New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-07


liberty stopped with the Canaries, and when the New
absolutism which people endure without great
political suffering Never did you recognize the right Of
that there should he received the most unfortunate OF
them all, you proclaimed our ncompeteney' ana asked
the negroeshat the masters should come TO decide the
lot Of the slaves ali Of the slaves free without them
against them and against us; free by reason OF Their
because of their being members Of the human family
And every power which fails TO recognize these prmor
dial rights whatever may be the law, whatever
nience may dictate commits assassination upon the hui
man conscience, an assassination upon the s9-a crime
which celestial rage Furnishes, and which damns itself
with everlasting infamy In the hell Of history Jap
plause.l
The mischief that attends the slowness with which we
have proceeded and proceed in matters of this Kind
met with at the beginning OF our revolution That
revolution embraced two revolutions In one Ihese TOOK
place at the same mOment-a revolution analogous 10
that Of France in 1882 and anGthe similar to that OF be eS
signed the Constitution that they had signed mutual
S cy S SUPPOSED they had found in the revolution of Sep
TENDER stream where their currents might be comin
gled, when in fact. they had only found new hed OF
battle where they might measure strength The Con-
sentative party is the party OF gradual reforms and inc
happens it that the law for the abolition of Slavery
agrees with the judgment OF the Conseryatiyesl You
property. OF whomi OF WHAT The idea of property
presupposes something appropriated will concede the
things, and not persons that negroes are beings without
reason and without conscience You may appropriate
Hdt appropriate ' souls Property consists in the
jus utendi Il a5aendi Prove to me that masters can
Tf a for %Se e Sss
depends on circumstances and not upon rights ON So
those which pertain TO geology II may happen that the
nc n and Too hair The ASCENDING and descend
ing movement Of race nstonishes one The founders OF
religion te Jews have been the slaves Of the Egyp
tans and Of the AsSyTians The Russian has been the
slave of the Pole. The predecessors OF the BIsh hob
ty were bought and sold at the doors of the Roman
MOutaneHe, NasgOn0s
have died because they preferred the torment OF the
cross to the torment of the slave dens of Rome.
The question to whether not negroes are property
shall not delay me m my argument nave never DE-
of NV principies' cannot be approved These eman-
cipddOS who live under transmssibe patron Tor many
years will be oppressed driven about upon the EARTH
These old men aud women who will only become free
when they shall become useless remind Of those sefs
whom the ancientss consecrated to E'cuapus leaving
them to die island in the Tiber. This law Will
elnancpate the negroes in 80 years Gradual epoehs IN
the matter OF abolition are horribe they engender all
the servile wars the most bloody OF all wars IL mas
been attempted thousand times and has always Ialea,
Tho slave has foetaste or his liberty, ana stTugges
against his irons The master know that he is going 70
sweat upon the ied. When emancipation comes mat
which il given up to freedom IS dead body. NO. the
interest of the master, who desires TO preserve his prep
ety and the rights of the slave who desires TO be free,
cannot he served at one and the same time That If m
1t should not they unprepared for that
liberty. The vendetta OF September promised them ree
was attack upon human kind. The Minister Of War
signed with me manifesto demanding an lmmeoatle
abolition. may tell that thing belongs 10 the
IDEAL and another thing to the possible Snail the Garth
be so condemned as that may he possible Tor nJnsuce
| 10 exist in 1t always, and justice nevert ,
How many consde rations for the owners OF negroesl
that their laws have been the hearthone where the
cradle of our spirit has been stirred. What would have
hccone of you of our liberty if the Progresista party
had guarded in political problems the doctrine OF an aD
quiston n social problons ursdictiona lord such as
~ siavesY Ah.oitsm the inquisition feudas would
render barren the soil OF the country as wei rs e
The only reason given in favor of gradual abolition is
that the evils which 1t is supposed an immediate ab0i-
tinn would entail Let grant this for moment inc
vile origin Of Slavery is the slave traffic There is not in
the world so great criminal a. Inc ave IRA cr of
human flesh, has more soul and more conscience tlah
negro which has cost him si0o and so he piles his cargo
in the bowels Of that horrible floating calabOose Ihe
his cargo in tighten his vessel In the Spring
of 1866 slave ship, with view OF getting away, ie ~
hunger There can society where advertisements
TeaG Ia aohe Of t AND daaghcr The mares
are sold separately or together; the slaves
are sC fro her dSnshter daughter from her
mother-that which Nature joined together ana tne
service and qualification of another he begets slaves,
happy IT, when sleeping he dreams that he is free Eut
he is only free the day of death. For this reason
10 as the refuge of the For this cause during one
year in the Island of Cuba 400 slaves committed suicide
without pain The two difficulties in the way of the
abolition of Slavery are; First the dsrePnte INTO WHEN lien
In the English Colonies this disproporton was alarm
ing In them there not free laborer. This did
not stop the English for they abolished slavery we,
ourselves have IN our Antilles lnnen greater acG VA,
slave population In Porto Rico there arc i2U slaves
and $4,000 freemen In Cuba there are 100000 feemen
freedom and far from raising the banner Of nsarFec-
ton il will cover you with benedictions. And what
saw OF the population, repeat as 10 labOY Is not pos
sble that labor should fall into dsrepnte Where There
nv he of
Were his not So the public wealth would dsproye it,
satscian Of Puerto Principe that slavery
ascending scale For year her mercantile trans
actions the amount Of oo0 whereas years
The lesser fruits which require but little labor or LAND
make up nineentls Of the riches OF the whole Island
Rico came here The Commissioners Of Cuba asked for
abolition in twelve years. but those from Porto RICO
asked that should be granted at with or without
indemnity, These men deserved to be placed upon an
equality with those who in 1872 renamed their privileges
temporary history and you win nnd nowhere gradual
A negro a slave had up from the bottom OF his
slave the Conventional perception OF the night
and fine Assembly yacated all those political organ-
cations which pass the dividing lines Of great social hem
isphcres. But many great orators spoke, and among
them Danton who was the thought and energy OF the
revolution. The Assembly, moved az la.t ny kresaV
cry Of Joy arose all parts, as II the human race
would palptae with pleasure at freeing the c0nscenee
from shch a gloomy weight of anxious Thought The
who were at Paris entered the building, scat
tered along the benches and with Nars ia thet eys,
erafed sers were sufficient to eface from the human
memory all the blood split by the Ceh'ehIoh III ITO uo
Jun and in the s0ttishness OF its ideas.
/ know what you going To say therefore, come
10 the catastrophe Of San Domingo That has been cted
he invaded when the Constituyente Asemblea) declared
that whites and mulattOes, that Is u say al nve poi'
attoos who asked for the fufment of the law and cut
in pieces the envoy Of the Constnyente Asemoiea''
90 te ne0roes preserved the island for the COnyento