New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-12-14

pressible Niger" insists on being recognized
and honorsbIy placed. Chivalry takes objection
TO Iiis snuous shanks. his csvornous mouth. biz
extensive feet; but Chivalry Is in straits, and
Necessity hath no law, and even less taste. So
Chivary forces down it's rising gorge, conquors
its prejudices and edoptS tho easy. unsentl-
mental philosophy of Private Miles O'Reilly.
Not that the dose is reiished-there is no pro-
tense of that. A Spanish proverb afhrms that
men May ego out for wool, and como IN
shorn;" and TO plunge into revolution for the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and pcrpetuityOf Slavery, and
be Obliged 10 call on tho slaves to help fight you
out OF it, is clearly in the same category. The
Rebellion is based on the assumption that
slayory is the Divincly appointed and most be-
nsfcent condition of tho Negro; yet Slavery Is
to be pitched overheard in the desperate hopoof
thus saving the Rebellion. That not only Sambo
but Dinah Gs well should spend their livcs in
hoeing. picking and ginning Cotton, is DixieS
Golden RULE yet tho Cotton-Gcld lies fallo~
while Sambo IL cndued with musket and put
through his fscings a. the only chance left Tor
beating back tho cogprdly. unwsriikc, inoih'
cient Yankees. False protenso was ncvor 80
slariagly exposed to the worlds ridicule.
True, tho Rebellion still shivers on the brink
of Negro-Arming. iocSeeing and recoiling from
the fury il will excite; yet the end ID no less
clearly in sight. South Carolina protests, and
will mutter dissent till abe realizes that sho must
either give up Slavery alone or Slavery and tho
Rebellion together; then will decide " throw
one darling tothe sharply pursuing wolves, in the
dubious hope Of thereby Saving the other But
Virginia and Georgia arc willing. while Louis
isna hos already gone ahead. She has raised
soyrrsl Negro regiments while the rest were
discussing the pr9priety Of doing 60. And it is
evidently but q question of time with oil her
Rebel sisters. Each will hold out while IL can,
and come in when Il must
The device Of coneealing oil but tho thin end
Of the wedge deserves no one. "You mean
Emanoipationi" cxclam tho bang-baoks.
well. we do mean that all who serve hith-
fully in our armies shall thereafter be free!" i
thu herdtating reply. "And their wives and
ciildens" fcrcely queries Conservation.
well: they will have u share tho fortune Of
their husbands and fathers" "And their pa.
rents. brothers, and cousnst" IL asked sill
more fiercely. 1--WE can t say: tho States must
determine" "Then why not leave the whole
matter to the unpromptod action Of the StatcS'
is yet more confidently inquired. "Because
the Confederacy is at it, last gasp, end cannot
stand on prnctinD. 1t must do what it must,
and do i, forthwith, or all is over"
Yet there 10 hesitation to arm. because ther
Is doubt as to tho Ultimate. effect. To arm il
easy; to disarm impossible; and there ia great
doub, as to which way the guns will be pointed
when the triggers are to be pulled By negroes
One of them ayers that moot Of bis people viii
start al once for the Union limos, another think,
thay will turn and fire two or three shots al thu
graybscks in their rear before starting. Eithc'
hypothesi, Il plausible.
Jefferson Davis evidently feels that Negro
Aiming must proceed. or he would not have
! recommended the recruiting OF Forty Thousand
choice blacks for pioneer service in bis arrnos
But thts Is evidently simulated reluctance
which hopes md expects to DO overcome. ON
more grave defeat will set the whole Conicder
scy eegos for negro soAiers-,ho more TN
better. And then the Rebellion viii b yer,
near It's miserable end.