New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-02
1852.

A New Year opened yesterday morning
We have no room left for speculatiOns Oh its
hopes. its gayeties, its sober enjoyments, but
barely space for a few words touching its
prospects and it's duties.
The year 1851 has not been visibly aus
picious to Human Progress. The liberia
ton of KossUTH, with his reception and
speeches in England and in this country, is
its redeemiDg feature, apparently more than
counterbaanced by the immediate success
of the vile Napoleonic usurpation in France.
Hungary, Germany, Italy, lie crushed and
dumb beneath the hoofs of the Cossacks.
With France in open alliance with the Des-
pots, her Legislature dispersed by Military
force, her Courts of last resort closed by
violence, her Press shackled more rigor-
ouslv than was ever before known in any
civilized country, and Half Million bayo-
nets at the threats of her People, it seems
to the faithless and the heartless that the
spirit of Freedom was never before so COM
pletely crushed out of Europe as now.
these are the times that try mems
souls Whose reverently believes that
there is God in Heaven who will surely
execute Justice on earth, let him show it
by his works in these gloomy hours. The
great leader Of the European Democracy is
among us, soliciting moral and material aid
for the decisive struggle which the OPP
pressed Masses of the Old World are about
to renew for the recovery Of their inalien.
able rights, the redress of their horrible
wrongs, Whatever our Government may
see fit to do, let our People, who have souls
and love Liberty, give freely of their means
to arm and clothe and feed the champions
of Civil and Religious Freedom for the
great contest now preparing. This, in our
Judgment, stands first on the list of the
Public Duties of 1852.
AT home, We greatly need Reform in
our Commercial and Financial Policy,
whereby our silent Furnaces and closed
Factories shall be reopened and made
cheerful with the hum of Industry and
Thrift, and which shall prevent the steady
expectation of our Gold and aggravation of
our Debt to Europe. We need Land Reform,
whereby Speculation in the Public Domain
shall be utterly abolished, and every willing
worker enabled to choose and secure an
unfailing Home from that Domain without
being compelled to wander into the unbro-
| ken wilderness, far from Schools and
Churches, or pay treble price for it when
scarcely able to pay at all. We need lib
eral Appropriations for the improvement
of our Rivers and Harbors, whereby our
Farmers and Artisans shall be enabled to
minister to each others wants more cheap
ly, and our hardy pioneers of civilization
transported inexpensively and quickly to
the vicinaee of their chosen los atoms.
Shall not something be done for the salts
faction of these pressing wants before the
close Of 1882
And still more nearly st home, we
need to combat resolutely the monster In
temperance, which is now cutting down
our young men in their beauty and hurrying
gray hairs TO graves Of shame. Has 1851
witnessed any gratifying success in our
warfare agains, this fell destroyer! Ger
tainly not here. In spite of the feeble asd
ftful Temperance efforts Of that year, the
use of Intoxicating Liquors has increased
in this State, and in the States all around
US. Only in glorious MAINE has effectuL