New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-10-17
THE TRIBUNE
Progressive Democracy.

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Hanbsfore The Was Ysanz Men, and pao.isAed a, TN
request iConelnded
Putihere is country in Europe, whose govern.
nent, long ago ciscarding both the improvements
10 business introduced by commerce end ciVlliza'
too and the lights Of and science, uDconScioos-
" anticipated The barren distractions OF n1ooerh
visonaries,-a government that never tolerated or
even conceived the idea Of ga soul.less corpora
ton,' that never had Bank or Tamil or u system
Of Internal lmproyemenis,-a government IN WHICH
"reouda,ionr il n standard financial e1pedieB IN
important par, of the Ways and Means and a
ooyern,n.nt unde. which the mob, unconscious OF
Inc uniform restraints Of claw and order" NAV
unchecked execute their wild justice" in times OF
scarcity, no, only by sacking -four store but by
burnipe an extoronate baker in his own oven.
Happy land, that ages ago, interrupted by the
g money.power" Of business community under a
credi, system, CROPPED its way TO the practical uti-
mate perfection OF Loco-Foco governmental phiIo-
sopby, Name it-Name il il you can TUR-
KEY! THE OTTOMAN EMPIREi Deny it
who dars Turkey is the only country in Europe
which has within several centuries enjoyed in per-
fiction the system ofthe Sub-Treasury hard money,
direct taxation, free trade, no duties On mpors,
tiIl within very few years. and the payment OF
all dues 10 Government IN specie,--credit being IN
kpown.
The Ottoman Courier a newspaper established
by Sultan Mahmoud at ConslauGnoplc as his Off
eial organ, defend his System Of government, in
one OF it's first articles, in language which has SINCE
been ofsn innocenty plaeiarized by the Globe, the
Post and the Richmond Enquirer, began with truly
Turkish gravity 10 sound the praises of the Quo
man system of legislation and administration, and
warmly congratulated The political economists and
.ophss Of Western Europe on The forestalled reali
cation Of their distractions under the long estab-
l,shsd, age-honorcd, but emine ty simple and phi
losopnlcal 81 STEM of government in which Tur-
kew was blessed above all nations without the pale
ofl.lam. Tne fal!acy Of "protection"
entertained in that enlightened country. There,
paper money and the credit system are unknown;
aud no man a trades on borrowed capital" There,
auuiy fortunate people ENJOY an exclusively me-
ta!lc currency" There :" the one-men power" and
the pswer Of the mob exist SIDE by side, equally alb
solue vet il singular and p-rlec, harmony. There,
all the great mover ents Of public policy are begun
and perfected in secret divan,-whcn is only the
Turli.h word ter Caucus, where many u long
successful knave and intriSuer IS doomed TO take
his turn under the arisocrscy leyeling howstriag.
There slavery is deemed ooe Of the "peculiur nstl-
buttons essential 10 the perpeutv OF the govern
ment" After The FINAL defeat Of Loco Focoism in
this depraved country, LEI not its routed champions
cay 10 the deserts oil Arabin;" for they may lighr
in coDgen1 region lille this side Off, in the
blessed realm of the Ottoman Sultan, where the
fruit Of every LOco-Foco abstraction had rpened
aid was gathered before the tree had blossomed or
bad even been planted here
A familiar popular fellacy, which has grown into
proyerb, states that "ex,temes meet" NEVER:
tsil-or ,iil serpent bites of his.
Behold the folly of false philosophy Of assinine
Scottish aud French sciosm Behold tie iudis-
pulable evidence OF the RtTRooREssivE character
OF American Loco -Focoism, which meanly pliers
its new dogmas from the archives OF antQualed
tyranuies Which heightened Chrs,endom has ceased
10 curse only from contempt of their impotence and
exhaustion Behod---Ritche, Croswell, Blair,
Jones and Bryant, stealing like pick pockets in the
dark, from whatihey knew not-and from what they
dare not &C knowledge when known. Fools asking
questions which none but Turks or fools can an
swer; for "Turk' literally means fool" or
"clown" or "savage."
