New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-09

what shall be done with the territory thus ac-
auired Before we have solved the problem,
we shall have sacrificed Half Million lives,
made at least One Million widows and orphans,
filed every village aud neghborhoOd with Grip
pies, aud wasted more property than there Is
or ever was on the whole area Of Mexico.
Rev. Sir it is idle to shut our eyes and
fancy that God does not see. We ms u Nation
are now gathering tho ripe fruits of our Ma
tional nquties. 1t would be iInpeacbiDg tho
order of Providence TO assert, as many do, or
to nsinuate, as you do that the folly or fanat-
ic.m of any odous minority could expose a
great people to such calamities as have over
taken us. Punishment follows crime; and u
Nation is cha,tsed not for evincing too great
tenderness Of conscience but too little-fOr
being not too careful but too reckless of others
rights and interests-not for chersbing and
championng tho lowy, tho 0utcast, the de-
splsed, but for expressing and trampiing on
them.
III. And this brings me. Rev. Sir, to the more
especial topic to which | ask your earnest aud
suarching attention:
You have been, for some thirty years,
Bishop in this City. and bavo acquired and
welded all immense influence over the great
body of your flock During all that tune. there
has existed among us race-the African
dcspscd abused, insulted. wronged, trnmpled
on, a. no race over was in any Christian city
of tho Old World. Distinguished by their
color, so that they caa in no case be disguised
or mistaken. they have been hunted and bar-
ried "a Christians in Japan or Jews in medl-
avail Europe never could be-. Haugotily denied
all society or sympathy by a majority of their
cotemporares-reiu.ed employment in any but
tho lowest and most menlnl vocatlons-repe.le1
IRON schools aud seminaries-deniod the rights
Of manhood at the polls aud in civil Offices
not allowed 10 bear arms in their own and the
public deiense-neycr permitted TO enter the
jury-box where their property, their liberty,
and their lives are disposed oi-denied any but
the lowest educaton-shut out from every ay-
enue 20 honor and distinction-beaten down
into brutality and slllen despair. aud then
booted and execrated because they too often
ore wha, the great majority have consplrcd TO
mike thcm-they live and move among US Il
libel on our humanity and fearful testimony
to our unworthness 10 bear the CnrIsIian
name.
Rev. Sir yoar people for years have been
aud to-day nrc foremost in the degradation and
abuse Of this persecu,ed race-in deprivine
them Of civil righ,,-in reviliag them for
being what our laws and ussges combine 10
mako thcm-in denying them opportunities
for instruction aud improyement-in restrict
ing their avenues oi employment-In abusing
them By mobs, and sssaulting them IN the
strccts-in clamorng for their exclusion from
public conyc,anoes and places of recrea'on-
IN gpholding in all things tho cause II their
systematic opprcuors. and enabling the apollo
gsis Of their cnslaycmcnt 10 say" See how
they ar. bated and troddcn down IN the North
is 1t no. better that they remain IN slavery,
where they arc projected from the brutality ..
the many by the .ell interest of their masters -
Rev Sir know YOU too well 20 asa Il
you approve this treatment of the dcspi-ed and
outcasr-I am sure that your sense Of Justice
condemn. and your humanity reyolts al II.
But ! ask you most earnestly-iiare you done
rorR duty "a nc premises Has your great IN
fluencs bcen fully, openly, steadily eXerted III
stern resistance 10 this most ulChrstlan
Inhuman spirit OF ncgro-ha,e, and all Its
Ubiquitous manifestations Or, have you im-
tated too generally the priest aud Leyite, 50
-ignaIly robuked and reprobated by our Divine
Master, and passed by on the other side -
Aud do you propose TO continue IN this course
10 the end | entreat You 10 answer these
questions TO your own consclence--to answer
ihcn u. one who has enjoyed vast opportunities
Tor good and IA soon to render an account OF
tier Improvement at the bar of au ail-secing
God Yours, respectfully.