New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-03

ton already there numbers about ten thousand.
and is remarkable for orderly character aod
for industry and thrift. No Injury to society
need be spprehended FROM changing three
thousand well.behaved and well.traiued house,
servants from slaves TO freemen. The Chief
difference the act of emancipation will make
in their condition will be that their wages will
90 where they belong into their own pockets
and not into those of others, and that such of
them as are smart, industrious. and prudent
will have o fair chance of getting on in the
world, and of acquiring and possessing families
aud properties of their own. For any damage
to loyal owners for loss of their services On
average Of $500 for each slave will be ample
compensation, and for the losses OF taose who
are not loyal We need not give ourselves much
concern.
An additional argument Cor the measure may
be found in the fact that largo proportion OF
the citizens Of the District, if not majority
Of them, arc in favor Of emancipation, not only
on principle. but because it is manlfestly tor
the interest OF Washington to remove the stig-
ma of Slavery, and to sever the last link that
keeps her in apparent alliance with the dis
loyal South. Make Washington free city,
aad Que very strong reason foe taking away
from her the seat Of Government will cease to
be Of force. That this argument is understood
and appreciated by the most respectable and
substantial Of the resident inhabitants Of the
District there ia abundant and satisfactory evil
dence A very striking indication Of their ten
denotes in tbs direction hos been given by the
throucs that have attended aud apPlauded the
receut course of radical Anti-sla'ery lectures
in that city. Such demonstration Of popular
sent nont should surely outweigh the interested
opposition of q few hundred shareholders.
Not only the national honor, but the national
welfare, demands that this measure should De
passed without unnecessary delay. The dip!o-
matte correspondence recently laid before the
British Parliament shows that Yancey and the
other Rebel emissaries abroad are diligently
endea7oring TO convince Europe that on the
subject of Slavery the North is az corrupt as
the South, and that in priocipIe there is no
difference between the Government Of the
Union and the Government of the Confederate
States. A sufficient, most effcctual and con-
elusive answer to these imputaiions, would be
the abolition of SLAYER. in the District Of Co
lumbis. Such an act would greatly strengthen
the liberal party in England apparently our
only friends in that country, whore efforts III
our behalf have been continually hampered
by the false assertion that the North was Just
as Pro.Slavery as the South. Such an act
would set our Government right in the eyes Of
the leading statesmen Of the Continent, all of
whom, with the partial exception perhaps OF
Spain, are strongly opposed to Slavery. Ard
above all. such an act could not fail TO COM
mand tue sympathy and strengthen the friend
ship, already so heartily manifested toward us,
of the greatest and most illustrous emarcipa-
Zionist of the age, the Car Alexander Our
foreign relations, il is true, are just ut this
moment clear oil open difficulty, but wo are
surrounded by complications which ut any mo-
ment may bring us in collision with European
Powers and nothing should be omitted which
can be lawfully aud reasonably done TO gain
for the cause Of the Union the sympathy aud
the moral support of the liberal aud demo-
cratic parties in the Old World. la that re-
spec. Nc are firmly persuaded that the abol.
ton of Slavery in the District Of Columbia
would be worth as much as q great victory in
the field. Let it, then, be pressed with ear
nestness and persistence, in Congress and out
Of Congress, till the work is accomplished. 1t
is a plain matter Of justice, right, aud policy.
and needs no discussion. Let it be- put through,
promptly and uBfinchingly, and tho country
will breathe freer hen the foul faint Of SaY-
cry is cleansed out Of the national lungs.