New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-26
ROCRUCK,s MISTAKE.

John Arthur Roebuck, NJ. z. from Sheffield,
now Ga years old, is one of those ex-Reiormers
like the late Sir Francis Burdett and the re-
naming Henry Lord Brougham) who, having
grown rich and timorouS, turn their backs Oh
themselves and balance the reluctant homage
they are still obliged to pay to certain ancient
professions and watchwords OF liberalism by o
deadly, unceasing war upon all new ideas
and measures Of reform. Roebuck, Ike
Brougham, has been our persistent enemy
throughout our late struggle, and is now an
noyed at our triumph, but unlike Brougham)
still shows his teeth at us, and honestly avowS
that he wished this country broken up because
he hoped its fragments would be less powerful
and better behaved" than tho Union. This Is
candid. and we thank him for il. Bnt he pro-
ceeds to excuse his sympathy with the side OF
Slavery in our contest ~ follows:
But then II was said tina, the North-thc Federas
as they then called themsclyeswere the enemies OF
Slavery and the South the friends OF Slavery. hy
ansu or was. The Federals the foes of slavery
but there on, hing they hat more than SiAr@y wy
and the, IL the bldct slarr, Wherever you find back
person in the Northern cities Of America he Is most
wreichedy treated; 10 IA treated worse than you
would treat dog, and you have poisoned great nun
Der OF them in Sheffield. At tins moment. there are
xhts constantly taking place IL Washington ana o'he
cities, because the poor black man wishes to roe III al
omnibus said the ieople who would do that are ne"
the friend Of the black said AN his friend
believe that il Lad allow ed them 20 go on quietly
they would have been liberated. carefully. wisely Tor
II Americans and for the negro; and be would not
have been he is nova wretc ied, miserable starved
creature. troated all sides buiiced and ihumPd.
cruelty maltrented, and miserable. There is III! de-
tense about America.
Now Mr.. Roebuck cannot be innocently ig-
norant Of the truth that the american aJastrs Of
tie BLACKS are all but universally CopptrheGds and
open or secra Sympdthi:trs nth the Shrehoilers'
Rebellion. We personally know hundreds who
are clown on the niger" as they phrase il;
but not one Of these was heartily devoted to the
Union cause in our late struggle, while q ma
jorty of them were just as disloyal as they
could be and keep out Of Fort Lafayette. The
anti-Dral rioters in our City, who burned the
Colored Orphan Asylum two years since and
hunted poor negro women and children out OF
their homes and often into their graves, offered
$500 for the sight Of Black Repub.
liean," and assailed The TRIBUNE Office
as Indignantly, as persistently but
not quite so successfully, as if it had been
negro-hut. Search from Maine to Texas, and
wherever you find an abuser of negroes, no
matter il in our National uniform, you have
one who hoped for the triumph of the Confeder-
acy either through Disunion outright and per.
mauent or reconstruction which should
make the Slavery Of Blacks fundamental law
of our whole country, and the Slave Power its
omnipotent and perpetual dictator. These are
facts which Mr.. Roebuck need not cross tho
Atlantic to learn, and they brand his attack
upon us with essential and nexcuSable false
hood