New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-28
From The Diei for October.
CONSERVATISM.

consideration how to feed, clottle and warm HIM
SELF he is met by warnings every hand that this
thing and that thing have owners, and he must go
elsewhere. Then he says If am born into the
earth, where is my parl2 have the goodness, gen
,lemen of this world, to show me my wood lot,
where may fell my wood, my field where to plant
my corn, my pleasant ground where to build m!
cabin"
Touch my wood or field, or house-lot, on YOU
peril" cry all the gentlemen Ct this world . but
you may come and work in ours, for US, and wt
will give you piece OF bread
And what is that peril
Knives and rnuskets, if We meety OF in the act
Imprisonment, if we find you afterward
And by what authority kind gentlemen
BY our Jaw.
And your laws it just
"As lust fer YOU as it was for US. We wrought
for othsrs under this law, and got our lands So
al repeat the question,-ls yeur law just
q MOI quite just, but necessary. Moreover, 1t Is
ulster now than it was when we were born;
have maze it milder and more equal.
:" will none of your law returns the youth
1t encurnbers me. | cannot understand, or st
much as spare time to read, that needless library
of your laws. Nature has sufficiently provided mt
with rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me mol
10 transgress. Like the Persian Noble of old,
ask that l may neither command nor obey.
do not wish TO enter into your complex social sys
tenn. / shall serve those whom | can, aud they
who can will serve me. shall seek those whon
love, and shun those whom love not, and wIal
more can all your laws render me
With equal earnestness and good faith, replies
TO this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment,
q of many virtues.
your opposition is feather Drained and over.
fine. Young man. | have no skill to talk with
you, but look at me ! have risen early and sal,
late and toiled honestly and painfully for very
many years. | never dreamed about methods; J
laid my bones to, and drudged for the good pos
sess it was not got by fraud, nor by luck, but b,
work, and you must show warrant like These
stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor, be
fore suffer you, on the faith of few fine words
to ride into my estate and claim to scatter it
your own.
"Now you touch the heart Of the natter re,
plies the Reformer. "To that fidelity and labor.
l pay homage. I am unworthy to arraign you
manner of living until too have tcen tried. Blu
should be more unworthy, if did not tell you
why cannot walk in your steps. find this vasl
network, which you call property, extended over
the whole planet cannot occupy the blcakes'
crag of the White Hills or the Allegheny Range, bun
some man or corporation steps up To me to show
me that it il his. Now, thong h am very peace
able, and my private account could we'll enough
die, since it appears there was some mistake IN my
creation aud that have been ,nissent to this earth
where all the seats were already takcn-yet feel
called upon in behalf of rational nature, which }
represent, to declare to you my opinion, that, II
the Earth is yours SO also is it mine. All your az
gregate existences less to fact than Is
my own; as | ain born to the Earth, the Earth
is given to me, what want Of it to till and TO
plant; nor could !, without pusillenmity, omit t,
claim much. must not only have a name "
live, / must live. My genius leads me to build .
different manner oil life from any of yours. J
cannot, then, spare you the whole world. love
you better | must tell you the truth practically
and take that which you call yours. II is Gods
world and mine yours much you want
mine much as want. Besides, know you'
ways know the symptoms OF the disease /,
the end of your power, you will serve this lie whiei
cheats you. Your want is gulf which the pos
session OF the broad earth would no, FIJI. Yonde,
in heaven you would pluck down from shining
on the universe, and make him property or pr.
vacy.if you could and the moon and the north
star you would quickly have occasion for in your
closet and bed-chamber. What you do not want
FOR use, you crave for ornament, and wha, youi
convenience could spare, your pride cannot"
On the other band, precisely the defence which
was set up for the British Constitution namely tina,
with all its admitted defects rotten borouehs and
monopolies, it worked well, and substantial Justice
was somehow done; the wisdom and the worth did
get into Parliament and every interest did by right
or might, or seight, get represented the same
defence is up for the existing Institutions The.
are not the best they not just. and in respec
you, personally, o, brave young man they cannon
be justified They have, it is most true, left you no
acre for your own, and no law but our law to the
ordainlug of which, you were no party. But they
DO answer the end they are really friendly TO the
good unfrsndly to the bad they second the in-
dus,rious and the kind they foster genius They
really have much eexbili,y as TO afford your allen,
ard character, on the whole the same chance Of
demonstration and success which they mish, have
il there were no law and no property.
It is trivial and merely superstitous to say ,hs,
nothing is given you. no outfit, no exhibition for
in this institution of credit, which is as universal
as honesty and promise in the human countenapce,
always some neighbor stands ready TO be bread and
land, and tools and stock to the young adven,urer
And if in sny one respect they have come short, see
wha. ample retr;bution Of good they have made
They have lost NO time and spared no expense tc
colec, libraries and museums and galleries col
leees, palaces, hospitals, observatories cities =
The ages havs not been Idle, nor kings slack, mol
the rich niggardly. Have we not atoned for hi:
small offence (Which we could not help) of leaving
you no right ia the SOIL BY this splendid iademnit,
of ancestral and national wealth. Would you have
been born like gifsyin hedge, and preferred your
freedom n heath, and the range of planet which