The New York herald., 1845-08-08
DECENCY AND MORALS
OF THE
NEW YORK WHIG PRESS.
From the New York Express. ]


elements OF the country were IN commotlon, and
when the whigs were of necessity bending all their
exertons TO prostrate the common foe, there would
have been some plausibility in the appeal OF the
when he speaks of the quarrels of whig editors.
Inc present is time OF comparatively political
calm, however, and an appropriate period for bur
nlshlng our armor for the future conflicts with loco
focolsm; and hence II is that we have deemed II
our duty to expose the errors and follies of the
1rl6,ne-to show its aim, and locofoco tendencies,
SO that that paper may be prepared to do battle on
whlg ground, with whlg weapons, in the whlg
ranks, instead OF merely holding out the whig
banner, while all its weapons, with one exception,
are tempered with the spirit of locofocoism.
The charges which we bring against the Tribune
are, that 1t attempts necessarily, in the language
the poor against the rich and in the general, to
ray one class of society against the other. We
charge the Tribune, in imitation of the Fanny
Wright party OF this city and OF the country, with
representing constantly, that there Is large amount
OF suffering arising from want of employment, and
that this employment the rich might give We
charge the Tribune with over-ratlng entirely the suf
ferlng OF the poor, and, in speaking OF them, with
publicly using the slang of ocofocolsm, by calling
the poor "the unpaid milllon"-"God's poor''-and
"trodden down humanity"-al of which tallies
with, and is portion of the very material which
opponents use to prejudice the poor against the
wings as party
1t is not true that work, and just reward for it,
wanting now to even moderate extent or that
they have been generally or that there is any pros
in the United States, and labor scarcer than in any
part of the wCrld. The slang of the above para
graph is precisely of the kind uttered by the ndel
and agrarans OF this city on the day that that
appeared in the Tribune. The agrarian and nfdel
paper, Young America, says
"In this city sixty thousand public beggars; fifty
thousand dependents upon the cold charity of their rea
tions; forty thousand outawed thieves; and thou
and N n iuhn aontfx
pauperism and crime must be attributed. Yet with
these frghtful realities everywhere present. you
justify yourselves by saying, 1--WE have no more land
than we need for ourselves and children, and we will
relinquish single foot Of it without rich
bayonet and the mouth of the cannon" and you
find time to praise the industry honesty and content
ment Of the aboring classes. II not as "harmless
doves" neither are you "wise serpens." Hun
dreds OF and miles of land wrongully and
ely withheld from your slaves if ownership Of them is
necessary to the support of anybody But land cannot
be honestly owned 1t cannot be even proper.
ty 1t cannot belong to any man, or number OF men"
There is not word of truth in either of these
statements, while they owe their paternity to the
same destructive feeling Of locofocosm The doe.
rnes in relation to the public lands are precisely the
same as those we have quoted from the Tribune.
1t Is not by written arguments or essays that the
Tribune attempts to dlHuse its poison; but by slang,
-locofoco slang repeated and re-repeated from day
to day. 1t knows that argument would be met by
argument, and 1t would stand no chance against the
truth. Take the following:
Whatever is produced by human labor, and is ca.
pable of indefinite increase is the property Of the pro-
ducer or whoever has employed and paid the labor
which produced it but land is the product of the Crea-
tor and can be increased in quantity but to very mi
ted extent If one man own whole State there must
be the less for all men beside but one may
mmensity Of grain wool, CLOTH without at all re-
strctng save tansienty the amount to be shared by
Others"
"The world is beginning to hear much of the wrongs
OF the and the faults OF the rich and we rejoice thai
4 LIE bp al nla nd
without iear-it will offend and repel many important
truth always does, but great good will ultimately
Oft IT is alleged, however, that reormers and philan
thropists too apt to overlook the of the poor
and the fact that their sorest suerngs may often be
traced back to some disregard OF the dictates of pr
dence OF integrity, OF duty Let us do part TO
move the reproach."
This is the cant of the Tribune TO convince the
poor that they are unJustly reproached, and that
regard of the dictates of prudence. These extracts
are fit for one of the letters of Tom Paine.
The Tribune, on another subject, goes the whole
doctrine OF reputation, in addition to the slang of
the agrarians and infdels of the party. 1t says:
"The present mode Of selling the public lands and
consuming their proceeds from year to year. is gross
robbery Of future generations that though the lands
should be sold their proceeds should be preserved to
our descendants
This idea of robbing posterty" is just the reason
why we have repudiating States. 1t is Just the cant
OF Sam. Young and the barn burners, when they pro-
pose plans TO get rid OF the State Debt in the Legsla-
tains that hosewho go to occupyhe lands now should
pay for them, tor the benefit of those who are not
yet born, does not seem to enter the brains of the
Tribune Why should not the occupants now have
the lands! And when will posterlty begin That
poor posterity who to have the uIoney 1t seems
that the farmer who wants land now must pay dol
lar and a quarter an acre, and this money must be
laid aside tor some future farmer. But it would
puzzle the brains OF the Tribune and all his agrarian
brethren, to give any reason why the money should
be given to one more than the other. Repudiators
lnfdes, and other locofocos, always looking out
for posterlty. The good they expect to accomplish
is to be done after they dead and they take very
good care to do nothing but evil while they live.
To show what correct and definite notions the
Tribune has of Scripture on agrarlanism we quote
again:
As to 'Agrarianism,, we have not syllable to
tract or apologize for. We have never yet ncucated
any doctrine so Agrarian' the Law given through
Moses, or the practice of the early Christians"
Moses would have made funny agrarian or at
least so the people of Canaan must have thought.
He made curious agrarlan division, too, when he
cut up the land and took il all to himself No doubt
the Canaanites entered the plea to Joshua that the
Tribune uses, that they were not intruders on the
land OF Abraham, but were entitled as the agrarian
paper oil this city says, ito an equal right to all the
elements and the soil BESIDES But the Maker Of
Moses thought differently and differently ordered
Having said what we have to say just upon
this branch OF the subject, we proceed to notice the
INFIpELITY OF THE TRIBUNE
word in favor of intidelity. Neither did Voltaire,
Hume Bolinbroke, Paine, Volney, nor thousand
minor lights, down TO the inidels who met yesterday
in Chatham street This is not the way to succeed
But il attacking the doctrines of chrisanity or de-
nying their binding force publishing what iniidels
say when they rdcule religion and denounce the
ministers Of imposiors then the editor of the
Tribune is inidel of the backest dye. If to hold
up and praise a man known and avowed TO be the
lending Iniide of the age, to commend what he says
when he ridicues religion, is infdelity, then the
editor Of the Tribune s an nfdel. We make the
charge, and that the editor of the Tribune has done
all this, offer to prove, II the Tribune will lend
us liz columns for that purpose.
The people of the interior are not ALL perhaps,
aware of the extent Of the evil OF which we speak,
The mtidels of this city hold their meeLln weekly
on the subject of the distribution of public lands and
the division of properly. On Sunday they meet, and
utter these basphemies in Chatham street; They
have, in many of our elections, held the balance OF
power. Except for them, and their agrarian allies,
Mr. Polk would not now be President OF the United