New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-06


to human weLbeing To Manufacturers and Inven-
tors ii cannot fail TO have direct and positive value,
as suggestive of the future advance of Improve
ment through It's exhibitions OF the past; while even
the fair and the delicate whose hands are unsolled
by Labor may derive entertainment no less than IN
structon from a contemplation OF the implements
and processes Of Female Industry many centuries
ago when the wives of mighty warriors prlded
themselves on the excellence OF their own fabrics,
and queens were not ashamed of the distaF and
needle The work is beautifully printed on fine
paper aud its Illustrations render it an ornament to
any book-tabe.
ADDRESS delivered before the Erodelphan Society of
MAN, University Ohio at their late Anniversary:
By JAMES w. TAYLOR, OF Cincinnati.
We have read this Address with lively pleasure;
It's voice OF hope, predicting the gradual progress
Of the Human Race, until il shall have reached q
noble Elevation. and every member OF the hace
shall be truly Man. possessing all the rights, the
/ gifts the dignity and happiness, which God OF IN
/ finite Love and infinite Wisdom has reserved and
destined to each and all His creatures There is but
one condition TO the obtaining of these boons-and
that is that Man shall achieve them by his own IN
telligence and his own labors for il is only in OBJ
tanning them by such independent action, as tree
agent, that he will be worthy of enjoying and thus
be truly best by them Ii gives pleasure 10 hear
such voices as that which this Address bears to us
coming from the Great West snot to be disguised
that great battle is 20 be fought between the spirit
Of true Progress with its philanthropy and justice
and the love Of Humanity with its high hopes OF
universal elevation with It's desire for the tul devel-
opment Of the manhood of every being in the great
Human Family on the one hand, and the spirit
OF IndustJialism and Commercialism which
is now raging il land and over the world
with its worship Of Fortune, and the love OF self,
with its dire tendency TO look upon Man as mere
instrument of production subject to the will and the
uses of capital and which If it conquers, will usher
nupcn the world new tyranny and anew ieudailsm
-au Industrial and Commercial FeudaliSm, w hich
will be the counterpart Of the Military Fendalisnl,
which marked the commencement Of modern Civil
liEation Feudalism Of the money bag in the place
of that of the sword with the merchant princes,
aud the great bankers, and great manufacturers, as
chiefs and rulers. in the place of the great barons
and military leaders; with vast joint stock monopo
lies appliedto manufactures agriculture the means OF
conveyance, &c. &c and the war of competition and
great DttN W
the old war of blood and territorial conquest
Which shall conquer7 Shall it be the principle OF
Divine Justice and philanthropy, with true and
humaait0ry Misunderstanding industry right
w. banishing slavery and servitude under all their
forms from the earth, introducing Christianity and
Right into all practical relations and thus securing
the elevation Of al-or shall il be Industralism with
its worship Of fortune and the thirs! for gain, with
its individual seshness its spirit OF dominion and
its disregard for the rights Of others which shall
conquer Notwithstanding our hope In the future,
we often dread that the latter will be the victor, Tor
both the laborng classes and the rich seem fired by
the ruling passion of the age-ihe intense thirst for
wealth. and this passion we fear, will lead the for
mer whose interests are so entirely the other way
10 accept under its deluson the yoke which is being
fastened upon their necks.
The world has waded through three orders OF ty-
ranny-the Sacerdota the Military ahd the Political!
One country-our own-has freed itself from these
three and shown to the world that they are not me-
cessary to the government of Man But If the spirit
of selfish lndividualism and Commerclallsm pro-
crosses Us it has done. then r fourth Tyranny-the
last in the course of human history-w be fastened
upon Humanity We say the last because the
Evil will have exhausted itself, and Divine Justice,
Liberty and Right will be born out of the force Of
circumstances.
Political and social wrong, degradation and op.
preston, exist only for time at the commencement
Of the historical career of the Human Race during
the period Of Transition from state of rude nature
and ignorance state OF intelligence, and the iail
development of Industry, the arts and sciences, and
of the higher nature Of Man. Human genius may
abrdge this period but if it does not then there Is
n slow and gradual progress accomplished through
force and coustraint; and Mankind are compelled
to move onward however much II may be contrary
to the sentiments ignorance and the moral inesta'
that reign in this transitional epoch OF poverty,
selfshness and degradation.
A foreshadowing of this new despotism, which
now mcnaces the world-but which will not be be-
lieved in because il has not yet taken place-ls 10
be seen in the condition to which the Laborng
Classes-even the women and little chidren-are
reduced in the large closed manufactures, the mines,
&c Of all civilized countries where Industralism
has been excessively developed, particularly in
/ England.
MT TAYLOR in his address advocates the cause OF
Progress and prophecies future of social justice,
! oil 'he integral culture of the Iuatridsai and his
elevation, thus securing the collective intelligence,
greatness and elevation of the Race apon true
basis He does not poin, the means of realizing
this better Future, as the object of his address as he
says, is TO illustrate the two leading ideas of the Age
Conservatism and Movement, or Reverence and
Reform The former he considers the child Of Mem.
ory, and which when true nstils sacred respect for
whatever is good and great in the Past. The other
is the bold representative of Hope with faith in the
Future and the energy to carry out all its Possibi
ties We will make few extracts, which present
some 6ne and generous views
The time long past when observer can De blind
the that the spirit which upon the face Of
the sxpectant earth ope Of change the mos: sweeping
| OF movement the most irresistible