New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-28
Chairman Pntriofisru,

To the Editors Of The Tribune.
A administration of the liberty sought for by the
German Patriots is recorded in one Of the German
papers of Dec. Is published at New-York, with
reference to that distinguished parsonage called
FREDERICK HEcKER, who was on his arrival at
New-York in l848, SO gloriously welcomed ct the
City Hall and elsewhere by the City authorities
and the mass of Germans. The Editor thus speaks
of him Frederick Hecker, during his agricul-
tural life, seems still to have preserved leisure
and love for literary occupation. He has trans
lated the celebrated Rights of Man" Of Thomas
Paine and prefixed an introduction and the lie OF
the author The work is published b. Arnold, IN
Leipzig ard bears the date Of 1851. No doubt
Mr. Hecker intends to make this translation the
foundation upon which he would base the code for
the German Republic, in the sweet anticipation,
one day or other, to rule as Dictator over Germa-
MIA for liberty is, in the opinion OF the great ma
orityof German Revolutonists, liberation from
all moral and sacred laws. Without law and
without God is their motto. Have not those RI
otous tAiors OF New-YOrk, a few months ago given
satisfactory proof Of this Oh, Germany Oh,
dear land that give me birth, donot wonderful
the curse of the Almighty rests upon thee, when
such Infdels are abiding in thy bosom L RS.
20 1t seems to US that our correspond
ent, whose letter comes dated from Prince
ton Theological Seminary, is sadly out in
his reckoning, as we will try and show him
under six distinct heads Firstly: Paine's
Rights Of Man is, so far as we recolIeet, a
very direct and forcible republican political
treatise, and nothing more. 1t was written
in reply to Burke's assault upon the prin-
ciples of the French Revolution, and de-
tends democracy with as much ability as
zeal. IF it goes beyond this to attack re-
ligion, our memory deceives us, and we
have not the volume at hand. But GER
tainly, so far as its main purpose and sub
stance are concerned, we should say thatit
was very proper book to be published
in Germany at this crisis. Secondly, while
we don't believe any dictator could be
worse than those who now rule the roast in
that part of the world we have yet to see
the evidence that the parsonage called
Frederick Hecker has any desire to put
himself in such a position. Thirdly, if
the German revolutionists are all infdels,
what made them so, but the bad religion
and bad management of the nation by its
governors and teachers Fourth{y,it is not
well to assume that infdels, taken body
u1U IuU1U 1IuIuU1uI Ui1uu UtiIvI people.
Filthy, it is rather too long stretch of
argument and of party spirit to call the riot
of a handful of poor tailors in this city,
satisfactory proof, that the great mass of
Republicans in an intelligent nation Of forty
millions are bent on mere lawlessness
and license. And sirtlly and lastly, it
seems, according to our correspondent, that
some of the infdels no longer abide in the
bosom Of his native land, to wit, Mr..
Hecker and the rioting tailors, SO that the
curse is to that extent, diminished. But
we will tell L. R. S. that the worst n6dels
are not those who, protesting to disbelieye
the dogmas of religion, still have faith in
the praeticability of Just and happy rela-
tons among men, and who accordingly
seek to instruct their fellows in their politi
cal and social rights, but those who, claim
ing to have received and understood the
divine spirit of Christ's doctrine, still prac-
tce and uphold the tyranny of hypocritical
rulers, and the extortion of idlers who,
undeg one pretense or another, live without
work on the labor of the toiling many.
Whether of them twain did the will of
his Father? They say unto him, The first.
Jesus saith unto them, Verify say unto
you, That the pubicans and the harlots go
into the Kingdom Of God before YOU
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