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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley)

ow casting off the manacles of the Middle Ages, are to be cozened into the belief that involuntary servitude is the most blessed of human conditions. Davis should remember that he is asking the statesmen of Europe to acknowledge as excellent in America, a social policy which they are fast abandoning at home; and that the enfranchised of the old lands comprehend well enough what Slavery must be in the United States. Human nature will have something to do with that common humanity, to which DavUnited States. Human nature will have something to do with that common humanity, to which Davis officially tenders the assurance of his most respectful consideration. There is no man in Europe who is so ignorant as not to know that Slavery means unrequited toil, unrestrained cruelty, the despair of man and the degradation of woman. Whips speak a universal language as they fall upon the bare and blistering back; all ears understand that their hiss is hellish, and that the mystic characters which they write upon the cracking and furrowed skin do not hide any new gospel of ineffable t

s oppressors; that those who are only now casting off the manacles of the Middle Ages, are to be cozened into the belief that involuntary servitude is the most blessed of human conditions. Davis should remember that he is asking the statesmen of Europe to acknowledge as excellent in America, a social policy which they are fast abandoning at home; and that the enfranchised of the old lands comprehend well enough what Slavery must be in the United States. Human nature will have something to do with that common humanity, to which Davis officially tenders the assurance of his most respectful consideration. There is no man in Europe who is so ignorant as not to know that Slavery means unrequited toil, unrestrained cruelty, the despair of man and the degradation of woman. Whips speak a universal language as they fall upon the bare and blistering back; all ears understand that their hiss is hellish, and that the mystic characters which they write upon the cracking and furrowed skin do n

Davis to Mankind. appeals to posterity are very cheap, because whatever may be posterity's decision, it can not disturb the repose of appellants who are snugly slumbering in their coffins. Appeals to mankind, excellent as they are, for rounding a speech, or for filling up the moral hiatus of a pronunciamento, are seldom more than specimens of pretty rhetoric. Mr. Davis being in a lofty passion at the Emancipation Edict, appeals to the civilized world, and to the instincts of that commonMr. Davis being in a lofty passion at the Emancipation Edict, appeals to the civilized world, and to the instincts of that common humanity which a beneficent Creator has implanted in the breasts of our fellow-men of all countries, to pass judgment on a measure by which several millions of human beings of an inferior race — peaceful and contented laborers in their sphere — are doomed to extermination, while at the same time they are encouraged to a general assassination of their masters. It is astonishing to mark how exceedingly fraternal this Confederate Champion has become in his serene mind — in what an affectionate<

y quite too much for his self-abnegation. Humanity, as Squire Davis ought to know, is most warmly interested in frying its kes, in all diplomatic conferences, anything like a whine. Davis should know better than to suppose that he can gain any cony wants everything, and it wants nothing. The nigger loves Davis dearly and will slaughter him upon the first opportunity. his life, he cannot read! The careful hands which smooth Mr. Davis's virtuous sheets in the evening, will be at his wind-pipe before he can rise to his morning prayers. In short Mr. Davis is very much alarmed and not in the least frightened — in grluntary servitude is the most blessed of human conditions. Davis should remember that he is asking the statesmen of Europe tll have something to do with that common humanity, to which Davis officially tenders the assurance of his most respectful conbrutality. Common humanity has its instincts, and of these Davis should have said as little as possible. What had he to do