New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-18
NA1IEs AND THINGS.

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SA1IEs AND THINGS.
The more the student looks into the history OF
Iations parties or sects the LEES regard he pays to
the force Of names or tie claims based upon them,
AID the greater value lie sets upon real hings-upOn
po.itye acts When Nahomet instituted his ere cd,
his clecticsm was the best, perhaps. tina. his age
slIowed-tbe ccrruptions Of the Chnstian world at
large at that period, not presenting fit materials for
relormer Certain likewise, is it thatthe beat seats
OF learning Of the year 1900 belonged to the oors in
spsin: snd while all Christendom believed that the
end OF the world could not possibly extend over that
period, the Moors were quietly studying the philoso-
ply Of Aristotle, laying the bases Of chemistry and
astronomy, using the IumcralS-withou. which mod
EN- commerce cOull not be trausae.ed-and turning
geography 10 such account that it subsequently be-
came science. and yet we are taught 10 believe
that the one ystem however corrupted produced all
tLe good and the other, however modified, all tao
evil Of Europe At this moment, too, wo perceive
the satire of satires in the junction OF Christian
Protestant and Christian Catholic with Mohamme-
dan power for the suliugaiion or curling Of Chris
tan Creok Empire-the twO Christian empires, rance
and Ingl4Id, having formerly been at war with lch
other for about s hundred aud thirty years Neither
has any Asatic war ever shown such isrOcioas de-
struction OF life that among the Chrlstian nations
of this century, mcleod toge .her,-Greek Russia,
Catholic Spain, Protestant England Protestant and
Catholic Germany, and Protestant Sweden, against
popc.resoing, imperial TraEce-milliOns Oh millions
OF men having been murdered in that contest.
TO instance another discrepancy between names
and tliIes the British House of Lords. reared on
a. -. II Of fhp (ou-
quest, with hereditary privilege, and roe death OF
political equality, abolish Slavery in the Colonies
Lord Broushaiu, in an ecstaey of eloquenec during
SIX hours deDOuncirg human bondage the depth
hight and breadth Of all int,lity. But here
in hi; country, without hereditary privilege in our
political system regards the whites seventy eight
years after the utterance OF the Declaration of nde-
pendence which abolished Slavery in theory, and
looked to e1pediency for the time when it should
soon be abolished in practice, we find the majority of
ofboth branches OF our National Legislature, sec
oneed by So called Democratic Notwithstanding
tc doom territory larger than the thirteen original
States TO Slayery-aDd the people represented,
too not MahOmmedan in religion, nor cannibalS in so
cis life but claiming 20 be ChEistionas vel DIS liberal.
Such is the oatwOIking Of Christianity md Demoe-
iNc! III lhIs OuA il"cs '-VN4o~tS' wan
their millions Oh millions of printed and distributed
pages Of religious matter, purporting to wlf; the
tiessed humanity o. the gospel 70 the nations have
utterly excluded the vital religious question OF free
Com 10 the slave from their works. Editions, even
where few lines of poetry rejecting upon Slavery
were by accident detected by their masters az tue
South have beea destroyed at the bidding OF these
southern Electors a1d the work OF moral havoc thus
secured through so-callcd Christi VI press All
that cowardicc, meaunes', time-serying, commercial
trick Iscariotism in the mass could desire, has been
pIscticed by the tract societies in her coalition with
Slavery. And all for what To put the North still
more IN groseling position regard. the South,
t. extend indefinitely southern aggressOns, TO multi
ny anne Nations Of slave >ta;es and Territories, in
Guciug d war with weak neghbor Ike Mexico 70
excite t!aculerce toward It. Domingo, ilibustcriag
toward Cuba rs prelude 10 the absorption OF tina:
island with the confirmation probably Of the slave
trade direct with Africa.
We must give over names and tsse 70 things. Our
DEMO- racy has now, with . cOrrup Christianity re-
duccd the United States to great spirator against
hurpaR liberty. Aggression annexation, slaveexten
SOP, arc all contained and approved in the So
called Democracy and socslled Christianity which
cOalescts with it, We need Isen-not trading priests
nor trading politicians, nor trading merehsnts-but
uen-men VINO see what Christianity il in its sub
Line morality and what Democracy is according TO
the organic spirit and the political instrument which
uhdtrle TIE whole theory and practice ofths Govern
meut-the Declaration Of independence, in word.
We need iournals-nOt echoes, not subseriber-h1nt
ing popularity -ehcrishnc Organs-but presses OF ght
ard liberty. We need advocates OF principles and
enemies Of trucking ind corruption. Our great
men so called have failed TO reduce great political
truth to practice during this century. They have
dallied with tie evil. If in the South, they have
held with the grip of eNasPerated aysrce to their
bordmen; if in tie North, they have been careful
not 20 offend heir southern bro thrcn lest they should
not get the regular nomination.
And what has all this South done which has so
lorded il with her one hundred or two hundred
thousand negro drivers this country, Where
are her superortcs-ber arts or her literature even
except as they come from the North Where are her
chemistry, geology literature mechanics. engineering
esthetics-where are Der grand efforts to diminish hu
msu toil-her stosm-ens.ues, loconotgcs, :imbct-