New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-12-12

A telegram from New-Orlcars states that
Gen. Gregory ha, arrested and released, under
heavy bail. one Gilmore, charged with using
hounds, OF the bloody variety, We presume. to
hunt down negroes. Gilmore pleads that he
was in punuit OF a thief, and that the thief
turned out to be black. The excuse Is quite
insufficient. Dogs ara not used in civilized
countries TO hunt even thieves, and, if We are
not mistaken, aro not employed, even In
Louisiana, IN the pursuit of white men. Blood
hounds are trained TO follow negroes, ana
negroes onlyi and these enjoy no monopoly OF
larceny.
Ever, body knows the damnablo devices Of
cruelty and passion TO which, under the old
slave code, the negroes were subjected. Hunt
ine, horging, picking, padding, lettering
burning, starving, hangine-but why tax our
memory 10 complete the catalogue Of pitiless
puuishmcnisl These were the amenities of the
patria-chM system. These were the methods
of jurSp prudence, private and public, retained in
Christian aud cultivated America, long after
they lad been discarded in all countries to
which our own is, by race or opinion, in the
least gernaue. Such was the domestic dis
cipline of the plantation, and such were the re-
sources of petty and irresponsible tyrants,
isolated from regularly constituted tribunals,
and claiming q complete authority as judges,
Jurors and eSecutioners.
We do not know whether or not the breed of
bloodhounds is kept up in all its mischevous
purity in Louisiana, or whether in the general
decay OF the system Of which they were the nat
ural and efficient servants, they have grown less
nice of nose, less swift of foot, and less sharp of
fang Bnt the rcmorseess human cruelty
which stimulated their merciless sagacity and
trained them to the sure performance of these
disgusting Offices, still seems in pressing need Of
amcliorstion. The same pitiless hand etsthem
slip from their eashes. The same wild oaths
gsrnish the .hallOo which incites their brutal
instincts. The same cheap estimate of the value
of human life deputies them to tear at the
throat Of hunted wretches, and TO smear their
smoking jaws with the blood Of their palpitating
victims. We make every allowance; we note
with eagerness every indication of conscience,
of pity and of justice; We grieye at every token
of incorrigible habit; but the Ethiopian can no
more change his skin than the inyeterate Man
Owner, who has been educated to believe life
uncomfortable and society worthless without the
concession 10 his class of unlimited and ire
sponsible power can assume in a day new
nature and exhibit under new relations,
the virtues which those relations demand. Names
are nothing, and a State in which all the author
ity is left in the keeping of passion and prejudice
and class hatred, and in which the majority are
expected to obey without question: or the power
Of practical protest, though it may call itself a
Republic, q Commonwealth, or Democracy,
will not fail to exhibit tho worst vices of aristo-
cratic rule, and will remain exposed to pcrpet.
ual dangers, and all the shameful make-shifts Of
an oligarchy at once timorous and obstinate. A
want Of labor, such as exists at presentin Louis
lana, will be met by compulsory service which
can have no chance whatever of fair requital.
knowledge will DO monopolized; real property
will remain in a. few hands; tho very necessities
Of civilization, not to insist upon its comforts,
will DO m0nOpolized, sad the whole business Of
selfish legislation win DO to perpetuato its un'
limited power. In such n state Elmorc and his
like, with their kennels Of baying constaldes
will DO in ceaseless demand, dungeons VIII be
multiplied, and tho whipping post bccosnc scher