New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-29
THE ANGLO-SAXON
, vvvYnrn RY AN iR1sHMAS.


pens, and our readers will perhaps regard
with interest an earnest and well-spoken
word on the other side. We find it in
late number Of the Dublin Nation III let
ter from an Irishmau resident in New York.
And whatever may be thought Of the wri-
ter's view Of the English, it is impossible to
denythat he exhibits a profound insighrinto
social philosophy in general, as we'll as great
good sense in the practical measures he re-
commends. The letter is a. follows:
TO cRA6LES GaY3Y DUFFi, Err
SIE:-l take the liberty to inclose you bill for
twenty pounds sterling, my contribution III ald Of
the Tenant Right Movement
ireland has at last discovered that the political
ard social anguish which has alternately N adj
deped and exhausted her these many centuries,
has been merely symptomatlc OF distemPer Ii
her own organism. At the extreme moment which
seemed to divide possible life from inevitable DIS
solution her glazing ewes has turned upon her VI
tai parts barred by COrrosnn, and seized the o0-
gtruction which she bad not the nductiye sagacIty
to discern beneath the yet uuwasted tissue mat
abe has been slow TO detect, Is comparatively no
reproach. The same organic detect although as
vet less Developed. exists unrecOEntled IN the
economical part of the structure OF every nation.
1t broke out in French revolutions, without much
instruction to French monarchs or trenen states
men In what forms OF social corruption 1t shows
on the body of England, let Morning Chr0alcieS
answer and Westminster ReU3ewSr confirm, but
with little result as vet to the national pathology.
The effects of hereditary disorder being more than
COMPENSATED in young countries, which have not
attained full growth by their excess OF vital force,
they deride the warning OF science and desplse
the physician for charlatan. Political economy
accordingly receives no countenance II Amerca1
nor il there any country more impre8naby smut
up in the prejudice, that property Is divine right
| of the possessor No nation, in fine, has yet at
tanned to a complete conception of the THAT It's
headache proceeds from its stomach and that CIV
il commissions have for the most part, mere stry-
ings against sylnptomatic phantasms, when the
/ headache has intensified into derlu1n
The application OF political measures for the
amehoration OF the condition OF Ireland, Is like the
! practice Of those who manure their heads to pro
mote the growth of the hair-as if anything could
nourish it which it had not been first IN the blood
A people without knowledge is as necessarily de-
pendent as the child--without capital, as the
! elsve Without knowledge, it is in the quasi state
of the somnambule-its rational and voluntary lie
| suspended, and an instinctiyellte alone developed
! in it. which is moved by the thought and Will OF
the maguetizer. OF little consequence Is it wheth'
er the magnetizer be foreign potentate or Parha-
ment using sword for its tallsman, or domes'
/
ing with Divine rights or Divine missions peo-
ole possessing ledge, but deficient in capital,
! is n rare phenomenon peculiar to the decline OF
nations and visible but for brief historic
moment; for, difused capital being the platform
of peculiar knowledge as the support gives way,
the fabric follows too quickly to admit OF leisure
ly notice from history. Pending its existence, the
| desperate competition of the masses to escape
from want, compels them to cast aside theirrghts,
as flying soldiers do their arms and what re-
mains to them Of knowledge, serves only to illus
! trate disgrace. Capital and knowledge constitute
the aiment of nations. They are strong or feeble
| in proportion as they possess both Without them,
the starved frame of the Celtic has failed its
heroic will, and its resistance TO foreign DONNA
| ton has only expedited decay, and rendered its
anguish more acute With them the race would
outgrow the grasp of oppression and liberty would
be achieved in the process OF development, with
no more specific effort than what the expanding
acorn puts forth, when, to use figure of Goethe,
"it shiyers the jar in which it is planted"
do not instance the Celt because he is more kin
or dear TO me than the Anglo-SRxon part of my
country men, nor because L would encourage dis
| tinctions which, being opposed to the broad wis
| dom and sentiment of nature have contributed to
dwarf my country but because the greater alb
iectncss of his condition makes him more salt
ent illustration.
Does any one question the economical method
Of reform or rather, shall we say, of revolution
u
transmute into standing army any considerable
fraction of an opulent and educated people. do
| not speak of people having opulent and edu.
Gated class, like ngland, but OF one whose every
fibre is bathed III circulation OF wealth and
! knowledge The uses of the standing army are
ngeniously described by Swift under the allegory
of the air,island of Laputa. 1t floats above the
heads of the people, ready to descend at any mo-
| ment, and crush them beneath its adamantIne
| foundations; while on it's bosom, which is clothed
with Paradise, dwells in secure Incidence the
| power of Laputa, without interest, pursuit or
sentiment in common with the governed, and re-
| lated to them merely by the need to extort and
| repress Among people of whom none were
| SO poor but what they possessed in their muscles
| and skill the fee OF a homestead and none 80 ig
norant but what they respected in themselves the
knowing and governing parts of man, az the super
added parts, which distinguished him from the
brute--how many would be likely to sell their
humanity to the State for subsistence Admit
that extraordinary wages might bring together, in
such a case, the material OF an army--the lsoat
ing agency of ignorance would still be wanting
A soldiery in rational relation with the people is
no Laputian terror, but fixed, continuous, har
monious part of Laputa.
Owing TO cause external to the conventional
system OF Americat but which modifes in the
wholesomest way its economic detects-the eX
cess, namely, of land over capital and population
wealth and knowledge are ditused in the country,
to degree without exampl in history. The pay
of an American soldier is the average pay of an
American farm-laborer yet the file Of the Amer
lean army is made up of Europeans The soldier
is the most AFFECT Of all slaves, being the slave Of
many masters; and in so far as he is not chat
tel, bis condition is the harder for be finds pro
lection in the cupidity of the owner. The
American whose rightul sovereignty OF him
self depravity has not deposed abhOrs the alb
ject bondage of the barracks, though ever ready
to submit to the subordination OF the camp
| if patriotism invite him. Of militia, there is
no lack in America. Fifty per cent, at least,
of American male adults receive militia train
ing, OF such efficacy as the late march to the CAPT
to of the Montezumas has indicated Here, then,
we have people incapacitated by dif'used pros
perhy from raising standing army out OF its own
| al only for