New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-29
| most heartily dis5eiierc- where, may ask,
would ENGLAND find the ron for her Chains

This leads me to question which | approach
with an oppressive sense OF its importance and
difficulty. appear the apologist of England.
| s1n about to appeal to people, exasperared by
seven centuries OF iujury-whose rational faculty
has been enieebled by seven centuries Of abuse
or negject-tO isolate that reason by an unparal-
led effort OF stoical power and refuse hatred
which holds 1t by the heart, and sulicifs it with
epic frenzy The difficulty does not lie in any in
tricaCy Of the argument involved the truth in
this case lies nnmized on the surface bat how
shall divert the eye Of my country from the an
gry fascination which holds it. and turn il upon
the golden possession : How shall bad logic
the only instrument at my disposal, avail in az
undertaking like this Here, one has need OF
Divine persuasion But even of this am not al
together hopeless. The Christian reason aud spirit
OF the enterprise may approve themselves to the
pulpit of my country, and the pebble from my
sling be conducted through path OF fire to its
mark,
war, according to Hobbies is the natural state
Of man, aud every human institution is compro.
mise OF hostile forces.
The first part OF the proposition is deduction
from the second the premise is true the c0nclu
sion to the honor Of God and human nature, false
A merely historical analysis leaves such an OBJ
nox6us residuum as the presumable basis OF all
social and political combinations. Races nations
tribes provinces, classes, governments rights con
stitutious. laws, property, patriotism. freedom
these are tor the most part the objects of history
and ell OF them are defined by QLt1E0HiSm. The
az cry clements OF humanity have determined It's
history They have put up the better parts of man
in alien and threatening forms. The Family
with its loving and healttUl spirit, Spontaneous
and uneIacted good, the Family, which is the
gem and natural tpye OF sociery-has no recorded
DEVELOPMENT; unless indeed, weimagine ourselves
to perceiyet in those clouds Of allegory which en-
yeiop the beginnings OF history Repulsion
he fhp ifau lgyU pf
so that each form Of it subsists by the stronger re-
pusion ofthe rest, and not from cohesive virtue of
its parts. The uspension ofinternecine war within
the walls OF Jerusalem, when beseiged by the Ro-
mans, for the advantage OF strength against com
mon enemy illustrates the reason and spirits of all
social and political coutrivauce The imperious and
repeIant seltishness OF man, has so oyerborne the
diyiner part of him and etaced its traces from his
history that the latter is in great measure ig.
nored not only by the political but also by the
moral philosopher. The one tells you ofhiS social
contract surrender OF POWERS TO iaj1re for the
benefit OF Protection-Permanentt truce OF exhaust
ed enemies: the other talks OF right and duty
which you will find to differ nowise from eracti0n
and s0c'?fre, il you only look at them steadily
There are no human pulses in them, and man &C
cordingy has striven in vain through all recorded
time to conform to them. His heart, which is the
palate Of his brain, rejects the medicine. Right
and duty have tried for ages to give some definite
account Vi db dUSulutei anu CJI-
tingent transitory forms, but hitherto in vain.
Whatthey have achieved in this way, is adequate
" summed up by Carlyle in his account of Sauer
tergs Pig Philosophy" What is justice Your
own share Of the general swines trough, and not
any portion of my share. But what is my share!
All! there in fact lies the grand difficulty upon
which Pig science, medtating this long while,
can settle absolutely nothing. My share
humph!-my share is, on the whole, whatever |
can contrive TO get without being hanged or sent
to the hulks."
Within these conventional FORMS determined
by antagonsm, hidden and depressed for the most
part, but sometimes flashing through-surYlves
the immortal spirit Of Human Love, ignored by
Hobbies and the Stoics, but known to Christ, If not
as vet to Christianity. Its gradual emancipation,
we call progressive civilization. AS it deveopes,
it transmits finer sensibility to the social eye
and evils which atiiict and stunt humanity, but
not more now than formerly, seem to It to have
| developed in dimension and In ughness. The
isolation of nations sects and classes, is no longer
| so complete, but what see the electric hres oil
| this sentiment shoot sometimes from one to the
other Some feeling Of kindred, and faint glm-
mer of mutual recognition, begin TO distribute
themselves through all conventional divisions OF
men. Nations are no longer mere hostile camps
the Christian can believe the Jew sincere the
! lord has at least much sympathy with the beg
! gar as he has with his horse. French marquises
| do not now recommend the starving people to eat
|
ance, marves that her breadlacking subjects do
| not eat cakes
The cooperative spirit Of the Family, and not
the bristing malice OF the Camp, is the natural an
imQs of society, and the tendency OF civilization IS
to recover the true order OF human relations. The
anagouism which reigns in our institutions, do.
| riyes from all accident, and not from principle OF
our nature. Some strange CONFUSION once shook
| the social frame into fragments. The links OF hu-
| mar her ShIyered.
| fronted man, after ages of isolation, an alien
and an enemy painful plecemeaI OF parts,
which we call COnventiOnalIsm, came thus to DC
substituted for the unitary scheme Of nature
! his disorder or COnyentonalSm warps phlIan
thropy INTO the national form, and gives us patriot.
| ism instead, enveloped in porcupine coat OF AMI
mostly and prejudice, and Wanting Itself Divine
| because it is more than selfshness. 1t warps Re
Iigion into alternating aggressive bigotry. Itwarps
! the sentiment which delights to honor power, and
| turns its incense upon the idols OF property and
| class 1t hes so stultihed humanity in this re-
! spect, that honor ignores the man, and worships
| his condition AS idolatry loses the god in the
symbol, so the practical estimation Of men has lost
the person in the property. Estates are the peers
| the companions the friends OF estates--the human
things attached to them being merely the sent+
| ment or consciousness Of their relations. Estate
coners dignity upon Relgion-the tithe more
honors than the mission. Eatates marry estates
10 Tue prostitution VI tHeE doJtCt Huudu dCGiutuIs
Estate elects the eldest ofthe offspring, and kicks
the rest into depe ndency. Shocks attached to an
estate, demands your homage--detached, he re-
Coenizes your ri ht to despise him.
Generations are born into this form of humanity,
and they lake the form to be as absolute the
substance 1t is automatic in their reason, and
venerable in their sentiment.
Individual heads are thrust upward here and
there through the crevices OF couventionalism,
and report the marvels of the prospect with little
heed from those within but no nation nor class
has ever yet upheayed It's crust. In evidence OF
which let it be observed, that principle and right
are in the mouths Of all nations and classes but,
hitherto, as mere sounding pretext, when some
interest OF the nation or the class has been inques-
ton History Instances no national sacrifice for a
principle that did notinyolve az interest Form
liberty our Liberty. no end Of bIood-for liberty,
not drop The Puritan strikes for freedom Of