New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-16

you WELD, IL Is natural to feel some awe !,
addressing those in whose hands the spe.
cess or the failure of our hopes is placed.
still equally know that, in your hand,
gentlemen, the Independent Republican Presss
aweap0n, but weapon 10 defend truth and ina.
tlce, and not 10 offend II is no screen to hite IA
shutters 10 extIngulsh the light, but torch ut 4,
the hTe OF Immortality, spark OF which is ghS
'ening IN every mans soul, 10 prove It's dlTns
ongin' torch which you WELD loftily and hlgh
70 spread hight with Il to the mos, lonely regions
OF humanity.
And as the cause of my country is the cause ,f
justice and truth, 1t has In no respec, 10 fear
light, but rather wants nothing but hsh, 70 sea -.
cured TO II the support and protection OF every trent
oiheedom OF every noble minded man. these are tbs
reasons Why address you with Joy, gentle men
The more with 10Y because though II 1, s,rrox.
full TO see that llwlGled misrepresentation or se
cIet Austrian antiques cisiorung PLAIN open his,orv
TO tissue of false hood and lies. know how 10 6nj
their way even TO small Insignificant par, Of Tia
American press, still | am proud aud happy 70 sss
that the immense majority OF the American press
not only proved inaccessible ~ these yenomogs In.
trisues but conscious OF the noble vocation of an
independent Press, and yielding 10 the generous a.
cnailon OF Freemen, OF protecting truth and justice
against the dark plots OF tyranny, has without any
interference on my part come forth 10 protect The
sacred cause OF Hungary.
The independent Press of this great Republic h,,
IN this very also proved to the world that eyes
against the mischeyous power Of calumn:es the
most efficient protection Is the Freedom OF thu
Press, and not preventive measures, condemniRy
human intellect to eternal minority.
address you, gentlemen. the more with Joy, be-
cause, through YOU l have the invaluable benehito
address the whole university Of the great, glorious
and free people of the United States
That is a great word, gentlemen, and yet is liter.
ally true.
While eighty years ago immortal Frankhns owa
press was almost the only one IN the Colonies, nos
there are over three thousand newspapers IN the
United States, having circulation of 1--WE mllioAS
OF copies, and amounting IN their yearly circulation
TO the protigious number Of nearly four and A hail
hundred millions every grown man IN the Union
reads on the average two newspapers week and
one hundred and hve copies year nearly eighteen
copies fall In the proportion 10 the population, TO
every human being in the Union, man, woman, and
child.
am told tha, the journals Of New.York STATE
alone exceed IN number those OF all the rest OF the
world beyond your great tnlOn and the circulation
of the new Spapers OF this City alone nearly exceeds
those OF the whole Empire OF Great Britain.
But there is yet one particularly remarkable fact
which cannot iofbeaT 10 mention gentlemen:
l boldly declare that beyond the United States
there exists scarcely a practical Freedom OF the
Press at least IN Europe not except perhaps, Nor
way, Of whose condition IN that respect am not
quite aware You know gentlemen how the press
is tettered throughout the European Continent even
for the present in France itself whose great nation,
by a strange fate, sees under nominal Repuoh-
can but centralized Government, all the glorious
fruits OF their great and victorious Revolutions vast
ing between the blasting fingers OF centralized adj
minstrative and legislative omnpotence. You
know how the independent Press OF France IS muir
dered by Imprisonment OF their Editors and by fees
you know how the present Government of France
feels unable 30 bear the force OF public opinions
much that IN the French Republic the very iegIst
"vne Ia Republiquc'
has almost become crime. This yeryclrcumstancs
is sufficient to prove that IN that glorious land where
the warm and noble heart OF the French nation
he lfRnF 1Iana md la a na
Revolution IS unavoidable necessity. 10 Is
mournful view which the great French nation now
presents but IL Is also efficient warning against
the propensltles OF centrdzauon inconsistent win
freedom because Inconsistent With self government
and 1t is also source of hope for the European con-
tnent because We know that things IN France can
not endure thus as they are we know that 10 be.
come a tue Republic Is a necessity for France, and
thus We know also that whoever be the man, whom
the approaching crisis will be honored by the coma
dence Of the French nation, he WILL he mustoe falth-
fui TO that great principle OF Fraternity towards the
other nations, which being announced by the french
Constitution TO the world raised such encouraging
but bitterly disappointed expectations through bu-
ropes oppressed Continent.
But il is chit fy, almost only Great Britain in Eu-
rope which boasts To have a Free Press, and To Do
sure during my brief stay IN England Joymily "a"
that really there us freedom 10 priRt, almost an I'M
limited far that sa printed advertisements
spread at every corner and signed by the publishers.
stating thai Queen Victoria Is no lawful Queen-tha.
she ought TO be sent 10 the Tower, and all thOsc wno
rule ought to be hanged. Men laughed, and nobody
cared about the foolish ertrayagancy.
And yet dare say, and hope the generous pe0.
pie Of Great Britain Will not feel offended at my
stating the fact, that there s no practical freedom
OF the press.
The freedom Of the press to DO practical one,
must be common benefit 10 al-else At Is no free
dom, but privilege. IL is wanting two ingredients
-fTtedom Of printing and freedom of reading
Now there Is no freedom OF reading there, because
there is possibility for the people TAT large TO do
so because the circulation Of newspapers, the
indispensable moral food Of human intellect, ~ BY
heavy taxation, checked The Press Is a source
OF public revenue, and by the incumbrance Of
stamp and paper duties made almost inaccesSibleto
the poor. Hence It Is that the newspapers in the
United states are only one-tenIh, and IN some cases
oIe-twentieth the price of English or French
papers, and hence, again, is the immense difference
In their circulation In the United states several Of
the daily papers ever morning reach from thirty
to forty thousand readers, whereas The L0nf1H
Times is considered 10 be a monster power be-
cause 1t has circulation Of from twenty-five to
thirty thousand copies, OF which, was told during
my stay IN England, that the good generous sense
OF the people has aBated some SIX thousand copies
In consequence of It's foul hostility TO the Just ana
sacred cause of Hungary.
Such being the condition Of your Press, gense,
men, II must OF course be high source OF Joyui
gratlCa to me to have the honor to address yo
gentlemen because IN addressing you l really al.
dress the whole people OF the United SIaIes-nos
only whole people, but whole Intelligent people,
gentlemen.
That is the highest praise which can upon peo'
pie be bestowed and yet is no pralse-t is tue G'
Acknowledgement Of a real fact. The very immensely
OF the circulation Of your journals proves 10 De 80
because this immense circulation Is not only aug
to that constitutional night OF yours 10 SPEAK ana
pnnt freely your opinions II is not only due W 'se
cheap prlce which makes your press common ben
eft 10 all, and not privilege 10 the rich-but us
chiefly due 20 the universally Of public INSTRUCTION
which enables every citizen to read. II is glorious
thing to know that In this fOurshing young Ciy
alone, where streets Of splendid buildings proudly
stand where few year, ago the river spfeai
It's waves or the plOW titled, nearly one hundfco
thousand children receive public education anns'
ally.
DO yoa know, gentleman, where l consider me
most glorious monument OF your country l-ifn Dc
so a have read IL oDce-t - that fact, that wneh
in the steps OF your wandering squatters your eng
neefs go on 70 draw geometrlca lines, even IN the
Territories where the sound OF human step never
vet has mixed with the mWmuTs by which virginia
nature Is sdorIDg the Lord In every place marked
10 become a township, on every sixteenth square
YOU place modes! wooden pole, with the glorious