The herald., 1837-04-08
Progress Of the Revolution.

Progress Of the RevOlution.
The revolution advances. From every point oi
The compass--rom the south-from the west-hoiii
The east-the symptoms Of the great change IN Poi
Tics and in commerce-n the business OF e anu III o
business of government borne 10 US Dy every man
and on every wind Beginning IN the large oes' ~
which are the centres of our various iocai sy''e''
the excitement and panic gradually ana oy s,a' -
spread to the interior and remote towns ana villages
and country places> :,
Tb;s ! . singular country Called republic-go-
yerned by the popular will II yet presents state OF
~oc,,tv and civilization altogether different from any
of the democracies ofancient Greece or more modern
Italy. Athens, Sparta Rome, Florence Venice, Ge-
neva were more or less democracies III one perod OF
their pride but ruined and blinded with military
spirit and military ambition. They single cities
aciated by single passions. This great republic of
Ihe west is collection of such democracles, grouped
up together and acting as one body, under thcintiu-
-eace OF new species of political, commercial, ana
socal principles We form great complex machine
generated and set in motion by the power OF the
press and the power Of steam. Nothing, therefore,
but the same spirit of intelligence and science which
creates the social condition Of such country, can
preserve il from revolution and bloodshed. In all an
cent or modern democracics the lee way Of the social
systems was corrected by revolution Of bio d and
of plunder. Here, new state of society cxists-wh
principles of acton-new impulses, and new
powers Of recovery.
We have now reached one of those crises when
the Spirit of Business and the Spirit of Party have
engaged in opt conflict. During the last ten or hf
teen years while he great body of the men of busl
ness were busy engaged in advancing the nation in
every Of civlsed life, the politicians were equally
engaged IN csrupGng Its government-desnoylng the
action Of a wise constitution, and making Congress
pass laws utterly at variance with the course OF JUS
tce, OF trade, of commerce. and of morals in social
life. The whole commercial interests Of the nation
have been bound m shackes, by ignorance, presump-
non, ambition, and vugarty, of the most brutal kind.
This IS not question which affects the interests Of
large cities only. The famous apothegm of Jefier
son. that great cities are great sores" remains only
as a mark of his ignorance and presumption-a me-
moral of his narrow conceits, which he called sci
rnce and his short cited views of civilization, which
he dignfied with the name of philosophy. The whole
country, by means Of the press and steam power is
one great city, and New York, New Orleans,
others are only the central and generating parts Of
1he system.
The revolution now gong in commerce, will
reach the remotest village in the INTERIOR and strike
1he lowest artizan n the land. Ii is revolution pro-
duced by the accumulated disorders in government
infueRced by miserable party spirit, instead of sci
ence intelligence and good sense. Ii IS the mind and
intellect rising superior 10 the beastly passions OF
corrupt politicians, and the groveng ideas of charla
fans and drivellers. For sIx months, the the premo
nitory symptoms Of the revelation have been in
state of developement. II embraces now all classes
all ranks-all professions BY the operation of
wretehed laws, passed 10y a conup, Congress, and
L. IL.
party sp nit, the country reduced to general state
OF ruin and degradation.
In this city the revolution begins-a revolution that
will and must the disorders of the times Next
week election takes pace-an expression Of OPT
MON made through the ballo. boxes. Men al pre-
sent arrange themselves under the ridiculous names
Of wings, democrats oce:ocos and natives; and IN
feged charlatms helongro 'Lose fn,,r ai, s;...-
get up r,.lo meetings and cry out in cuckoo notes
for our slde-our SIDE" These divisions and Sc
parate bodies, are nominal and ridiculous The
great contest now going on in SOCIAL POLITICAL COM
mercial life is coatest between mind and ignorance
between science and folly-between morals and
corrupt.on-between intellect and passon--between
the great spirit of civilization and the groveng
demon of party. Were We a less intellectual pco-
ple il would bo revolution of blood We are
commercial and ciyliscd race and our weapons are
reason, argument fact, and mental energy, driven to
desperation. Had such crisis the present taken
place in The palmy days Of the Roman republic Mar
lin Van Buren would have perished under thousand
daggers-Congrcss would he driven like felons from
their corrupt and dsgraceiul haun,s Of dissipation
the Legislature would have been thrown into the Hud-
riyer-and Tammany Hall razed to its founda-
lion, and eternal column of granite high as that
which hands down the deeds of Sesostrs four thou
sand years opossrity, with tins inscription Erect
ed 10 he msmory IF the American Patriots icao de-.
irereS the Republic from The lille red haired demon
Of Party Spirit and tore up 70 is Foundation the
Grand Temple ichere is orgies rerc ceietrated-
april 10 ii, l2, 1887"
CLEAR THE WAy.-Broadway for the last two years
has been terribly encountered with the private carriage
of the land pe,ulators with their livery servants and
and coachmen all dressed Up in the most splendid
hyeries. Since the commercial revolution set in,
we learn that many Of these establishments are
broken up, and that many mere will 90 the same
way These lofty gentlemen who, by help Of ltho-
craps and whole towns laid out on paper rode in gay
barrouches, are now beginning 10 take the pare BY
ihe first Of May Broadway will be passablc for the old