New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-23
LOYALTY AND Light.

LOYALTY AND Light.
The attentive reader will already have no.
ticed that the Union party In Maryland 10
also an Emancipation party, and regards with
certain competency the project Of the PresI-
dent for the abolition OF Slavery in cautious
and conservative way. Day by day, we see
more and more clearly that The life Of bad
and laundering institution has been SET upon
this desperate east and that the hazard of the
die is against it. With faulty which seems
to us to be perfectly wonderful, and very much
as if the gods, determined to destroy, had hrst
nad,. mad we ind the admirers of the Slave
system coupling il now aud forever with treason,
surrounding it by degrading associations, aid
making it, in the mind of the whole country,
responsible for the perils which environ us.
IL has been the architect of It's own ruin. 1t
has been very cunning in it. own overthrow.
Owing every moment oil its existence to the
coerclons OF positive law, and existing IN spite
of It's numerous violations OF natural Eight, 1t
has been the first to demolish the bulwarks
which surrounded it, and 10 cast contempt
upon the statute.bcok which was its only
charter Wise men said that it was perilous
to the Liberties Of tho leld, and foolish men
have been Kind enough 20 demonstrate tie truth
OF The proposition. Ii has succeeded in achieving
bad character at home and abroad. The Mary land
Unionists. while INDUCING ia their little harm
less fling at the Aboltionsts," explicitly adj
NIT that Slavery ia now Injurious ~ the po-
litical and material interests of the South.
We do not see how any sincere Mon slave
holder can think otherwise; because, logically,
the rebellion has forced him into precisely this
position, and will keep him there, until he dis
ayows his iealty to the Constitution. They in-
sist, these fighting Shareholders, with their
hands 1t his throat ard their halters dangling
over his head, tLat il he is the friend OF the
Union and tue Laws. be must be tie foe Of
that institution. which i the colIer. stone. and
tor that matter. oil the other stones Of the
Coniederacy They give him no choice. They
VIII hear of no compromise. They declare
him, if law-abidiDg man. to be the bitter foe
Of Slavery, and they compel him. # be would
not stulify bimself TO turn Emarcipalionist in
sclf-dcfcnse. 1t is in th, sagacous way that the
Confederate leaders, with a sublime scorn of
all common ststesmanshiP. make and keep
friends. NO wonder that IN 80 many Of the
Slave States men who see their fortunes and
happiness all r..hed, infinitely against Their in
cnatiors. in tbs insane adventure, are quite
willing to surrender their own sayeLodng TO
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neghbors
Owners Of negroes, We suppose, like other
human beings may be- natural, d, ided into
two classes, the fools and the wise men. We
remember only ons really able defender of
Slavery ia the abstract. Mr.. Calhoun brought
gigantic intellect 10 tho service Of error. and
did for a patent political mistake all thai great
intellectual powers aud al iroa will could do
for IT, But when be died, he lett no successor.
Puuy public men babblod weak parodies Of his
reasoning, or more safely ensconced Themselves
behind bis ipse di,its. We regard with what
we believe to be Just contempt, tue lame and
lamentable peryersons Of Scripture w.th which
Pro-slayery Doctors of Divinity have benumbod
the minds and hearts of their hearers: for the
memorable logic of facts has silenced their sane.
tilted prattle forever. The men Who now de-.
iend Slavery are of quite another class--bloated
brawlers Of tho barrooms who blasphcme and
quote tho Bible in one drunAcn breath-half-
wltted whites who If they could posslb, have
an opirion would sell it for glass Of grog
and II pound of tObacco-laZy women who
shrink from domestic toll as from a daily tor
ture and gradutlon-bu-dog oycrsecrs bes-
tlahzed 10 the low level OF their yOcaton-
wholesale and retail dealers in human flesh
thsee are the passionate, yoluble. unrcasoning
and blgoted advocates OF slavery. ~ OF some
thing ia Itself intginsicGIly beautiful. The day
of their domlneering aud OF their ascendcncy in
Southern society u passing ava! IN storm and
blood. They still crawl about IN the slime and
smear OF their system, AS hidecus monsters
crept to aud fro over the earth half created
They have taken the sword, aud when III iul-
iillment OF an eternal law the! have perished
By the sword, there will be no new h.brids 10
fill their places IN the regenerated rePupHc.
They will disappear. aud with them that sem-
barbarous system Of espionage and intimidation
which has too long made Slavery thing ex'
cwpt lron discussion and question. The! have