New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-17
ssoCIATIoN;
Or, Principles of True Organization Of Society.

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" TIE Ed.0r,sip Of this column is distinct from fiat Of
Tic Tibans address letters postpaid, to A. BRISBANE
[ Residence 76 LeorarG-street.
We have received Discourse delivered by
HBGH a. GARLAND, late Clerk of the House OF
Representatives, and a man OF distinguished
abilities, before the Petersburg {Va) Total Alb
stinence Society, on the 18th OF July, on the'sub
ject of Intempcrance. He lays down as his
proposition The Root of Intemperance is in the
Social System.
Hugh A.. Garland has studied thoroughly the
works of Fourier, and the extracts which we
mako from bis Discourse place him in the po-
sition of bold and ardent advocate of the great
Social Transformation which the mighty mind of
Fourier has disclosed to the World.
If a man like Garland, casting aside all minor
considerations, would take up the great Cause of
a Social Reform in the South, he would aid nobly
the work Of human Progress, and the Social Ele-
va.ion of the Human Race. Little and prejudiced
minds might sneer in the beginning, but then it
would only be for short time; and besides. of
what weight consequence would be their puerile
objections and criticisms?
for ii is truly beautiful.
Future Condition Of the Earth.
The surface of this glote will yet be paradise,
covered with golden fruits, and famed with the
sweet breath Of morning and OF evening, and Man
shall walk thereon, erect and Godlike, in freedom
and in happiness. speak not in parallels. L
utter not the dark sayings of prophecy. I speak
in plain words that which all prophecy has dim!y
Swallowed forth as certain to come-that which
the philosopher in his profound investigation has
traced out the necessary result of laws as Ger
tain and Interchangeable in their operation as those
which govern the revolutions and the movements
OF the material universe.
Why has not Man attained his Destiny?
Why has not the great end OF human existence
oeen yet attained Why, do'st thou ask, has net
The first approximation been made towards it
Why, instead OF the fair picture here portrayed TO
the fancy. do we behold nought but weltering
chaos of confusion, disorder, contention and
wretchedness? Because Man failed to deveIope
and TO use the means given and designed for that
purpose. There was to be no miracle, no ex-
traneous aid, no divine interpositon. The whole
was to be accomplished by human agency. Man
and the elements ncedful he had only to find out,
him, in due season, the Divine Word a living and
working power, whose creative produc,iveness
could subdue all obstacles, and bring to harmony
the most discordant natures. Simply by the act
ing of mind on matter, through the work OF the
hands, was the whole TO be accomplished.
Degradation Of Labor.
Your penny Presses, whose thought extends not
beyond the necessities of the houl-the pensioned
writer's, whose influence and whose bread depends
on Il justification on the enormities of the time.
may nagsify the glores OF the Nineteenth Cen
tury---but no observing no rejecting man, can put
from him the conviction that Labor the inalienable
right the fundamental duty of all men, and the only
means of securing present well being and future
happiness was never more degraded-never more
dependent, helpless and hopeless, than in thi.
boosted age of reformed Christianity. and enlisht
ened civilization.
Uselsssness of Legislation.
Amid the commissions of modern times, q Rcpub-
-lican or Representative form of Government has
been secured to most civilized nations, and for the
last half century men have been looking in that
quarter for alienation and change. Vain hope !
delusiva expectation! The day-laborer, the dumb
drudge doomed to toll for his bread-he who has
no other property to exhibit but hard, tol-'worn
hand, has no voice, no representation in the coun
ellis Of his country. He may cast in his vote, and
fling up his cap in exultation that the man of his
choice has been elected but what good results to
him? Does he toll the less has he burthens the
less? He finds in the end, that he has only lent
his shoulder for some political aspiran to step up
the ladder of fame, while he receives contempt
and taxes as a reward-and growing indignant at
the treachery of his favorite, he may turn round
and cast his suffrage for another-but invariably
the same results follow-no alienation, no change
for the better.
The evil lies not in Government, and can never
be reached by legislation. Political Revolution
after Revolution have followed each other in such
quick succession with such fair promises and such
poor conclusions, that rehecting men are now be-
ginning look on legislation at present existing
as an idle mockery-a vain delusion, creating cx-
pectatons that can never be fulfilled and sckening
the heart with hope ever doomed to be deferred.
The Church.
The Church, content as of old to pluck here and
there one as brand from the burning seeks not to
quench the fame that devours them. My ighbor
is told, that unless he repent he shall debut we
are rot told that we shall all be condemned for
sanc,ionng and unfolding system of things that
makes it almest impossible for him to repent-a
system of things which so clogs his path and
weighs down his heart, that he cannot by the
utmost striving lift himself upon the level Of a
free man and a Christian.
A T;sion Of the Future.
When had seen and heard, then by the spirit
of the vision was l again carried to the ruins of
tho Capitol and of the great city. As | surveyed
its wide fields of broken columns and scattered
marble, bcheld men clearing away the rubbish
thereof, and heard the hammer and the trowel lay
ing the foundations of new city. Soon It's fair
proportions rose before memo narrow streets or
filthy lanes, or dark and pestilent workshoPs-its
lofty and airy palaces stretched along wide avenues,
shady walks and open spaces, where the fountains
and the groves fill the air with perpetual and