New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-22
noRnoxpon. PRESENT AND FUTURE.

said-they think am crazy while | know they are
crazy typifes the wisdom of the great mass of Euro
pean pubicsts as regards this country. and may be
applied with less force to some of writer's and
speakers The leading literature of Great Britain for
example the Edinburgh and London Quarterlies,
Blackwood The London Times newspaper, and
general chorus Of less distinguished periodicals up
70 this moment have croaked ABOUT the nature and
promise of our institutions. Our republicanism is
called an experiment which answered very well for
dIuselypeopled country. with new institutions but
in time it must prove unsuted to a tbicky populated
one. with long train Of antecedenis and varied
store Of annals Unfortunately for the argument it
SO happens that in those American States where pop
uation thickes and the date OF settlement extends
arthest back there exists the purest democracy and
the best government Witness Massachusetts,. The
name of that State alone is sufficient Ii carries its
reputation in full with it without discourse.
Up TO this time, in fact, no European has written
undersandney Of American institutions. and al home
even Mr. Websers speech on the Constitution leaves
gulph vet to be filed up with new truths when the
full force of private effort in contradstincton 10 Gov
eminent agency and the Constitution itself shall be
reayunderstood Indeed when we consider what indi-
cal and unaerable Government functions al the time
that speech was delivered We feel that has
dawued and a new political philosophy is needed not
found in any written authority. Judge Story too was
positively sOrrowridden the future Of institu
tons and did not penetrate their solution, OF find that
nine.tCnhs Of the powers of the general Government
will before long time be cut down. and whatever
valuable work they include be better executed by
private Northumberland hence the cOrruptions at
Washington with their ramifcations throughout the
States, cease to exist.
The solution Of religious differences. the arrangement
Of hostile churches the mode OF preventing one PERSIA
son from getting the upper hand absorbing the land aud
making the road 10 heaven clean and straight by statute
have given rise to many foreign and domestic pang
Fear lest the Pope should get the better OF Protestant
ism aud control our elections and finally destroy our
liberties has been the cause of fearful regret and lu
cubrous eleQy enough to stock Greenwood Cemetery.
Such mourners have not discovered that the erceness
Of bigotry and the intolerance of priesthood must in
this country rankle just in proportion to hates and op
positions Persecution is but the hoops of the barrel
of any sectaran strength The bitter partisanhp OF the
Roman Catholics in Spain (Which according to Lamar
tine himsefa Catholic was fast reducing her to the level
OF hdfhufOus udlous) was uuc Nhichl w AV"Ns.'H
against the Moors The cruelty of the Church of En-
gland against the Irish Catholics protest against
tie Spanish Armada and the InquisitiOn In this
Try We have nothing to fear. No merely sectarlan
newspaper be supported if issued daily, aud the
real Government OF the country lies in the daily press
as the exponent OF Public VIII and Public Liberty
What have we to fear when it takes hundreds ofchurch
buildings with congregations OF some one thousand
each Ga huge average preaching the most outrageous
doctrines OF even Mormonism once week, to coun
terbaance the liberalism and moral and religious nfu-
ence Of one single widely dGsed American daily paper
with our half million readers
We are led to these remarks by seeing in some Eng
lsh journals degree of editorial unhappiness on the
solution Of the Mormon problem. The rapid develop
ment OF the Mormon community in all that constitutes
material power and prosperity is admitted 70 be wor-
thy place ia the annals OF heroic piOneershp and IN
dustry Beneath their stalwart hands the desert is
made 10 blossom like the rose, and their skful enter
prize is gradually making them Independent of foreign
manufacturers All the external characteristics OF
thriving social State are found among them but yet
their existence contains elements that held TO be
dangerous to the welfare of the country and whose re-
moya forms a very knotty and puzzng question The
standard ignorance of American principles, the usual
failure 70 apprehend their practical working, and be
nefcent corrective influence, strikingly manifested
in regard 70 this subject
The difficulties between the MormOns and the peo-
pie Of the other States are not difficult Of reconeIa
ton except in the matter OF pOygamy On account
Of this popularity it is suggested in quarters that
war must ultimately be made upon them and their
sect be put down by main force. And those who can
not quite approve so extreme remedy still regard
tie phenomena offered by the increase Of the Mormon
church with great anxiety. Both these classes Of
people overlook the fact that the evil in question needs
only 70 he let alone ia order in time to work ts own
cure Wherever industry, newspapers and the Eng
lish language exist pOlygsmy no matter on what So
perstou and perverted appettes it is based, cannot
stand against the progressive enlightenment OF the
people It is false institution and carries within
itsef tie certainty Of its extinction. We must apply
10 il the democratic rule Of liberty aud reliance
upon free discussion Like the other ramfcatons
and absurd features Of the Mormon theocracy, it must
be suffered to wear itself out from its own hostility 70
the culture and wants Of q civilized people and from
the pressure Of the superior and Intelligence
OF society round H. Ii there be State Interference
legal coercion 70 Oblige the Mormons 10 surrender
their oriental Interpretation Of feminine character it
viii create book of martyrs for them, and prove
seed for their church, which will take centuries per-
Lsps to uprOOt The way is to show 10 their women
tie folly Of their degraded position in allowing them
selves to be considered unfit for heaven except a.
wives Of hesaints This can be done by gentle exam
pie and mild teaehing-or at the worst by strong