New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-04

thing ludicrous as wen az mean in never being
upon the side Of Human Freedom unless some
thing is to be made out of it. 1t may be all
very we'll to check the territorial aggrandize-
ment Of Russia; it may be all very well to es.
tablish corn-trade with Poland; but these OBJ
jects, for the sake of decent political morals,
should be openly avowed; nor is it well to
talk of Liberty, Justice and Right when the
heart is far from them. If you are to be a
Moralist, be one; if you are to be q stockjob-
Der, be one; but do MT set up, Mr.. Bull for
Moral stockjobber-that would be too ridic-
ulous! The world is so swayed by cash that
fluctuating stocks are not to be despised even
by the Friend of Freedom; but pray let us
have the respective dishes upon separate plates.
t." Englshmen," says De Tocqueville "do well
only one thing at time" That is the reason,
perhaps, why the Roarer-he do mt thunder
that is mistake-the Roarer and Smarter aud
Sneerer Of Printing House Square has 80
much sympathy for Freedom in Poland and go
little for Freedom in America. One thing at
time, English interests upon the Continent
first English sympathy for the Ensaved
American afterward!
1t has been tho crying shame Of the Americans
that they employed Government founded
upon the fact that all men are born free and
equal, to curb the freedom and equality of
Four Millions Of Blacks. Ye gods, hew have
we been snubbed-in prose and in yerse--in
essays and in speeches-by Parliamentarians
and Cockney tourIsts-in St. Stephens and
Exeter -pathetically, sarcastically, indig-
nantly, morally, statistically, economically
snubbed! We beye Mt bone it with patient
shrug, for suference MT the badge of all our
tribe. We have snubbed back again TO the
best of ours ablity-when England bawled
" Look at your niggersl" we have LOUDLY re-
criminated "Look at your Irishmen and
not very profitable business have either Of
US, perhaps, made of it. But the position Of
England upon the question of African Slavery
was fixed, by precedents political and interna-
tional She would mt surrender a single fugi-
tive slave who managed to cross the line and
TO get into Canada-and the sdmirpg world
exclaimed How noble !" We do not
saw it was MT. She would mt sweeten
her tea with slave. grown sugar, and men said:
How disnterested - We do Mt say IL
was mt. She would mt even get drunk on
slave produced rum, and men said " How
selfdenying We do MT Say it was Mt. All
we say is that We should like to see little
more Of the old stOicsm now, or hear less talk
about the Poles! Pray do not let the reader
mistake us. In great populations, we do not, we
regret to say, expect to observe much phllo-
sophical consistency-the many are too often
swayed by immediate and pressing interests
but from popular leaders, public ministers, leg
islators, we have a right TO expect not q
policy to be shifted with every exigency, not
opinions to be substantially dsowned upon the
least emergency, but fixed and settled opinions,
and decent regard for the historical record. /
Without this, war will be more constant in
the future than in the past; without this, thsre
can be no treaties worth paper aud wax; with
out this, there can be no international law;
without this, We shall tumble back into the
coarse and rude ages into petty, baronial
wars, and contests at once causeless and cruel.
The Poles have been pretty badly of'-there
can be no doubt of that-taxed, forced into
the army, domineered over by feudsl lords,
aud deprived of the fair results of industry. |
Serfdom in Poland has been nearly as repul- /
siye as serfdOm in America; but with this diff.
ference: all civilized men in Europe nave sym.
pathized with the Polish serf; he has had for
sixty years q party in Paris, and party In
London, and, perhaps, even party in Russia.
But where has been the party Of the Ameri-
can serf1 Until lately both our great political
organizations have united, though they could
unite upon nothing else, in strengthening his
letters. Until lately it was high treason to
strike one blow in his defense. IL John
Brown had gone to Poland and there foment-
ed 40 instruction, how we should have
brought out the barouche for him upon his re-
turn! How the Corporations would have
pressed upon him the gold boxes stuffed with
invitations TO unlimited turtle and fountain Of
champaenel The poor old man, stretched up
on his death-bed, while the forms of law were
hastily mumbled over him, was then hurried
to the scaffold, lest he should die before Vir.
gilman vengeance was compete-and who was
there to whisper consolation to him in the
hour Of the last agonyi But, thank God he
needed no human sympathy All honor to the
patriot Pole But this cheerful concession
shall not make us forget that harder war
than his is waged here for Human Liberty
that here we have, to o great extent, &C.
knnwledped that freedom is the bOrn.right of