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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), The Trial of Toombs. (search)
as cautery; but sometimes it is only cautery that will do the business. Selfishness, of which Mr. Toombs gives us such a charming specimen, is the main cause of man-owning, and that is the main cause of all our political mischiefs. When we hear a planter talk about ethnology and the inferiority of races and so ascending and descending the whole gamut of solemn twaddle, we always laugh, at least inwardly; because we know that he approves of Slavery, out of no sort of respect for Moses or St. Paul, but because it gives him a coat to wear, toddies to drink, tobacco to smoke, a bed to lie upon, and a roof to cover him. When he is cornered, out comes the truth. Stop raising cotton! cries Toombs: lend you my niggers! I will see you hanged first! What a dear, delightful, outspoken, frank and candid Toombs! What a charming ProSlavery Doctor of Divinity he would make, to be sure! He is n't a man to give up all he is fighting for, merely for the sake of winning the battle. My niggers!
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Slaveholding Virtues. (search)
ving himself up to the somewhat coarse dissipation of throwing inoffensive people into the river; the Rosy William should have remained at home, seated in his own tabernacle, perusing the Holy Scriptures, or under the shade of his own fig-tree he should have read and expounded them to his henchmen and handmaidens, making plain to their simple understandings, the profound commentaries of Doctor Lord or of Doctor Fuller. But he does not appear to have been at all the sort of person to whom St. Paul would have been in a hurry to send back an absconding church-member. It is stated that his death will give great delight to his personal friends, as well as a calmer satisfaction to his enemies; and as we have every reason to believe, from Gen. Butler's well-known celerity in such matters, that William is now no more, we conclude our notice of him by expressing our mild regret that he ever existed at all. The slaveholding theory is indeed charming. We have a benevolent old master, wear
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Pocket morality — war for Trade. (search)
r by masticating, swallowing and digesting the slain. He does not quarrel with the flavor of the tid-bits, from the deglutition of which he anticipates such immense advantages. It is in the same bold and devoted way that this Times newspaper swallows Slavery on Monday, rejects it on Tuesday, and swallows it again on Wednesday, relishing the morsels well or ill, according to the fluctuations of the cotton market. Yesterday it pronounced human slavery to be a Divine Institution, and quoted St. Paul out of its borrowed Bible; today it declares that it would unfeignedly rejoice if the Emancipation Proclamation could only be effectual! What will it say to-morrow? Exactly what it may think the interests of trade demand. Joey B. is sharp, sir! devilish sharp! It would ill become us, members as we are of a great commercial community, to speak disrespectfully of mercantile prudence and sagacity. We yield to no one in our most respectful estimate of the ameliorating influences of t