The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-28

ment, nor the government the people; the army
didn't trust the government nor the government the
army; the soldiers didnt trust the omceis, nor tne
officers the soldiers-and experience shows that the
whole were right in their distrusts. Spain was also
an example OF want Of unity During the last centu-
nv she had not produced great poet. great phi
least Of all The reason is that the right arm Of the
Spanish nation Is tied down by the king and the left
by the priests. One great cause Of the obstacles
toward human progress is false IDEAS There are four
domestic. The false theological idea is that God is
imperfect GOd-imperfect in power. imperfect in
wisdom, imperfect in justice, imperfect in holiness,
That is the incubus which lies on the American
breast, and that horrid nightmare assumes million
shapes, each more horrd than the other pass this
by, and not word more about it. The political
false idea is, that the nation has right
to crush very weak nation with its
hand, and less weak nation with its wit.
The false social idea is, that the strong man has
right to use the weak man for the strong mans pur
p0se and the false domestic idea is, that man Is born
to be master and woman born to be his slave There
was another concrete obstacle to progress and tina.
is the misdirectOn of industry. The first he would
refer to was tobacco All housewives knew that to.
bacco was good for destroying moths. He did not
mean the moths that buzz about young women, and
prey upon society. They lived, and moved, and had
their being on tobacco. The next misdirection OF
labor was in the production Of spirits Another OBJ
stacle was the maintenance Of slave labor. He had
shown how slave labor had been useful in putting
stop to cannibaliSm, and developing internal CON-
merce; but the maintenance of it now was to be de-
precated. The lecturer showed the difference of
progress between New York and the slave States to
illustrate his idea. Eight hundred and forty patents
had been granted during the year, of which only
some sixty-four came South of Mason and Dixon's
line. Whence came the historians, the poets, the
men Of literature generally, the great preachers!
They all came from the same northeastern quarter.
Whoever heard that great sermon was preached in
the South, except to show that Cain was black
man? In military matters, too, look at the South.
To hear Southern men speak, one would think it was
they did all the fighting Little Connecticut during
the Revolutionary war, maintained 5000 men, and
Massachusetts, sent more men to the Revolutionary
army-83, 900 soldiers-more than all the Southern
States put together. War impedes and hampers the
progress of men. He not going to speak OF it as
a sin, but blunder. The United States had spent.
nce 1880, little over seven hundred millions of
dollars, and their military expenses at the present
time are over twenty millions year. The nation
could build double track railroad from the month
of the Missouri to San Francisco, without imposing
any tax upon the people, if war was negatived. He
referred also to the effect of education on the peo-
pie Sec what they could do with twenty millions Of
dollars year.
The lecturer concluded with poetical quotation,
and amid great applause.