New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-14
,Tse Chi,dreu of the s1is,,-Jonruaiisrn

! we have crowded in TO this paper tae oa'"s
ioipder of cur friend H. and, having no" oeFo
led s;x TO seven columns TO the Old School siae
of ,b- question. we shall claim the balance OF t"o
colnnns for a word profered obEquely IN 0ehaif o.
the New Bot in so doing we 'ih'' '''..N
n ,neddle with Theological vexed questions "''
% caIl hard nazies nor rail against any one ana
-, ~ enter ia,o any discussion respecting Tue
| ,,,d,ess of the views of those we have cohVen-
.;a,,,I, designated as Of the New School. Some
| oe those views we accept while we REJECT others
% to us seerne,h good. Our opinions are 'oI MOD
eled implicitly on those of any man, or any schoo!:
We shall speak TO the main question now raised
y.H.-' newspaper, be urges, must se one OF
three things-viz /. an oninsa1a gdtHeruF'' or
mere hudde of cut-out paragraphs and Pltched-ih
ESSAYS; 2. an organ Of the views OF come party,
sect, or clique; or, 3. an alem6ie, in which tins
whole mass OF Contemporary facts and opinions
shall be dissolved and reproduced wearing the hues
of the authors mind--to impress, on all SUBJECTS
his opirions on the reader. This last he considers
the highest and best.
We confess that our own view differs somewhat
from this We can zee why public Journal should
in some sort be the organ of patty-tbe recos-
nized and consistent advocate OF certain well
known and clearly defined principles in that de-
partncnt which it specially conempiates-Polli-
cal, il it be politcal Theological, ttbe religious
Philosophical, if its province be philosophy, &c.
Even this we regard rather as necessary evil than
a positive good; we could wish there existed
state of opinion so liberal that an Editor migh &C
cep,aby and thoroughly condemn particular act
of his own party, or dissent from particular dog
ma of his own sect or clique, without giving Of
fence to his patrons and thus weakening his power
TO do COED.
We wish the Press were accorded a position OF
alliance with rather than of subservience to party
,ha, there were public which valued the Free
dom Of Opinion above mere conformity oil opin-
ion. But we must take the world as j, Is; and
thus secular Journal may fifty and usetully be the
organ of that party the ascendancy of whose Prln-
ciples its Editor undoubtingy believes best caIcu-
lated to promote the National welibelng, as a Re
ligious periodical may fairly avow the creed and
advocate tho special advancement of that Church
which its Editor reverently regards as the purest
depository Of the truth OF God.
Beyond this, we think the principle cannot be
carried with safety or justice. If the avowed or
gan Of Political party shall undertake to render
his otru mind the 'alemJic' wherein all Moral, Phi
Iosophcal, and Theological doctrine is to be dis
titled, and his journal the means of dispensing the
result through the Country, will not those subscrb'
crs who agree with him in Politics but differ widely
from him on other vital topics have right TO COM
plain May not well say, subscribed icr
Wing journal, Cor Loco-Foco, as the case may
be, and ysu dose me with: Puseyism or Inddelty
with Kant or Brownson. Out of the sphere Of
Politics, insist that you merely record and ex-
hibit wha, the world is doing and thinking IN re-
gard to controvcrlcd topics, and leave me TO snap
my own opinions as | think proper?9
Our own idea is thar Political journal should
| not assume to dictate opinions on any subject o
Philosophic or Tbeologic disputation, bst shoulc
treat all sects and creeds ia Religion all schools ii
Philosophy, with equal ard uniform consideration
It should not rashly assail the Old; yet it will ma
turally cvnce some kindness to the New, from the
very necessities of its position. Novelty is the life
u Jo'.""isl -. ~. 60. -
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a,. :, Welcome be ,n,y at Ions, consider Ib,
even Old School men will be more likely to reac
| in his columns a Lecture of Hegel lhapa Dialogue
or pl.,o--on CASA, of Emerson than n chapter o
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the Hydropsthy OF "a'eF-oufe Oh 'ess'.'n t"'
a description OF lhe mooc VI tleatiiic'i' u Di'ou