New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-31

fine either fact, fancy. imagination or counsel
to home matters. Our business as Editors is
with the world. We claim the right to NEEDLE
With every thing and every person of public
kind-to anatheEatize wrong and exalt virtue
wherever we find it on the surface of our CON-
mon mother earth. We shall continue TO med
die in foreign and domestic affairs. Ii We can
give voice TO the agony of the slave at home,
so can we CRY out for Turkish redemption-for
American interference in the Adriatic, for
democratic ideas in the Bospborus or in Hun
gary, or in England even. Claiming this for
ourselves, we cannot deny it to others. We
approve and applaud, therefore, the step taken
in England regarding Mrs Stowe. If they
think fit, We shall not object if they treat her
as Nations Guest We should even hail that
as an evidence Of the Artist overarching the
Politician and Individuality receiving its need
ofhonor TO the destruction of the State. shams
Of Diplomatic Function. Such Big Treaties
come frem the spirit of whole peoples, and can
not be comprised by sections, articles, forms
or ceremonials. They are to official inter-
course what genius is to commonplace, what
inspiration is to set-molding They are the
electric flashes of the grandest hopes, the
bounding pulses Of millions in utilization.
The next view we take of it is that the re-
ceiyers of Mrs. Stowe must remembor that
they are also in their way thieves. The Nor
man Conquest determined the present form of
English Government. A few families, aided by
brutal force, and yet more brutal superstition,
obtained possession of the Land, the Church
and the State Mr.. Macaulay also informs US,
almost with a glow of pride, in his History
of England, that the great, noble families of
England all found their origin in military con-
quest. OF course episodes of private assass-
nation, secret poisoning, nquisitoral torture,
are common to such histories. The Richards,
Edwards, Henrys, of royalty but typify the
hangman's list of lower degrees. 1t never oc-
ours to Mr. Macaulay that an Artist, if anybody
at all, should found family to render country
illustriOus. No: the degradation of letters in
EDgland-Of all the arts which appeal to the
sOul-uneavened with Church-and .State--is
too complete ever to have offered the material
for Noble manufacture. Hence Shakespeare
was vagrant by act of Parliament Burns a
shocked at the manly grasp of Philadelphia
mechanics, plays the snob colossal, in endeavor-
ing to rival Dukes by giving them as good
breakfast as Apsley- House or Chatsworth
can afford. To be the English gentleman is
the ambition of all these men to be the
English freeman, never.
We trust, therefore that when the sincere
welcomings to Mrs. Stowe shall come to
pass, that a profound self examination may
begin with these great and noble families whe
have found their origin in military conquest,
and that they may ask themselves on what base
their privileges rest Why is it that one man
and his wife, like the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland, should rock through existence on
the topmost wave of ease, enjoyment and dis
tnctiOn, never knowing the curse of poverty,
of wounded pride, Of doubtful caste position,
Of overtoil and underpay, of stupid routine, of
life lied away in the depths of caste-degrada-
ton May they ask themselves what is the
meaning of their coats. Of.arms, while they
preach the gospel of peace and arenot these
discrepancies like Bibles offered on the points
of bayonets, and gadtidings in opum.ches
May they ask, too, the very radical meaning of
the term Duke and Duchess May they find
out that these terms come from the Latin
Dur, leader, so bestowed because the indivi-
dual was leader from his own creative, origin
al power And as cOrollary to this may
they both find out that they are brace of
shams and huge impostOrs, to receive as an
hereditary loom the title which they have not
the honor to seek for-even as st. Paul, and
Columbus, and Newton, and Franklin, and
Raphael, and Mozart, got their title of Dur
If they do not learn all this-if they do not
surrender their ill-gotten gains and come up to
the level Of Man redeemed and disenthralled,
their claims on history as philanthrophists will
rank with those of connoisseurs who give
thousand guineas for the painting of a beggar's
head and refuse sixpence to the beggar him
self