New-York daily tribune., 1844-04-02
THE TRIBUNE.

4 clergyman, we believe, who is filled with wrath
L .rains. it and the wrath within him is SO veno.
E nous wthal that it cannot be vented IN any or
lnary way, and therefore he has very naturally
made use of Boa Constructor. which, as the
Snowman says, Sc does not bite, but swallows his
Fittles whole" This is the title Of pamphlet
he has published and, although we cannot ad-
nire the taste anu the sentiment which dictate
the name. we have no right to find fault with ii;
indeed, we do not know but this snakiSh title
nay be as necessary, as 1t is appropriate IN Illus
rating the spirit of the author. Who can tell
Ehat may be required by the law Of " Contact OF
1remes?" A serpent brought sin into the world,
md why should not serpent prevent its going
out 1t is only right that he should defend the
/ kmgdon nc had established, and precisely what
sould be expected.
The g old serpent" persuaded Eve 10 try the
brbidden fruit, which destroyed the bliss Of
Eden, but the modern Boa would dissuade her
IONS and daughters from trying thing which
momises to remedy the Evil and relieve them
i hom the lnseries of Cultivation. He very earn.
sstly counsels them not 10 taste, touch or handle
I ihe thing, as it is certainly filled with the most
fatal poison, although it is very fair on the out
side and extremely tempting To sec this,
however, requires a penetration of no ordinary
/ power, and the supplemented and the unwary,
like Eve may be easily led astray by its specious
but deceptive beauty-Gke the apple of So
dom, fair without, but ashes within
We cannot spare much time or space 10 crti-
else production really meriting so little consid-
Grafton, but as specimens of the chaste and beau
dful declmation with which it abounds, we make
the following choice extracts. The Christian
charity of the author is as becoming as his phi
lanthropy is profound and his language pure and
elegant:
at is common practice for the Fourier de-
claimers that are Struggling through the coun-
try in imitation of their stationary oracle at New
York, in dccrying civilization, to mpue to it all
/ the evils of every kind in human society and in
dividual conduct, that may be found within its
bounds, as if it were the cause of evils which,
from its very nature, it opposes and contradictsW
1 Such dctraction is not reasoning IT IS nothing
| but the expedient of weak mind or a bad heart,
Trying to stand when IT staggers under the bur-
| den of bad cause
american Industry, nursed and honored as
it has been by Civilization, will never dishonor it.
self by forsaking that true and faithful nurse
ENo. We men of the Tribune Yemay coax, or We
may scold, ye may smile or yc may frown; but
/ American Industry-the sprightiy, robust nurse
/ ling of Civilization in this Westerr World, will
never be deceived from the fostering care of its
fond and generous nurse into the skinny arms, to
be hugced to death on the bony bosom and dry
breasts of dssolute, silly, imported pauper hag.
! American Industry will never be so duped and so
( ruined CD
I Fourier defamation is very scant OF common
| sense in arguing that Civilization is bad from the
( theremoval of which it has provided Such rea-
soning may prove that spring water is bad, be-
cause some people do not make right use of 1t,
BY keeping themselves clean; or that the light
Of Heaven is bad, because some men love dark
ness rather than light
"This creature of corruption, which first began
to crawl, lizard.likc, in the flthies dregs of Par
sian infidelity, and which has never since left any
thing but its slime and venom in the track of its
/! crawling--ths odious creature of corruption,
nourished and trained in the hands of its present
I owners now rears its head, and stretches out lts
length, and offers to encrce in its scaly, glisten
ing folds all the business, industry and education
I Of the country-to crush, besmear and devonr :"
After this the Herald and the Courier might as
we'll remain silent.
, "By mere lash Of its tail 1t will correct the
| present arrangement of climate, and teach It TO
| be steady and temperate; the largest volcano In
! the Earth brim full of lava, will only be as pot
Of porrdge for it's supper; it has only to raise It's
nd tbuua kos
! will at once flee away, in fright to old Chaos
can easily snuff up into It's nostrlls the torrdiy
that now troubles the Equator and sneezc 1t out
towards the Poles. and thus make the climate
very comfortable for Associations and agrcul-
ure in those delightful regions of the Earth which
civilization has hitherto so shamefully neglected"
1--WE shall now proceed TO prove that tins Whole
vaun,ing system of Social Reform is concerted
( scheme Of co,card!y, contemplate DCPILclrS on
I The part Of its arch projectors. fits name were
craven on It's brazen brow according TO It's nature,
I by the hand of Truth and Justice, that name
would be IMPoSrURE.
"All the promises which this vaunting Social
Reform holds out, of advantage to be derived from
II, TO those who are employed IN Labor and Agr-
! culture, are PROMISES MADE N PERFipf and IN
TENDED FOR DECEPTION.
we gave the authof INC oeiiei' VI VIZ VI
culaton to some of his best thoughts and choicest
expressions, and we take occasion to thank him
for his liberal quotations from the writings on
Association, which, in despite of all his attempts
to turn detached sentences into arguments against
Association If it does not convince, will, we have
no doubt, influence many minds in its favor
We hope be will continue the work of propaga-
ton.