New-York daily tribune., 1844-01-16
THE TR IB q NE
,n If the skaneateIcs Community.

n, F1lpr Of me 1fto'"e
3'@sn s,rst crave your indulgence while l say a
.1 cords in reply to your remarks appended to
u" ,onmpnication it The Tribune of Jan. ), in
ny ;..;on to the origin of the Skaneateles Commu-
.: Nv SINCE silence my part might be construed
-. | tacit acknowledgement that my position is
:.seensible. promise, however, to be as short
:. mo nature Of the case will allow.
yonr inference, that the Skaneateles Commu
.;.r had lis origin in Abolition, you say was not
~ :rn from the single case of Mr. Collins, but
soro tie general movement and tendency Of the
H., Aboitionists as evidenced in the career of
y.srs Murray, Garrison, Rogers, &c &c. and
81, tell me that my own relation to the Religious
.,3 pil;tical institutions and ideas of our time
.,,,ncthens your conviction of the truth of your
.,.,pment. Now, of all the persons thus alluded
. beI:eye there is but one who sympathizes
nth be peculiar views Of Mr.. Collins, as set
o1b in his " Creed" [ alIudc toMr Murray, of
your city, though do not know that even he
rould be willing to be placedin such category.
AL the rest | kmoao would not, unless Some Of
tbcm have undergone radical change within a
verv short time, which do not believe What is
,bsie in the course and present attitude of Mr..
Garrison and his 'Lberator' to authorize your
inference Why, the poles are not wider asun
der than Mr.. Collins and he in respect to the dis
iprulshing features OF the Skaneatcles Commu-
ny as exhibited IN It's " Crccd'
il YOU had heard the Speech of Mr.. Garrison
A, the Convention lately held in Boston, where
in he reviewed Mr.. Collms's doctrines and scat
ured them to the four winds with sound Anti
Slavery arguments, you would at least have
omitted his name from your list. am confident
that Mr. Rogers, Of the Herald Of Freedom,
would also repudiate the doctrines of Elr. Col.
ins in respect 10 Property, Marriage, and Ac.
ountability. Certainly have never seen any
hng from his pen to warrant the inference that
his in sympathy with them. AS to Stephen
S. Foster, Abby Kelly, and Gerrit Smith, the re-
marks which have made above in relation to
Mr. Garrison would be none too strong if ap-
Dlied to them, Nay more, l venture to ar
im that all the persons whom you have named,
and "utra" Abolltlonists generally, have less in
common with the Skaneateles Community than
he Fourlerists! AS you have alluded to nv own
losltion as strengthening your conclusion, [ may
epardoned for saying, that so far from my Ab-
OAtonlsm having led me to sympathse with the
pnnclpal features of the Skaneateles Community,
1t has been the very sheet-anchor which has pre-
vented me from being driven upon those frightful
breakers; for such certainly deem them.
But the tendencies Of Abolition, you say, are
toward a sweeping radical revolution both in
Church and State. This have no disposition to
deny, but affirm that the revolution sought by
Aoohtlonlsts will be far more likely 70 find its
consummaton in Associations established on the
2an OF Fourier, than in Communities like that
II nSkaneateles. More than this, the tendencies
,, Abolition are even now setting more strongly
owards Fourlersm than toward the peculiar doc
Ilnes Of Mr.. Collins. That part of his doe
Times had their origin in Abolition, chcerru!ly
admit; 50 also part are derived from Grahamisln
aud fourlerlsm but its distinguishing features
re modelled on the plan Of Robert Owen, with
inch Mr.. Collins doubtless became acquainted
Qrlng his visit to England. To say that a com
numty thus constituted had its origin in .Aboll
ION appears to me at once unjust and prepostc-
Ous' Again | say, let every tub stand on its
own bottom" Why make Abolition a pack
loFSe TO carry the load which the Editor of that
.npnaclped sheet, the New York Herald, at
gmPled I TO throw upon the back of Fourcrisn
"' VII lolins's undertaking stand or fall upon
It's own merits. Ak Amor rr,oyIsr
W We do not perceive that any thing more
'Sed be SAID on our side of this question. Those
VINO do not detect, in the usual inculcations from
'ae Aoohtonists with regard to certain descrp-
tons of Property and the ;niquity of making
.onpcnsatlon TO savc.h holders on the Abolition OF
slavery, the germs Of a sweeping denial OF the
Nsh's ol Property as defined by law-who do
o see In the Buffalo Anti Slavery resolution
'H1ch declares portion of the Federal Constl-
''''oh nullty, to be disregardcd and dehed even
y nose who have expressly sworn obedience to
he whole Constitution, the foundation for de-
S'a' ol the rlghttulness of all Civil Government
-V0f government which we are to obey only
"aen our individual convictions dictate the
course 1t prescribes is Just no Government at
S"l-'aose who are familiar with Mr.. Gcrrlt
''Nui S doctrine solemnly sanctioned by State
:. National Anti Slavery Convention, that tu
sNse slave may and should take the horse, the
vat the food OF innocent third parties, If neces
,a'S 10 ms escape-his Sunday preaching Of
AOOil'lon, &c. &c.-will Judge how far our con-
i''on of the tendency of Abolition to a sweep
's Naatcalism in Church and State is warranted
:? 'scts Now, II our correspondent, or any body
" can detect similar tendencies in the doc
ines or inculcatons Of the Whig or any other
alncal party, he is welcome to deduce the nc
'ssary conclusions. Ed. Tribune.
PtAlyFyELD BANK.-INesSrS. EditorS-For the
Iaormauon of a correspondent in Your last paper, l
S9ald say that friend has within the last few
seeAS, deposited small sum OF Planfeld and other
slonsy win me-to bc loaned out 10 such as might
want This, suppose, will account III some mca-