New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-05

feHS10n | would deal gently win tne heredIIaty
sin OF its being; but abhor the stupendous volt.
tional crime of its propogandism. And when
think what scheme OF continental enormlty the
Slave power is struggling to develop before u.s.
nv heart sickens with disgust and my soul is
paralyzed with horror. The great market tor
human cattle ii the Slave power can succeed IS
to be opened in the new States of the West, tor
which the supply is to be raised III the East.
Our Atlantic States are to become the Amercan
Guinea. Old Virginia, the mother OF Presldeuts'
barren Of tobacco and fecund OF blpeds' has al
ready gone to breeding babies for sale Sweet
Carolina is anxious to drive her children 10 the
shambles Asiatic Georgia has long been cele-
brated on the page OF infamy, for selling her fair
oHspring to the harem; American Georgia Is
eager to outriva that shame, by selling her tawny
daughters to the sugar field and the gold mine.
/ When the trade OF human withdrawing is fully
established and the East shall annually pour her
mvliads Of yokcd, scourged and band.cued live.
stock, like mighty gulf-stream to the West; the
prohibition of the foreign Slave Trade will be a
fine protective tariff for the encouragement OF
this domestic production. Then will come
grand slaveocratic millennium in which the East
will be the Slave-breeders, and the West will be
the Slave.consumers the South will be the
Slave holders the North the Slayc-catchers We
shall doubtless, then preserve the "gior1o1S
Union as glorious, fors0otb as the ropes and
chains wherewith old MeZentlus bound the living
man to the rotting corpse. II these indications OF
depravity in the national heart were our only
omens or in themselves were removable, small
would be the hope of regenerating the public
conscience into life Oul history, too, must turn
ont disastrous failure. Them wherever the star
OF hope should turn-whether tracing its steps
back to wearied Chistendom, or verslng to our
occdent should curve over the broad Pacific,
until arest became east, the prospect would be
equally desperate, OF renoyating humanity on the
shores of Europe, or the plains Of Asia Let
these dark influences Guench orr lamp, and Z" /
know not where is the Prolnethean ire that can
that light rel.umine.'
He repudiates the old Materiastic philosophy
OF the Eighteenth Century, and rejoices in the
increasing prevalence of
TRANCENDENTALIsM
Our CHAIRS Of philosophy, at the present day.
are doubtless great auxiliary in the elevation of
the standard Of public conscience. Even so late
as the day of my own pupilage the scholar was
expected to understand his soul from Locke his
conscience from Paley, and his responsibility from
Edwards. OF this triad, ii the Indicated mate
riaiism Of the first, the low eXpediency OF the
second, and the granite tatasm OF the third did
not prepare Inc for the Atheism OF Hume, it was
because my own moral sensibties disbelieved
and repudated the whole quatenion. | could
neither believe, from the first that lad no soul;
from the second, that had no conscience from
the third, that had no will nor from the fourth,
that had no God. The philosophy Of the present
period, recognizes in the soul the power OF know
ing idenS that transcend matter; and so anthem
ticates the belief in spiritual and immortal ma
ture; it enhrOnes conscience on the basis OF eter-
nal right, and so ennobles the moral and divine
law it holds the free will OF man unbound to any
necessity to crime, and incXcusable Tor its COM
mission; and thus with an immortal soul, re-
spOnsbe free agency and an eternal law DIVINE
it follows that judgment and an adjudgin5 God
are a matter well nigh demonstrated.
OF such philosophy, impertectly developed
| nd rat ed n he effects
are now being universally and practically felt. In
polemics, the overthrow of the philosophy OF fatal
ism is making sad work with the theology otiata-
ism; the Reinforcement OF Spnoza without the
church, is shaking the position OF st. Augustine
within the church. Narrow eXclusVcness IS en-
larging into Christian liberalism; and the doc
trnes OF all comprehending benevolence are
quickened into an alreochmG action.
But he is not injected with the fanatical tcnden.
: cies OF .,,............
THE SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY,
And these tendencies are confirmed even by
the fanaticisms that carcaturc the ascendant phi
losophy Every great doctrine has its fanaticism;
that is its exnggeration and fiery ultraism-the
hooking shadow, the nightside OF a great truth;
and that tanatcism is in some degree test Of the
character OF the system it carcatures. The IA
naticism OF the Locke philosophy is very rightly
styled SeaSaal-1or earthly, sensual and devilish
it was in spirit; and vulgar, libad and brutal in
language, 1t reduced the soul to physical senSa
tons conscience to calculations free will to me-
chanics, immortality to eternal sleep, man to
brute, and God to matter. This bar room phlloso
ply, at present, seems to have gone to its
place and 50 far as | know, it can scarce hiss or
howl even from Uammany, Now the lanatlclSm
of the spiritual philosophy the transcen-
dental ntdelity, scorns this low Sadducism; she
is sleek and holy Pharlsee; she is plous; she Is
terribly abusive against all abuses, Christianity
is unspiritual for her; Puritanism is not Puri
tuncal enough Methodism is not Methodistcal
he b0c uOtn thn mil nchp n
Sundays-and has an " Absolute Religion. -
Moreover, she is selfrighteous-she thinks her
self the final effort OF time, thus far in aspiring at
ter perfection. The Bible has some good streaks
in it but it is not enthusiastically perfect, like
the absolute religion. Jesus of Nazareth was
very we'll but in his day, time had not progressed
far enough to produce her great ultimate; it took
parturent centuries to gender her last great ri
dCuluS mus, namely, the advent of the absolute
| religion preacher. Now these vagaries are to a
sober transcendentalsm what the sensualism of
Condillac was to Lockeism-its fanaticism but
they are not q brutal tanaticism. They have an
| upward, and not downward aspiration. They
view man rs formed for paradise rather than
menagere. They do not peremptorlly and totally
pronounce the tenets of Christianity one priestly
he They assert q God, & conscience, tree-will,
an Immortality; they even go about TO establish
their own righteousness, having q sort OF church
inspiration and piety Now the sober philosophy,
of which these are the fanaticisms must be nearly
the Counterpart an our mere reason to herel0t10A,
which the Christian thinker must desiderate IN a
philosophy. That philosophy is progressive and
aggressive in the direction Of Right and Reform;
and to those who know how powerful even in
ages where thought sscontrolled the world, than
now, is the ascendant philosophy, to Indicate and
to work great revolutions, there can be little
doubt that our moral system at the present day is
as the great Harbinger voice in the wilderness,
crying, Prepare"
He defends with Puritanical zeal the union of
THE PULPIT AND POLITICS.
Meanwhile the pulpit is proclaiming the King.
dom OF God at hand Hers it is to impregnate
the philosophy OF the age with spirituality, and
thus to complete the formation of public con-
science Orrather II is her office to oDDronriota