New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-09

lad tho foundations Of national strength
and reputation upon basis wide enough
and deep enough 20 be entitled to begin to
maintain decent repose of manner and OF
feeling, under all circumstances. They
nav well laugh at all minor assaults upon
this massive fabric. No grand Exhibition
is necessary 20 show to the world what
they are capable Of doing. or what they
have done the world mas learned the
lesson Of their history ana achievements.
No country on the globe fills 50 large a
space in the eve Of mankind. to-day, as the
United States. Not altogether so much
for what it now IS. as for what all see it is
speedily to become If boy stands six
feet in his stockings as he enters upon his
teens, il is fair 10 conclude that he VIII
turn out to be something OF giant when
be approaches maturity.
1t Is this view OF the case that COM
mands the worlds attention. If in
some respects we are not equal to other
portions of the world. let it be remembered
that we are in our infancy, and that our
circumstances are different from al the
rest. If America has not ALREADY crowded
history with list OF immortal names, 20 has
no other nation. in the first century of its
existence This IS country of serenity
years standing What would we have
How many examples Of the human animal,
whose names stand ike tall beacOns amid
the food which contemporary history pours
along, weuld be our quota, at this early
period OF our nations existence. to redeem
US from all imputation of inferiority, and to
show that as far as individual samples of
man 90, we are fully up to the rest Of the
world Shall We 20 on to enumerate ,
The names Of q score spring 70 our lips.
We ;oroear. The world will allow that we
furnish at least one name that towers peer
less and impenshabe
But our boast Is not, nor ought to be of
individual greatness We boast PEOPLE.
America teaches the great lesson to a
skepticai world, that mankind Is capable OF
seli-coverument L IS living refutation
OF that gigantic falsehocd which to-day
holds almost the whole race in subsection,
that the many were made for the dupes and
victims of the few. 1t offers q living ex-
ample Of how the whole world may be
emancipated from the humbuggery of here
ditary government, and the oppression of
despotic power. 1t shows that people can
be freer, happier, more prosperous, under
republican rule than under any other. But,
in what way, pray tell us, can this great ma
tional superiority be exhibited IN Worlds
FAR What quarter of the Crystal Palace
is devoted 70 improvements IN government
Whose is that building Shall we show
the holiness and beauty of our Declaration
of Independence, and wbere the excellent
workmanship and the admirable working
qualities of eur National Constitution, and
of our thlrty-one state Constitutions
Here IS a skill displayed in important ma
chinerv, for which no place IN the Palace is
or can be allotted
Ii The Times finds IN the American EXhl-
bltion within the walls If the Crystal Palace,
matter Tor sarcastic observation and dispar-
aging contrast. 50 could We, if we were dis
posed, find plenty Of topics without those
walls, whose discussion would pus the boot
on tie other leg American improvements
lie at the very bottom and foundation of the
whole progressive movement. We have
discarded and tumbled overheard all the
trumpery machinery that manacles the
limbs CT every people IN Europe We
have brushed OF The face of our part OF the
Continent, all such encumbrances as Kings
and Queens. hereditary nobility. castles and
orders in the State, enormous expenditure
to support the few at the expense OF the
many, and the Ike prodigiouS tollles OF the
Old World We laugh to scorn the dc
tates of irresponsible power and the wrath
of despotic authority. Europe goes crouch
Inc along. bowed to the earth under the
chains and tette,s OF " reigning families
who maintain iegions of armed men to hold
The people in subsection. The Times
supports :his gigantic oppression
and advocates this biting satire upon the
whole race Of man. OF the American IN
provements in the art of government, Il
seems as ignorant as 4 Chiuaman- With
il. the chief end Of man IS 10 buy where he
can buy cheapest, and sell where he can
sell dearest and next, TO iutter, IN silk
gowns ana powdered wigs, round no
doubt aniable. but bv no means brilliant