New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-07

secret Of the world Was hid from their eyes-the
right Of aniuatins a private soul With inspiration
from the rreat and Divine Soul ia which We live.
Man is little thing when he works by and for himself
The Judge Who givss voice to the rules Of Lag asd
justice is q god like person. His word IS striking Ia
all countries: Bot q man citing upon bench, ser
vile to precedents, or windy pSllticsn, or danser
irving 10 give authority % the bottoms OF his supe
rcr and of his acct, pipes and squesks, and is ride
ulous. Judges are rare, and must % born such
james said, 81 can make him q Lord, but can
"n,e make him a gentleman A Cove nor aud
President can give commission 20 sit upon bench
but only wisdsm from above can make Judge
When your city is on fire you will make but feeble
spray with On engine. while you draS rom your own
tnb but once get your pipe screwed on 70 hose in
the River Hudson, and you can pump as long as the
Atlantic ocean holds out Laughter and applause
This wss the hiding of the igdt: but the light shcns
il il was intercepted from US. Truth exists, although
all men deny it, There is a sound AID heshy uoi'
verce whatever fires or plaques or desolaons trans
pre among lite atoms The sky has not lost It's azure,
because your eyes are intuoced Seas, waters,
lime, oxygen msgnetia, iron salts ana metals aye NOT
wasted Their virtues safe IL the individual or
speeies sickep. There is healthy interior universe
a. we'd and men great and as they conform
become recipients OF great eqnai, general law
Now, what is the effect OF this evil government 10
discredit government. When the public fails ia ITS
duty private men take its place. When the Britsh
Minister is weak, The Tunes newspaper governs the
realm. When the American Government and gov
errors are false 10 their trust men dlsobey the Gov
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is forced into all manner of false and ridiculous att
tudes. Men besr reason and truth from private men
who have great hearts and great minds ms Is tue
compensation for bad goverrment-the held it anords
for lIustrious men; ard We owe great deoI 70 the
brave and faithful men who, in the very hour
ard place Of tie evil act, made their pro-
te,t for themselves and for their coun-
trymen by word and by deed. Iney are
justified, and Law is condemned but " IS no, 10
Societies that the secrets of nature are revealed but
10 priv ate personsto eseh nan in his org ation
in bis experience A serious man, VINO his used ms
oppo tunities will early discover that he only works
and thinks surely when he is scrsg upon nus own
experience All forcible men will agree that books,
and leuned Societies and Il armed cities cannot sup
NV what their own good sense taught them. IL Is
common 10 say that the invention OF guupo"der mas
eaualizsd the strong and the weak Never believe H.
II never has made any deep difference, and LORD
WELLINGTON weighing bis soldiers, provost Auds-
cty and good sense have their old superiority what
ever weapons thsy WELD. There are no true sinews
Z" of war but the very sinews OF the arms OF val
liant men. II is a maxim In politics that
man cannot be formidable in Congress unless he is
strong At home. am glad TO hear that confession
ssy more: say he must have he oeH support. IL
Is only what strength he carries with him everywhere
that can give bin any power. roper mensy Is g9od
only so far as it represents real labor. member
who walks into the Chambers OF Congress, attended
only by his own insignicsnce, cannot gain any
strength by the distant shouts OF electors. All the
Brtsh batteries cannot comfort me coward II nc
epauettes break his sword and thrust him out OF
he eamp. But while insist upon the doctrine OF
the indeperd the inspiration OF the individual,
land il is doctrine which cannot be pushed TOO isr
for it is III fathomably oeep do not KILL but exaltt the
social action. Patriotism, public sentiment, aud
public sentiment have real meaning, though there
be 90 mich counterfeit rag money aoro "a thst the
name is apt TO disgust. wise man aenso,s IN sne
man had one talent and another, calculated thai
YOU must collect eighteen hundred or two thousand
men to make one complete. We should need TO call
them oil out. Certainly, asoclai state, psrlohsn,
law eoyerDmeDt-all ceyer real ideas, though words
have wandered far from things. king or head OF
the state was az full and god like in the eyes Of men,
while be was the foremost man Ut all his tribe, and
carried the laws genius and features OF the tIloe IL
was so once in this country, when washington,
Adams and Jefferson really embodied the ideas OF
America; but now put absurd persons into chairs
without character representative force oil any klnd
and get figure awful only to office hunters Laugh
ter ard cheers And st e is reality so IL very
certain that society Of men, race OF people have
particular function and part to play in the history Of
humanity. Thus they thought the experience OF
humanity had got go FAR century ago, tnat as soon
"a favorable circun etsnces admitted the experiment
of self government should be made America afforded
the circumstance and the new order began. All
they inter ded in America was possessed by that idea
The Declaration Of Independence-the Constitution
OF the States-tbe party newspaper-the singing OF
tie " Star Spar g'ed Banner
The land Of the brave AID home Of the free"
o. the receivers and propsgsndists OF thus lesson to
te world In this cause were they born, and for this
cause came they into the world: Liberty TO every
mantle largest liberty compatible with the hoerty
of every other Ii was not section 1t was not
a private opinion, but the gradual and rreslstible
growt IN Of the human mind. That IS the msaniag Of
our national pride. IL noble office for, Liberty
Ia very serious thing IL is the surest test by which
a Government can be- tried. All history goes TO shox
that il il the measure of our national success Re
gioD srt science, material perfection, are as n the
degree Of liberty Montesquieu says that countries are
not guilty proportion TO their population, but in
proportion to their freedom Most uohappily this
universally accepted duty and feeling has been antag
onised by the Southern institutions and that insttu
ton ia its perpetual encroachment has had, through
stronger personality, shall say, OF the Southern
people, and through their systematic devotion to
politics. the art TO league itself with the Govern nent
al to perver entirely the sentiments Of the people
of this country and exhibits an AFFECT regard TO the
forme while we are swndled out Of the reality OF
liberty. Lord Nelson was man Of stirling English
sense, and knowing himself to mean rightly
and being a rough plain man, was much amazed
by the pedantic rules OF the service, aud went
back of frs, principles, and once for all made his
mind. ITO obey orders" be said - thought to be
" all perfection but the great order Of all is TO serve
"your country and down with the French'-llaugh-
ter and applause and whenever any statute mill
tstes With that ] 20 back to the great order Of all,
out Of which the little orders spring. And he was
careful TO explain 10 his officers that in case they
cosd not zee q signal, or 1t was not understood by
them Captain could go wrong VINO DrouRnt MS
ship close along side of the enemy's ship. And 50
every wise American will say in the collision Of sta
tutes and in their doubtful Interpretation, that liberty
is the great erder which world we are pro-
mote This is the right meaning OF the statute. That
is the right meaning Of the statute which extermiases
crime and extern to every man the largest liberty,
compatible with the liberty Of every other man. No
citizen will 20 wrong who upon every question: leans
to the side Of general liberty. lApplause.l And
while this Society is no fiction, but 10, az have
showed Just now, real rsnk-he who represents the