New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-05-03
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Talk with Young Men.
Thisi.s season Of quiet aud consideration win
regard 70 Poitics-one Of those Gains winch 'oio"
and precede tho tempest There are large nun
bar. Of younx men who will probably be sum
moned 10 decided Political action Tor me hf'' 'D'e
next November aud WOO have DOT , e. 'uHy N
solved on the course they will then take, 10 tnis
class we address ourselves, aud We esA 'u0E carr
est heed TO our brief obsef'ation''
W. ~ ooar.e speak to those young men "no
..., % live useful and respected and 70 die fear
La. and IAN snted-the opposite class are Dot hkey
., bs.r or heed %. But the great majority OF young
nan we trust ars more solicitous 70 be on the
,sbt than on the strong sdeto serve their country
In the bestowal Of their suhrsges than - serve
themselves at their oountry's expense. These We
would earnestly entreat 70 scrutinize the two great
p.rtes which divide the country IN their essential
characters and there8pOn decide 20 which Of them
the path Of Duty must direct their steps cues
tim. Of policy aud Of administration rise into i'm
portance today and sink into insignihcsnce % NOR
row and measure which was urgently demanded
IN a may be unsuted to the country in 80. On
all such there is and will be room for debate ard
contradiction evermore But there are considera
tons connected with our Politics higher than these
BROADER also-more enduring. Let Us barely al
Jude To some Of them.
Ifa Young man such a. we now address, should
End on careful survey, that one OF the great par
ties which divide the country is most apt 10 obtain
majority Of SURFACES in localities where the peo
pie are VIGOROUSLY most intelligent and moral while
the other is pretty Of the ascendency 10 local
tiles where the mass Of the people are debased ny
Ignorance and vice. that fact should have some
weigh: with him in deciding 10 which % attach
himself
1be should find one Of these parties benefited
and strengthened by an increased attention BY the
community 10 Education and Religion, while the
other flounshes best where groggeres are multi
piled and dissipation is rampant, that contrast can
hardly fail TO have weight with him
If In scrutnizing the Election Returss Of a great
CITY like this he should find those Districts where
tho greater number endeavor TO live rePutabiy'
cleaniy and usefaily give large majorites one way
while those which are in good part gwen up 70
brothels, gambling .dens and other haunts Of wicked
ness are sure to give msjorities the other way
ougb, not that fact to arrest his attention aud inu
snes bis decision
IT. 90 running over list Of his acquaintances he
should find a ma ority OF the studioos, modest Oh
serving frugal, moral sad religious tending toward
one party while majority Of the rowdy, reckless
turbulent, dssipated and goddess manifested nat
aral leaning toward the opposite party should not
that divergence inoite him 70 reflection on its
causes and its philosophy
II he should find one party vOclferous ADD blood
thirsty for Universal Suffrage in Rhode Island and
France, while that same party voted down, booted
down, Universal Suffrage 10 w-York-deyoted,
lip deep, TO tia uprsisng OF the degraded and
down trodden in Lancashire or Lombardy but
trampling down and grinding into the earth long
oppressed and abused caste ia own county
while the opposite party, making much flendorer
and less boisterous profess ions OF Democracy yet
msnifested far more consistency and impGrtislty
in it's acts not regarding the victims Of tyranny in
our midst as beneath beyond the range OF It's
synpathes, will not these facts give him some in
sight into the characters OF the respective par
tea and his duty with regard TO them
Finally If ne should find one party regarding
Government mainly means OF inhlcting evil,
while the other esteemed it rather AS Hu agency
for siecting good one party ready enough TO vote
away millions to conquer or purchase other ma
tons territory, but sticking ior the uuconstitu
tionalty OF every proposal to use our revenue
rather to improve and bind together our own one
party vehement for acquiring at any expense o.
blood or treasure this Bay Of San Francisco on the
Pacific, but horror struck at the prohigacy Of i'm
proving harbors on our Great Lakes or removing
distractions in the Hudson, 81. Clair or Ono the
one rushisg INTELLECTUALLY into debt to sustain a
foreign crusade of slaughter and subjugation while
the other regarded National greatness and honor AZ
to be achieved rather through Peace, Order aud a
prosperous National Industry, ought he to hesitate
n to which Of them no should aid by his counte
nance and his suffrage
Young Men think calmly and carefully OF these
things A Nations destiny hangs upon your de
cision