New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-28

Mr.. S. ?. ANDREWS Let me begin by set
ting you right respecting my position, on a
point where you expressly invite il not chal-
lenge correction. never indicated freedom
from State systems OF Religion as one of the
impulses of our time against which i take my
stand think you never understood me to
DO so. Nor do l regard the strong tendency
Of our time to Wild, ultra Indiyidualism as an
element Of any Progress, but that made by Eve
at the serpents suggestion, SodoIn Just pre-
yious to Lots escape from il, Rome just be-
fore its liberties were destroyed by Caesar, aud
others in like circumstances. Admit the legi-
timacy Of Egotism, or the selfish pursuit Of
happiness by each Individual, and govern
ment Of despotism seems TO me logical and
practical necessity. Had the Pilgrim Fathers
of American Liberty cherished your ideas OF
the sovereignty Of the Individual, / have no
shadow Of doubt that their children would.
long ere this, have passed under the yoke of
despotism as rigorous as thar of Nicholas or
Louis Napoleon. They founded Liberty, be-
cause they taught and practiced Self Denial
the subOrdination of the Individual will and
pleasure to the VIII OF God, Cor, if you please,
the Common Weal)-sn thus only, in ny
judgment, can Liberty ever be founded and per-
petuated
You totally mistake in attributing to Inc the
assertion Of the principle of NOn.I Intervention
between Nations, as the principle Of Peace and
/ Harmony. On the contrary, | deplorc the
absence Of competent tribunals TO adjudicate
questions Of International difference, and be-
lieye all peaceful, just Nations should prompt
" combine TO establish such tribunals Had
such existed in 1916, We must have been spar
ed the waste and the hatchery, the guilt and
the sbsme, Of our bloody foray on Mexico.
How readily all the intrigues and agitAtons OF
cur day respecting Cuba would be settled by a
just International Supreme Court So far
from rejoicing or aequiesciag in its absence, |
deplore that circumstance as the great scandal
and calamity of Christendom.
The State is 10 me something other aud
more than mob, because / believe that, since
Justice is ali mems true and permanent inter
est, the heat Of passion or the lust of gain,
which too often blind men to the iniquity Of
. their own personal acts, are far less potent in
I their influence on those sane mems judgment
OF tie acts Of Others. believe, for instance
there sre two mcn IN the State Of New-York
Who are personally licentious for every one
I Who would gladly see Libertinism shielded and
! favored BY law. Men who roll vice as a sweet
norel under their tongues are yet desirea'
thar Virtue shall be generally prevalent, and
that their own children shall be trained 20 love
ard practice il. do, therefore, appeal Il
! the State or the deliberate Judgment Of Jht
community, to arbitTate between Us, belieyin:
that the State properly exists as a 4" terror Il
eva-doeIs ard praise 20 them that do vel,
AID that il not OILY does but should judge an,
deal With sfcaders against Sexual Purity ant
tie Public Well-teing. ! thiak it ought q
suppress, not the expression Of your OPin
iers, bue suck action rs they tend 10 cloth
with immunity; and, so far from dePreca,inl
! their contingent suppression Of ms, shoul'
ever your principles gain the -ascendeney,
prefer to &c suppressed, fcr would not ehOos'
longer to live.
As 10 tie hsrmoDizing Of Freedom with Or
der, j too desire and anticipate it; but no
through the removal OF 81 restraints on yieiou
Appetite. On the eCrtrary Isxpec' sGdlsbol