New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-22

due. He has "mhlce" to crafty. He may
be " ambitious" of murderon, distinction. But
these things are not at all In Mr.. Stewards
way. Hale has MT been educated to consider
murder beautiful. Wade does n't number the
logging of slaves to death among his diver
sions. Wendell Philips isn't given to shooting
bis boon companions. Why then should these
good people, so peaceful in their outward de-
meanor, be so homicidal in their heart! Why
do they so long to "deluge the country in
blood 7" What is there in that particular style
of diluyian destruction which so fascinates
thcml Will 1t put any money in their peck
ESTHER Yankee pockets which are always
in process of replcnshment, and are never
full What has made the slow, calm, cacu-
Iating Northener so omorOus of widespread
ruin and universal bankruptcy The dollar
loving trader signing for insolvency The man
of ayarce aud cunning become the architect
of his own ruin! Can these things be, without
our special wonder
But we must not omit mention of another
particular of this psychological epidemic. This
Richmond sage informs US that " Fauaticl'm on
the subject of Slavery has flown through tho
world" So with the Radicalism, We suppose
and 80 with the Lunacy. 1t IL surely very
alarming. Reason has left " this distracted
globe" All mankind has gone mad. Fanaticism
has absolutely flown over land ard sea, making
the outgoDgs of the morning and tho evening
to lament, and filling the four terrestrial
quarters with delusiOn. The world then, mlnuS
the Southern Confederacy, is stark mad Upon
"the subject of negrO-Slayery.' Humanity
has lost its sense of justice, aud become III
capable of moral distinctions. Man, excepting
always the patriarchal man OF Davlsdom' No
longer knows right from wrong-crotchets have
taken possession of his maegoty braln-iuhaHe
notions of human equality, absurd proposes
sions in favor Of common justice, and rldicu-
lous wLiusey that the laborer IL worthy OF
his hire. They know better than oil tue
worId-these man-drivlng Davises aud Letcher'
and Benjamins Christianity IS Radical anu
therefore to be disayowed; benevolenco Is
Panatica, aud therefore to be discarded; ana
brotherly love is Lunatic, aud therefore 10 Dc
denounced Over rice-swaInps and suSor-helu'
and cotton. plantations, pure and sublime
Reason is always hoyeriug and always to the
gigantic intellect of the despot and bis drVers
rs she impartiug her benign and amelloratlns
lessons, while the rest OF the world mauh'er'
aud gibbers about Right and Truth, ana
philosoplzes itself to tie devil lis mad
world, my masters always saving ana
executing tho Southern COnfederacy Dut
the question seriously arises IN the
phjlantbroplc-we beg pardon we mean IN
the speculative mind. whether the Conied'
eracy can afford to be so widely out OF fash
ion. Crozine.s having become the prime char
acteristic of tho majority of mankind, is mt IL
rather tina, el,s disreputable for the Man Ner-
chant, to remain 40 obstiuatey ia their senses
At any rate. would it not DO better Tor them
TO afiec, a deIusion although they have 1t rot,
instend of making q display oil their iateIlec-
tuality which may provoke aggression For
what can cotton do against the Radcalism,
tbs Fanaticism, aud Lunacy OF the Human
Race What can comparative handful Qi
men in a condition of old fashioned sa.ity do
against the rest of The Children OF men changed
into one great consolidated Iiom o. Bedlam
These Arc questions which We respectful!
commend t., the atlolton OF Sir. b. II. LOU
dop oi Richmond, Va. Heroines, according to
the rules of the theater, 20 mad in white
when next LOudon shall write to The Lon
don Times, lot him go mad in black and white.
The managers of that disinterested sheet will
not like hi, letter whit the less, rave he
never so 0utrageously.