New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-08-23

We are not so audsciOus to d. nv that The
Comm, real Adr, rtiser is great embOoinent OF
wisdom. Indeed, We will even aemit that It's
fault, If it has one, is not deficiency OF that
precious Git but rather an occasional excess Ii
anyihrg, our respected cotempOraIy is lable-at
Is1e intervals, We col f. ss-tO err upon the other
side, aid 81 push it. txuaoroinary gravity aud
id cious SIT ss a little b'yond the boundary which
divides ssne reas' from the dreary void OF re-
sp, ctabe insnit,. Thgs, for insttnce, itcondehns
the Thurs 81 eytIu mee'ing of cloz ns OF CIR
nan birth at the Tsbt rrsce, n sbe ground that
they bad 10 bus n,.s to discuss politics in
th4ir mother tongue This we fear, must be SGT
wv as brilliant Illustration of uni nelly excess
Of WIDEN We are not aware # any provision
eitler in the laws of the country or the laws OF
con MOI sense which in'erdicts the use of any par
tcular dialect as a medium of political debate.
We suppose that If choose to express our senti-
ments in German Scotch or Latin or Chocta ",
We have q perfect RICH. to DO 81. TIE same gut
htlds with r. gard to public meetings If a body Of
ci,izt Ne frd it more convenient TO discuss public
au. stiCps in aby other Language than Ed
glish, they are not to be condemned for uslng
that other language Il does no. prove
then bao citizens, but the contrary, to ADOPT the
tongue in Which they cal best arrive at an nteiil-
gent view Of the subect, that they can vote up N
it undtrstaLtirgly. If the assembly at the raber-
nacle, il sttsd of usiog the German language,
which thy undo rstooi perfectly h,d attempted to
use E. gish, VII oh the audience would have under
stood tut partially, AID in which the speakers must
find difficulties, they would have made fools Of
themselves Ttat The Commercial may possibly
count smOpg The qualifications of good citizens,
but the public We suppose, will hardly agree with
tie opinion,
Besides, if oral political discussion must be
stopped the moment it is carried on in any other
Lar gusle than the English, what are we to do with
political discussion il print Will our venerable
co,tnporary prescribe all the German, French
Welsh ano Dutch journals Certainly, if We can
Dot tax politics in German, We oush! not to DO
allowed to write aid print in that tongue. Aud if
we cannot write aid print politics, is there any
o,btr subject which may % tolerated! Must the
various religious, literary and miscellaneous period
cals rltd i'll the languages OF COntinn al f rope
aso be Suppressed And must the numerous
"LuIohts in bill parts Of the coun IT, ahss the wor
hip al preaching are in 'htSe prohibited languages
likewise be shut Jp' We eaI the new principle
20 to!emnly laid down by The Commercial viii
reyer 90. We are sorry to difl-r from 80 emi
ltbtly respectable an authority; but we fad a
consolation III the fact that it is in attempting
great Innovation upon established usage that our
cot, mporury has thus got lost. Let it avoid these
dbl trous radical ideas. Never 10 say ALL thing
Lew, and toIert at the old things in the most harm
less aid co mi osing manner, is the part of wisdom
sId safety.
Let us add, that though the proceedings of the
Tabernacle meeting were n German, its spirit vas
American in the largest and nobest sense. 1t was
good to be there, and 10 descendant of the men OF
IS but must feel bin. elf at home amid these glow
jig uttersuces of devotion TO the fundamental
principles Of the American Republic and of
fidelity to that Constitutional Liberty which alone
hoes out for US the possibility Of an honorable and
happy destiny.