New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-05-08
Individual Freedom.

There ia 80 much truth in the following pthy re.
marks Of The Chronorype that we can afford to
pardon its unhandsome allusion TO the Wing party
II will find before long that the organ OF Imitation is
quite as largely developed on the skull OF its own
pet Liberty party as any where else and that That
party has its full proportion Of monkeys. Let ull
that pass, however
There are two great questions in regard TO every
man who undertakes to preach, edit, or in any way
instruct or enligh,en the public First, has he any
thing TO say2 Second, has he courage TO say 1t I
We have this TO say TO every individual conscious
of rational soul: BE FREE Be unit on your
own hook. Be not made tool Of If there is any
thing either Of belief doubt In you, according TO
which your own will cnn produce action, act up to
it for yourself Feel free to do 80.
Society wants more sclf.depcndepce, independ-
ence, and, strange 10 say. more dependence in the
atoms Of which il Is composed. Ii is mainly cha
otto 1t Is too much in state OF destruction. Its
units governed neither by the laws Of instinct
nor OF reason but the partial reason Of some rules
the perverted instincts of others.
Take religion. There is sufficient variety OF
faiths yet nine.tenhs OF the people walk in gives
of fear They do not dare to step out of their
spectlve circles of theology lest they should burn
their toes the Goals of the scattered Smithfeld
bon.fires They dare not be charitable. They are
nose.led. The Chronotype has 10 say, worship
what you conceive to be above you, with all the
heart you have, and don't distress yourself too much
with doing Gods work OF exciting other people TO
worship. Worship is nothing but the souls flight
upward All live things tend upward. When you
pretend to worship what is below you, no matter
how much il has been worshped before, you pro-
coed in the direction Of death Idolary of all sorts
is death.
Aguin take politics. If the light and will that is
IN each man could have been the governing princi-
pie of him. should the real use of individual
suffrage TO be only iniintesimal part of choice
between great evils which are so nearly equal that
honest and intelligent men may differ rs to which
Is the greatest. There arc parties enough There
is the Democratic party, nine tcnths o! whom vote
for men that they know will violate in practice
uine.tenths of their principles. There is the Wing
party, which narrowly watches the way in which
the other party gets into power and then initiates
like perfect monkey There is the little Liberty
party, which has made some noise, and yet the ex-
ercse OF little liberty in 1t. is in danger Of being the
death of it. Men are not free and self.moved If
they were, grand Liberty party would start up in-
simultaneously which would put an immediate end to
the coanlry's curse and shame.
There is plenty Of physical independence-in
other words, want ofconidence, among the units of
society. Every man locks himself up from his
neighbor pig in his own stye, Surrounds himself
with atmosphere OF repusion, worries himself 10
desth TO do for himself what others could do for him
with mere pleasure, il there could be little mutual
confidence, dependence and agreement But moral
or mental independence Ia sadly wanting. The very
idea of Il docs not seem TO have penetrated thou.
SANDS oil mlnud. Mcu uic iihS oEuo eu"' nav hC'C1
thought Of using their wings. The vocation OF the
Chronotype is 10 nourish independence of spirit, to
untrammel tho individual soul.
Society needs to learn grea! lesson OF Nature
God has made the world in infinite wisdom, says
the good preacher. Then let us see il wo can gel
spark of wisdom out OF the way the world Is made.
Matter exiss In three states solid, fluid and gas.
eous IL solid matter the particles have no liberty.
In fluid. they move with perfect freedom, and yet
cohere beautifully in the gobular dew drop and the
trlor oft hp f0nn n
ces are rcpellant lshmaeli,ish licentious Society
10 be all right, needs TO have its units in the fluid
condition-free. and yet bound, Thus constituted
IL may have and ,umul,, but never chaos
never lawlsas anarchy on the one hand nor dead
servility on the ether.