New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-20

herds: their young men trolled along the brooks
for fish, OF trapped the beaver, or with gun and
pouch Law in wait for the deer, as it slaked its
thirst at the running stream while they reposed
from their tolls in pleasant sleep under the forest
tree In Virginia. the country within Underwater
was divided among planters who, in the culture
Of tobacco, were favored by British legislation
Insulated ON their estates, they were cordially
hospitable In the quiet solitude of their life, un-
aided by an active press, they were philosophers
after the pattern of Montagne, without having
heard of him, learning from nature to bound their
freedom of mind only by selfcircumscribedl lin
it's. The horse was their pride; the county
courts their holidays; the race-course their de-
light. Maryland enjoyed unbroken quiet, fur
nishing no levies for the army, and small contri
buttons of money. The scattered planters led in
their delightful climate undisturbed and as
happy life as was compatible with the preva'
lence of negro slavery and the limitations on
popular power by the privileges OF Lord Bati-
more, as prince palatine. The laws established
for Pennsylvania complete reimbursement In
the domain Of thought But Nsw-York was the
central point of political interest. ats position
i
the most convenient harbor on the Atlantic,
with bays expanding on either hand, and navi-
gable river penetrating tn interior, il held the
KEYS Of Canada and the Lakes. Crown Point
and Niagara, monuments of French ambition,
were encroachments upon its limits. Its unsur-
veyed inland frontier, sweeping round on the
north, disputed with New.Hampshire the land
between Lake Champlain and the Connecticut,
and extended into unmeasured distances in the
west Within its bosom, at Onondaga, burned
the council.fre of the Six Nations, whose irreg-
ular bands had seated themselves near Montreal,
| on the northern shore of Ontario, and on the
| Ohio whose hunters roamed over the Northwest
and the West; whose wsr-partes had for ages
strolled to Carolina. Here were concentrated
| by far the most important Indian relations, round
which the great idea of general union was
| shaping itself into reality Ii was TO still the
| hereditary warfare of the Six Nations with the
| Southern Indians, that South Carolina and Mas
sachusetts first met at Albany; it was to confirm
friendship with them and their allies, that New
| England, and all the Central States but New
Jersey, had assembled in congress But higher
| principle was needed to blend the several colo
| MES under one sovereignty; that principle also
existed on the banks OF the Hudson, and the
| statesmen of NewYork chung perseveringly
and.without wa vering to faith in united Amer
lean empire"
New-York had been settled under large pat
ents Of lands to individuals New. England I'M
der grants OF towns and the institution Of towns
was its glory and its strength. Yet in these
democracies, the hope of independence, as a
near event, had not dawned The inhabitants
of New. England chung to the land of their
ancestry, the people of their kindred, and the
nationality of their language "They were Of
homogeneous origin, nearly all tracing their
descent to English emigrants of the reigns Of
Charles the First and Charles the Second. They
were frugal and industrious race. Along the
seaside, wherever there was a good harbor,
fishermen, familiar with the ocean, gathered in
A.@::: and sssA 's q %si saS a sna
vessels. taking the cod and macksrel. and some.
times pursuing the whale into the icy lsbyrinths
Of the Northern seas; yet loving home and
dearly attached to their modest freeholds. In
the settlements which grew up in the interior,
on the margin OF the greenwood, the plain meet
ing,houss Of the congregation for public worship
was everywhere the central point; near it stood
the public school, BY che side Of the very broad
road, over which wheels enough did not pass to
do more than mark the path by ribbons in the
sward The snug farm houses, owned a. free.
holds, without currents, were dotted along the
way and the village pastor among his people, !
enjoying the calm raptures of devotion, sap. |
peared like such little white flower as we see
in the spring Of the year, low and humble on |
the ground, standing peacefully and lovingly
in the midst of the flowers round about; all, in |
like manner, opening their bosoms to drink in |
the light Of the SUM-. In every hand was the |
Bible every home was Q house of prayer in |
every village all had been taught, many had |
comprehended, methodical theory of the di. |
vine purpose of creation, and of the destiny of |
man."
The influence Of Calvinism on the Nev-Enp.
land people is described in a passage which is
too characteristic to be omitted in our ouota-
tons.
On the banks of the Lake Of Geneva Calvin stood
forth the b0ldsst Ieformer OF his day not personally
engaging In political insrisuss ye. BY Promuls.s ns
bowling only TO the Invisible ackno wlcdging no
sacrament Of ordination but the choice Of the aty,
no patent Of nobility but that Of the elect Of God,
with its seals Of eternity.
Luthers was still Catholic religion il sought 70 |
instruct all, TO confirm ALL to ssnctify all and 20,
under the shelter Of Pncpalities, it gave established
forms to Protestant Germany, and Wedsn, and Dem
marx, and England: But Calvin taught IN exclusive
doctrine, which, though IL addressed itself to ALL
rested only on the chosen. Lutheraaism was there.
fore, nos political party It included Prince, and
noble, and peasaDt Calvlnism was revolutionary |
wherever 1t came, il created division its SYMBOL q
set upon the Institutes" OF its teacher, was fam.
ing sword. By the side of the eternal mountains,
and We perennial saows, and the arrowy rivers OF
Switzerland, It established religion without pre-
late, government without . king. Fortified By tts
faith fxed decreea il kent Possession of ita homaa