New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-08-27
a. The Erpr.s. has an article on " Founerism

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~ The Express has an article on Fourierisu
and Its Developments" in which it is difficult TO
dsternioe whether falsehood or folly predominatss
For example Of the fsIsebood
All a them Social Reformersl directly or Indirect
IT, and Of them svowediy ss,emp, 10 destroy be
hef In the Chrlsusn religion Tbs large mas OF the
Comnosisu ice believe we have the rsnt word) from
Robert Oven and Pspoy Wright down, are open dennn
eiators Of chrisusri,y"
Nov. 70 say nothing Of the undeniable cornmun-
ism Of the fret Christian Church lsee Acts VINO
does not know that epery Community In the ian' VI
any sort Of msrority is not only enphsficahy Cnr'
tian, bat is Christian in life and daily Walk 70 an
extent which caonot be parsielecf EN-" among
them are the Shakers six eight societies oi 'oe'"
all most risid Communists these tn'rty 10 h''y
wears, ali Christians in faith and life, and patterns
OF ipdostry. Temperance and virtue. They cannot
be accused Of preaching Communism at the instl'
cation of their poverty, for they abound In wealth
and uhvsi comfort. Then there are Economy
and Zoar, one fly and the other over twenty years
old--ssch Christian Church as well as cornmdni-
~: last Of all, the more recent communities at
Ebeaezer, near Buffalo, and in Henry Co. Illinois
each Christian church Of the Orthodox faith az
well as a thorough example Of Communism.
Christianity s not merely the religion oil Eoenezer;
il is the sun Of the entire system, with hours TOR
prayer and regular days two in each week for
public worship beside the Sabbath. No In6del ex'
pertinent ia Communism has succeeded, while
there has hardly been failure where the iounda-
tions were laid in Cbristiapity
--Briancourt's Organization Of Labor is the
pretext for the Expresss last unseemly exhibi-
ton, and the fact that it is published in The Tri-
bune Baildings" is hsrped upon, though the
Express knows perfectly well that we have no
more control over Mr Graham's business than it
has. This book Of Briancourts-a very sensible
and good one ia the main-we knew nothing OF
til one Of the printed copies was laid on our table
The author frankly states that he was formerly a
skeptic, but that Association has made him In
faith Christian This the Express parsphrases
a. follows:
THE suhor OF the book confssses that when be bret
TOOK the disease OF Socialism. he shared win most
OF his Fourier contemporaries pr u1ices against
Cbnsu.bity" or 10 other words painy ipterpret-o,ne
started hs Foursrsm under the standard OF iohdety
bot fsdis1 as s ciaborss do here that pOuid not TAKE
id, mai qs he held ont he ooOrs Of tae Chrtsan r'it
eto. plih q Of beuer sEoeess.
Ofcourse, he who would misrepresent an author
30 grossly as this could hardly hesitate to ialsiy
quotations II tempted TO do 30.
aThi. Fourier sthor also Undertakes to show what
The Touu- prat.s and what the inhdels In Chs
hsn-.t VINO never OH any work anywhere. zoe ~1e
fofadee BY er sedy aPpsardnos at er estHSs preach
about. VIZ attractive LABOR
TINS is the first time we ever heard that people
who wear seedy" garments never did any work
apywbere"-it teing all done up by sleek, respec'
table citizens who wear faultless brosdcloth and
silk. We mus, try to bear this In mind
Here follows the conclusion Of the matter, ac'
cording to the Express;
Readers who Join with Us in heartily despisipg such
nonsense and ertses the enemies OF our race are
daily teaching In khe Tribune and In all ne book publ
catas must not. ia ibs exaltston Of their contempt
forget la fIss country like ours no error ID 90
coutecphbl tbst will not have fools and rosues To
fship it--aDd of tbs most dangerous Ouls
sions 81 duty therefore, s hold their either
pisu or sDsu'd IN such contempt ~ mot 10 rebuke
IL TIE ,ourd hi kris Of Europe let poLatrt Condrcd
and Rousseau hars ua play long ol my al last car
red al France nth Mfm-and win Difficulty was even
Oio Eoglood Vt last saved from their posons'
All no. Sir ia not persist in reading backward
the great lesson of the French Revolution. All the
issl writer's Of the last century could never have
begun TO unchIstisnize France ii the Church had
NOT forgotten ,h mo- -er In which her divine Foun
5sr was GRABBED the shepherds who hailed His
Advent, the peasant fishers and laborers who were
IL. ..sovoeiates and disciples. IL was the preva'
lence of injustice. oppression. tyranny aud wrong
In the Social and Political relations of the governed
aud governing ciasses-the Church looking on and
conserving, like Paul at the stoning OF Stephen
tina, gave lnRdelity access TO the minds OF the
French People voltsire and Volney were read
and believed in their attackSon the Christian Faith,
because they had already gained access to and in
Haepce over the whole public mind by the pungent
truth they bad uttered in exposition and reprehen-
sion Of the tyranny and proAigscy OF the ruling
classes which the Church regarded with compla-
cency, with blindness, or with positive approval.
Tue Toilng Millions learned to admire and love the
Apostles of Inii1elity. from finding IN their wrl'
tipgs the only hearty and practical sympathy with
their own wreteheduess and wrongs. They came
M length to hate Church which smiled on the uch
and pow erfu in spite of their expressions and de
bsucheries. and frowned upon all attempts to i'm
prove radically the condition of the toilworn and
furnishing as q blssphemous defiance OF the DEGREES
os Providence. IL was burning shame to Chris
tianity that the work Of exposing and overthrowing
the iptoerabls expressions and evils OF tworn
Feudalism was left to ln6delity; II was the shame
OF the Church at first. and became her temporary
ruin in the eni Shall the lesson be unread and
undecided
Cal pals. Three Millions Again.