New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-18
MIR. HUTTON SCARED.

Powell Buxtons philanthropy, we are com.
PEELED to believe, is of that description which
is limited by the price of beer and the rent Of
ale.houses. 1t 10 Of the hereditary description,
and, like most hereditary virtues, it has SUI
fered diminution by transmission. The
present Buxton would never have divided the
House of Commons, with only meager
minority to back him. His father did
this. and divers other bold things, Of which
even tho tradition seems to have prenaturely
faded out in the family. The present Buxton
10 reported to have written TO The London
Times q letter, in which lie "relterates his
detestston of Slavery, but says he cannot
indorse President Lincolns Emancipation
scheme, as it contemplates an insurrection Of
the negroes, and untold misery" OF this, we
have to observe, in the first place, that 1t is
criminal carelessness Of language for any man
to soy that the Proclamation eontempldtes
in.urrection. 1t is an iudefensible and impu-
dent and sheery gratuitous SANDER to utter
this of Mr.. Lincoln or Of any other officer oil
the Governmental is q fair specimen OF the
loose speechsshch Englishnen since the CON-
mencement Of our Civil War have permitted
Themselves to use when descanting upon
American topics; aud the reply to it in the
present case is, that the Proclamation is better
calculated to prevent insurrection than to pro.
woke it. There can be no doubt Of the fact
that the Masters are very much at the mercy Of
the Blacks; but the Negro, BY nature, has no
particular penchant for blOodshed, and has
never been guilty Of any atrocities, except
when goaded to them by intolerable cruel
ties Should he, in any section of tho
I" Confederate States" have been contemplating
or planning an instruction he is far more
likely TO await the approach of tho Union ar
mics, the presence of which would necessarily
repress oil lawless violence on his part, than to
rush mady into massacre by which he can
gain nothing, and may lose everything. Thus
considered, nothing could be more mercilul to
the Shareholders, and to their deienseless faini
lies, than the Proclamation. From this point
of view, Buttons "unt0ld misery" is easily
calculated. 1t is certainly strange that history
with which he should be- familiar, has taught
this man nothing. lie must know that during
the violent debates in the House OF Commons,
il was confidently predicted in terms OF
extreme pathos, by gentlemen in the interest
of planters that the First of August would be
a bloody day in the British West lndies-a new
and more terrible Bartholomew. The nina
cious bathos of Mr.. Peter Borthwick cannot
have faded from the memory Of Buxton. The
dreadful day came which was 10 inaugurate
untold misery and il found the poor Blacks
not rushing to deeds of blood nor busy in the
engagement of long continued and exasperaiug
wropgs but humbly bending the knee in their
little chapels, to thank God for the great sal
yation which had been youchsaied to them.
ii Buxton know anything OF the American
Blacks, he would anticipate no worse evil from
their acknowledgements They are vastly more
likely 10 assume the care of their imbeclle add
Impoverished Masters. than 10 cut their throats.
But whether from Emancipation come evil
or come good peace or the sword, it is reY'
liable. The Ruler of tue Universe, weary Of
our wicked and interminabe delays, appears,
in righteous Indignation, to have teken the
work cut Of our trembling and isuobie hands;
or, rather, lie has by the force OF events COM
PEELED US, even for the sake OF self, to do JUS
tee to tho outraged and the oppressed. The
first gun which was fired Mt Charleston an
nounced TO the world the demiso of American
Slavery. Already the diplomatic representa-
tyes of the Rebels are seeking to propitiate
tho Anti-Slaycry sentiment of Europe by
promises OF Emancipation-by admissions that
Slavery is neither profitable nor desirable Ia
any way-by loose talk Of manumsson when
it shall be safe. Should their independence
ever be acknowledged by tho political powers
Of the world, they will be reminded of these
words; and, in any event, the chances Of an
instruction infinitely more sanguinary than
any which can possibly occur as the remote
result of tho Proclamation, will be multiplied,
when tho moral power and tho physical force
of the Union shall no longer deter tho Black
from making decided though desperate stand
for his freedom. We deprecate, as much any
timid Englishman, an resurrection of the
Slaves. But while with POWELL Buxton, we
contemplate tho untold misery" which such
an event would occasion, We cannot banish
from our thoughts tho "untold misery" to
which on inoHensive race has been subjected
by the cupidity Of man. A general massacre