Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-19
SOCIALIST DOCTRINES REBuKED.

SOCIALIST DOCTRINES REBUKED.
The following sensible remarks, although prompt
ed by occurrences which took place in New York
two months ago, are not less instructive now than
they were then:
FROM JOURNAL OF coMMERCx
RED RrrusLIcAsIsx IN NV YonK.-Its = melancholy
to see the deluson, which many Of the foreign Tsios
and others are subject when they arrive Shores and
even for some time after they arrive Judging om the tone
Of the resolutions and speeches at the German section Of the
article which publish this mornings translated from the
German paper the "New Yorker Demokrs, these people
feel themselves just much oppressed and downrodden in
this free country as they did in Europe two three years
ago. when they raised the standard of rebellion against the
Governments there existing. The trouble is that they mis-
take the very idea of liberty There such liberty in the
world as that which they seek AFTER and be without
beeettirg more noIerable tyranny than dsgaed the
Gar or the Sultan They deam against police as blood
thirsty and muderovng, because, with the least violence
which the admits they prevent these newly arrived for
eeners from entering the houses Of their ow-workmen and
taking away their work by force The laws and authorizes
which restrain them from doing they call tyranny and y
rants Hence what they mean by liberty, viz free
dom to perpeate the gevOus wrongs upon their neigh
bors and and upon whoever ele may stand
in their way Had they and those who acted with them in
Europe sought only for rational freedom, such con-
ent with the rights Of Others they might have obtained it
for all Europe ripe for revolt and ready for any change
which promised to better their condition But just in proper
ton as these violent unreasonable developed their doc
and purposes in the same proportion public sentiment
against them, until at length the bright hopes of
the morning were obscued by Clouds and finally sunk in
gloomy night How could It be otherwise Never, until
the world has grown grey with and crime, such abb
surdes and such mpiees the Red Repabcans promul
gate bo Incorporated into any system OF governments and
when they are that government and people will either 60
destruction or after brief experiment. struggle back into
condition Of mutual restraint for the sake of mutual protection
The Red Republicans fairly answersbe to mankind for the
failure, and than failure Of the European Revolution Of
ls4s. Says the London Times:
elf there were either candor, penetration memory
among the class Of enthusiasts to which allude, they must
acknowledge that the contrast between the spirit Of tenn
results which witnessing in $50 decisive condemna
ton oher theories and herexcesses Whenever Democracy
ed destroyed all that promising the civilization
and the liberties Of hsage has left behind Of bro
ken promises and and the injury done the
rgor the system which has arisen their place For here
speaking Of those only in which the nterpo
ston Of military force has suspended the action Of civil
thoriy Austria where indeed considerable progress
may be traced and where, at all the revolution has left
considerable beneficial results spite of the evils with
which it accompanied. We alude especially to
those countries like France and Prussia in which
miscaed the liberal principles actually triumphed and
public by universal suffrage, have point Of Re-
preston which their predecessors neither would could
have attempted So that brought by the present
aspect Of affairs the continent this Inference which would
have sounded paradoxic to of readers few months
ago, namely that the administration Of France by the King
whom she expelled is to be regretted by that country only
for the order home and the power
abroad but for the liberties which preserved the people,
and which have perished since its overthrow y
Of do not with the Times in all its
views Of Democracy On the other hsnd believe that
well regulated Democracy is the best Government in the
world Here is, in these United States We know of
better Government earth protects the rights of ALL
and in theory, al least grants peculiar privileges to
But this clearly not the kind Of Government which the
Red Republicans want. They want Government which
will give them privileges not enjoyed by their fellowczens
They want in legal way. to gain the pockets
Of their neghbos. An agraan law, extended TO other pro-
pery well as land would probably meet their views They
would like to compel society support them, either in idle
ness by finding them employment at high wages Poor
deluded men There is not country in the world where
such crudes less likely to find favor than in these Unit
ed States, where they be urged with little
inconvenience to the public little danger of disturbing
the flow of society Most Americans either have some
property, expect have o the road to fame and fortune
is open to a and in either they choose to keep it,
rather than divide out to drones and agators Almost all
the wealthy in the United States poor and
many of those who poor will eventually become
rich Such state of things stimulates enterprise, industry,
and selrespec Americans do not all crowd into occu
patton until it is overdone, and then demand that laws Of
nature shall be reversed by order Of the Government.
particular branch Of business Is ovedone they understand that
prices must fall matter Of and fall of prices
from such they take to be sufficient indication that
of them had better their attention other pursuits
In country where universal suffrage exists Americans do
not talk Of revolution" They appeal to the ballobox
tor redress they appeal to the public and sympathy
and if they cannot gain their object in either of these ways
they conclude that their is hopeless and that an
tempt at revolution would be still more So The five
hundred thousand foreigners recently arrived Shores
would do well to remember that they power
less to do mischief they present They have here
very little material to work upon The vast aggregate of the
twenty millions Of inhabitants Of the United States are
bound the soil and to the laws both by interest and ac
ton, and be swsved from their duty than the
from its The laws the people made he
and the people will them to be obeyed We advise all
newly immigrants, and especially Red Republicans
to keep their down-with the Government" notions to
themselves be Industrious patient, perseveng; endeavor
to understand the principles Of free institutions and let
console them that though their lot in life may be
hard ONE their children have opened before them
which nothing surpassL
Chanberss Edinburgh Journal, which trust they will duly
ponder fl ya
For some years past most popular writers have strongly
favored such views tend make the child of humble toll
believe himself the accredited nursng of society," instead Of
being by nature to take his place in the
scene of industry and employ his faculties, owing no
any thing but love- twill be necessary look Tie
primary law Of nature the face that he who will not work
must wana rule not all interfering with the claim Of hui
manty in favor ofthose unable work. or who some par
icuar exgency cannot obtain employment but which
redy in its general bearing, must be every other
confederation For what is the society which looked
that which must do for every body but only cluster Of per-
who obliged work for every thing they possess
In what predcament would this society be if every
posing were instead Of working for himself to expect that
the rest should work him In that case Il ia to