Practical wisdom and the experiences OF the civil
lied world in all enlightened ages, have thus been
discarded for such miserable tras6-the refuse OF
antiuuate8 5arbarsm, which the Mahommedan has
already thrown behind him. when the light of civil
za,on has begun 10 pierce The darkness in which Ee
has baen enveioped for ages! And why is the move
ment OF the worldA-thc PROGRESS OF ages-thus TO
be iEyelted-to become RErRoGRADEl why but
merely 10 furnish greedy official knaves with new
iaciiiies of plumber and ex:ortion. Who vii! deny
thatloco Feco philosophy, Leco-Foco policy, like
q crab walks Backward" No wonder that, under
IT, the country, Z" like cows tail, grew down
ward"
And who ere they that dare, with such purposes
and such molives present themselves before the er-
hshtened people of America, now the advance
guard OF improved and improving humanity and
propose TO them thus 10 cease from the PROGRESS of
ages, thus TO RErRoGRADE toward the abandone5
positions OF a barbarism which has already grown
ashamed of its stupidity in the light dilusive that
has already dawncd over ihsm from the regions
which sri commerce and protectire legislation has
blessed with these improvements w no are they
that dare attempt TO teach republican trecmen The
lessons of tyranny which they have learned from
slaves and from false philosophy, which is no better
than tho slavery othe soul 10 it's own vain reveres
Who dare teach these denominations 10 us, and
call them pEMccRAcY} Who are they that call on
us 10 barter the independence which our fathers
bought with blood for worse than colonial vassal-
age TO The country from which they freed in vain
British gold may now buy back the dominion
which British bayonets could not conquer sixty
years agol Vain indeed that hicod-vain those
tolls and sgoncs OF liberty il the sons have not
dom 10 "reap the soil which the tubers defended"
WHO ARE TREY \ set OF dcspicabic country
attorneys, trained in the mysteries oil conuty-courI
pett!ogsing trckery AND deceit aided by some dozen
,goSernmen,-cheatng printers, broken-wlnded psr-
sons, hackney poets, magazine scnobers, and beg
carly foreign aoventurers, ouicsts oil almost every
civilized and halt civilized country lot ever. color
from Sngy Creole-hrown To scroiuious-white,-
among them fusitives from revoitcd slavery, re'u-
gees from San Domingo, sputteriag democracy OF
their own Invention, in Jarson which no American
could ever understand, 10 motley congregation oil
lr,sh and Germans in three oil whom can
a,eiicibl, express himself in the language OF the
eoun,iy which shelters and feeds him, and which
he asprss TO rule before lac lands IN it--oeo'e ne
has ceased to DO the slave Of some European des-
pot. 80 These be thy gods, Israel! ihess are
Inv teachers and LEADER, . young America! From
hem mus, we learn ,he essence OF democeacy,-
tcuns ihe instructions and the practice al Jetier-
son, Madison Monroe, TOnpkins and and C G
who died before these runaway slaves o, European
despotisms had found refuge rom iheif '1as,e.s
beneath an American aag against which their
Enoush of,hesc. Enough Of their doctrines, ard
ostneis crimes asa;nst huraaai', and rsasoo ,nooS
these are The creatures, the zoos "een 'tS o.a
fabric Of Americsn Democracy hss been almost
fazed ea6 des,royed.
But who sru these INA; rise amid the ha!'-crnn'
ing asulemsD,s o. the assaulted walls oil ina. o,u
democracy, and face tie vardai enemies oil I, pe'-
icanism, with venerable bro~s, whose z rev Eafs 9
thou. h a erswn Of slory," are lever thsa .neif
historic honors7 " no are these tbs, tower above
the rpiss Of the pss, ,he living and breathing ana
g'owiag monuments oil departed generation, ~hiet'
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