New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-10

conscience of every fair-ninded man tell him thai
the following words, burning they are, found
ed in essential truth
Where sat the many legislators ofcoarse threats
Of words and blows such as coal-heavers deal upon
each other, when they forget their breeding On
every side. Every session had its anecdotes OF
that kind, and the actors were all there. Did |
recognize in this assembly, g body of men who,
applying themselves in new world TO correct
some OF the falsehoods and vices of the old, pur-
ned the avenues to Public Life, paved the dirty
ways to Place and Power, debated and made
laws for the Common Gsod, and had no party but
their Country | saw in them, the wheels that
move ;he meanest perverson Of virtuous Political
Machinery that the worst tools ever wrought
Despicable trickeTy az elections; under-handed
tamperings with public officers; cewnrdly attacks
upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers tor
shields, and hired pens for daggers; shameful
trucklings TO mercenary knaves, whose claim to be
considered is, that every day and week they SOW
new crops of ruin with their vena types, which
the dragons teeth of yore in every thing but
sharpness; adngs and abettings of every bad in
clina,ion in the popular mind, and artul suppress
sions of all its good influences: such things as
these, and in word, Dishonest Faction in its most
depraved and most unblushing form, stared out
from every corner Of the crowded hall Did l
see among them, the intelligence and refinement;
the true HONEST, patriotic heart of America? Here
and there, were drops of its blood and life, but
they scarcely colored the stream of desperate ad-
veEturers which sets that way for profit and Tor
pay. 1t is the game of these men, and their prof
lgate organs to make the strife of politics so
fierce and brutal and destructive of all self-re-
spect in worthy men, that sensitive and delicate
minded persons shall be kept aloof, and they, and
such as they, be left to battle out their selfish
views, unchecked. And thus the lowest OF all
scrambing fights goes on, and they who in other
countries would, from their intelligence and sta
ton, most aspire to make The laws, do here recoi
the faIthest from that degradation.
That there are, among the Representatives of
the people in both Houses, and among all parties,
some men of high character and great abilities, /
need not say. The foremost among those politi-
clans who are known in Europe, have been already
described, ard see no reason to depart from the
rule have laid down for my guidance, of abstain
ing from all mention of individuals. 1t will be
sufficient to add, that to the most favorable &C.
counts that have been written of them, l more
than fully and most heartily subscribe; and that
personal intercourse and free communication have
bred within me, not the result predicted in the very
doubtful proverb, but increased admiration and re-
spect. They are striking men to look at hard to
deceive prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons
in varied accomplishment, Indians in FIRE of eye
and gesture, Americans in strong and generous i'm
pulse; and they we'll represent the honor and
wisdom of their country at home, as the dis
tinguished gentleman who is now its minister at
the British Court sustains its highest character
abroad.
Towards Slavery Mr.. Dickens entertains no
very decided affection; could any reasonable
man expect that he should He might have mem
ton ed. however, that the system was entalcd
upon the Southern States by England-thar it was
sustained and nursed into life by her, and that
Cor all its enorEnities, for its very existence,
we are indebted to her mothcrly care. Nor
does lie seem to understand that, had it not been
for the wild efforts of his countrymen, founded
quite as much in patriotic hatred OF America as in
love for humanity tending solelyto intamc ard alarm
those upon whom they sought to operate, many OF
its harshest features would long since have been
destroyed. We presume it is difficult for an Eng
lishman to feel this truth it is certainly next TO
impossible for the best of them to acknowledge it.
His structures upon the Press, strange as it may
seem for US to say so, are essentially true. The
Newspaper Press of th. country delights to dwell
upon the might of It's iniuencc-the absolute ON
Impotence of lis sway; nor is exaggeraton easy.
The power of the Press here is as great as the
Press itself represents it. But no man seems TO
understand, or willing TO acknowledge, that its
power for eui1 is infinitely greater than its power
for good Where one heart will receive an i'm
pulse in favor of truth and goodness and purity
by the most eloquent appeal in their behalf, in
hundred single sentence of rbaid SANDER, soli-
tary paragraph of unprincipled licentiousness,
plants seeds which will bear fruit through the
countless ages of eternity. 1t is utterly imPossi-
bic for any man TO exagserate, or paint in coors
more vivid than the truth, The pestiierous power
of single press which sets all moral principle
at defiance, and marches on, with unblushing
front, to its work of death. The guilt of murder
is perfect innocence compared with that Of those
who direct these great engines of misery and sin.
How could an intelligent foreigner come among
Us and open his eyes upon any thing else than
these infamous sheets From one end of the
year TO the other-at every hour of every day
they are creu III our ears, ana tue!r Pestuehl TOT
,enness pollutes every breath of lir we inhale.-
How does it mend the matter to say that they are
conducted 10y foreigners? Who SUPPORTS THEM
and why are not these foreigners themselves
M,-ust into tbs Dungeons they have helped to fill,
or 5anished from The land they have blasted and
cursed 1t is folly, it is cowardce, it is crime,
to seek 10 sniff, apon others the responsibility we
have ourselves incurred Manliness and honesty
would seek a remedy for the foul plague, instead
of cloaking il with lies and hiding its dcformity