New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-05
THE ABOLITIONIsTs.

II is not yet thirty years since the kev. Eilah
p. Loyejoy was driven out of Missouri because
he persisted in occasionally discussing, in the
columns of the religious journal he conducted,
the moral aspects Of Slavery as it existed around
him. He was no politician-he favored no
party or candidate-he regarded and treated
Slavery as one Of many moral evils, like gam
bling, lewdness, &c. Driven out Of the most
tolerant Of Slave States, he removed to its Free
neghbor, hoping that. there he might quietly
serve God and man unassailed. But Do-his
press was destroyed, his family imperiled. his
liberty denied, and finally he was himself muir
dered while trying to defend his third press from
destruction. 1t was settled in his person that,
whether in a Slave or Free State, no man
could condemn and oppose Slavery save OF the
peril Of his property and his life
Not thirty years have since passed, yet
Slavery is dead Long identified in many
knavsh harangues and in some dull minds with
the Union, it made q desperate effort to destroy
that Union and, failing, persisted. Its relics
have covered our country with blood-soaked
ashes and ruins.
Slavery is dead, but its spirit survives. 1t is
quite as rampant at the North as at the South.
The further sale Of men as chattels being for
hidden, it is now attempted to keep the late
slaves in as degraded and bestial q state as is
still possible. They have nothing whereon to
subsist but their labor: let them be con-
strained to sell this for the smallest
pittance: they are grossly ignorant; let
them be systematically kept in that benighted
condition; many of them are lewd and vicious;
treat them as cattle, and they will in good part
remain SO: they have never had any voice in
framing or in executing the laws which govern
them: let their Acknowledgement be confirmed
and sealed. Such is the attitude toward the
Blacks of our country Of the Democratic party
of the North and their late Rebel allies in the
South. fit be not illiberal, inhuman un-Chrs-
tian, what could BET
To-day, it seems to superficial view that the
triumph of these allies is inevitable. And,
leaving Gods justice out Of the account, it
,oould be. There is not one White BLACKBOARD,
or blackleg, or swindler, or thief, in every
hundred, who is not "down on tho niggers. "
In the grogshops, there is scarcely dissent
from the policy Of perpetual Negro Disfranchise'
ment. Nearly all who seek or expect office Ego
with the crowd" Courtiers are not necessarily
wrong-headed: they only want their bread well
buttered. With the current prejudice against
the negro especially among the vulgar, his
doom would seem assured.
But there is a tremendous latent force in the
Right. The South, minus the Blacks, is TO-
day disloyal and only subject to the Union;
count everybody, and the South is for the
Union. 1t needs but the establishment of the
reasonable and moderate proposition that
those rho haze done their best to dirids and
destroy our country ought to be accorded no
superiority over those who hare done their
best to preserre 1t, to settle the entire con-
troversy promptly and on principles of equity
and benefcence Only admit that-each being
free-a uniformly loyal man should fare
no worse than the other sort, and ell
must result as it should.
For our own part, we are proud to
be numbered with those who, having lived to
see our country made wholly Free, invoke no
outpouring of vengeance or wrath on the de-.
feated, asking only that the freedom Just ac-
corded shall be real and thorough-that, to this
end it be guarded by the votes of those most
interested in its preservation. We seek not