New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-05

e.ou, ,vb;ch the brand can never De eraseu'
and many nature distorted BY involuntary
.n,vitude which can never recover lis Iouhucu
and comely proportions. So muen 'ne greater Is
.-;,,o, a much the deeper should be
49, sb.,ool So much sooner should We
..'.th N rho courage Of genuine repentance
dock this entail Of human misery and at least
t.ro tie faces Of future generations toward
rindler opportunities and less discoura8nS
vcissitudes
The character Of the African, as it now Is,
or rs it is supposed to be, proves nothing for
- oraiDst lis future weil-aoing. IL Is easy to
cav Of = man whose lungs are full Of carbonic
ocl CAS- that LIE can never breathe atmospheric
or again; but most medical men would favor
tbe opening of the windows. 1t isn't only the
African who succumbs to an unnatural position,
and through systematic disuse, loses his moral
and many Of his physical faculties. Very
white men have exhibited no greater capacity
for resisting the degrading Influences OF bond
ace. Mr. Dupuis, who was long the Brush
Yice.Consul at Mogadore, tells us that inc
Europeans and Americans who were rescue"
from enslayement N the desert, were iO'"N
70 have had their spirits completely Dr'A'i -
tboir .rob masters. When they came in'o
Mooadore he SAYS: "They appeared oesi1uou
and below the negro-siaVe--e'ei! 'P'"s "
bopc or exertion was destroyed IN tucI n''I1s
they were abject, serviIe ana oru'lneu'
TIL. il said by o white observer o.
,rbitc men just emancpateG-we believe that
M Poo-Slayery scrbbler has said anything
,,orse of the liberated black man. The gst o,
mo matter is Just this; if we should take GOV.
Seymour, for instructive select him as at
present the leading white man Of New-loTh-
if we should put him upon year-long course
of short rations ana sharp 1Ogginss and heavy
task-work--tbe presumption is that ne would
no. come out from his disciplinary probation
that choice combination of all excellent qual-
tiles, that epitome Of graces and greatness,
that abridgment Of all that is pleasant IN man.
that ornament ard safeguard of the commu-
nifty, which tie majority now Thankfully
acknowledges him to be. If o Tainmany
brawler. in some unfortunate hour, should be
compelled to change his beloved barrOom for
barracoon, to 60 from gluttcny to starvation,
and, instead OF f0gging others, to submit HIM
sell TO the lash, lie would deem it unfair ii lis
friends, upon his return, should think the Gue
gold Of his character grown dian. He
would ask time for due course Of
recuperaiiye cocktails, and tie reyiyin2
influence of a few fights, before final judgment
against him as a man shamefu.ly destitute d
an immoral character. We ask for the black
man only time ard opportunity. Aud be vii
have them, whatever may be tie mind of the
public. Ma9ger the disgust Of the delicate
the modification of the skin-pTOud the wratt
of the selfish, the proiane protests Of The
ungodiy and the carefully selected texts Of tht
over cody, the Freedman must have his chance
upon this continent or worse VIII come of 1t.
Those who think that our safety lies ia bestal-
izng more and more completely four millions
of the inhabitants of this country, if it were
possible to reduce their barbarous theory 70
practice, would but earn the excavations O.
their children. Bu., thank God It is not pos
sible. Providence IS sometimes kind enough
to put special restraints upon human folly, aud
the people of the United States having reduced
the theory of slaveLol4ing to an absurdity, will
hardly cling TO it at the cost Of blOOdshed aud
bankruptcy.