New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-11
INnIyvuUAIISM.


Ala ,oei,l meeting of the members of the Press nd
others at the Falls of Niagara on Saturday last some re-
marks were made by Mr. Wells of the American Express
Companywhch are extremely nterestinga indicative Of
American enterprise but more especially Of the self
reliance and Indivdualism which not only mark the
character of our countrymen but whsh without figure
of speech may be said to inaugurate new era In the
history OF the world.
Mr.. Wells stated that in the year 1912, his house
began their business and all they carried could be put
into one CARPET bag. With Adams & Co. they now
divided chiefly the business of Express Forwarding
The ground daily travelled over by their house, is
,birtsen thousand miles Certainly this is great Illus
traton of private enterprise The dividing line between
these houses-greaer UNNECESSARILY than those Of York
and Lancaster though sung by Shakspere-is the Ohio
and the Lakes
We mention this fact. it gives us an opportunity
for remarkng upon what certainly the main character
istie of our countrymen, and marks new era in
human annals-this quality of Indyidualism If either
the house of Livingston Wells Co., or Adams X Co.,
we're in certain European countries, for example, il
weuld be Government affair, patronsed by Govern
men and the vast services it performs would advance
the interests of some noble family, and be connected
with some high sounding title TO swell its Importance
in the eyes of the vulgar. If we take one of these
American firms and sum up the labor, supervision and
responsibility which they daily undergo to travel over
thirteen thousand miles and deliver, to the minute
property to the value Of millions Of dollars, it will be
evident that their operations are as large and imposing
as those of Government bureau; with this differ
ence however be it borne in mind, shat the partners
are plain persons-they do not figure in the stupid
books called histories which for the most part bald
dryeng stories of dtapeism, with the work Of the
people left out-they are not called the Lords of the
Treasury. Right Honorable Directors of the India
House. nor to come nearer home, have they the snob
bish mpertnCnce of Honorable Prefxed to their name
as every politician has who squms his way into Gov
eminent connection of whatever kind
Let us extend the parallel from quasi Post-Oiice
in private hands to the Daily Press The Editors Of
this country have no titles They do not figure in his
tory except il be that OF their trade But let us
look at daily Journal aud compare the ideas in it, upon
Government even with those enuDciated in State pa
pers When We consider the editorials upon foreign
and domestic facts and theories, which invariably take
precedence il point of time the debates in Con-
gress or the messages of Presidents the money art-
ces, every day which give much information as any
Treasury Report the Foreign Correspondence which
renders the business of an American resident Minister
a sinecure il habituay forestas his State secrets
and leaves his services to consist mainly in procuring
tickets 10 balls and dinners for his travelling country
men the criticism on all the new publications which
does once a week thar which the Quarterly Review does
once in three months the notices OF anew productions
of art of statues when have them, of pictures of
operas and concerts the assertion Of ideas which
county heroes parish politicians unequal to- either
through want Of apprehension moral cOurage-the
diurna reports Of lectures oratons discoveries Incl
dents,-we find in the Indlvdualism of the Press, a
great though unacknOwledged legislative function,
which is beginning to override the forms and tediousness
of governmental assumption, and with colossal hand
write new future for personal ambition and gen.
eral veal.
In the history of the past nothing is prominent
and dreary the utter nsignifcance Of the masses
They DO, in the cant Of the historian, nothing They
are, intellectually, ignored. They are not even NEIL
toned as hands II is kings who build cities and make
laEs-not the architect OF the mason not the iurst or
pUbicist. Even in our own times, there is the COde
N0pOilon which pointed with pride by Frenchmen
but is simply evidence Of imperial proves and n.-
tonal weakness. Ii is therefore with exutation that
turn 10 the great fact which lies before u.s. that the
debris Of government pride in this county is more and
more uiturated by the ndEidualism of democracy Our
cities built by nobody in particular our consttu
tons created without the swell aud buster Of sin.
gle predominant name our laws are cOdifed without
reference 20 national tleness people axe crystal
zlng in every form Of generous and brilliant novelty
The anniversary week az New York ia this view, is
encouraging produe, of the times Without bay
onet or bell TO force together companies they come
from the rcmotes corners Of the yastest Of empires
sef-npeled, selfconstiGuted they inquire, discuss
sgitate they hear Reports which their best wisdom
and Industry have rpened throughout the entire year
they determine resh arrangements for action and econ
omy: they present in detail the great formulas OF spon-
taneOus concentration. in opposition to the hdeous
alsehOod Of Capitalization which is thus far the higa-
est effort Of Europe This spOn.aneity this agglcmer
alton al rlisilahry, is be the dividing line between
the future and the pas. Il is TO signaze effort from
new point Of view Il is 10 reconstruct the philosophy
and incident Of history. II is to fructify eyery even
she least, intellectual particle which may require uni
yersai light for its growth.
RAILROAD FOR BROADWAY.