New-York daily tribune., 1843-10-30
.. a. Brownson and Democracy.

oudices get the better OF his judgement As daily read
or of The Tribune il may be that nave experienced th'
truth Of this observation less frequently than would apply 10
some journals but more orcbly struck with lis
correctness than reading the concluding sentence OF your
remarks on Brownson-tha the Democracy, with their ac-
cus,ouaed intolerance had withdrawn their subscriptions
from the Democratic Review, simply because Mr. B. hae
changed his views or at least expressed High Church AID
Tory views on Government Now sir have for some years
bean subscriber 10 ta, formerly valuable Magazine, and
am STILL bur most assurediy ny FIVE dollars year apsu
70 purpsse foreign from what intended when such WE
,es as Brownsoa I'll its columns and most assuredy w l.
az the expiration Of my year, withdraw from IT, unless II
re M The article barganed for. Now then, tell me- II
YOU please rhere is the intolerance OF this Why should
who am Democrat give five dollars year 10 disse''-
nate High Tory doctrines Suppose you enter into con-
,rsc, with your papsr-maer for many eams, 70 be deF
cred TO YOU monthly Of certain kind OF paper and alter uF
Dshnc YOU for few months according to agreement ne
sends YOU an article that will not answer Your purpose any
how? You expostuate. He replies that the paper q"'
=, rood a, that YOU ordered Do you argue the case with
him far tweyemonth or do YOU cut him short WITH Sir,
YOU, paper do nj suit me; Of Please
expound, friend G
Remarks on the ab0re
The foregoing is fair exposition OF what ap-
pears to be very general idea OF the duties,
rights and responsibilities Of the Press-a mar
row. pernicious, ensaving idea as We hold it
enc which every where tends to degrade the
Press into mere tool of cliques and demagogues,
instead of being the virtuous and manly reprover
of wrong, the corrector of error. the unshackled
advocate Of Truth and Right. Let US look at
the facts in the case:
Mr.. A. Brownson is an original thinker and
writer Of great boldness and power, an active
member of the party which claims to be par En-
cellence Democratic, and most effective cham
pion of all its measures. He has been prominent
in all its Conventions and voted uniformly for its
candidates since it took ground against National
Bank But on certain abstract propositions, re-
garding the nature and grounds Of Government
in other words, in considering earnestly the prln-
ciples involved in the Dorrite operations at the
Providence Arsenal and at Chepachet-he has
been induced to take position adverse to that
presumed to be generally held by his party, at
least in the Northern States.
Now MIR. B. is paid contributor to the De-
mocratc Review having merged his own IN
this, and accepted an engagement to write
stately for it pages, under stipulation that he
shall freely utter his own convictions, and not
servilely reiterate and urge whatever the party
NAV for the time find its account in advocating.
He writes accordingly, and for this our cores
pondent and hundreds like him are impelled by
their Democracy to stop the Magazine!
Now be it remembered that the Magazine is
not Mr. Brownson's but Mr.. O'Sullvans, and
the latter alone IL seriously injured by this course.
And what has he done that he should be deserted (?
Nothing. He has only refrained from violating
his engagement with Mr. Brownson For HIM
self, he holds precisely the opinions of those who
are now stopping his Magazine, and ably advo-
Gates those opinions in its pages. He is doing
his best to refute Mr.. Brownson's arguments.
But all this avails nothing-he has admitted the
latter into its columns (not being able to prevent
it except by breaking his engagement and for
this he is to be destroyed.
Our correspondent is obliged to misstate the
question in order to excuse his course even in his
own eyes. He speaks of the Magazine being
applied to a purpose which he disapproves, as
though the whole aim and bearing Of the work
were toward the inculcation Of Mr. Brownson's
views, while the contrary is notorously the fact.
Mr.. O'Sulivan's views constitute the uniform
rule, Mr. Brownson's the casual exceptions
And here we reach the point which alone rem
ders this matter Of general importance-thc low
and base idea which our correspondent and his
kind entertain of the position and duties Of the
Press. He compares it to paper-mlll, to which
he sends so much cash for so much paper, which
he rejects ii it be not Of precisely the sort and
quality he contemplated. Thus the Editor, the
Essavist, is degraded to the level of 4 mere ma
chinc-a mill TO grind on. combinations of his
present opinions. He does not take the Maga-
zine that he may be instructed and profited there
by--that his views may be enlarged, his know
ledge extended, his errors corrected-but that his
party attachments may be fortified, his party
,enets disseminated The Editor is not his in.
structor, his monitor, his friend, but his drudge
his pettifogger, his spinning jenny. In the abused
names of Freedom and Of Human Progress, VIC
protest against this monstrous doctrine The
Press ought every where to assert its dignity by
denouncing such degrading assumptions. For
one, this journal, at least, will never submit to
them. five have any patron who thinks we
have no right to utter any convictions which are
not justified by facts within his knowledg dge-whc
holds it Just cause OF offence that we frequently
give place to articles adverse to his views, and
often to our own also-the sooner he relieves
himself from the pain or the peril OF our Freedom
the better he will please us. We ask no favor
from any such slave to his own opinion or would.
be tyrant over ours.
GEN BERTRAND. To-day this distinguished