The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-27

shuee now AZ it has been, the independent
ey,sonent Of public sentiment. and the daily
reflex of 1.-The very age and body Of the
time, It has not been. and is not.
under any obligations to the democratic party,
aside from the manifest duties and destiny Of
this mighty republic; and if il cannot recog-
misc the stupidties Of !" old fogyism,' not even
the illustrated compliments Of Young Amer
ca, can render Il silent witness to their I,ar.
Drained reckless and mischievous filibr, STEERING
propensitie~, Mark time.
There ID some method and soy ,e point in the
paper on our foreign minister's, but the chapter
on 1.-The Cuban Debate Which lately came Off
in Che Senate, is a tedious diatribe against the
alleged old fogy" notions Of Messrs Cass, Ma
son, and Underwood. This assault, upon Cen
Cass particularly. appears to US to be without
either provocatfon or purpose. In postscript
at the end Of the magazine, however, it is
somewhat modified by an explanations; but
claiming that the last progressive speech of the
venerable Senator. ION Cuba and the Monroe
Deaocnssic Rerie,c. But while the main art-
Gle on Cuoa winds up with Wild visionary,
revolutionary harangue on LOUIS Napoleon and
French politics, the postscript skips over from
Cuba into Mexico, to hurry up the cakes in
that direction.
The Republican Sketches,' devoted to CT
'cercacchio, or the Roman Patriot" blend with
thewoof of hghly-colored love story, the filing
of most deliberate and methodical attack
upon the blessed Pope the anointed car
|sdinals, and the consecrated priesthood,
Of Rome and Italy. This ingenious device of
political pamphleteering makes the characters
of love affair, involving several affectionate
parties the instruments of the argument and
plot of the writer. Their main object is an ex-
posurc Of the alleged deceitful Jesuitical, and
inhuman tricks and expedients by which the
Pope and his church subordinates, and their
agents and spies, broke down the Roman re-
public of l848. This malignant onslaught upon
the Holy Mother Church" could only have
emanated from some unfortunate and eYaspe-
rated adherent of Mazzini and his unfortunate
castle builders of Roman republics. Let him
be " dndthema mdranatha." There is no hope
for him.
Next we have fragment Of poetry in keep
ing with the visions Of blOodshed, and fixed
bayonets, and barricades. and cleaning bowie
knives which bristle upon every page. 1t is
called The Cannibal Feast. by George B. Wal
lis" and we must say it is a miserable imitation
of the dog scene in Byron's Siege Of Corinth"
and. as a description, blunders and all, even
more revolving. 1t is vile doggerel upon the
vilest subject. But this fragment was doubt
less selected from the authors fugitive trash
because Of the fitness Of his Indian cannibals
for the society Of the other blood-thirsty cha
racters Of the Recie,c. They are all hail
fellows-well met"
The paper on The War in Hungary" on the
Kossuth side Of the question, has some value
from the mass Of historical testimony it groups
together but we were surfeited by the great
Magyar" with the sad disasters Of his country !;
and as he is now quiet, on the retired list" in
London, we think the discussion of the subject
SO much waste paper. When requisition is
made for those forty thousand muskets ut two
dollars apiece it will be time enough to make
another stir for Hungary.
The narrative of Louis Schlesinger, Hun
garian officer under Lopez, in his last crack
Drained and fatal flibustering expedition into
Cuba. though not without interest, is also
little behind time. Young America should
keep up with the locomotive. The chapter on
" Absolutism reysus Republicanism," has for
its moral, that Absolutism will destroy Ma
poleon the Third, as it destroyed Napoleon the
First. Anything for fight.
The organ and oracle of Young America"
closes the terrible work of this double number
in dissertation on political Religion-the
Brownson Order and Catholicity." Plainly,
the object Of this fiery onslaught is the exter-
mination of the Catholic church, root and
branch in the United States But our patience.
our endurance, and our charity are here ex-
hausted. We close the book and cross our
selves, or turn back to the genial and welcome
face of Mr.. BENNETT, to exercise the evil spirits
we have had around US. We feel, after skimming
over the two hundred pages of this rabid demo-
crazy. as if awakened from some horrible dream.
beset at every step with Jacobins and scenes of
blood. and guillotines in full play, and "canni-
bal feasts," and savage yflli6usteroes. glowering
in the darkness. bearded to the waist and armed
to the teeth, waiting but the signal for down
right murder. But what says the church to
this fearful heretical organ of Young Ameri-
ca?' Let Archbishop Hughes, father of the
faithful look to it in time.
The Independence Of New York Clty-The
True Way to Reform.