New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-13

AN UNJUST nSVnVAOAs
TIE World has OF last obtained some know.
ledge Of the Swiss meeting and address in behalf
of Union and Emancipation, but seems very
badly informed with regard to them. 1t assumes
that the Swiss have undertaken to reprosch OK
lecture us with regard to Slavery, when in fact
they have only rejoiced over and congratulated
Us upon the notorious fact that We are at last
hopefully struggling to rid ourselves Of that hor-
rible wrong END evil. No thought Of lecturing
or rcproving our past infdclity to principle and
duty ever entered the heads Of our true and
noble Swiss friends; yet they are abused as boor-
ish, uncivil, impertinent, &C., as though they
had actually committed come gross and rude
improperly. Nay: they are further accused Of
compelling polite, refined America to hold its
nose by introducing the offensive topic Of mig
gers Listen to the inculpation!
only say negro and there is s class Of this commu
nifty upon whom the word has the effect OF cstnp on
the feline species They wriSge tnS{ 'T h the{ roll
their claws their backs and twist and gyrate 10
every conceivable form Of delight According 10 them
svs,em' the present and the future lfe health. and
poDerty are Of account In comparison with the pos
sibe Of which has been slave sinoe tho
| beginning Of creation"
just think of this from journal whose Ed
itor has proclaimed himself an Abolitonist
within the last four years! How fearful liz tho
effect Of evil communications
Assuming that such baleful consequences
result from Saying negro" one would suppose
that the experiment would be forbOme or haz-
ardcd as infrequenty as possible. Yet The
World and its clan not only persist in "saying
negro" but in fact say very little else. That ia
their staple argument, their stock in trade,
their main reliance for vsuking into power.
Bereft Of it, they would be dumb, impotent,
hopeless.
1t is not true that any "race" "hss been
slave from the beginning of creations" it is true
that some blacks have been enslaved (oflenesi
by other blacks) from time immemorial. Hhitts
were Likewise enslaged throughout Europe
down to q vary modern period. Anglo-Saxon
Slavery died out four or five centuries ago.
while Russian only ceased within the last foul
years.
But the Swiss are unlustly aocused. They
have not been "saying negro" They leave that
IMPROPERLY TO their assailants. They do no,
seem 20 have considered tho fact material (noI
Is it) that the victims Of our tyranny were black.
They are not 20 much solicitous for "the pos.
sible elevation Of race" as shocked and scan.
dalized that the greatest and proudest of Chris.
tian Republics should treat men and women
like beasts Of the field, stripping them Of every
human right, AOgging their naked backs, forci
bly, separating families. selling them at auction
&c, &c. And even Of all this they say moth
ing by way of reprosch, but only rejoice with
us that we are trying 10 put an end to it.
Whera, then, is the boorishnoss with them o.
with their assailant'
In fact, this business OF "saying negro
has always been mainly confined to the cham
pions Of legalized iniquity and oppression. WI
Of the contrary part have rather avoided it
For instances
THOMAS JRYTERsoS, In drafting bis iinmota
Declaration, SAID nothing Of negroes specifically
but only
1--WE hold these tTuths to be ,e!fe'lder tia. al at'
are created equal" &C, &c
And then-as II 10 guard against inc posi-
bility Of csvil that blacks are not men-ht
| arrsigned the British King as having
!, "waged cruel War against Human Nature itself
violating It's most sacred rights Of life and liberty In the
persons o! distant people who never offended him
captivating and carrying them into Eavery IN another
hemisphere" DC. &c. Determined 10 Keep open
market where should be bought and sold be hai
prosttutd his negative for supervising every legss
tive attempt TO prohibits or TO restrain this sIecrabL
commerce." &C, 90.
Even in his autobiography, written not long
before his death, Mr.. Jefferson says,
Nothing L. more certainly written In the book O.
fate than that these people are to be fee" &C., 90
4 /. was always SO with the great men of ouI
heroic age. Washington, in his will. says.
"Upon the decesse OF ray wife. It Il my win snd DO
sire that III sLsvss whom bold In my owa night sAal
receive their freedom-"
Thirteen years before, hs had written to bis
friend John F. Meroeri
"IneyeY mean unless some particular circumstance
should compel 70 IT, 10 possess another stsvs by
chase II being among my first wishes TO see some plan
adopted BY which Slavery may be abolished BY law"
}, He writes in this spirit many letters to Lafay.
cite and other dear friends, expressing bis Ar