New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-03
SQUEEZED ORANGES.

to be paid off and mustered out Of tho service. D."
1t may not be without its uses if those whose
prejudices have been so thoroughly stimulated
by recent political event, and who have since
been, even for them, uncommonly vociferous
upon the subject of "niggerS," will pause and
reflect out of what service these soldiers are to
be mustered, and what a condition the so-called
Conservatives expect them to be mustered into.
A white soldier who should return from war,
less leg or with his general health impaired,
after a devotion Of three or four years Of his life
to the rescue of the Government from extraor
binary dangers, only to be told that he
was nobody or less than nobody, in
the commonwealth in part owing its very
existence to his exertions, would, no doubt,
have an inclination as ample as his leis-
ure. to sit down and to mourn over ingratitude
as the easily besetting sin of nations. we
might afford to laugh at one solitary colored
man PLAYING Caius Marius In this disappointed
and indignant frame of mind, but when you
have 10000 mounted upon their injuries,
we do not SEQ how their reflections can
be promotiye of social quietude and order.
You may talk of prudence, you may prate
of ignorance, you may presume, as
the late patriarchs did, upon black bestiality,
but the unrewarded, insulted, neglected black
soldier has an intuitye logic Of his own, which
is more accurate and potent than the first and
finest chop Of the most thaumaturgical Of col
lege professors. You presume that no did not
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and camped, advanced and retreated, manipu-
lated his iire-lock, exposed his life, with no
more sense than cavalry horse goes through
his PAGES. He became o soldier partly because
be was told to, and his habit was that Of obedi-
ence and partly because he was fond of the
fun, and took pleasure in running the rsk OF
Wagner massacres This is hardly consistent
with the old, early theory that he would turn
out coward aud make tracks from his FIRST
battlefield with velocity-but never mind
you expect consistency in tho arguments and
assumptions Of his haters, you are reckoning
without your host. Poor oreature-every fool,
every selfish schemer, every il-natured upstart
may have his say OF him. lie is talked over as
knowing grooms talk over horses-he il dis
cussed dissected, analysed microscopically, and
he is deficient here, wanting there, ill-iurnished
with this, oyer-lurnshed with that, fit for one
thing unfit for another, but, somehow, never fit
10 be justly and honorably treated as man, God
made and God-endowed and God-beloved There
is a world Of trouble latent in these comfortable
onclusions-especially when the objec, Of them
ia discharged soldier. Sensible men at the
South forsee this as plainly as possible. "Ex-
tend to the Blacks" says cx.Gov. Brown of
Georgia, "al the civil rights enjoyed by White
persons" Shrewd Ex-Governor he has no pas
sion 70. walking over d mine which at any mo-
ment may explode, and send him sky-high in
| fragments. He wants peace, security, per-
petuity-he wants dinner to eat and chance
to cot it in safety-hc wants Il roof insured
against conAagration-he wants to plant and
gather profitaby-he does not want score
of sour, disappointed, aggrieycd Blacks |
hanging about his premises, hating aud with
sufficient reason to hate all of his complexion.
He Is well-yersed enough in history to know
that the presence Of large, discontinued class
Of producing men, who should be producers, |
is far from being either profitable or comfort
able. Perhaps he has TO philanthropy to boast
of, perhaps he has none whatcver-but Il is |
common prudence, not philanthropy which IL
| in question. And Brown can see us far into that
milestone as any member Of his numerous fam.
| ily, with all the Smiths and Joneses thrown into
the estimate. We suppose that, being Geor-
gian and an ex-slaycholder, Brown will bc lis
tened to respectfully By even the haughtiest
of Copperheads and for like reason,
whenever We find Southern man
] talking sense, we exert ourselves to give the
largest possible publicity 10 his utterance. But
when Northern man ventures TO insist upon
justice simply, even upon the score ofprudence,
he is howled and yepel and erowled at as a
seudo-philanthropst and true fanatic, and
that most damnablc and disgusting of all crea-
lures, Radical. S0 We turn over these hyper
critics to Brown. lie is, no doubt, also Radi.
cal-at any rate, he comprehends that the
political change in The South is wide, sweeping,
decided and wholesale ii not wholesome, and
50 gracefully accepts the situation. We viii say
nothing Of philanthropy. We will admit, for
the purposes Of the argument that Slavery was
an eminently just, profitable and charitable in.
stitution. What we must, however, insist upon
is that death is not lile that freedom is not
serfdom that emancipation necesSitates an en-
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