The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-12

and Celtic-the two greatest races Of aassquity-us
strength and in intelligence, on the face Of the
globe. Europeans who have never been farther than
Eastern seaboard cannot form any corrscs idea Of
the superiority Of agricultural population in the
nter Of the country, and particularly il the West
The average Of Americans, take them all ia all,
are the "highest style Of man." and mark tho
most advanced stage Of the progressive improvement
Of the human race. In all ages Of tho world il is
the vigorous and the enterprising-the superior
in bodily and mental strength-who have migrated
to better their condition. been driven cut by the
persecution Of superior numbers The original
stock who settled this country of that descrip-
ton, and were themselves the offspring Of mixed
race The emigrants who have followed their ex-
ample ever since psrtake for the most part of this
same chara cter, SO that the whole of the Anne
rcan population consists either of emigrants or
the dercendants Of emgrants, the only aboriginal
iuhsbitants being the indians Blu. whatever be
the Of the foreigners who visit shores, the
more that como the more rapidly will the greatnes,
and glory Of the country be cvolvea-popaaton
and labor being the wealth of nations. No matter
what the numbers may be- they viii be all absorbed,
assimilated, Ameiicsnized, and become bone of our
hone, flesh of our flesh, aud blood of our blood,
just wholesome food of oil kinds, and from what
ever point of the compass it is brought, when taken
into the human body loses its original perties and
becomes incorporated with the SYSTEM giving it sus-
tensnce and strength In this way the foreign popu-
lation while ameliorating its condition, confers
benefit upon the country Of its adoption; and the
fusion Of races, like the famous Corinthian brass"
produces q finer and better metal than any of the
simple elements of which it is composed.
INTOLERANCE AND RELIGIOUS FANArrcIsM If
the Americans in the present age enjoy, more than
any other people the face of the earth, all the
advantages which liberal institutions bestow upon
community, it must be also confessed that in some
regions Of the country, at all events, they exhibit
degree Of bigotry, intolerance and fapaticism
which would bs more in keeping with the character
of the Purtans Of the Cromwellian epoch than that
Of the enlightened sge in which we live But
popular fanacism springs direct from and owes its
paternity to priestly bigotry and intolerance, and
to escape from the blight OF the one, it is necessary
Grst to attack and eradicate that from which it
springs,
1t not within the scope or intention of this arti
Gle to enumerate all the various phases in which
popular fanacism and ecclesiastical intolerance ex
hibt themselves Now, we see these sentiments com-
bned and embodied in faR aical attempt to coerce
sumptuary legislation and to assume dictatoriai
power mems appetites and tastos in the agita.
tion fer tie passage OF the Maine liquor Law Again.
wo see them conbir cd with superstition in the crea.
ton Of set of crazy spirit Knockers VINO 10 their r
revelent and blasphemous rawlings, offend tho religi
Gus feeling and disgust the common of mankind
Then we see them exempfed in less contemplate,
though equally ridiculous phase, in the case of
the blue population of Hartford These sanity
men have, it seems, so mean an appreciation of the
virtue of their select community, that they dread
tie effect which the establishment of a dramatic
institution in their city would have upon it.
Fragile, weak. and easily corrupted, must be
the religious and moral sentiment which could
rot Withstand the temptation Of the evil one in the
guse Of Julia Bennett, Charlotte Cush nan, or Ed
win Forrest, and using the classic language Of
William Shakespeare, Sheridan Knowles, or Lytton
Bulwer. Alas! for the defendants of the Pilgrim
Fathers, who have less self dependence and more
tinaticism than their progenitors of 1875, who not
only tolerated theatre in the 'Charter Oak City"
but denominated it ,hool of morality
We cannot but class this deuunc;ation Of the
drama, by the good people Of Hartford, in the same
category the equally bigo.ed and absurd opposi-
tion of the Catholic clergy the public schools as
they constituted-th the most beniicent institu-
tons that this country has to be proud of The
great men of antiquity, before whose majestic intel
lect the understanding Of modern men is puny and
dwa1fsh, were won't to consider the stage as the
best school for youth and maturity and the gene
and liberal spirited men of this country cele
brated their age and nation by the grandest eiuca-
hats Iraa &C..
these institutions, ancient and modern, have met
with opposition ard denun,a.ion from the despica-
bic intoleraIc Of e,clesiastics and laJmen What
commentary on the reli gous sentiment of our day
We are led into these remarks by circumstance
which some time since came to our knowledge,
and which illustrates in the strongest manner the
tendency, extent, and operation of that spirit Of
bigotry which meets the Reproduction and contempt
Of people confessedly the most enlightened and
liberal On the globe. We will make plain, uu-
vanished statement of this matter and submit il
to the bar Of public opinion for its verdict
Some four years since, celebrated and es.im able
member of the theatrical profession, admired in
public ard revered In private life, died in this city,
and inferred in St Marks cemetery an Episco-
pal burial place.. His death was q subject Of regret
in this community, and the public, DESTROYS Of OK.
rrsrg their regard for his virtues, contributed to
the erection Of a monument to his memory The
tomb was built and the monument erected. The
marble bore no extended panegyrc to the deceased
10 inflated laudaton of his virtues it was not one
of those which Byron has satirzed as presenting
picture Of
Not what Re was but what he should have been
but plain, unobtrusive slab, bearing the simple
inscription