New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-16
The Coarier of twenty years back-when fbc Gov

ant-when all Americanism, Ia tne opiuicu '"
wealth. trade and orthodox piety consisted IN
the darkness Of the grave AMI the Slave ques-
tion-vhen the discussion Of the subject even
!, New-York was deemed as infamous as that of
political rights by the verIuin Of the Elysee no
IN Paris. and when American liberty was to be
determined entirely by the lines drawn in black
By the South. At that period, twenty years
since. on the 18th July, 1884, we find The
Courier holding the following language in regard
N one of the outrages of a mob, whose wrath
had been directed against an Abolition apostle:
.TnE DISTURBANCES os WEDNESDAY, NIGHr.-it
vss With deep regret we yesterday found ourselves
compelled to detail series Of riOtous procee iinys
which took place in this City on wednesday nigat,
ond which closed with ransacking the house OF Mr..
Lewis Tappan Under ordinary circumstances such
nm occurrence would naturally excite surprise IN q
community like this organized as that all nave an
interest in the preservation OF goou oruer ah a.,
nre therefore impressed with deep and abiding sense
of tie necessity Of maintaining IT. but IN the present
instance no one who hes had opportunity 10 witness
the impression made the popular mind oy tue ioc-
trines openly promulgated by the inlmediate Aoo-
T,ionts and AmalgamatOrs, can wonder that snch an
ebuiiion OF cling the consequence as tnat "nch
hes evinced ITSELF
alt il time for the reputation Of City, and per-
hans for tie welfare Of Themselves that these Abo-
on which they stand. They are, We learn, always
clamorous with the police for protection, and demand
it as a night inherent TO their character OF Amerc "a
citizens Now we tell them that when they openly
and publclv promulgae doctrines which outrage pub
lie feeling tiey have 10 right to demand protection
from the people they thus insult. When they en-
deavor 10 disseminate opinions which II generally I'M,
lihed must infabiy destroy our National Union AMI
produce scenes of blood and carnage horid ID thiak
Of when they thus preach up treason and murder the
cs of the law ind gnantly whiraws its shelter from
Them Ought not, we ask, our City authorities 10
make them understand this to tell them that they
prose cute their reasonable and beasy plans at their
own peril 7!
On the l4th July the yituperation against the
Abolitionists was continued in another leading
article, which closed with the following
prophecy:
"New-York will hencefcrh not permit the ears of
her people TO be polluted By tenets which degrade
Christianity, are insult to common sense, and
threaten the greatest disasters to the inhabitants OF
many of our sister States.
When we recollect that within the last few
weeks the doctrines denounced by The Courier
and Enquirer as troasonable and beastly were
proclaimed by two United Safes Senators in
the Metropolitan Theater to applaudng multi
tudes, it must be confessed that The Courier has
proved false prophet Solar, it is now dream
ing dreams and seeing visions in regard to the
baneful influence of THE TRIBUNE; bat again
it is calling good evil aud evil good, and again
making predictions to be falsifed by events.
1t il not too late for The Courier to enter up
on the right course. Will it not see the North
ern liehtl Will it not open its eyes even to
its own progress 1t has believed in Southern
honor, and whittier has that lowni 1t has re-
posed on compromises of old standing-as sacred
as the constitution-and where are they 1t
went with the 9TH of March speech, and said
that the trial by jury was null when the slave
catcher demanded its extinction-and having SO
paraded the shame of liberty as the only bond of
union, it promised ultimate repose-and where
now is the evidence of that reposel The na-
TONS heart then would no longer beat except by
statute; the wings of Progress would be clipped
and all would be smooth silent acquescence.
SO said the man born to expOund the Con-
sttuton-so said his echoes. The Union was
saved Agitation was over! The incendiaries
were crushed.
1t is reasonable TO suppose that when child
is growing upward it will not suddenly grow
downward, but that it will keep on until
its mature proportions are achieved. The
growth of an idea is just as plain. This idea of
Northern Freedom is growing. If it was new
born, or even embryOtic, in 1884, it is now able
to walk and talk and show fight. twill not be
bullied 1t will not sink before the whip of a
Southern oyerseer. 1t will not say that Cotton
saves the world, or that the human race depends
a ,,;lI hal will
do what its own spirit prompts, fearless OF all
blatant hostility OF Indifferent pooh-poohs. Aud
all this growth and realism are in opposition to
the preachings and prophecies of The Courier; in
opposition too to its concentrations OF mob-law
and social chaos The Courier however, has
grown wiser as regard MODS. Yesterday it de-
nounced the Portland mob and upheld the Port
land authorities, although it is opposed to the
Maine Law. This shows that our contemporary
has not stood still on one point Cannot he adj
vance another lie believes in the infamy of
the reputation of the Missouri Compromise.
The South do not. They say that compromise
should never have been made and that posterity
will not be bound by such agreements. The line
therefore is drawn. No lodging or shutting
will longer answer. There is North and The
Courier had better join that North actively and
earnestly now than wait a few years longer,
when adhesion to ancient Southern ethics will
be deemed as unreasonable and infamous as were
the declarations of Anti-Sayeryin l93i-though
it will bemet with pity aud contempt, not with
MODS.
THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH AND