New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-15

belief In the benefits OF confession and the power
Of the Church. az Church TO bind and loose, atone
for or decide upon sin. with similar corrupions
INNS, vanish in the free and searching air OF new
era.
At present, the Catholic priesthood are the best
friends Of these poor people and, II they do them
harm. do them also great good All ihat IS desra
bic is that they should also have other friends a.
svmpa,hizing. as well acquainted with their wants
and weaknesses and who view their situation from
another point Thus they would have the benefit
of various aids aud means.
Between employer and employed there is not suf
fcient pains taken the part of the former TO es
tablish a mutual understanding People meet in the
relations OF master and servant who have lived IN
two different worlds. In this respect we are much
worse situated than the same parties have been in
Europe There is less previous acquaintance be
tween the upper and lower classes. We must
though unwillingly these terms to designate the
state of things as at present exisingl Meals are
taken separately. work is seldom shared, there is
very little to bring the parties together except some
times the farmer works with his hired Irish laborer
in the field or the mother keeps the nurse maid OF
her baby in the room with her
In this state OF things the chances for instruction
which come every day of themselves where parties
share common life instead Of its results merely, do
not occur Neither is there opportunity to admins
ter instruction in the best manner 10 understand
when and where II is needed.
The farmer who works with his men in the field
the farmer wife who attends with her women to
the churn and the oven may, with ease, be true
father and mother TO all who are IN their employ,
and enjoy health of conscience in the relation secure
that if they find cause for blame, ii not from faults
induced by their own negligence The merchant
who is from home all day, the lady receiving visit
ers or working slippers in her nicely furnished par
lor cannot be quite so sure that their demands or
the duties involved in them, are clearly understood,
nor estimate the temptations 10 prevarcation
II is shocking to think to what ialsehoods human
beings like ourselves will resort TO excuse love Of
amusement or hide ill.health, while they see us IN
duging freely in the one yielding lightly to the
other. and vet we have or ought to have far more
resources in either temptation than they For us 1t Is
hard TO resist TO give up going to the places where
we should meet our most interesting companions OF
do our work with an aching brow But we have
not peope over us whose careless hasy anger drives
us TO seek excuses for failures II so, perhaps
perhaps who kaowsl we, the better educated, rigid
IT, Immediately true we are at present might tell
falsehoods Perhaps we might, If things were gwen
rs 10 do which we never had seen done, if we were
surrounded by new arrangements in the nature OF
which none instructed us. All this we must think
over before we can be of much use.
We have spoken of the nursery maid as tie hired
domestic with whom her mistress, or even the mas
ter, is most likely TO be acquainted. But, only a
day or two since, we saw, what we see so often, a
nursery maid with the family TO which she belonged,
in public conveyance. They were having plea
SAINT time but in it she had part, except 10 hold
hot heavy baby and receive frequent admonitions to
keep IL comfortable. No inquiry was made as to
her comfor-no entertaining remark, no informa-
ton as to the places of interest we passed was ad
dressed to her Had she been in that way with that
family ten wears, she might have known them well
enough for their characters lay only too bare TO
careless scrutiny but her joys, her sorrows, her
few thoughts, her almost buried capacities, would
have been az unknown TO them and they as little
likely TO benefit her as the Emperor of China.
Let the employer place the employed first IN good
physical circumstances so as 10 promote the iorma-
ton of different habits from those OF the Irish hovcl
and illicit still house. Having thus induced feelings
of selfrespec he has opened the door for new set
of notions Then let him become acquainted with
the family circumstances and history OF his new pu
pill He has now got some ground on which 10
stand for intercourse Let instruction follow for
the mind, not merely by having the youngest daugh.
ter set now and then, copies in the writing book or
hear read aloud few verses in the Bible but by
putting good books in their way if able to read. and
by intelligent conversation when there is chance,
the master with the man who is driving him, the lady
with the woman who is making her bed explain
to them the relations of objects round them teach
them to compare the old with the new life. If you
show a better way than theirs OF doing work, teach
them, too. rhy it is better. Thus will the mind be
prepared by development for moral reformation
there will be some soil fitted to receive the seed.
When the time is come-and will yoa think a
poor uneducated person in whose mind the sense OF
right and wrong is confused, the sense of homer
bunied easier of access than refined and thought
full Surely you will not if you yourself are refined
and thoughtful but rather that the case requires far
more care in choice of favorable opportunity
When then the good time is come perhaps it will be
best to do what you do in way TO make perman
ent impression Show the lrishman that vice not
indigenous TO his nation for the rich and noble who
are not so tempted are chivalrous TO an uncommon
degree in their openness, bold sincerity and adher
ence 10 their word has crept over and become
deeply rooted in the poorer people from the long OF
pressions they have undergone Show them wha
efforts and care will be needed 10 wash out the faint
Offer your aid. as faithful friend ia watch then
| apses and refine their sense of truth. You vii
no, speak in vain II they never mind II habit Il
TOO powerful still their nober will not hav,
been addressed in vain. They will not forget th'
counscls they have not strength TO follow and th'
benefits will be seen in their children or children
| children.
Many say" We'll suppose we do all this wha
then They are SO fond Of change they viii leave
Us" What then Why, let them 90 10 carry tn
good seed elsewhere. VIII you be as selfish an'
short sighted as those who will never plant trees Il
shade hired house lest some one else should b
besi by their shade
1t isa simple duty we ask you to engage in ii i