New-York daily tribune., 1863-07-31
Tho Negro Question.
From The BaIiimo 0 I'm

they repent Of their excesses and find the benefit Of
moderation in forwarding their better purposes they
are apt TO run into extrsvagances again, prompted
BY the success won by moderation. The Phillips
school Of Aboli'ionists in thc beginning were fran.
tic for the overthrow Of the Constitution and separa
ton from the Slave States TO free their consciences
and themselves from the responsibility Of maintain
ing Government which protected the cursed iust.
tuition. 1t was urged on them, 10 vain, that this
would entail bondage forever in the section thus
thrown off-thAt Calhoun and bis faction desired
tbis-that they would destroy tho Constitution be-
the principles Of liberty bound up in 1t would
ultimately eradicate Slavery, and that humanity to
the slaves required those who would save them
should bide the workings Of that instrument In their
favor and not csst them off under despotism which
would hold them forever in durancc. The appeal TO
reason and their professed philanthropy was hooted
down. At last ths Republican party arose, and at
Pittsburgh asserted the doctrines Of ,he fathers, who
ut the foundation Of Government, relied on iis
compressivs constitutional powers TO s,ihe Slavery.
The Republicans at Pittsburgh resolved to limit
Slavery to certain boundary. This mode Of e1.
tincton the PHILIPPIANS would not ascent to. This
was recognizing virtually the constitutional toers
ton. But the sudden and gigantic growth which
the Republican party eyinced IN the fst year Of s
birth induced the ultras 10 show its moderate
doctrines, when realfrned At tie Chicago Conveu-
iion, . lius countensnce, and the election Of Mr.
Lincoln under i,s auspices induced lhsm TO oonde-
scene TO take charge Of Rspublicaui,m and dictat.
TO the Administration. And now, when The war
wsged on il by tho Nulliher 20 extend Slavery has
destroyed the institution, the PHILIPPIANS. who
would have preserved IL by dividing the Union
claim the credit Of being tie emancipstors. while
they ys, strive TO violate the Constitution, which, II
ever Get aside, will lead 10 the geVDsyeept VI the
negroes
IL there . wiss statesman who does not know
that If the constitutional anchor is lost, and all
embarked 10 the Government 10 thus committed 10
the storm OF revolution. amid many dis.raeting
interests now eIis. among thore who have 70 deal
with 1t, ths, 10 calm could but under despolc
poweri
What would be The effect Of the negro equality
aur uiDs (v,vs,ifc, ~ w~-s-n pisnsr- --' 49, -
lowers, 70 add TO The trouble Of the civil war Dow
raging, on any terms of rsconGia,ion tha, might Le
proposed Are the ysomanry Of tie North willing
70 receive tie negroes Of The South among them As
eouals1 Tho Legislation Of tie North has an'ici-
ps,ed the suggestion and denounced !, In advance.
Would the non-slavehodsrs Of The South embrace
them a. brethrsnl The soltiery drawn out by JEFF.
Davis from the class Of onsaveholder,, amounting
70 half million, answer that question. Their dee
psra,s vslor u In resistance to tho force which they
are .old comes from the Moth TO free the negroes
and reduce tie whole lsboring, landls" people OF
the South 10 one oaste-tho whites and enfranehised
blacks being put Oh the same level, and having III
eouAl shnre in tho control OF tho Government.
II 10 sgains, this Avowed purpose Of conquering
for the slaves, not merely emancipation bu, par
,ieipaion In the night OF suffrage means Of main.
tanning II, and commanding 10 full sseocia
ZION with the white race In that sovereignty they
have hitherto held aud assert the right 10 hold, eI-
clusiysly aud forever over this continent, thai The
pou-.lavebolders enlist under'the banners OF Jeh
Davis and pour out their blood like water. Lot
them know that the Constitution Of the United
stes which now gives tie white race in the South
the exclusive privilege Of saying who shsa be Priv'
lsoed as citr-ns-who shall and who shall not vote
ia not 70 be sacrificed " build up black party in
the Southern States to bold the balance Of power
there for tho use Of their protectors elsewhere ana
the white aborers Of that region will the present
controversy in another light.
| Although ilterste, the instincts OF the nom
.ayehold.u tell them that the masters OF the
slaves are indebted 10 the institution for the suPs'
rior,y they bold over thsm. II they were assured
that the power Of the Free States was exerted not
TO make tho slaves their equals, politically and
socially, but 10 bring down the ownen Of slaves TO
AL equality with the non slsveholdsIs, new aspect
would be given 10 the contest. by removing the
slave caste from the country, which, remaining,
whether ~ hirelings eIertiDg the white msps
privileges or as slaves without them, would newt
ably te used 10 the degradation OF tie white labor
,ng class by the owners Of the soil aud Of capital,
tho great cause Of disparity between citizens, rlave
holders aud lAveholderu, would DO removed,
and that institution, which has set up an olgsrchy
OF three hundred thousand masters TO give law T.
eight millions Of tho people, constitutionlLy their
equals, would 10 abated.
i Whensyer these eight millions Of oppressed peo-
po See that the design Of the North Is to denver
them from that inieroriy 10 the caste OF slave
owners produced by sutjection TO composition with
slave labor, or BY submission TO equality In political
rphts with their freed hirelings, then tho non'sh's-
holders of the South will cease TO shod tbeis b4ood
TO keep the negroes in thraldom lest. by being 4sso-
csted with them in @ sor. Of hircling freedom, 'hey
st ls,, be brought under q common yoke.
But, apart from alI consideration Of 'ne P'ouu.'"s
ca,s OF our own blood in the South, the ehec. Oh
giving political rsats to four millions OF 'ne African
race in that region on the welfare oi the Ha''o'
should be scanned.
The history Of the world shows that the admission
Z Of new people TO any control over goVcrui'e"'
SO strongly d.crn,inated from tioso no 's'ADls'c
/, as 70 DO incapable Of amalgamation WIN them
I.d. IN fatal eoDyulsions. Ihe merely