New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-12

length. any more than We. having agreed to swap
load Of oak for one Of pine, should be careful
10 ssipulste that one load should not CONTAIN c0'u
and the other but half cord. SO our opponent
claimed the right To make bis articles Just as long
as he pleased, and to require their Puohcali0h ~
our hands, though he should ABSORB our "h0'e Ps
per- We were Of course. though protesting asshs'
this necessity, compelled TO extend our arucles u
order 70 reply 70 his ye. OF the Tho'e oooA Ou'
about threeseveuths fell TO our snare WINE 0ai'
,eventbs are engrossed By our msgnanimous al
versary, who actually spproprstes more than
me ,sntb Gp,tead of one-twenty fourth OF the
whole TO his closing article, wherein ne was a. NJ
erty 70 say what ne pleased, being shielded oy the
knowledge that our opportunity 70 SPEAK ="
end And in this closing article ne introduces vi
the rs, time quotations from Fourier oa'cuia'ed 10
bring odiun on the cause Of Association which he
had maniestly Kept back from the 0ee'"A'Hs e
pyessy on purpose 70 introduce fAe"' aver our ,P'
he'd teen ol0sedl But not whisper Oh feouAs'
. nor even rsmonstrancc is heard from the 0anuiu
revieser-not even asuggestion that there ~oulu
have been intrinsic absurdity' IN expecting rom
such disputant either honesty or many usai.Ns.
A word now in illustration Of the main subject
of dispute
When we speak OF Association with any regard
20 Social Economy. We mean one distinct uelni'e'
valuable practical thing-the combination oil sew
eral hundred families in one Phalanx or community
inbabiting a single spacious and connexions hui'
fee cnltivsting one common Domain aud prose
cutting great variety Of mechanical anu HlAnu'"'
turing pursuits upon the basis oil JOINT O"n
ership and Justly proPortiOned DIVIDENDS 10 enc"
! individual who owns or works, according 10 "e
Labor Capital and Talent he may have contributed
m the General result-a system whereof the
! Wbsleship. Bank. Mutual Insurance and Protec'
tive Union enterprises of our cay are but hints and
martial exemplifcstions We mean system
which shall substitute Cooperation for Competition
| Proportionste Dividends for Hiring and Wages
systematic and republican for a iragmentaTy and
sristocrstc ORGANIZATION Of Industry which shall
secure 10 every Child thorough Physical and Indus
trial q, well as Intellectual and Moral Education
to every decently. behaving Man or woman an
unfailing Home. with opportunity to Labor and an
assurance Of Inst Recompense and ample enoslst-
ence. We hold that every human being has
clear natural riga to such Opportunity and Recon-
pense and that the undeniable fact that millions
annually famsh despair and die Tor want OF them Is
the condemnation Of our existing Social Order
That immense Economies, both in Production and
Consumption, must inevitably result from such sn
ORGANIZATION and that each associate would be
guaranteed against Famine, involuntary ldleness
and injurious excess Of Toll the simplest impartial
consideration would establish if the history Of each
Moravian and Shaker community did not. We
maintain, therefore, that simple Justice to the IN
fortunate and wretched imperatively requires that
the suent and powerful should unite in efforts TO ei-
feet such Social transformation as we have herein
dicated-a change which shall not be content with
merely raising few or even many out OF the
Slough of Despond but which shall establish prin'
ciples and indicate methods whereby NIL the dsln'
hed;ed and down trodden may be surely upraised
to comfort and independence, In this faith we i've
end labor, fully aware that it dooms us to the IN
firing and by no means upotent hostility OF such
as he Of the Courier & Enquirer and bis reviewing
champion TO the end OF our days.
Blu. when they insist, and really seem 10 make
people believe, that, because we are for this prac-
ticn Reform, therefore we are bound to uphold ard
TO be judged by MI the considerations aud arsu'
ments which have been urged in its favor by tou-
rier, Brisbane or anybody else, we feel that they
are grossly blinded by their preudces, their intense
hatred of Social Equality. or they do not mean to
treat the subject fairly. The thing we would have
done, they combat by showing, after their fashion,
that some of the reasons for DONG Il assigned by
certain persons are immoral and anti-Chris.isn-
But orr reasons tor doing it-and we commenced
the discussion by L,vad aud deiuito s.-sss-s~. %
Il tos.,r IL
duced-they slide over easily as possible, pitch
them aside as irrelevant and proceed to make their
battle against certain other reasons and cousidera-
tons which we had not ndduced and did in no man.
ner rest upon. IL is in vain that We endeavor to
recall them from their wild chase-in vain that we
say 20 them Well gentlemen, having demolished
'Passional Attraction and all that wilyou look TO
our foundation and superstructure, and see you
'can shake them ?" To excite and tske advantage
Of the olia fteologcum is the end ofther strategic
aspirations, although we had uttered word,
affirmed no proposition, that any believer IN
creating and governing Providence could fairly
take exception to. Let them 60 their ways.
We have 4 word however, in reply to the con-
GLIDING attack Of the reviewer on the Theological
tendencies Of The Tribune regarded in It's general
conduct and apart from any question Of Socialism
These are grossly a,sailed aud maligned by the
reviewer, without word of specification or evil
dence bat with the simple and evident purpose Of
enlisting the great body Of Clergymen who are the
principal readers OF the Quarterly in crusade
against our circulation. No form Of railing sccu
sation or deadly implication is spared to give
these Clergymen to understand that The Tribune is
deyotedly lnfdel in It's inculcations and essen
italy hostile to what is known as evangelical
Christianity. We are directly charged with hold
ing the theology Of Theodore Parker, Waldo
Emerson and George Sand, though we do not
know q single point of belief on which We agree
with these three--hardly one on which they agree
with each other The one single Circumstance on
which this fabric is built is that Of our studied i'm
partially in noticing books which treat OF points
controverted among Christians, and while We have
Stunned no fair opportunity to indicate faith in
the Christian Religion, we have not chosen to
speak harshiy even of Infdels This course we