita,ors, elo-
quent speakers, cogent logicans, who can no
more be sIlenced by persecution, or by social
outlawry, than the Ocean-wascs can be stayed
by u kings command. Heavens! have wo not
already tried itthis expedient of smOthoring fire
with nax-and where arc We now1 Say that
" Abolitionism" was wrong, passionate, " fanat-
d" ical"-lay what bau things you please
of it. but, where are we now' We went vigor-
y. to work n !lis ci.. . g0s-ter Of century