New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-24
Mr.. Davis's virtuous sheets in the evening,
will be ut bis wind.pipe before he can rise to

his morning prayers. In short, Mr.. Dayis il
very much alarmed and not in the least fright.
ened-in great peril, but never so safe betors
in his life--hishly suspicious of Sambo, in whose
fidelity be has the highest confidence No
! doubt, he is in dreadful quandary---but why
should he advertise il to mankind
A man in situation go highly uncomforta-
bic may properly be pardoned, although his
logic limps little. If tho Black be com
pendulum of the Seven Cardinal Virtues, tender
afFectonate, peaceful and cOntented-what Is
there in the Proclamation by which he ID
" doomed to determination 2" Who is 10 Dc
the exterminator1 The master beloved Wbo
is to be- exterminated ! The aGecSonate,
peaceful and commended slave Surely, TINS Is
most inscrutabe confederation. The world
may not be prepared, as J. ID. suppoSes, to
abandon its humane instincts, but still less
will it be prepared to abandon itS common
sense. or TO bestow its admiration upon n
statesman who gravely informs it, with tears
gushing in riyulets from his swollen eyes, that,
in order to maintain the State, 10 anticipates
the necessity of putting to the sword, of
extermlnating," :" several millions of peaceful
and contented human beings" in order to pre-
vent this peace and content from developing
Itself in "a general assassination of their mas
ters" With all due respect to bis Excellency's
nteectuals, we must say that ne seems to
have weak preference for the circular style
of reasoning.
Tn another way, this titular President makes
quito as depOrabe show Of fatuous sagacity.
He takes it Cor granted that Mankind does
not know what Human Slavery is lie sup
poses that Man, just now emerging from tho
darkness of social degradation, has lost all
recollection of the pangs inflicted by bis OPP
prcssors; and that those who arc only now cast
ing off the manaceS of the Middle Ages, are
70 be cozened into the belief that involuntary
serytude is the most blessed Of human condi-
tons. Davis should remember that he is ask
ing the statesmen Of Europe to acknowledge
as excellent in America a social policy which
they are fast abandoning at home; and that
the enfranchsed Of the old lands comprehend
well enough what Slavery must be in the
United States. Human nature will have some-
thing 10 do with that common humanity, to
which Davis officially tenders the ASSURANCE Of
Lis most respectful consideration. There Is no
man in Europe who is 50 ignorant as not to
know that Slavery means unrequlted toll, un-
restrained cruelty, the despair of man and
the degradation OF woman. Whips speak a
universal language as they fall upon the bare
aud bstering back; all ears understand that
their hiss is hellish, and that the mystic char
acters which they write upon the cracking and
furrOwed skin do not hide any new gospel Of
inelfable tenderness. Common humanity mas
common cutice, aud refuses to comprehend the
delights of hagellation. Common humanity in
stiuctiyely shrinks from forced concu6iuage,
from the suuderirg of marital sies, from the
paternity which cells its own children, from a
system of labor which is pitiless 10 its demands
aud worse than niggardly III ltd rewards.
Common humanity ia not so utterly besotted
beauty in systematic brutality. Common hu-
maDIty has its instincts and of these DAVIS
should have said as little as possible. What
had he to do with humanity at all
Why should he take the trouble of re-
minding mankind that there are even
in this hard-hearted world such things as
sacred pity and eternal jus.icei Why
transfer his assaults from the pockets Of CON-
MERGE to the heart Of the human racer Why
talk of anything save cash and cotton Why
not be contented with o good merchantable
Message addressed not 10 the Man 0f Feeling,
but 20 the Man of Trade-a Message briitng
with figures to prove the proftableness of
Man-Ownng, and stiff with the fascinating
statistics of well-requited wickedncssl the
Confederacy should understand that it can
have no recognition except upon contemptuous
conditions, no goodwill which 1t does not
buy, and no hearts which it does not bride.
Men will trade with it, and so they will trade
with Hottentets. In respect OF its sIavehold-
ing menkind will oathe this new and hybrid
republic; but IN respect of It's cotton-crOp, it
is supposed by the Richmond sages that man
kind viii be good-uatured. We shall see.
Mankind may prefer certainty OF cotton supply. !
Mankind may not fancy tho dubious product
OF nnrequted and discontented labor Man
kind, or that portion of it which is devoted to
the wearing of cotton CLOTH may have preju-
dices in favor Of we-assured and steady
production.
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