New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

e "TdE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW" con-
tains articles on Robinsons Lexicon of the New.
Testament Ruskin's Seven Lamps Of Architec.
ture, Works on Physical Science, Phillips on
Protection and Free Trade, and so forth. The re-
view of DR.. Robinson's Lexicon does justice 10
the merits Of that great pathological work, but is
written In a style Of inflated pedantry, which
can only be excused on the superstition of the in
ability of the author to express himself In his
native English II he is such q cripple In the
use of language, as to require the clutches Of
foreign words, his infrmity should DO dealt lightly
with but he has no apology for ossensstiously
paradiDg his defects before the public. Such
specimens Of piebad composition are beyond the
pale of good letters, and we are surprised at that
lsxity of taste which suffers them to appear in
print. There il no shadow Of pretence for ex-
pressions like these, with which the article is
profusely studded "They are diyecta n'e1a6ra'
awe made our debut on the field Of New'Testa.
ment philology." Fuit Hum" "Salpe, pa
ter lenicographor1lm." Sed tempora NHtantur."
1.-THE aspsctus 6itj0ns has no place here" "The
Uxnhulling is never employed by DR.. Robinson
1t needs all the exegesis" so gngerly used by the
writer to enuceate' the meaning of some OF these
hybrid sentences.-An intelligent article on Ele'
mentary Works in Physical Science, exposes the
error in the English translation Of Aullers Ply
sizes, and the negligence of the American Editor
in leaving them without correction. "The errors
in the TRANSLATION are such as no one acquainted
with the subject of the book could ever have
made, and the accidental errors as we are willing
to regard them in the English edition Of the trans
lation are mostly such as American editor,
with little reflection and very llstle science,
might have detected" Nothing is said in this
number on the Hungarian question. (C. 8. Fran
els Il co.,
" "UNIvERsALIsr QUARTERLY REVIEW
April, has an appreciative notice of Tennysons
"In Memoriam," brief account Of " Rationalism
in Germany" and stringent article on the
Fugitive Slave Law" beside one or two papers
on subjects of less immediate interest. Wetake
a few passages from the able discussion OF the
Fugitive Slave Law;
PRACTICAL OPERATION OF THE Law.
II commands Us rs good citizens to become the
servants of oppression, and to aid In hunting
down or arreating brother or sister who has
been moved by the love OF freedom to RISK all the
exposures which environ the attempt to attain IT,
that be or abe may be returned to an unjust bond
age, in comparison with which we would choose
| death itself If some poor fugitive ask as for
| cup of water or a piece OF bread, or crave to
warm himself By our Ore, or to sleep on our aoor,
it forbids as, pain Of runous fines aud felon
CELL 70 allow him what he asks, because we shall
| thus directly, or indirectly, aid, abet or assist
! him to escape. Or should that fugitive, in agony
lest he shall be forced back to the bondage he has
| ventured 80 much to escape, knock at our door
4 Ica On N nj
| and q Christian, harbor and conceal me from the
man hunters on my track" it forbids us to do it
on penalty of two thousand dollars and six
months imprisonment lt IL here that we tnd
| ourselves in contact with the deepest depravity
| of this law. 1t makes the commonest charities
nay, the simple decencies of life, crimes. 1t pro
scribes Christian duty felony. 1t commands us
| to do what the divine law forbids, and what no
| man with Christian conscience do without
feeling that he grievously sins. Ii forbids what
| by most imperative sanctions, God commands
| Tbrusting itself between us and our brother,
| while God and religion and the instincts of our
nature tell us TO love and befriend him-to feed
him If he il hungry, to shelter him il be is needy
to deliver him from the hands Of cruelty If We
can, it forbids us to do 80 at our peril
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION.
| We do not believe there is any danger Of the
dissolution Of the Union-at present, and on the
| grounds usually alleged, at least; nor that it 10
1
any considerable number even Of our politicians
! who talk so patheticelly about il. The Union is
too firmly seated in the affections Of the people
mas been cemented by too much blood aud toll 10
hall0wed by too many memories belonging In
common TO as all, and is too evidently necessity
and a law, to be 80 easily SURRENDERED or over
thrown. Politicians may chatter and threaten
madcaps at the South, instructed By the too
easy submission of the North how TO use this
busbear TO most effect may buster and grow red
in the face ambitious Northern men, looking TO
the South for promotion, may be frightful or pa.
thetlc on the theme; bat once let the idea of the
dissolution OF this Union be forced upon the peo-
pie Of this country as thing likely TO occur and
there would be storm of indignation bars.ing
from the heart oil these States, and rally Of the
bone and sinew Of the land from Southern plsnta.
mons, and Northern hills, and Western prairies.
that would sweep the gambling demsgogues who
should mediate such a treason into an oblivion
that should know no resurrection. Poticians il
mas many times been said, did NOT make this
Union, and politicians cannot destroy it,
DUTY CITIZENS.
Inc Fugitive Slave Law Is wrong and ought 10
DC rePeaieo' IL IL wrong, and ought TO be dis
obeyed-by each, by all. We advise M rahai
iou, no torcibe resistance. We counsel onig
that we shall all hold this law az no Ia ". submit
ing II needtul, to its penalties, and ths AZ with
one great voice, the people OF these Free state.
snai demand Its Immediate repeal. We believe
snis tne only course open for as a nation of re-
Pooncsns and Christians. Rising above human
passions ana mercenary appeals, and EsedIss,
iears' we are TO plant ourselves on the great a.
Ilines Oh our Constitution and our religion. Ls,
our people, our statesmen, once do this. and no.s
81. .nen compromises, or expedients. il shall msLs
VIE Union stable, and this Governments great and
prosperous Refreshing indeed, il would he. 10
;, see lni: once tried. Refreshing. especially
,S - see the statesmen Of this land rising above
snen petty nvairies and small ambitions tbsir
Fresldent makings their time SERVING. a. ' oo
.Snslonaiisns' and ascending to this high ground.
mnefe me smile OF God shall refresh them, and
sne nens Of truth guide them, and the ..rsnetb If
inv NV principle sustain them and : free
aaa 1psRPy people bless ITEM. Standing there