The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-08
The New York Tribune-Has Inhdclit,
Reached our female BOal ding Schools!

The New York Tribune-Has Infidelity
Reached our remale boa, ding Schools
We would have no man prosecuted for ais
| opinions. We claim for all the widest and lar
gest tolera.ion in matters of belief 1t is, we
take it, of the essence Of true freedom that,
where it exists, neither the law nor the State
can ever ask man what creed he may choose
to obey.
This freedom cannot be had gratuitously. II
must be purchased like any other blessing. We
pay for it whenever Garrison, Greeley and Stone
shock the community by insulting the Bible and
swearing at Christianity. We paid heavy
instalment Of the price last week, when. at a
crowded meeting in Metropolitan Hall, Horace
Greeley impeached" the Sacrament, pro-
bounced that sacred rite Of our church to be
founded on the grossest ignorance. the most
| ndolent heedlessness, or the most fragrant dis
honesty" and called upon modern science to
| provide Il substitute for an ordinance of our
| divine Saviour. We paid further instalment
! day or two afterwards. when Garrison, with
more comprehensive scope. attacked all 'rel-
gionsts," (meaning thereby all men who be-
iieve in one overriding Providence, and wor-
ship Him according to their particular views y
and called for vengeance against i" the minis
tiers of all religions-for they are" said he
always found on the side of slavery and OPP
preston"
| That we endure the utterance of such sentl-
| ments as these in the midst of q peaceful and
| religious community, is, we take it. pretty fair
| evidence of the value we set on the possession
| of liberty Of speech
AT the same time there must be no misap-
prehension on the point. Our liberation must
not be construed into approval, or even indif-
ference. Though we tolerate the blasphemy Of
a Garrison and Greeley, we do so in obedi-
ence to a great principle, end must not be
understood as regarding the blasphemers with
any other feeling than loathing and disgust
| The sense Of this community is as unanimous on
| that point as it is on Bloomerism or Woiaen's
| Rights. Our individual Indignation at atheism
| is, in fact, heightened by the restraints which
| prevent our silencing its votaries Every con-
vention at which Garrison and Greeley vomit
forth their insane abuse of Christianity in
crcases the measure of public odium meted out
to them. Every meeting at which Horace
Greeley appears as The friend and coadiutor of
individuals who would prescribe the Bible,
| abolish marriage, and overturn society to gain
| private ends Of their own. augments he horror
with which respectable men regard the Tribune
newspaper.
1t is not very ereditsble to Us that such a
| periodical-the organ Of those who contemn all
that good men respect, the open assaiiant Of all
t!.a
mouthpece of man who haunts no society but
that of nfdels and socialists-should receive
| sufficient support to enable 1t to exist in this
city. Similar sheets in other countries are
| printed in obscure corners, and circulated by
! stealth, at rare intervals, among few disrepu-
table men their readers blush to own their
acquaintance the clergy denounce them, and
the police not unfrequently terminate their
career by summary deathblow. Lere, on the
contrary, the Tribune rears its head in the
most public place in New York. Its blasphe-
mics are uttered in open daylight It's assaults
on religion are hovled through the streets. aud
it is quite possible that It's immoral doctrines
may find their way into respectable houses.
This argues either culpable carelessness on
the part Of heads OF families, or Incompetent
sible ignorance Of tie character of the paper
We cannot believe that any right-thinking man
would willingly lay before his wife and dsugh-
| tiers paper which regards the institution OF
marriage as an old sshioned absurdity. NoT
can we reconcile ourselves to the belief that
sane father could place in the hands OF his chill
dren 81 aet whose editor is openly attempting
toaoolish the Holy Sacrament. BY what fatality
does ii happen that we find advertisements ofin-
stitutes for young ladies and boar ling schools
| for children IN the columns Of the ITi6uHs !?
| Is il possible that the managers of these in
| stitutions did moi know that side by side with
their advertisement, would appear an attack
against Christianity and morality by the edi-
tor? Are we to suppose that the ladies who
! choose the Tri5uHe as their channel Of cornmu-
nication with he public read that paper2
| That they share the EDITORS views on the sub
| iecb of Inc Sacrament and participate in his ad
miration for Garrison's outspoken Atheism
| That the Tribune is taken OF their schools, and
| that the discussions on marriage which recently
appeared therein tending to show The folly Of
| cleaving 70 one fe or one husband, are placed
within til, reach Of the pupils2 Heaven help
the poor girls ii it he so
But We have too high an opinion Of these in
sttutions to suppose for moment that the in
, sortion OF their advertisements rose from any
any other motive than thoughtessness. The
character they bear forbids auy other interpre-
tation of the fact. We nov suggest TO the a to
read over calmly the reports Of the conventions
held during The last ten days. and to note the
views expressed by tae editor If the Tri-
oune and his coadiutors. They viii find
that we have done the paper 10 injus-
tice in speaking Of it as we have done
IT, 4fter this they can reconcile i to their con-
&C, nee tie countensnce IN any way or manner a