New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-07
CHANCES AT EUROPE. No. XXI.
UNIVERSAL PEACE CONGRESS.

perpetual was closed last evening, after har-
moniols and enthusiastic session Of three full
DAYS The number of Delegates IN a.ten lance
was between eight and nine hundred, while the
spacious area Of Exeter Hal, which Is sail TO
hold comfortably thirty.ive hundred persons, was
well filed throughout. and densely crowded for
hours together. Having been held at q most "a
vorabe tune and at the point most accessible to
the great BODY of the active friends Of Peace. |
presume The attendance was larger than ever be-
fore.
Two thoughts were suggested 10 me hy the
character and proceedings Of this assembling
first, that Of the eminenily popular and plebsian
origin and impulse Of all the great Reform Move
ments OF our age Every great public assem-
bage in Europe for any othc. purpose VIII be
sure to number Lords, Dukes, Generals. Princes.
among It's dignitaries. but none such came near
the Peace Congress; very iow Of them take part
N any movement of the kind In the lis. OF Del
egatea to this Congress, under The head Of Pro
fess,on or Trade. you find Merchant Miller.
Teacher. Tanner Editor Author Book
seller Jeweer,' &c, very rarely Gentleman.
or Baronet and never a higher title. rejoice
to say that Minister or Clergyman appears pretty
often but never such word "a Bishop or Arch
bishop though the most liberal OF the Established
Hierarchy Archbishop Whately of Dublin sent
brief note expressing sympathy with the objects Of
the meeting. And | think among the clergymen
present there was hardly Ole belonging to either OF
the two Churches which in these realms clam spe-
cial and exclusive paten; from Heaven for the dis
pensation of Religious Truth.
The other thought suggested BY this mighty gath
ering concerns the character and efficacy Of the or
carnations and sects N which Christ ianity pre-
sumcd 20 he embodied Let Convention be called
Of the friends of Peace. of Temperance, OF Personal
Liberty Of the sacrednesS Of Human Life, or any
other tangible and positive idea. and many hundreds
will come together from distant nations speaking di
verse languages, and holding antagonist opinions on
other important subjects and viii for days discuss
and deliberate perfect harmony, unite IN appropri
ate and i0rc.blc declarations f their common senti
ments and IN the adoption of measures calculated to
ensure their triumph. But let a general Convention
of the followers of Jesus Christ be called, with
view to the speedy discrimination OF the world. and
either thrce-fourhs would keep away or the whole
time OF the meeting he wasted IN an acrimonious
quarrel 10 the meaning Of Christianity or the
wording Of the Shi5boleih. whereby those who were
should be distinguished from those VINO we're not en-
titled to bear the Christian name.
This contrast implies great wrong somstr1sre,
and for which somebody must be responsible. mere
ly suggest for general consideration and pass on
Not fully sympathising with the Peace Move
ment IN the actual condition OF Europe, was not
Delegate and did not attend the first two days de-
llbeTatIOns. ! sec not how any one who does not
hope 10 live and thrive by injustice, oppression and
murder. be otherwise than ariently favorable to
Universal Peace But, suppose there is portion Of
the human family who coht hare Peace nor let others
have II, what then Ii YOU say. Let us have it
soon n cam | respond with all my heart. |
would tolerate War, even against pirates or murder
erS, 10 longer than IS absolutely necessary to inspire
them with love OF Peace. ar put them where they
can no longer invade the peace of others. But so
long as Tyrannes and Aristocraces shall say-as
they now practically 10 say all over Europe. " Yes,
We too. are ior Peace but It must be Peace ah ab.
Soluc submission TO our good pleaSre-Peace with
tWo-.h.rds OF the fruits Of Human Labor devoted to
the pamperng our luxurious appeiltes. the mainten-
ance OF our pomp, the indulgence Of our unbounded
'jes.res--it must be a Peace which leaves the Mil
hons IN darkness in hopeless degradation, the slaves
ofSupersiton and the helpless victims of our lusts"
/ answer, " No, Sirs on your conditions no Peace
j. possible. but everlasting War rather, until your
unjust pIetensionS are abandoned or until your
power Of enforcing them is destroyed" have felt
a painful apprehension that the prevalence OF the
Peace Movement. confined as II IS TO the Liberal
panty ana acting on state Of things which secures
aImos, un5oundod power to The Despots, Is calcu-
lated 10 nreak the spirit OF down-trodden Nations,
arl, by thus posiponng the inevitable struggle,
p!0trac. 20 IN indefinite period the advent OF that
Reignof Universal Justice which alone usher IN
the glorious era Of Universal Peace. And, had |
been Delegate 20 this Universal Peace Congress,
should perhaps have maued is harmony AMI is
happiness by asking 1t TO consider and vote upon
some such proposition as this.
'Rcso'rcd That n commencing all every where
he duty Of seeking and presenias Peace We bear ID n5
the Az Stle injunction First pure then pcace1bc. and
do dely but affirm the night cf Nation wautony IN
taded Us Foresn army. Ino'eraby oPIFeSsei bv -
own rulers TO resist force ly force
II rejoice IN being able to say that the general
tendency Of lie speeches towards universal
Emancipation, mental and physical. doubt whether
an English audience composed IN 50 large proper
ton of The conventionay respectable classes ever
listened ~ 30 much downright Democracy before.
The French speakers. the French writers. were full
of It, and The great event. at least OF the last days
session. vas the entrance Of boty Of fifteen french
woIkmen. representatives of the Working Assocla-
tons Of Paris 10 ne Worlds Exhibition, who came
IN a body 10 pledge their hearts and hands to the
cause Of Universal Peace. and TO assure the Congress
that the Laoorers, the Republicans OF France, were
eminen,iy pacific in thoiT IDEAS and purposes, and
that The preservation Of the Republic. which Is the
immediate Object Of their exertions, Is valued not
IL rs relation 10 their personal rights and aspl-
rations than step toward the formation oil
European coniedcracy of enanopated Nations, and
thus The cornerstone Of the temple OF Universal
Peace. The Speeches OF these Workmen Just rom
their benches the work shops OF Paris every
way admirable and were receive with the headleSt
enthusiasm They brea'hed the true spirit not OF
Peace only bat Of hearty cooperation in every work
calculated 20 promote the moral and social we'll
being of mankind Tie Wretched cant which implies