The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-21

basement preparing 70 undergo tho cOnvu001 Of an
indispensable regeneration What power then need
fear What power, il danger, coald yield
protection aid While constitutions and laws
establish Political equality they operate to produce social
equality also by preventing onopolss of land and great
Accommodations Of wealth and so they afford incentives to
universal activity and emulation why then should not
the American citizen, and the American republic be CON
scousy independent in all things in all things they
safe and free Such Independence should be attained
and preserved not by few only but as far as possible
by all citizens. II is less essential that the farmer
the mechanic and the aborer shall enjoy it, than that it
sha regulate the action of the merchant the lawyer aud
the statesman Every member Of the State may become
soldier and senator de never be less than
elector What does not the republic sherman
and Franklin Yet they were mechanics. What would
not have been its fate but for the independence of the
captors of Andre Yet Pauldng Williams and Van Wart
laboring Virtue is conessedly the vital
without courage, which is only the consciou ;ness
Of independence We bound to commend republican
institutions to the acceptance of other nations Can
do so content to be wiser, yrtuous,
no more useful to humanity, than those to whom such
portion the talents enjoyed Neither man nor nation
be wise really vrtuous useful when dependent
on the caprice the favor of another Is there
the tens of thousands OF inventions the Patent
Office that made by slave or even by one whose
blood had been recently santed by slavery Peter the
Great, master Of millions of slaves, resOrted to
the shop of mechanic of Saaram to learn the
terry of ship building His successor, Nicholas employs
whistler Massachusetts, engineer to project his rail
roads Ross Winans, Baltimore mechanic to construct
his locomotives and Orsamus Eaton carriage maker Of
Trey to construct his Do you wonder that loving
against slavery? If act hereafter have acted
hitherto, shall be continually changing old things, old
ones Does any one doubt tbisY Have we not already
third constitution in this Slater Has any of the States
constitution older than twenty five years. But political
progress, not regulated with moderation, may move
toe FAST and if not wisely guided will lead to It is
the people themselves and any power above aside
from them that alone regulate and direct that pro-
gress Be they honest they cannot discharge
great political trust wisely opt they act on such
generous impulses, and with such lofty purposes only
halA linda
be independent this republic like all republics that have
gone before it, must be ruled and ruined BY demagogues
in indie pendence. know that it is national hsrsdita
~ and popular sentiment, that we annually celebrate,
and always glory in our independence we DO 80 justly
independence exist while here it il the very rock
which institutions rest Nevertheless occasions for
the exercise OF this virtue may be neglected We hold in
contempt equally just and profound him who imposes,
and him who Q mental livery; and yet think that
accustomed to regard with great severity the
employer who exacs or the mechanic, clerk or sborsr
who yields political conformity in consideration of wages
We insist we ought that every citizen in the State
shall be qualified by education for citizenship but
BY no means that citizen class of cit
zsns shall not prescribe its creed in the instruction
tisan formulas and platforms with changing crcum
stances with almost much diligence and versatility
the Mexcans and we attempt to enforce conformity to
them with scarcely less of zeal and intolerance not in
deed by the sword but by the greater terror of political
prescription. resist argument not Away. with argu
ment, but often with personal denuncation and some
times with combined violence We differ indeed as
to the particular of political faith that shall be
this eS s. remedy but
its necessity and suitableness in some is
very small We Justly maintain that free press is
editorial independence that is manifested BY opposition
to opinions, we have only attained press that
= free in the sense that every interest party faction or
notwithstanding these iustra tons to the
contrary that entire social Independence prevails them
ask, why is it SO necessary to preserve with Jealousy
Justly do the ballot in lieu of of open suffrage fox
if every citizen is really free from all fear and danger
why should he mask his vote more than his face
Believe me- fellow citizens independence always
anguishes in the very degree that intolerance prevails
We smile at the vanity Of the factory girl at Lowell
who having spent the secular part of the week in making
cacoes for the of her unsophiscaed counrywomen
arrays herself on Sundays exclusively in
the fact besides consumption of foreign
silks excluding the skworm from country pur-
chase in England alone handred and Fifty millions of
yards of the stained muslns We sustain here and
there rickety at best contI acted iron msnufac-
tory while we import irsn TO make railroads
endless fields, and carry preudces against
our struggling manufacturers and mechanics Tar a.
fastdiousy avoid wearing on persons, using
Of Displaying in eur drawing rooms
color, that in the Of its manufacture has to
Dur best knowledge and belief, in contact
his less independent than the Engli. hman the
Frenchn an the Siberian. 1t painful to confess
Ne despise deeply and universally the spoiled child of
,retensioD who going abroad fer education observa
ion, with mind destitute OF the philosophy of travel,
eturns TO With affected and gait indica
ions ola spirit and disoyal heart And yet how
nently do watch to see whether of country
men obtains in Europe the honor of arstocratc din
Ter of presentation in grotesque costume, at
surt How do we not suspend our judgment on the
merits of the tive artist b. he dancer Singer actor
inner. or seulptor-and even Of the native author
inventor, orator, bishop or sta.esmanunu oy iatterng
those who habituay deprecate this try ne passes
safely the ordeal of foreign criticism, and csmmends
himself 10 our most cautious appreciation How do
net consult foreign mirrors for very virtues and
vices not less than for fashions and think ignorance
bribery and slavery quite justified at home, they
be matched against OPPRESSION pauperism and crime in
other countries On occasions, too, We are bold in sp
paudng heroic struggles for freedom abroad and |
we certainly have hailed with enthusiasm every
publican evouton in South America, in France, in |
Poland, in Germany, and in Hungary. And yet |
how does sympathy rise and fall with every
change Of the political temperature in Europe |
In lust this extent We are not only not independ,
Of the Old World You may ask mpatenty
if require the American citizen to throw oil all submis
sion law all Difference to authority and all respect to
the opinions of mankind and that the American republic
shall constantly aggressive war against all for
eign systemsy answer no. There is here, as every
where middle and a safe way would have the Anne.
lican citizen yield always cheerful acquescence aud
servils adherence to the opinions OF the majority
Of his country and Of mankind whether they be
crossed in the forms Of law not, all questions in
yoling moral principles and even in regard to such
do affect the conscience would have him avoid not only
faction but the appearance of it, But demand at
the time, that he shall have his matured and
independent convictions the result not of authority
domestic 1oreBn- every Vi puDHc poucy
and So that while always temperate and courteous, he
sha always be free and outspeakng censor, upon not
only opinions customs and but even upon
laws and constitutions themselves. VIVA. thus require
of the citizen insist also that he shall allow to every
one Of his fellow citizens. would have the nation also
though moderate and pacific yet always frank decided
and firm in bearing its testimony against and OPP
PRESTON and while abstapipg from forcibe Intervention
in foreign disputes yet always fearlessly rendering to
the cause Of rspuk sanisn everywhere, by influence
and example all the aid that the laws Of nations
do not pereny terily, in their true spirit forbid
DO / propose in this heretical, or even new
standard Of public private suty2 All agree that the
and the legal standards in other
tries too low Mast then abide by them and
That would be 20 yield ndepe ndence and TO
be false towards mankind. Who will maintain that the
standard established at any time by majority in
own country is infalable and therefore final IL il be
So why have reserved by constitution freedom Of
speech OF the press ami of outrage TO reverse it, No,
we may change everything, 6rst complying, however,
with conditions Storms connections
must indeed be avoided, bat the political waters must
nevertheless be sgated always they will stagnate
Let one suppose that the human mind will consent to
rest in error II vibrae~, however only that it may
settle AT last in imrn truth and Justice Nor eed