The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-06-04

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which often rage with brutality commensurate
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universal good Is 70 suspect society on the
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altogether free IRON And while We wisely use me means
a. our hand to suppress and Pssea s1en v @ and .
courage The influences that lavot ana the p OF
Gent and /. run he sole real and pennsnenl prevention
lies in tho elevation OF society with all It's and that
American institutions entirely will these hateful
which and community will have reason 10 re-
gard with either shame or anxiety # it
The foregoing extract is without ingenuity. But i
asserts that society, under republican laws and
guarantees 10 in transition state and that rowdyism rs
mere proof that want stale OF political ex-
slence n order 10 let of their blackguardsm and vlo
lencetha have still nearer 70 approach the ideal be-
fore these hateful accidents" will disappear
What ideal is this which 10 to be better than the actual
of the present dayi We have laws enough but men will
dsobey them ties enough, but they will break them
monitions from Nature, from God from our own hearts,
and men disregard them all What then, this famous
remedy Tor these hateful accidents!" Nothing more
less than that the ider shall live on the industrious,
that labor shall support the lazy that women shall be
common to those who desire them-in short, that vice
shall be general and unTesained that virtne shall
exist and finally. that all the hopes and fears OF
another world shall be merged in the sensual enoymens
OF this. trstts ttu .teaslg gi4a0ysg no .HT
But suppose that the social circles of the Tribune will
not and do not after all conform these dune laws Of
our gross passions what is the remedy If men quarrel
with each other about Lager Beir and the Ma,tss what
is the Trbune's remedy Is il the law OF kndness' lie
even abstinence from animal food and the vigorous
OF squash and bran bread Far from IT, Let the peace
full philosophers, the heaven born sages, the rhapsodica
poets Of the Tribune. answer for themselves
The usual forms and penalties of the law known
the professors and heroes OF such melees only TO be
evnde despised but Tor 6aH cartridges they have
nneigned respect The bses fred Aston Place and the
iv lost there caused profound and painful shcck TO The
,nOr lanfn ri hnf ~ n m RAf
rendered in securing Its peace = aba a-t .s8
Bullets are, after all, the great reliance Of the Tr
bunsts. they of the whole social school, " rs
We ask readers what confidence they place in
newspaper advocating such doctrines as these! We
ask the public how much security they have for the
safety Of the Union when such distracted fools attempt
lead public opinion We feel that using strong
language; but where this glorious republic ieop-
arded by such the prosperity OF our
city is endangered by such abomnable doctrines-when
age Of glory Of wealth and happiness likely
to terminate horrd of traterna discod and
Of blood consequences Of the influence and teachings
of such papers as the Tribune, may we not utter now
and then cry OF alarm Let the merchants OF New
York look to il, and how much longer they sup
port those philosophers who utterly bent their
ruin. a. eaa