New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-22

of the condition of Wealth and labor amongst US,
it will not be difficult, task to point Out their re-
laiions and duties. They follow inevitably as con-
illusions from the admitted premises.
In the first place there is not only no ground Tor
aay hostility or unkind sess OF feeling between the
rich and the labonng classes, but the strongest
reason on the contrary, fer mutual friend ship and
the most cordial union. l, may well be questioned
whether they should ever be spoken Of as classes
since the term presupposcs line of deH'arcation,
which cannot here be drawn. Both are strisinS
with the same eaeerness for the same oolect,,
some portion Of Wealtl-aud both are ln'eres.eo
in the Protection of properly Does any mon
iieve that by destroying the R'ch, OF oiinA's s
the securities Of Property he can petp'i ~
co,a;t;on mr. thar of his children? Instead OF this
d;scordant outc.y which sometimes saiutes our
ears" down with The Aristocracy = the a'ch
are Ieapued against the Poor, let US exPeno our
svmnarhies upon the millions OF otner lanos, VINO
are arouplng beneath the weight OF an iron bond
ase-our indignation upon those VINO MAINTAIN II
in i, iron rigor But let US rejoice tha;.here we
nav all unite-and that the cause Of Industry is
the cause Of the whole People. This cry may do
well enough ia the kraals of Ireland and in the
depths of Hungary but it should have no place
in the American vocabulary
The fact cannot be disguised, however, that
feeling of prejudice and hostility does exls; be-
tween the wealthy and the laboring classes, even
in this country 1t arises in part from the indul-
gence of envy against the successtul-from thai
soufnsss of spirit which is engendered by mlsfor-
tune, from not making the distinction between this
and other countries, but it has been extended and
aggravated chiefly by that worst pest OF human so
ciety, the denagogue. Fully persuaded in his
own mind, Of the truth of Hooker's celebrated re-
mark that he who goes about Persrading men
mod fbpyp i1oE
10 be will never want adhereuts, The appeals,
with practised skill, TO these inhammable pas
sions, and becomes for time the champion of
popular rights-the favorite Of the multitude. He
recounts the expressions which the aristocrats
have practised upon the poor in every age, and
easiIy persudcs them that the rich men OF this
country who rose to wealth but yesterday, and
whose children will return to labor at his death, are
their legitimate successors, and have their princ
pies and feelings. Inequality of fortune is pro-
duced BY ten thousand causes-ovcr which man
has no control it has always existed and always
will exist-until the laws of nature are changed:
"The poor we have always with u.s." And all
that human Institutions can do for man IS to give
free play and ample encouragement to human IN
DusrRY, by protecting its acquisitions
If the people of this country, who have been
deluded and often BETRAYED By the charming catch
with their native keenness, they would estimate j,
at its true worth. Does it come from the hard
working the industrious, the thrifty sons CT toll
Never! 1t issues from those patriotic spirits
whose real grievance consists in this that they
canIot live without work quite SO splendidly as
those who do work who decaim in bar-rooms
upon equal rights when the only species Of equality
they desire is that the leafers shall share the
wages of the laborers. Let them put their hands
and their heads to the same exncting labors-!et
them pursue the same career OF tlreless industry
and rigid self-denal, day after day, and year after
year, which they have whom they traduee and vii
lily, and if they thea fail of success, and can point
to any thing but inevitable misfortune as the cause
of their failure--let them sound the trumpet and
armed men will spring up from the earth to aid
them. | know that misfortune and disaPpoint-
ment are the common lot of man--that the Ian
guage of Burns NAV be addressed 10 every child
Of mortality:
a. For care and trouble set your thought,
Zen when your end IS attained;
And a your pains may come to naugbt
Where every nerve is strained !"
but I know too that our holy religion teaches US
not to vfy and envy those who have escaped
them--but to bear them with manly fortitude Ii
the condition of American laborers be such as
have represented, and they are acting nevertheless
upon the belief that there must be perpetual hos
tllltlpS between INC ITCH unQ tUSuiSCiNcS,
clearly fall within the category Of what Sherida
declared to be the extreme of folly. One may rni
his head against wall, by accident, but this IL
the building wall for the express purpose o.
running ones head against it.
The people Of this country will tolerate any hon
cs, use of riches. Theirs is deep feeling with the
many that man may do as ne pcases with his
own, and they rarely speak of extravaganza and
ostentation in any other terms, than those OF com
miseraton. But they will not tolerate, in for
eigner or native, the ordy patronising and condo.
scending airs of asserted superiority. They are
fond of giving and receiving titles, but they will
not endure naughty department. And this is the
garing fault in the manners OF wealthy families
We have aristocracy indeed, but we have clan
amongst us who apo the airs, and set up the pre-
tensions of all the Howards, and who may be in
fac. as offensive and injurious the haughties'
nobility that ever existed. can conceive how
hereditary NOBLE who bears name of historic re-
nown, whose halls are hoary with ancestral glo-
ries who is native and 60 the manner born,
should inspire feeling of loyalty and love among
the tenantry of his estate. the inhabitants
of kingdom. And can conceive as easily, how
one, who has mingled with his fellows in the dust.
conflicts and remorseless rvalres of business, and
risen to aifaence, should inspire, not disgust mere
", bat deep relentless hate. when he assumes rank
and state and tells his old associates, by his de-
pertinent, that he belongs to a higher order of be-
ngs. 1t is common remark, tina, there is scarce
ly family that can trace their lineage buck for
three generations, without running against lap
stone, or an anvil or work bench
And let it not be imagined that this subject of
manners is Of little importance, or the discus
sion of il unsuted to this most important
sion. A great political philosopher has remarked
that manners are more important in Republic