New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-21

r. Ne ES,ir Of TheN Tyt'vns.
SIR The noble sentiments uttered in your paper OF
the 18th on the honor due 20 Art and Industry nave
awakened response in unnumbered hearts aud caused
them 10 bless God that there is at least one journal 10
our Civ occupy ing an important and Influential posi-
ton which not only the night and true but has the
moral courage to assert and defend tnen As hNy on
ers was painfully 3D. ~ the opening Of the Cryst
Palace Exhibition with the incompeteness 81 the cer7mo
NAL which ia such place, and IN such an OCCASION W
tery ignored the clsims o such men - Ihst-beh ana
deueer and their aGuiOrs, 20 public gratitude and
pubic honor IL all very we'll for those <ho chooe
10 shower upon public iunCoDsres that pspliar A
ul.use on which they subsist and without winch these
prest men Of day would be uudstngushsble from The
common herd For one however confess the spectacle
Of all that civic and military and clerical dignity IA o'rne
by me without startled tbrob or one qackehed puls
,cn The honOrs that bushIng thck around US on
that occasion were great eXteut Of home Manufacture
put Il party DIGESTION std liable 10 De srPPeu Oh ash
by tie same rude hands
"tbre.,h can mar. them a. breath hAs made"
spd ia difficult to induce the Imagination TO pay
homage at such shrine But when looked ON the gu
.. rb structure in wbics assembled. at the sym
netry o IFS proportions the grace aud beauty of ITS deco
rstions above all at that wondrous Ine, seeming t.
float ike 8 bubble in the air above Us, my whole sou
bowed down in reverence before the genius and skill that
planned and execute this glorious work would not tor
The wealth Of worlds, relnqush this innate love oil the
beautiful this instructive veneraOn for ITS creators IN arr
or literature which 10 next to the glorious gut OF
oer the must envable pOss. Therefore il is, that
look upon far more as puoc injury and loss tnan Is
slight any individual when those high IN othce or Sta
vRk Of life The ars the inventor the savaa the poet
can well afford to DO without but cannot Afford TO
do thoui them The divine afiatus which inspires and
bre.hes through all their productions suoes to ITSELF and
they can calmly wait the verdi OF pOsiery but mean
While the hard spirit of wordn,ss, which II Is the true
mission Of art 10 soften eDnObe Is unreouked and
msutsns lie bad supremacy over Us.
Why is IT, sir, that nation, have always oeen so
chmy and even niggaroly in bestowmeut OF empty
honor on industry and art while very small modicum 0t
political and military fame often substantial reward
To- lis po2sesor The nations of Europe, With their mon
arcbcal and Aristocrac institutions various oc
casons paid splendid tributes 10 humble worth and genus
while Democratic America cannot even discern these guar
tiles under citizens gsrb Can it be that though nm
Bull IN the pentude OF his Acknowledged greatness may
youchsae word of courtesy TO merit III Obscuity brtner
Jonathan afraid to follow mis- example lest IN p.ronzns
ar, aud labor he may be thought to be only acknowledging
lis p9Or feaftOhs ~
Had the announcement been made officially from the
platform Of three the architects OF the Crystn
Palace" II would have he, received with burst OF 60
thusssu ard this should have been followed by three
"cLe.is the work men employ ed upon for surely II
lancet that the "CorOn4tiO OF Toll, a. that Occ >son
has been eoqueniy termed the true and st~wa sons OF
toll shou the honor and the applause Let war
rors and politicians meet together TO gory each other
and the trades BY which they ve but on the rare occasions
in which an ovation is decrsed 10 Art and Industry let
honor be given those TO when alphabetically honor Is
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