New-York daily tribune., 1863-05-27

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DAVIS ON RELIGION AND VIRTUE.
The town has recently been diverted by the
details of divers prize fights, the vrtuous OBJ
ject Of which was TO ascertain which OF two
backgusrds was the better man." Tne
honors of this loftier position were determined
By superior wind, brawny muscle and de1terlty
in hitting out SO, in the Middle Ages, when
one knight had ravished another knights
daughter, or burned his castle, or harred his
cattle, he was always ready TO prove his con-
duet TO be perfectly chivaroup, by meeting the
damaged warrior in the lists. If the challenger
conquered, he was admitted in all courts Of
honor, to be n perfect Christian gentlemen-if
he fell they Kicked him out Of the ring as go
much dead carrion. II is precisely IN this
way that the Confederacy has undertaken to
de5,anstrate the beauties Of Slavery: w
Jefferson Davis means. therefore, ia more than
We can divine, when he thus plai!tudinously
writes 20 a Southern Educational Convention:
"As general proposition, Il may, | think,
be safely asserted that all true greatness rests
upon riyta,, and that reiigion is in people
the source and support Of virtue" Religion is
exceeding obliged to Jefferson Davis for this
highly complimentary notice; and Virtue shares
in that Obligation. Pisty is at q premium just
now, like other neccssaries Of lie, in the Con
federacy. The great S.onewal jackson went
of. we are told, in an odor OF ssncti,y; bo
did MT exactly die; he was cxbaled.
We cannot, however, agree with this snug
and ssctiied President. Religion is all well
enough when you cannot yet anything bettrr;
and IN constituting a State, virtue may, at a
pinch, be OF materinl assistance, but for II
prime underpnning. you must resort 10 Human
slnyery. When you have that, then You come
in for all tie other graces and slories-nob.e
souls. generous hearts, gentle manners, exalted
intelligence and perfect physical development.
We know this, because We have beer told 80,
u great many times, in great many Ways,
and by great many people. in novels and
tracts, aud newspapers, and poems, and
magazines, and speeches, aud sermons OF
the Southern description. fresh from the
pens Of he aud he-qatr!aTchs. parsons eloquent.
LAWYERS learned, editors vlyaclous. and doctors
grave. IL IL Slavery which makes the
Virtue aud Religion, and by all the rules of
,be Logic of Bondage. it ia simply preposterous
10 ssy that il is ,he Virtue aud Religion which
makes Slavery. To "Own Il niger" should
be the be-all and the end-all of the aspiring
Confederate philosopher or deyotee. Having
one Able. bodied Field Hand, or Body.Seryant.
or Experienced Washer AID Ironcr, Ur Smar,
Likely Boy, tho Mau-Owner has, III that con-
crete epitOme, all thai is needed by tue Moral
and Intellectual Man. He may go TO make
his purchase of this magical property, the
most utterly brsOttcd and Dcuightcd OF beings;
be may approach the auction. block, Ig1orant,
knayish, coarse and brutal; but from The mo-
meut tho desirable parcel Of black good, is
knocked of 10 him. ho becomes u scholar, a
equal to any GIecian, Roman, Hebrew that
ever lived
Hereafter the words Virtue and Religion
mus, be used in modified sense. The old
copy books had it May govern my pas
SONS with absolute sway. And grow wiser aud
better as llie glidcs away" But Slavery says;
Ii you wish ~ be wise aud good, you must not
govern your passions at all. Givo your
set up to the whole teasing and yeipihs ana
worry ing pack of them; to lust, rage, cupidlty
and cruelty, to gluttony, idlepess and tobacco
bargain for men, 1og women, sell children,
sever living families be false To your country
and false to your sacred oath. if you would be
perfect, lucid aud finely human parsonage
Then you will begin TO grow religious Then
You vii! begin to grow vrtuouS Then you
will begin to grow in religious and political
grace, the Abraham of Your township, aud the
Saint Paul OF your Plantation
This Is Slaveholding Philosophy. We write
of il without bitterness aud without warmth.
We are only claiming for the institution n
molety of what Mr.. Calhoun claimed for 1t, in
his Letter to tho British Minister ut Washing
ton, in which ho employed oil the powers OF
his matchcss sopbistry, to defend the Anneta-
ton Of Texas, aud w which no too spoke of