New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-13

died. 1t ia enough TO scream "St Domingo"
and every Abolitionist is considered to DO Of.
fectually graveled 1t is 10 this idotc way
that History is abused. The Express does MT
know much, but it can whine" st. DOmin.
g0r' The Herald never makes a preteBse OF
argument, but it can bawl--" st. Domin.
gom Women can whimper it-plattorm proph.
eta can howl it--crOss and crusted conservatives
can adduce it victoriously-and parsons, vibrat.
ing between duty aud dollars, finding that
defense Of Slavery upon the Judaic basis in
wolves abstinence from sausages, can abandon
Palestine for the West Indies without interfer.
ing with their breakfasts. 1t is of little use to
ask these people TO hear tire whole story.
Why should they listen. if, by being tolerably
well informed, they are to be dddled out OF
good, chronic cry! Why tell them that, alter
the decree Of the French Convention in 1894
had confirmed the emancipation of the colony
the most respectable authorities declare tbas
the freedmen were peaceable and Industrious
working upon their Old plantations and for
their old masters That, OF course, is nj
fact of any importance. Why tell these histor-
ieal gentlemen, who know everything, that
nine-teDths of the atrocities committed by tho
Blacks were melted by Whites and Mulat.
toesl That is of no consequence Why
show that under Toussaint the colony
aourished, the Whites living happily
upon their plantations, the estates well aud
cheerfuIly cultivated by the blacks, until tbs
expedition Of LIE Clerc, sent forward by that
willy Italian, to whom the very name of Lib
erty was detestable, arrived for the single pur'
pose of restoring Slavery! What followed
the tearing of the Negroes by bloocoounds-
the wholesale massacre of the Backs-the M
finite crueltes inflicted by the panters--is not
so well known as the final expulsion OF Inc
French and the horrors by which 1t was az
tended. That the Blacks took an ample TO-
yepoe il not denied. That they we're always
humane is not asserted. But it Is, neverthe'
less. equally true that if ever craeltles were
proyoked, it was when the needless and I'M
iustfable interference Of BOnoparte aroused
nsssious which in men of different COM
ulexon would have heen considered worthy
oply OF the warInest praise.
Such ia the case of ST. Domingo. Admitting
all that the advocates Of Human Bondage say
Of il. il proves nothing against Emancipation
and everything against Reinstatement. 10 any
rash deductions from its darker features, we
are AT liberty to oppose all the other expert
ences of modern times. Not to enter into mi
nor details we iearlessly appeal to the great
experiment in the British West Indies. We
are aware of the commercial objections which
have been made to that meesure--the complant
of meager crops aud of reduced incOnes-the
ruin which it is asserted has Oyertaken ths
landed proprietors. But we are not now con-
,ldering question of pounds sterling or OF the
diminished value of sugar estates. We are in
yestgating the chances Of social safety and
order under the new relations when Emanci-
patton establishes. According to the doctrine
of the Negrophobist the West India Blacks
should have cut every EDglislman's throat
and the worst that Thomas Carlyle, in his dia-
bo!ical hatred of the African can say, is, that
while he can get pumpkins for nothing, the
Freedman VIII not dig potatoes This the
sternest moralist will admit is something less
than the murders. rapes and arsOns which
should have followed that memorable First Of
August, and which We are invited to believe
will follow our own memorable First Of Jaau.
AIRY.
For ourselves, if we are to be guided in
our present duties by the precedeuts Of the
past, We prefer to select our own examples
aud TO draw our own conclusions. Ii the
latest English newspapers come to US freighted
with sarcastic sneers at the Emancipation OF
the American Slave, we can read them with
equsnimity when We remember that Dir. Dun
das, in 1872. proposed in Parliament tho
Emancipation of the British Backs-that DIR.
Burke prepared bill for the same great pur.
pose--that Mr.. Pitt avOwed that the Abolition
of the Slave-Trade must be followed by tao
Abolition of Slayery-that Sir Samuel Romuy,
in pronOunciDg the doom of a barbarous com.
merce, anticipated the time when 81 the West
Indies should no more be cultivated, as
now, by wretched slaves, but by happy
and contented aborers that the care.
less but kind-hearted Sheridan declared
that the Abolition of the slave-trads
was " the proper preamble to the entire aboi.
ton of Slavery that Lord Grenville, then
Prime Minister, moved Emancipation in tho
House of Lords--and, finally, that old DR..
johnson used to drink, as fayorte toast: