New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-29

shown us yesterday, for the FIRST time, b.
naturalized citizen Of New-York Its naah
tone, and noble exposition Of the innn eaes 4
America and Of her Republican instih, tion
over the affairs of the world, and especially |,
the upraising of oppressed nations, would make
il worthy of attention at any time but at TIA
present moment, when Gen. Scott is asssi)eS
through his friends, and when such papers A.
The Irish american undertake to sheer at Gov
SEWARD. these words Of his, written for another
occasion, and fortified BY the whole course Of
his political life before and since il viii be read
with peculiar interest There is in it no trscs
of that intolerance and exclusiveness which
has characterized the Democratic states
men of New Hampshire. II was addressed TO
an Association of Irishmen in Brooklyn:
AUBURN March Is lsal
GENEROUS, FAITHFUL AND HoNoREp FRIESps;
should be very happy i'll could sccep, your invitation
but, as Lord Bacon said in urging his petition on "a.
/ Queen, The practice Of the law drinketh up mad
time that would willingly devote TO higher purposos
The pleasures Of ordinary entertainment wouN
hardly deserve TO be distinguished But the Se,ty,i
of 81 Patrick in America acquires dignity and insere-
from its tendency to improve the American peopls bv
making them better acquainted with the vrt1es he
literature and the achievements of your good and CITED
countrymen and just now Il Is elevated because n
furnishes an occasion for the expression Of symps
thes with the people Of Ireland in their her nc and trs
" majestic, though peaceful revolution Nevertheless
must forego the Inequalities you tender me- and %
far as duty is concerned myself for occasions
of a sterner character, II any shall happen.
The Rebellion of 1925 with all It's heroic conceptions
and its deeply tragic catastrophe were fresh in he
memory Of the American people, when my esrlieaia.
structions received. My sentiments and symps-
thes were kndled by the burning arguments Of Cirss
TAM of Curran of Fitzgerald, of Mscneven and Of En-.
met and the poetry that engaged me first and has lin.
gered with me longest was the national airs Of Ireland
yielded TO those sentiments and sympsihics NOR.
easily because however others might boast of pure
English descent was obliged TO confess, II Ii were
cause of shame that more than one stream from tho
Celtic Spring had commngled with the current Of my
Saxon blood Weare accustomed In early life to cup.
pose that the opinions approve universally &C.
cepted. Long years occurred before ] dreamed thss
mine were at all peculiar But when venturodt 10
propose that distractions to the incorporation Of emf.
grants in our community, and the education Of their
children should be removed, and that free toeraioud
their pee uar creeds and instruction should be exer
cised found that the bias Of early sentiments had
brought me in conflict with opinions deeply cher.
shed and widely prevalent that many Of my coun.
trymen felt obliged to question at once my orthodoxy
a Protestant, my patriotism a. an American and my
sincerity q man. Next to truth and knowledge
love peace and harmony with my fellow have,
therefore, reconsidered my early impressions with can
DOR during repose not unisyorable to the perform,
ance Of such duty.
Some of citzens study the letter rather than the
spirit of Constitution and laws What they find the
Constitution and laws tolerate, they regard immusabe
like those theologons who pronounced even human
slavery divine institution, because apostle com.
manded to be obedent to their masters But
in the American Constitution there IT, la Christianity
spirit that "maketh alive again." whenever the letter
OF the law "kileth +" any vrtuous benevolent prn.
cipe or hope. The principles of the American Gov.
eminent find indistinct and confused indeed, bw
nevertheless perceptble in the philosophy and poly
of the Grecisn Republics. From that see tho
streams descending through the ages of Roman French
Italian German and Saxon sscendancy sometimes d.
verted often obstructed, and more than once disap-
peoring altogether under the foundations of huge lab
rice Of despOsm but nevertheless again breaking forth
and flowing onward until they find in the close Of the
eighteenth century, broad and enlarged channels, In
which they contriye to move onward with rresstbe
power The rights asserted by our forcfathers wers
not peculiar to thcmselves-they were the common
rights OF mankind The basis Of the Constitution wss
laid broader by far than the supersucture which the
conflicting interests and prejudccs of the day suffered
to be erected Those who erected that supsrstructurs
foresaw and provided for It's gradual enlargement and
looked forward to the time when the same foundations
would receive and uphold institutions of Republcas
Government ample for the whole human race Tho
principles thus laid down were that all men wersbo
equal and had indefeasible and inalienabe nsiursi
rights, 10 erect, subver and modify governments Il
their peasure-tha tho right Of personal freedom IVES
nviolable-tha the whole earth was the heritage Of
man, and every accessible part of II was free bic
footsteps and that wherever In the providence Of
God he was born be led and into whatsoever
rank or condition he might fall. there he of right ws
and ought to be member of the civil State and en-
titled to free and equal suffrage for those who should
make and for those who should execute the laws end
that the suffrage was condition precedent Of his obed
ence The Constitution and laws of the Federal Gov.
eminent did net practically extend these principles
throughout the new system of government, but thsy
were plainly promulgated In the Declaration of indie
pendence. Their complete developments and redue-
ton topracca operation constitute the progress which
all hberalstatesmen desire to promote and the end Of
that progress will be complete political equality amonr
ourselves and the extension and perfection of in,tu.
tons similar to our own throughout the world
This great end, however, Is not to DO obtained sud
denly, by enthusiasm or by violence. Providence hes
only permitted us to reach this like every other human
good by long and persevering efforts and rte efforts
which are most successfu such tend most TO In
prove ourselves and to produce harmony and peace
among our felow-men Education and moral and n.
ligious instruction. are always incipient means. Thw
the principles Of the American Revolution seen to me-
II be not rreyerent so to speak, destined certainly
but gradually and through many ages. TO renovats ~
political state of mankindas the Gospel of Peace
certainly and gradually renoyatlnQ their mnrnl and =