New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-18
TEE uOv. WILLIAM AIKEN or sc.

traitor. and makes the following comments:
IVA cov tho C,r,oipr from the editorial columns of TUE
Nry YoKk 'TKIguNE-a paper wlhc ha. ever hnc9 tle
Southern instruction began sp9ke o. ,s a. l ~, r /.
& co,drc,eJ in the interest Of SNcy' One might HppoSe
~ f,,,rtcen hundred ncgroca-an int ~ mt gen
sn cr,bc of kno, ing hi- 'rshts ana pos etsg d NJ
Akeu does the oouaer maintain thc"-w"u % one oi mo
III ~ sr mos, pro inen Rebel in tho South, if
dr tL, propreiorship Of negroes test How cen TUE
TRlrrSE admit that tls man s ro synp,'izerf
We viii take the statement If our Nov orb cotruporary
,,e Here !, South Ceoiunn crested ald thrown iuto
orthsoe pri.on Richmond for treason 70 Jh Dsvis
Goyemm,nt lie speTs i1 n. ingine ,'ye OF TIE
lion No. has no right his properly 1 slaves though 10 free
them should amount 70 liz ponay tu1 pos' Ike the
pictrrei
Arsur.-That the present Rebellion and
War are "not conducted in the interest OF
Slavery" we are well aware and have often pro-
claimed. We believe that they will, on the
contrary, be recognized by History as having
been chief among the causes which led TO the
destruction of Slavery. Bat il is none the less
true that the Rebellion is essentially a product
Of Slavery-:hat its strength, whether IN the
Free o. in the Slave States, is the strength Of
Slavery-that it has partisans wherever slavery
has and is repudiatcd and condemned wherever
Slavery is weak or discredted. Witness East
Tennessee; witness the mountainous regions "l
North Carolina.and Kentucky; witness (where
not oycrborne by terror Western Texas. We
have no doubt that the relative strength OF the
Rebellion in tle various Counties Of Missouri Is
pretty accurately measured by Their past dddic-
ton to siayeholdhg aad present devotion TO
slavery.
Tie 81. Lom's R'pnLiicon was once staunch
Whig paper, and as such supported Henry Clay
in "a. II cannot doubt that be was beaten Ivy
the Texa, issue inlerposed in the interest and
in order 10 extend the power of slavery, 1t
will give "a Gibraltar TO the South" said Cen
Jane, Hamilton. jr. commanding Annexation
10 South Carolina The pro-slavcry black-eg-
and other wre.workers of the South defeated
Van Burcnr nomination at Baltimore, and put
up Polk in lis stead, expressly on the Toxas
issue And yet We believe that a majority Of
tie great shareholders Of the South voted against
Polk and FOR Clay. We know that south Ala
bama. which was largely slavcholding gave
Clay a majority, which North Alabama, which
had comparatively few Slaves, oycrbalanccd
We believe many if not most Of the heavily
,laycholding counties Of Missouri also gave
Clay majority. which the backWooss counties
wherein there were few slaves. oyerbore. We
think il was much the same in LouiNana-thc
great saycholiine Parishes giving Clay ma
jority. which the other oycrb4'anccd.
The repeal of tho Missouri Restriction was %
rro-Slayc.y measure; yet We think a majoaiy
oc the great Shareholders ncserheartily approved
il. The admission Of Kansas A. . Slave state
under the Lccomptou Constitution wAs pressed
Upon Congrcs, ly Ike influence; yet Gov.
Hammond OF South CaIolinatold his constituents,
after the struggle was over that the Incasiac
was 4 fraud which ought to have been Kicked
out If Congress without ceremony. And 20 %
other cases An intelligent French ecnilcE -
conyersed only with tie more wealth end
cultivated planters, tTayoned tie South de-
libcraiciy in the Sprng Of 81, reaching TINS
city soon after The war broke out; and be a.
surcd u that he couyoicd with frw men on "
route who did not dcpIccaic the Rebellion AID
look 10 It's issues with the lsaye.t apprchcnsiou..
Property is conscryatyc--uot 10 -ay timid-
loves quiet order and stability, and very seldom
fomenis rebelhons. The William Walker, the
Yarccys, the Blckleys, a., cousplrr TO subyert
the Government and have chaos come ogain:
rarely by the A.tcns, The IIairton., the Ham
monds Thee would generally prefer to keep
securely what they have
Yet it ], none the les true that Slavery j, the
handspring If the Rebellion, Is II was Of The
Fil.bustor iorays on Cuba, though very .cw
shareholders in these. Slavery caused Samuel
Hoar 10 be mobbcd in Charleston, :. C., for
coming there % tct by legal proceeding the
assumed right of South Carolina 10 impr-on
Massachusetts, scamcn accused 81 10 crime.
SLAVERY has mobbed many Northern Anti-Slaye-
ry men in tie South, though we think few Of
those composing the mob- were usually slave
holders. II one Of the worst effects of Slavery
dat Notwithstanding Whites at the South are
driven By il 10 affect zeal for g the instltu-
ton" not only not according 10 knowledge, but
every way ex,rayagant and absurd; just as the
Pro.Savery ruiauism Of Ncw-York insists on
the exclusion Of ncgroe, from our public con-
yeyances, though nothing Of the sort would be
tolerated in New-Orlcans. The parasites of the
Shareholders who do not and cannot own ne
gro are almost always more ianatically, mtol-
erantly Pro-Slayery than the shareholders.
The GapuJlican thinks it hard ease that so
good a Unionist as Mr.. Aiken should not be-
allowed to retain his fourteen hundred negroes.
If that were the only aspect of the case, we