New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-24
NEGRO VIOLENCE AND ENO3rsTY.

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when a dominant race systematically sicnde7s
the victims of its oppression. Wickednes. may
be weakness, upon bread moral principles; but
It does not by any means follow that The con
yerse of the proposition IL true, aud that Weak
ness is wickedntss--a theory which, If 1t could
be sustained would take all the virtue out oi
history, and tran-mogrity half the heroes ana
herones of romance into putcans and sinners,
not for their crimes but their calantics.
There ia nothing which mor5 irresstibly M
yites the fail Of the satrist than the self
conceits of races. The polished EnglIshnan
shares it with the naked and greasy denizcn OF
Dahoney-the brilliant Frencamau with the
King of Concobeila, who is also - Lord oi toe
Waters" and Ruler Of the ElemeGts'-the
grave Spaniard with tie man-ea'er OF Aby'-
slnia and our own people with tue seri!-civh-
lied Chinese. BuG this exhibition oi naiionai
and natural temperament is nothing, however
unreasonable AID unfortunate 1t may be,
when compared with that contemptuous
hatred and lurking tmidIty with which brute
force regards, or affects TO regard ITS Victims.
10 seize upon the liberties o. delcnseless
peoplo-to subject it 70 every degrading ind'g
nity-to crush all manhood in lis men ard all
womanhool in its women-to cheat 1t OF al
that makes lie tolerabic, and then when It Il
utterly under foot, TO affect nervous tmG.ty
when Justice is demanded, lest reparation may
be followed BY sangulnary revenge, Is SIMPLY
10 confess our crime aud 10 whine at the
prospect of It's consequences. Wrong ls never
without an excuse. Slavery in tho United
States las always been system OF sut'er-
inges. political social and religious There
never was DJ.h.Dg more contemplate than
tie contradictions N which II. supporters Lave
involved themselves. In one breath We have
been tod that the slave IA patient. gentle,
ahechona;c, good tempered, rel gous and de-
voted 20 bis owner; and in the next, that #
once the restraint upon him were loosened,
he would bee. me sanguluary, homicidal,
paragon Of brutality. TAus 3lr. Crlsae.d of
NaDland. a .ew days SAGE. IN depreciation OF
what he was pleased to term " me horrld
front Of abolition" assured the House, that
the enforcement OF the Emancipation
Proclamation would certainly be followed
by an "c1hiblt.on Of negro violence
aud enornity" The simple reply 70
Mir. Crisfeld would be: For two centuries this
~. ortunate black race has been in your hands
rs clay in the hands Of the potter-you have
nodded il, governed It, trained H. impressed IT,
fashioned it, at your own will, being amenable
to hardly any OF those laws which ordinarily
regulate human intercoursc-y0u have pro-
iessed to supply it with the purest religious
instruct.oH--you have claimed that it reycr-
enccd and loved you and IN danger would de-
itnd YOU with its liio-and now, when i suits
your purposes you turn swiftly and shortly
about and assert that il. is letters were uu-
fastened il would fall upon you with all its
primitive ierOc.ty, would butcher Your fami-
lies, would rGyish your women, would burn
your houses aud lay waste your fields! Is this
the beet account which YOU have to give OF
yonr long labor in the vineyard Of civilization
All these faltaiul h,uchmen and hanameideus,
these afcctionatc servants ana willing laborers,
transformed in the twiukling OF on eye, into
madmcn not 10 DO restrained, into offenders
superior - the whole force OF the civil law, in-
20 sayaggs too strong for white civilization,
into bfu'cs against whom society would
bee powe,Icas t. erect sufficient barriers ii
tLr,o apprehrnsons b. we. founded what
folly is it 80 { TX of the hurauizng and Gme.
lorfing Influences of Slavery Why might
NOT THIS poor pcop,, 10 whom nothing can be
taught, and who have remained in the !ull blaze
# ciyi. M..on .or two centuries without losing
q wee, or casting Out one fierce original
passion, just as we'll have been lett with tle
,or.,las AID tigers Ia the jungle, pagans, nam
ol,crs, aud nugd.rersl You say LAT you have
given them Chgis,.ani.y--is t II Christianity
which al tue fist moment OF temptation must
utterly lall TO Restrain thom You say tuat
SON have given them tislhzatiou--s !. q civil
Izatoa Oue of the sUruce, aped only 90 avoid
DE lash, aud ready ~ any opportunity - r.
Iapso into the old icroc'iy You say that You
have given them Aabi.S of industry and ODE
dicace-bnt are these 80 il-planted, that their
ppssessor remains wholly Irresponsible, aud ia
industrious only when hc is logged and obe-
Gieut only when he is picked charm
ing system Is this which your puny
pleas for its porpctuiiy Develop White
men trust themselves almost alone in the midst
Of African tribes yet retaining many Of their
Gerces. characteristics and mos. degrading
supcrstitions-ihey eat and drink and sleep
safely IN villpges which never saw a mission