New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-20


is crazy to be comprehended and appreciated, and
sometimes though rarely finds 4 Dora good ma
tured enough to undertake the task, without the
slightest qualification for such sublime drudgery.
Age and youth are mutually concerted anu triyo'
lous, because each despIses the ambition and as
owns the tombstone of the other Before the
debutant stands the made men OF the world, the
tried survivors OF the crisis the veterans in the
struggle, who have proved that man is made 70
mourn, smiling in superior scorn rs they untold
the scroll, weighed in the balance and found
wanting. Like the dsconsoate Peri he may
come with the Patriots heart-blood and the low
er's.Iast sigh, but he shall bruise and break his
snowy wings against those adamantne gates, un
less he sues with the precious drops Of labor. Ii
is easy to say Plunge-there is golden wand IN
the stream; but when the Garden of Eden Is to
be resigned, and the soul thrown upon the Real
brink The learned pro
learning no longer sounds Challenge at the gate
which is open to all. There is but one resort he
must wean himself from all the ideals OF youth
in which be has so long been dwelling. This IS
the Crisis with all its attendant spirits of Alcohol
Opium and Suicide. Even at 10, the sp ark lgnlted
from the soul of the mighty Arabian lights up the
sands Of his native desert. Equal intellect with
greater passion sByrop) frets under the yoke 10
die at Missilonghi. But ignobler natures must
bend the neck or break. The mental bones OF the
undisciplined Genius of the Past bleach the track
OF Time. Some may accept the yoke, out few
with willingness The American youth has no
Heidelberg TO wrap him in during the Crisis, and
to compel an easy place for ensuing life. When
the white teeth and the red lips OF our first
mother closed upon the damning apple, began the
struggle which still continues Then the curse
OF labor was inflicted, not only upon matter but
upon mind. The children OF the brain are born
with pangs as great are the offspring of the
body. The soul would part forever
from its prison, but that, like the golden bug, it
can only fly the length of its string. When all
those merciful promptngs that chain blooming
health to poisonous diseases when all by which
hnmanityis chained to Heaven is worthless than
the gold that is dug from the soil when painters
and sculptures driven to exile, when Cal
houn and Clay and Webster fail to reach the
Presidential Chair, when Don Giovanni yields to
the loud litteness of Ernani, is it not fair CON
clude that hatred of labor is the surest way to
success. Mr. Miles reverted to early Egypt,
Persia, Greece and Rome, to elucidate his idea
of transition Christianity he SAID, fused and
civilized Europe, producing the artist, the poet
and the minstrel. The Christian Church held
her station as the ruling spirit of the age. Then
arose a class OF persons little known, creatures
who lived by permission, the prey and support
of armies. But they toiled like oceans ants,
until their works spotted like coral reefs all the
ocean. Dating its triumph from about the period
of Warwick and Henry the mercantile interest
has continued 10 UtlNe, uulll, IKE -AdToH sur
pent, it threatens to swallow up the rest. The
Priest, the Soldier, the Poet, and the King, have
had their day, and now the Merchant is emphatl-
caIly the Lord of the Times, the Exponent OF the
Age. Oppressed and hampered for cen.
turies at last he energies triumphant, and
executes a fearful retaliation. The Artist IN
every branch the Writer the Politician the Law
YER the Mechanic are his tributaries his
slaves. A single newspaper Yields more intiu
ence than mountains of books, and the lmpotent
Author trembles at the bar OF the youthful perl
odical. Men of Genius, scornlng the interior
power of books, grasp at the might OF EdtofStp'
The real artists of the age are found not III dusty
studies or windy garrets, but III the counting
ROOM trained and polished men, whose setcom
mand is equal to defeat and disaster; who move
the complicated machinery OF years with placid
smile; who assume with ease the burden OF the
day and cast it off without an effort High on
his throne of royal state, that tar outshnes the
wealth of Ormus or Of Ind, sits the immortal tod
of the Multiplication Table, serene and omnlpo-
tent with the MUSES. and the Graces crouchlng
/ before him, humble pensioners on his bounty
| Modern Coniurer deals with the Useful, the Prac-
tcal, the Substantial, and spurns the AlIadin
palaces that shoot up night to vanish the next
/ He turns the finest mind of the day into the chan
mel which answers best his purposes, and the Cot
ton Gin spins into being the Locomotive, bnm'
| ful of life, skins the plain and pierces the noun
tain the steamship trails her cloudy plumes
across the ocean; the Telegraph like thrilling
mise untes the extremities of continents, and
tells nj touch how the hearts Of nations are beat
ing: even Parliaments and Senates are superia,
GUS and rapid, secret Democracy decides ana
acts while the tumut of worlds moves harmlessly
| on What we once called = Country IS almost
obsolete nations are q constellation OF cites,
linked together by those IRON rails over which the
tire-carayans of the w est constantly passing
and repnssng The United States Is the talr
est example OF nation born and bred IN the Mer-
camille Era; the Old eXerts marked influence
uuon Europe but we are unshackled. The spirit
/ tbat won our Independence may not have been
mercaDte but when the Ephesan lncendary
| consumes to fire the Athenian dome OF this 8lorl
Gus Coufederacy, he finds a Spartan wall guard
ing the temple from Castle Garden to NeW-Or-
leans, aud in the Merchant OF to-day ne oenolds
the patriot Of the Revolution.
miliar to us, that we take 1t tor granted tnae
the regular and busy community must be so Oy
some necessary law The rivets OF interest are
conspicuous enough, but the cement OF aHect t
is needed to make the ediice sure. w iach Tue ,
traditions the history, the superstitons oil ol1er
lands what then, is it that holds US so firmly to-
gether? 1t is the proud consciousness OF pos
sessing home that none may deprive us Of,
home where COrneia's Jewels are SHINING where
all that is pure is dwelling II we need reai
name let us call our land the and OF the 1eart;
Mr. NJ referred to the noble women OF old he sad
tbot Cbr;stianitybadg given the world new word
Home The masses are not now dependent upon
hubble amusement, and the glory OF nations now
lies in Household Peace. BY this, hepuonc
sustains itself against the world, without the aid
of armies and of fame. We need not lament that
the spirit Of our country seeks comfort rather than
elegance and prizes labor more than genius
know that only in Union there is strength but how
shall we so atte1npcr things around us, so that the
struggle shall not be too hard 1t IS easy to fulfill
one half of Guizqts definition of civilization--the
perfection of the Government; but how shall we
get the other half-the perfection Of the lndiyidu
al The world is full Of reiormers, endeayoring
to get rid Of this struggle Perhaps, from their many
theories some way of pertecting the State and
the Man may be elected Mr. NJ. referred to the