New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-17
DE LUNATICO.

DE LUNATlCO.
The propretors of The Journal Of Commerce
have hard time of it. That paper has been
in past times property of some considerable
value but when, q. the breakiOg out of the
rebellion, it's late editor showed that his love
of Slavery and his subseriency to savehold-
ers far exceeded any reverence he had for the
Union, or any patriotic instincts such as bind
other men to their birthplace, then The Jour
nal gave those evidences of rapid decline
which made change in ts conduct indispensa-
bic. \ fmsy vail Of love Of country and al
legiance to the Government had all along from
the time The journal was subjected to little
gentle compression on the part of the mob,
been thrown over the Secession sentiments and
sympathies of the editor; but it was too thin
to hide the hideOusness Of the treason beneath,
and the public were becoming again inpatient
both of its treacbery and hypocrisy. Then
the Grand Jury proposed to iudict it, ard the
proprietors were forced to recognize the neces-
sity of transformation.
In this they were wise--ior the paper would
not have lasted much longer. But in their
choice of new editors they seem TO have been
as unfortunate as ever, for the person whom
they called to take the principal charge had
always been Of precisely the same way OF
thinking as the deposed editor, at least up to
the fall of Sumter-that crisis which brought
TO some men wisdom, but TO others only dis
erection. He had believed that the South was
justified in the course she had adopted, and
that the precious right Of owning "niggers -
right established under the Mosaic dlspensa-
tion, strengthened by the revelation OF Chris
tanity and for the protection of which the
Federal Constitution was chiefly framed-had
long been outraged by the North and that this
violence had, at length, met with proper
resistance. Ii is to be supposed that the new
journalist had been taught so much discretion b.
the event in Charleston harbor, as to modi fly
his inmOst sentiments, inasmuch as be was cbO-en
az substitute for one whom neither mob nOr
Grand Jury could tolerate. But there is no
vice like the love of Slavery. Once in the
system, and the patient is always liable to IL
fensive irritation. And 30 it is that The Jour-
nal is constantly breaking out in n way
that shows it really has at heart the conscrva
ton of one thing only among human institu-
tons, and that is American Slavery. Ii seems
TO be in a state Of chronic deiir,um hemsaS. ana
is in constant dread OF the truc'ion of al things
by gigantic black man that haunts ts sight
aud rs hearing, has taken possession of oil its
senses, and hides from its view all things else
far TO look upon or pleasant TO think OF in
oil the world. Not a day passes that this un-
fortunate but curious deusIon does not shoe
itsef in some way or other. 1t cannot con
template the war in any other light than as a
mcrace against the well-beiDg Of Slavery. The
Union is nothing; the rights, the privileges,
and the interest Of oil white men who are not
sla'eowners are nothing the national honor
Is nothing, compared to the value and the "a
credness Of property in negroes. Our father
set the Constitution as a frame around human
bondage and had no other purpose, worth
mentioning, in the formation Of that instru-
ment--a frame rot merely TO adorn, but espe-
cially 10 preserve a system which even now
concerns directly only shout sixty.sixth part of
the white people Of the country, and is, as il
always has been, opposed to the rights and in
terests Of all the rest. Rather than that natural
a sequence should follow, or that such an ele-
ment of weakness as this system. abandoned by
It's supporters and incapable of sustaining it,
own weight, should fall before the advancing
and overwhelming power Of war, Tho Journai
Of Commerce would have the war itself come to IA
speedy end, and the North humbly consent TO
the imposition of any terms that the South
might choose to insist upon. The certain Abo-
ition of Liberty, in that event, does not in the
east concern that paper, does not even occur
70 it, The war, it asserts. aud, no doubt,
.calOusly believes, had its origin, not at the
south, but fat ths North; it continues, not
because the South persists in rebellion, but
because the North refuses to lay down its
,Tms; aud it has some fears that the country
will never escape its cilamities until its au-
.hors aud It's persistent supporters of the