New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-29
rpxu vopK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY. NOVEMBER g. 1862

two wharf.-the Mexican expedition, and French
policy in Italy, among foreign matters, and the
necessity of Notifications and war budget ~ home
are no. TO be ignored We cannot fru" NaPoie,hn
everybody; but we are frank and consistent ,so.
Die, and The less have to do with "lnscrutable J.
potentates the better.
FROM The Star Noe. Is.
The apprehension Of a servile war eliminates, In
the reasoning of NJ. Drouyn de Lhuys, the argu-
msnts for European mediation IN the American con-
test. To all the sacrifices and efforts made on Doth
sides-the prodigious euson of blood. the enormous
expenditure of money-there il about to be added,
according to the French Minister, q still more ire
parable ditaster-a revolt Of slaves against their
owners. The Imperial Secretary had probably IN
his mind, when ne penned this sentence OF bis dis
patch memorable and tragical event In the history
of the colonies OF France The massacre of St. Do
mingo is seldom forgotten, but is generally msun-
derstood when the emancipation Of negroes is III
question, 1t Is remembered against the oppressed
instead OF being quoted as an admontlon to the op-
pressor Its origin and results alike for the most
part COMPOUNDED with the outbreak Of blind yndic
tiveness and tho overthrow OF human designs.
The Scllisn Vespers of the Blacks are denied the
excuses which are permitted 10 similar acts OF pas
siona,e self-vindication among other races. II s
forgotten that the negroes OF ST. Domingo atoned by
the exemplary moderation Of their conduct toward
the vauquished for the seventies inf cted in the
fierce desperation Of their resolve to conquer IL Is
forgotten too, that their resolve was born OF des-
pair not Of hope-that it was not the promI CATION
TO them from Pans OF the doctrine OF equality and
brotherhood which Derved them TO the terrible de-
termination of drowning their letters IN sea OF
blood-but the spectacle of their owners asserting
for themselves, with frantic pride and exuitatlon,
rights which they sconiully withheld from their
human chat,els. And there ID one thing more when
ought to be- remembered at the present moment
namely, that the race which could produce negro
Garbaldi az the symbol of its military and political
genius proved also its capacity for free labor and
orderly selfgovernment by voluntary devotion 10 all
the duties Of a civilised community.
Ii is the hight Of injustice TO accuse The Federal
Government of meeting the negroes TO an irregular
iasurgent uarjdre. Az Dir. Emerson has well ex-
pressed it, the great mertorious Characteristic OF
the proclamation is that 1t ensures the protection OF
American law to all men OF African descent VINO
have faculty enough, when the hour mas struck to
iind their way within the Union lines. Thousands
Of them have done this already, without waiting
Tor that ASSURANCE. Thousands Of negroes III Nir-
ginia the CaroInas Georgia, Florida, and Louisi-
have taken refuge under the Union nag, uncer-
tain whether they would not be recaptured or even
driven back. But nowhere has there been amy rs-
ing OF sIaves against the old men, women, and chill
dren, who arc said 10 be the sole representatives
now on the plantations, Of the Southern chivalry.
Only one instance Of the sort has been reported and
in taat instance mutiny, provoked by negro
D
it Is raid, by the Union soldery of the district.
| There will, no doubt, soon us "the hour mas
struck" be q strong indisposltion on the part OF
negroes IN the recesses OF tue South, TO submit
10 The accust omed discipline OF the cowhide.
As soon a schoolboy assumes the garb of man
I he revolts Indignantly at punishments he used to
consider no degradation while he WAS only boy.
Ia ike Manner The moment that the slave is recog-
nized free, though by power too remote for his
protection, re is apt TO lift his in resistance to
To the blow Of an overseer The long-repressed i'll
stincts of manhood assert themselves with the rsl
consciousness OF freedom. But 1t follows thence
onls that planters. oyerseers, and the owners OF
household slaves must practice the selfdenia Of sb
siinence from the whip If they would spare them
selves the terrors of rebellion. They have main
tanned reign of terror long enough. No humane
soul desires that they should taste much droI
OF the cup which they nave compelled the negro e
drnk to its bitterest dregs. Bat little can any
impartial Intelligence suppose that great crime
&c that OF slsvehodiDg. and Of rebellion N defense
thereof, can be pnr2ed away without suffering anC
/ humiliation. II the Sonth has friends In Europe
mobiles and politicians who have enjoyed Southern
hos pitalitee and have natural sympsthes with the
Southern arlstocracy-let them sdmoDish Jefferson
\ DAVIS and his councillors that unless the corner
stone Of their constitution ia omitted from the fabric
it can rise to the dignity Of an independent
State.