New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-13
EioIlf mud ExpCLicnCy.

EiEhf and EXpeGlcuCy.
Our meditations and investigations with
regard TO Public Dates and the Morals Of
Politics hare resulted in this conclusion,
that II is o1,cogs right TO do the best IN orr
po,eer, and that it is acrong to reject the
good we might secure because we cannot
secure along with it another good, perhaps
Of greater consequence, Int not now attain
able. We are, for example, DESTROYS that
Slavery shall not be extended-that Ameri'
can Labor shall be protected against the
unequal competition Of unpaid labor in the
Old World--th the Public Lands shall be
made free TO the landless-that considera-
bic portion Of the National Revenues shall
be devoted to improving Rivers, HarborS,
&c. so that generations to come may have
something 10 thank us fOr-tha. Intcmper-
ance shall be suppressed-and that Educa-
cation shall be rendered free and universal.
YET we never expect at any one Election to
be able to carry all these points, and may
never have an opportunity to vote for list
Of candidates who entirely agree with us on
them all. What then? Shall we refuse to
vote unless and until we can vote for can
didates who agree with us on all these ques-
tions2 Or shall we fix upon some one, re-
gard it as overshadowing all the rest, and
make its support the Shibboleth Of political
merit? Neither course seems to us any
more right than expedient. We do not ex-
pect to carry every good measure at one
Election, but we endeavor to give each q
push forward whenever we can, and, with
out expecting a majority to agree with us
on each proposition, we shall act with and
vote for those who on the wholeseemright or
the larger number Of the material questions
involved in any given contest. We believe
we can best serve all the great Reform:
which seem to us desirable by not giving t
any one an exaggerated and absorbing con
sequence.
The following anecdOte, which we fine
floating in the sea of journalism, strikes u;
as conveying an important moral;
STIcKIsG TO oyn's RIGHTs-Od stories very
otter have forcibe application to present times
1he following anecdole we met with lately in az
exchange paper
How is it, John, TIA. you bring the wagon home
in such condition"
81 broke it driving over astump.'
aWherel'
p ."Back in the woods bali mile or SO
"But why did you run against the stump ?
Couldn't you see how TO drive straight"
al did 6rve straight, air and that is the very res.
pon that drove over it, The stump was directly
in the midi Of the road"
"Why, then, did you not go round itl'
"B6csuse cir the stump bad no right in the mid
die OF ID road and had right in it."
True John the stump ought not to have been
In the read, but wonder that you were so foolish
rs TO consider that il there and that was
stronger than your wagon
"Why, father do You think that am always 60
ing TO yield up my rights Not II am determined
to stick up to them, come what will
But what is the use, John OF standing up TO
tights, when you only get greater wrong by so
doing"
al shall stand up for them at all hazards"
Nv ell, John, all have to say is thIs-hereaitel
you must furnah your own wagon
If our Free Soil friends who opposed
the Compromise, will only get that Texas
Boundary bill altered so as to give New
Mexico any more than the Omnibus did
we will agree that this anecdote has no ap
plication to them.