New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-03-09

there s more agitation Of this single sub C, 10 PAR, a.
the preseut time than there s IN Amercs.pf oil the
form movements taken together, approaching 10 cha
racter the excitement and absorbing rteres, Of Pres
idcniis election AL the Republican papers are Social
t thai the battle Is regularly organized between So
ciasrn aud Conseryetsm. IS al the Democratic
Republican and other progressive movement have
been merged into Socialism ell The daeren, shades
Of Couserva,l.m have been and going back to the
mos. ultra forms Of Legitimacy setting their eyes up
on a Throne established By Divine Right, with Henry
to I'm H. And hosts Of the Liberals, 80 called who
aided 10 deihroIng Charles X. and many Who assisted
10 relieving Louis Philippe Of the Of State having
found that Socialism has sprung up the ruins Of the
ThroDe, completely over on the eide Of es;nscy
and DespOtsIn ss the Only ground which TO stand
and the threatened overthrow aud destruction Of
The old order Of things and the establishment Of new
one
To know how thoroughly society is sgitsted by the
ideas Of Socialism need only enter the Cafes, the
Restaurants, the public meetings and the places Of
Amusement. Everywhere, 10 the thester, the prets
and the pulpit, it Is The burden Of all discoursts
the theme Of all discussions never idea
canvsssed with such universal inere,t end adOr never
which seized and carried conviction TO so many
minds Socialism i gaining tuch army Of converts
that nothing Withstand its progress. The cid sub
jects Of controversy are completely ruled out Before
the fall Of Louis Philippe, the common subjects Ct dis
cution with the Press and in public and private assem-
blies ministerial changes, slight notifications Of
the electoral law, foreign and domestic policy and
other superficial and temporary questions Of reform
But these petty triaes Of day all buried in
oblivion sud the question which most deeply engage
the attention Of the Conservatives H. how 10 stay the
do If Is
them hew they shall sustain the old political and socis
isbric which them many privileges and ad
vantaees that s. how preserve what they understand
AS Order in Society and above all how they shall de-
iond and secure against all invasion aud encroachmen
dearest and greatest Of all Interests in the eyes If
Conservstiyes-ihe interest of Property Tbcse are
questions which go TO the bottom Of things, snd rouse
all tho faculties Of the mind. On the other hand the
Socialist or Progressive party discuss plans Of
gaDizs,on in all departments Of Society Every int
stuton is freely ard thoroughly criticised and discuss
| ed condemned and something ese advocated Ia It's
place.
Mankind have at length arrived at 'ae dscassiOR Of
Fundamental prinoPts and having got thus far they
will doubtless long discover the truth and solve the
problem Of Human Destiny
Socialism is extensively adopted and
widely discussed in Protestant Germany than in
all classes the peasants there have become its
partsans while in France 1t 10 but little known
derstood OUT of the towns and cities All the Demo
crats-al the progressive end advanced minds Of Ger
many who look to political and practical relorms are
Socialists In travelling through that country, lOun1
the leaders, with exception, IN the legs
lavc bodies and tho press, thorOugh-going SOclaiss
IN their principles. very intelligent and prominent
politician remarked to mo, that out OF hundred Dem
ocrats In Protestant Northern Germany there was
no, more than one Abstract Democrat BY Abstract
Democra, he meant one who nothing beyond
Political Democracy, or the Republic-jast such De-
uocrat Ms in the United States have in such pefi'c'
lion one who goes entire for "the party, and Will
split hairs In regulating the Tarif while he cannon un
derstand that Capital robs Labor OF Its right That Lana
Monopoly makes slaves OF the working classes and
that slavery itself even is not divine institution
But the Germens have never been tine partisans OF
sham Liberalism aud superficial Democracy they have
never tsken much interest in political questions
and controversies which have occupied the attention OF
France and England snd country for SO long
time The German mind likes to go to the heart oil
matters they pay bu, little regard to the form or pre-
tension of thing but care ouy for the reality Hence
they have little consideration for Republic In name
and political In its character only such as that oil ihe
United States which, absrdcediy maintaining justice
and equal rights allow the existence oil poverty ana
degradation of the working classes, and tolerate even
| Slavery This kind of Democracy or Republcanism
the ermans cannot understand and will no. accept In
their eyes IL Is as bad as an absolute Monarchy which
permits the same abuses They regard Republic not
az the end but only 40 means of overthrowing the old
system aud of putting power In the hands oil the people
TO enable them to institute fundamental and practical
| reforms which shall bring plenty and happiness to
their hresdes. They filed with the great Idea CT
order of things EARTH and look forward to the
speedy realization of II.
The Socialism of Germany differs from that OF France
nasmuch as it assumes definite form system. IL
be considered scientific in its character 1t
rather kind of eclectic collection and modification OF
all the ideas and systems OF Social Reform which have
been brought forth In the world. The Germans accept
readily what they think good and what they render
practical among themselves from all systems originate
where they may. Theirs may be called the Socialism
Of Common Sense which rejects everything they
understand aud spply at the present time. This TEN
per Of the German mind results from reaction against
the philosophical peculstons and mystcal theories
which have formerly been much in vogue in Ger.
many. They have been drugged with metaphysic
subultes and sophs,ics bubbles OF the fancy specus
lions In the unreal world by Kant Scbeng Fchte and
others until they sick of them, and they turn
from them with disgust and only for the selievi
dent, the practical and the real The Socialism of
France ia much more and profound and for THE
reason II 10 less easy of comprehension and 10 not
universally adopted by the people But the grea, Idea
of socisl Reform and order of things IL fairly
rooted in both nations, and nothing withstand lie
progress and the final achievement, of mighty Social
Revolution. Yours, A. b.
| STAND FROM UNDER.-The Union of German
Americans at Philadelphia, by one L. A. Wolenweber,
Secretary advertise that the monsrchs and potens,c
OF Germany persist in holding Office they other