New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-04-24

/ shall not need to 60 into an enumeration OF
our national defects and vices which require THIS
Order of Ccnsors in the state. l might not set
down our most proclaimed offences as the worst,
1t is not often the worst trait that occasions the
loudest outcry. Men complain OF their suffering,
and not Of The crime. fear little from the bad
effect of Reputation; do not fear that 1t VIII
spread. Stealing is suicidal business; you can
not repudiate but once. But the bold face and
tardy repentance permitted 10 this local mischief,
reveal public mind SO preoccupied with the love
of gain, that the common sentiment oil lndlsna-
ton at fraud does not act with It's natu:a! lorce
The more need of a withdrawal from The crowd,
and resort to the fountain of right, by the brave
The timidity of public opinion 10 our disease,
or, shall say, the pubhcness of opinion, the alb
sence of private opinion. Good-naturc is plenli
full, but we want Justice, with heart of steel, to
fight down the proud. The private mind has the
access to the totally OF goodness and truth, that
it may be a balance to u corrupt society; and 10
stand for the private verdict against popular
clsmor, is the office of the noble. If humane
measure is propoundcd in behalf of the Slave, or
of the Irishman, or the Catholic, or for the sue
cor OF the Poor that sentiment that PROJECT, will
have the homage of the hero. That is his no.
bility his oath OF knighthood to succor the help
less and oppressed; always TO throw himself on
the side OF weakness, of youth, OF hope, on the
liberal, on the expansive side, never on the &c.
fensive, the conserving, the tilnorouS, the lock
and bolt system. More than our good viii we
may rct be able 10 give. We have our own
affairs, our own genius, which chains US to our
proper work. We cannot give our life TO the
cause Of the debtor, Of the slave, or the pauper,
as another is doing, but one thing we are bound
TO- not to blaspheme the sentiment and the work
of that man, not to throw stumbling blocks III the
way Of the abolitionist the phlanthropist, as the
organs of influence and opinion are swift 10 do.
1t s for us to confidc in the benofcent Supreme
Power, and not to rely OH our money, and on the
State because it is the guard OF money. AT this
moment, the terror of old people and OF VICIOUS
people, is lest the Union of these. States be de-
stroyed. AS if tho Union had any other real
basis than the good pleasure OF majority of the
citizens to be united. But the wise and Just
man will always feel that he stands on his own
feet that he imparts strength to the Stale no,
receives security from 1t; and that if all went
down, he and such as he would quito easily CON-
bine in new and better constitution. Every
great and memorable community has consisted
of formidable individuals, who, like the Roman
or the Spartan, lent his own spirit TO the State
and so made it great. Yet only by the super
natural is man strong only by cOnfdlng IL the
Divinity which stirs in US. Nothing is 50 weak
as an egotist. Nothing is mightier than we,
when we are vehicles OF u truth before which the
: state and the individual are alike cphemeral.
Gentlemen, the development OF cur American
internal resources, the extension to the utmost OF
the commercial system, and the appearance Of
new moral causes which are to modify tho State
arc giving an aspect Of greatness to the Future,