New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-13


Yankee or Celt were BY nature deslloiust at to be
slaves and to b owned By capital Aristotle does not
r<fsss" tLm line Of the Hellenic poet; he has no
thought Of any such thing. He objects 10 II simply be-
cause 1t measures the doulkon by the Barbarian
though NO wider than the other. or to his
own language "they were by nature the same" Read
the passage Mr.. World Pslftics Lib. L. chap. and @.
II the objection that rigid Calhounite would
make to an old-fashIoned defender Of Slavery who
would eonhnc II to the Negro instead Of making 1t to
cover all Mudsills whatever Some Of the HellsnisAs
too were Mudsls, or rather there were no Helleni'
ans now, Philip and Alexander and "State Rghn'
had put end to all that 1t was ono huge Barbaro
empire. and the courly philosopher was beginning to
deAoct the word Barbarian from Ito old geographical
sense the poet used H. to the 1t has since borne
denoting the rude tho untaugtt 90 supposedly the
babaross or barbarian IN the given to the WORD
BY the Arstocrat-sl, in short whom he proves to be
"by nature" doSlikoi or born for slavery.
There Is ono thing that perplsxes the modern pro-
Slavery reasoner which the old wrIter had not In his
way. Certain peculiaritics Of our American Constr
tuition certain advantages Of numerical representation
which IL IL to b hoped the order Of things viii
change. compelled the Southern advocate Of tho di
vine institution" to regard the douIos in sene re-
peets perssnust enough to send bis master to Con
gress This necessity very much warped his argument
and sometimes gave IL very hobb,Ing gait Witness
the late debates In the Rebel Congress. Aristotle he'd
nothing Of this kind In his way and therefore his logic
has merciIess consistency that Of Judge Ruin
As doSis' as a Aiss by nature born and fitted for the
ssrviie state the slave could strictly have rsi2en'
He utterly takes away the word Of which modern pro
Slavery advocates have madc suoh plausible and dis
gu.sing use. In this very argument which TAs World
40 lcsrnedy calls "rofntstion.' he rejects the Idea
OF those who would compare the relation OF the wife "
that Of the dave. some modern clerical advocates
have dared TO do Such might be the case ho ssys
Anong the Barbsrians whore marriage itself was SER
villa But the great difference consisted In thia that In
marriage, a. 1t ought 10 be- there kefntnid. there
was phiIia. there WAS een~Eriy there was frsndsAfp
there was true ysa's and reciprocal obligation, there
vss binding etLies-nono Of which things could have
truly any place In tho servie stste because tho slave
was truly hi-9. fitted by nature to be vsisd and t.
have will OF Ids own; hence rights, me- etliga
tions nothing TINT the d,,pot' bound TO respect
Wherefore he gives rs elsewhere (Slie. Eicho~aeA.
viii y that remarkable definition Of d0uios as " en-
ossnes OF TOOL" differing from other toels only In hav
ling "a ne u soul In H." which made II the more vaIs
able; while on tie other hand tool Is defined as "a
soalsss sllve" THE IS the authority which lelearn d
yvld would cite refutils those who wonLi jus ny
tho Gresk, in mskRf slaves Of Barbarinns
We have said So mach about The WorlSs wondrous
display Of Greek thot have bu. h,te space for his
La,in unless should rather say t The phrase "
s,,sns inprol be ssys. Is ,hcckngly bad II s not
classical il Is however, good law Latin. at all events,
IN the bes, lawtoohs, from Coke downward, ara any
authority upon that head. Greece was compared to
one who dies "ntssAis and without issue" Whether
or no. in hurried manuscript th-rs neglect to
make a change in welltHown phrase to suit mere
Of tho subject H. Of iisel hardly worth
a ,horght Perhaps tn. gsrld mean, that. Is it YVES
applied to Greece. II should have had feupns termi
nation. Ths, however LET ME tell hin (vSere Ina
personal used In It's English nance very mach
alter Of choice An affected cessieelity night he
scrurnloSs about TIE change but ono who wished to
the phrase and ye, preserve il TIE wereeognised
form In which 1t sppsars % commonly In our law.
books would dcspi.e any such unnecessary change as
cosieu p,kle pednEtry. lie wonld raihsr Rave such
critics as IT.. WoriTs suppose him to be actually igno-
rant Of toe feiegire ending 81 q Latin adjective.
Their 10 one point in The Hor.T, Second article on
which TIE writer to Icy great stress Greece did
grow 10 maintains snd perform great actions and pro-
fore port Acc pverier Aoe autonomy good thing and
tho author Of the Photograph very inconsistent in
Blaming IL nischi.vcus while prssng Greece fcr
these things IL the critic how very easy II Is
TO snswer this' II precisely tho argument some
times made for the party OF Buchanan, namely that
there IL duo " II all the genius and all he prosperity
and MI tho natural grovth that eae In spite III and
witch all i,s misctievous policy could not wholly
hinder At last however tho qunck doctor leaves the
long sressed patient in the eonvulsoa, and agones
Of death 10 hns done with his annexation pills and
fibustcring syrups aud compromise pasters lie has
eveu Lin mp his IN eIesss to do the best
he can and then the Wis prsiender has the impudsnos
to turn round and say No but the odd doctor can
cure him" saca is tito attitude Of TIE World. and that
worn out ouaok which be would call bis party. Great
"a were the focs Of ancient Greece there Is not In al
her turbulent hlstory anything 30 foclshy insane -
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