New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-25

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s.a: IS tie p-,iod 81 2cosches WHOM tie var Ia
America mus. lnI lis fra solution, tie various
eements which en,er into that conflict possess Il
I peculiar interest Rot on,y for Americans but ior
the world at isrG-.
Befor. pruco ding With the consideration OF ,hc
hi CHER Questions - human interest sHGcIlyise the
dcstinics 81 The States Of re North American coz
tincut, ve propose ~ reyew in brief the negro
question which has been N,soed FIST in the srtcf
Of our discussion silirly Tor The convenience OK
dsmisslag it upo1 sAe Threshold A. an fn'enol
issue.
DOES MICRO slavery, ~ TBE TEvE AID GIN
EgALIY EBcElvED LCCKPTATiOS os THAT
TERM. STILL EXIST u TIE SOUTHERN STATES
OP AMGglci
faiT and impartial ilvesi alton Of this interro-
gstory Will relieve sas branch q enquiry u many
OF tho p7cjudices AID much Of the igaccsnco Dy
which IL La, been 20 LONG aud - uu,usLg F.eJa-
diced, distorted ant magnhci.
The history OF civilization in every are proves
that all men, whether blsck, col)rcd, white, frs.
emerge rom primitive bWhorisA into sbsohr.
Slavery, sS the lnuy.tlbls sad ucces lry stop IL
further improvement AID proSrc's. Mituoat ref
erence to the East wolnd us TO haze beer the rl.c
with tho most refined and ni;hionel OF European
nations. II was 20 With France, England, Spain,
Germany ard Holland. Tue African has offered 10
exception to This universal law Of progress 60 gov
ern brutal and brn,aii4ei barbarian, Whether
white. ooloTsd or black by any other lag tan he
code OF FORCE 10 ~ violate RauIe Itself. Slarc y,
therefore in IL exact and aca sense isin act, tre
hard but Necessary Law og GOykysMEsr fn- tho
human race WHOM IN - original state OF sarboT ~
The barbarian, under tie rule OF he governing
race, is either n military or ln"n.gl slave. WIN
the white barbarian, The euden si THIS law Of
FoacE, has generally been TIE sword. As the
vhits r4co energes from igloraac7, hcatScu-
ism and superstition, End improves by &C
tuol contact with the superior civilization sAich
rules II, moral influence and Liw gradually supp.ant
the sway of the syogD. Thus We SEQ, taattc Brton,
rom being barbarian gor.rlcd IN his primitive
state by the sword. becoues the sch Of tie soil on
which he ives BORE then ,ho military retainer ow-
ing fsudal service 10 hi5 eirthly lord, tLon the
emaneipated peasant, AID 30, gradually, but surely
he process Of transformation goes on through con-
tures, until in Ibis age is produced tho most ciyiii4-
ed as well as the ffoas. Of al uatioas. Rejecting
this fact, Ne can duly appssciate the foIy Of tho IA
raticisn which seeks to elevate the African, only
moved even in bis most improved state, three four
degrees from hcrha-isIn and often in coalition Of
primitive harbGrisin, 10 level aIl equality with
the race which, aftcriwo Thousand years Of training
has produced a Shakespeare, BaoOn hi,.on
Newton, a Wellington and Washington, types
as they aro the frAits Of the Lob.e5. and highest
hnglo-Saxon form Of civilization. II We LOOK
back, VIC find that tie African IN Americ.
in the first generation (tarbarian) was a
"slsge in tho true meaning Of that term, and neccs
sarly slave. He sas governed absolutely 10y the
will Of the civilized wh,e man. But tie African in
America In tha third and fourth generations, Is no
longer governed By the absolute Will Of the white
man, ana therefore is no longer slave in tie
severe and cruel sense Of that .erm. Tie improve
iaent Of the negro las been gradual, but positive,
and always in 10 direction Of LIBERALIZATION which
moulds h9 savage nature into nobler form, |
and shapes his once benighted soul into q !
higher destiny. This improvement has par;akon ,
Of tie character Of evoIy Ang!J-SaSon comnu-
nifty: that is, custom and tho usigos Of
society preccde the Wr.ttcn Law. AS the negro be-
caIne more and more civilized, leaving behind him
tho nakodness and defoIoity Of his BARBARIAN as
he entwined himsefmoro closely among TIE delicate
teGdris aud interstices of society;ss ho became
more and more a thing cf human interest and hui
man feeling; as soci.l refinement AID personal at
and sense Of moral responsbity, be-
camo PIT Of every Southern household, embrl-
cling the negro as one OF the household, 50 did these
facts emtody themselves, first in social Gus
teuA. IN daily usa-e. aAd VI church OIL.