New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-15
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sSsW.York:
III. /, a neat octave volume of some $50 page.
! z...e;ng dozen papers on various subjects and
-as, AT various times, mainly as circumstances
'.llsd for them. They evince strong ability, ex-
..,a.d information, and far more comprehensive
4 :, Ebsral range Of studies than gentlemen ardu-
srly engaged in the duties of the legal profess
=, usually find time to cultivate. The collec-
,;oo embraces one legal argument, long and able,
,,ade before the Court Of Errors in case of Eras-
-, Root vs. Chas. King upon the Law of Libel and
,he Duties and Rights of the Public Press; the other
,,,er, are mainly in discussion of controveIed Poln
.nr;ncples, addresses before the Historical Socie-
Sc The second is Review Of the Principles Of
~ Holy Alliance, written originally for the North
AMERICAN Review. 1t strikes US as one of the
.pss. in the volume, aiming to show both by his
,,c,l and political argument, that the principle of
,ha, alliance, namely, that the monarchica nations
= Europe have right BY force of arms to crush
revolutionary movements in any nation among
tbem. is false and most dangerous to the welfare
Il the race. The Review is instructive and well
written. Several of the papers are arguments in
spport Of the Protective Tariff as National Sys-
,sm and two are Dscourses delivered before the
Historical Society in 1927 and 1889. We find also
sweIl.written Review of Ivanhoe, the last subjecr
on which we sheulA have looked for an Essay from
lawyer, engaged in the active and successful prec.
ce of his profession, and likely to find but little
.isure for studies in the department of fiction
Mr.. BLUNT enters with ease and ability upon the
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Incidents and suggested by the novel under
review. There is also powerful aud excellent
n,ter on the Relations between the Cherokees and
the Government of the United States, written a,
the time the affairs of these Indians excited gen.
eral attention, but containing sentiments and main
We copy from its close the following passage,
which, though originally written with reference to
another subject, may be we'll applied to facts and
policy prominently before the public at the present
time:
This appeal cannot be answered by reference
to idle distinctions between the powers of the
State and Federal Governments. The Indian at
fsrs are common concern. The faith of the ma.
ton is plighted to them, and its character is
pledged to the world, that the Indian tribes with
in our limits shall be treated with delicacy, kind
uess and humanity. The eye Of Europe is upon
vs. and we cannot escape from this high RESPONSE.
bliiy. These legal distinctions and constitutional
sublleties, Iepugnant to the common sense, and
unproptious to the common necessities OF man
kind, will be regarded as mere inventions tor the
purpose of covering our participation in the plum
der Of the aborgnes. The world will not believe
indeed it will not, that our Constitution inter-
poses insuperable obstacles the preservation OF
national faith. The whole distinction will be re-
garded as mere pretence, infinitely more oien-
sive to fair minds than the open avowal of inJus-
tee. Far better would it be for the President OF
the United States to give to the complaining Cher
okees the short answer of the Dey of Algiers to
puRdered merchants asking redress" 10 you
not know that my people are band OF robbers,
and that am their captain7 Far better, and
far more manly, would be this bold avowal, than
pretended distinction which, under an affected
reverence for legal observances and constitutional
forms, abandons helpless and dependent com
munily to all the desolatng consequences OF arol'
trary power, stimulated to action by the most In
tease AID craving cupidity.
God forbid that the American People should
sanction this distinction. | do not fear that they
will. They spring from generous stock OF ON,
cestors-from men who hazarded all, and suffered
all, through steadfast adherence TO PrineiPle-
The faulty part Of their character does not SAVIOR
Of spirit of selfish injustice, or of grasPing rapa-
city, 1t rather inclines them to the opposite eH-
tremes. Their principles of Government and OF
State policy are drawn from that great reservoir OF
jurisprudence established by their English ances-
tors and enriched and liberalized by the free dis
cussions and masculine understandings of their
OWE revolutionary fathers. These principles their
glory and their protection-at once an ornament
and safeguard-have sunk deep into the hearts
OF the People sf the United States. They are en-
deared to them by the associations OF childhood
and the experience Of maturity. They are the
great results of their past history-the fences ana
munnlens of their present liberties-and the
pledges Of a long career of future glory and pros
perily. They form the public sentiment OF the
country-a principle which, like gravitation, per-
vaang and omnpotent, at once supports and con-
trolls their political system.
As long as they remain unchanged and unchange-
able, giving life and aliment to public opinien as
loag as our Government shall continue to be the
embodying of the sentiments of an enlightened
pcople-the concentration Of the opinions OF a
Tree, educated and Christian communitJ-the
House Of Representatives, with its awful power
OF Impeachment bringing these opinions into &C
uon-she Senate, the guardian OF State sovereign
" and Of national faith-,he body whose sanction
gave existence and value to these sacred suaran-
ties, and the tribunal before which all violations
q these pledges must be arraisned as long as
these branches of our Government shall continue
TO % guided by the will of the nation, so long VIII
cur pighted faith guard the rights of the Chero-
KEGS, and of all other dependents upon o,r justice,
IRON the speations of rapacity, and the iron hand
Of oppression.
and GERMAN: BY NATHANIEL GREENE. tPp. PIG,