The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-20

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serious troubles with Ne blacks is uncertain, end
dependent upon The accidents which may occur
from day u day; there is no disposition appa-
rent among the inhabitants Of the island 70 re-
welt against the government Of Spain; the more
intelligent Crsolcs, Notwithstanding, desire the
annexation Of the island to the United States that
annexation by purchase may be accomplished
without revolution, and without foreign war Ia
any event, the future internal security Of the
island against the horrors Of servils insur-
restion can only be GUARANTEED by the adoption
Of the humane slaveholding system of our Southern
States, whatever may be the ultimate political
sovereignty Of Cuba, either within or without the
limits Of this vast and mighty republic.
Rum AND EFIDELITY--A CONrRAsr-An a~su-
sation Of grave and serious character has been
preferred aginst numerous and respectable porto
Of the community. The Irish and German Catholic
grocers in this city solemn charged with being
the cause Of all the crime, poverty, suffering, and
degradation Of which New York is the theatre
This wholesale denunciation attacks the character
and social position of class Of men who, in most
instances, have laid up claim to the good opinion
Of their fellow citizens, by the patient industry and
frugality which they have exhibited in saving up
their earnings for the purpose Of opening o store,
and establishing home for their families. These
men are generally esteemed by all who know them,
for their good qualities, simple pety, charity and
obedience TO the laws; and in all that pertains to
the character Of good citizens may be favorably CON-
trasted with their traducers.
But from what source, let see, does this whole.
sale denuneiation and condemnation emanate Is
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gardcd as public eensors, by their own holy and
blameless lives! No; but from clique Of puritaus,
fanatics, nnovators and from coterr OF
German socialists, French infdels disciples and apos-
ties Of atheism, deism Fourierism, communism, and
all the dissrganizing sentiments Of foreign material
ism, blended confusedly with the domestic doctrines
ofspiritual mediums, Aztec humbugs, and Rochester
knockings These philosophers have tried, by their
crude, visionary and fantastic theories, to shatter
and extrpate the best and hottest institutions Of
mankind, and reorganizs . social condition in
which religion would find No placs---the Bible be
set aside---Heaven and He'll expunged from the new
ereed---the Institution Of matTimony be annulled,
and communism established. They would, if per-
mitted, make pandemonium Of earth, by giving
loose, unrestricted rein to the diabolca furies and
passions OF the heart Of man; and this they would
call the millennium talism temperance, and
hoetityto rum Though foiled and defeated in their
philanthropic designs, by the general good Of
the community, yet it must be admitted that they
have partially succeeded in poisoning the So
cial and moral atmosphere. The contamination
Of their influence has been, to certain extent, felt
in this and other cities; and wherever the infection
has spread, there hideous gangrene has developed
itself. These philosophers beat the rum bottle all
to pieces-they have disseminated prolific seeds Of
crime, evil, and misery which must bear fruit after
their kind. They have preached and advocated
irrcigion, infdelity and the disruption of all those
moral and social ties which the mass Of mankind re-
gard as most sacred and binding; and their influ-
ence has had for more to do with supernducng that
state of crime and misery, which al good men de-
plore than the whole Ave thousand grog shops kept
by the German and Irish Catholics, that have met
with the solemn denunciations of the pious, puri-
tanic, and philosophic eotric of the Tribune. A
single philosophical Fourerite grog shop for the
sale Of "isms, at two cents dose is more danger
Gus to society than ten thousand material grog-
geries.
We are not justifying the immoral effects which
rumselers produce by the exercise of their vocation
but we look upon this charge against them by far
too wholesale and sweeping. Might not grea.
proportion of it be selappropriated by the accuser
who appears in the ridiculous character of "Satan
rcproving sin?" The great root and reservoir Of
crime lies in infdety and its various "isms;" and
those fanatics who 60 about seeking to infuse that
perncious element into society, are responsible for
the deplorabe consequences which must result from
It. Their success may be fairly calculated from the
statistics Of prisons, warehouses. hospitals and luna
tic asylums; but who estimate their destructive
effect for eternity7 When our Fourierte cotempo-
rary next INDUCES in philosophc distractions re-
spectDg the growth Of crime and its attendant evils
in this city, let him apply to himself the parable
which Nathan spoke unto David, and we trust it will
produce like feeling of pcntence and reparation.
1t is an ungenerous act to shirk the responsibility Of
ill-doing, by shifting the load to our neighbours
shoulders, and We expect the transgressor in this
case will perform o solemn aWo-da-fe in which the
philosophers white coat may be substituted for the
sheet Of the culprit.
TRIAL OF CHEvALIER WIKoPF AT GENOA We
publish to-day full report of the very curious
and interesting trial OF Chevalier Wikoff and his
associates for the abduction Of Miss Gamble which
took place at Genoa, in Italy, few months ago.
and ended In his imprisonment for fifteen months
1t is translated from Genoese paper. and viii bs
found quite readable.
From the evidence furnished on the trial It would
seem that the story heretofore put forth by Thur
low Weed on this subject was full Of exaggeration