New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-12
SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT

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From exchanges which come to US learning
laden with the occurrences that transpire else |
where, over all the world, We see that the
agitation concerning the social condition Of
mankind is steadily kept up. Even If the agi-
tation is not increasing, the evils which men
suffer and the sutferings they endure are de-
picted with as gloomy a brush as that of Angelo
Remedy is desired, and q thousand different
onespolitical. economic, philanthropio and
theological are suggested.
Taking the same statement Of the problem
for base society: its evils: how shall they be
remedied all the different DINING solutions,
jejune or otherwise, are represented as the
quantity desired. Golden will DO II By free
trade; Graham BY agricultural relief; Mat
thews BY diminished population; Howard BY
personal philanthropy !; Fourier By phlaslen-
sterres Garrison BY antislavery societies ".
Chalmers BY increased intelligence dlttaseo
among the sufferers; and many others BY other
means, running the whole gamut Of possibilities.
These different plans, though worked out into
different details, are all based either upon the
individual exertions Of the sufferers, the exer-
or the combined exertions Of both
The philosophy Of Fourier goes upon the
ground that society in general sis corrups anu
selfish, and that those who are in want can onfy
obtain relief by8 their own exertons, Or the aAd
| #of those as poor as themselves. The philosophy
Of Howard proceeds upon the supposltlon that
the ereat heart Of society is true and philanthro-
bio. and that it will gladly minister to the relief
of the distressed The philosophy Of Golden
assumes that the individual well being is 3 care
81 government; and that government should by
a broad scheme Of generosity, protect and in
crease that well being. Chalmers thought that
religion should aid politics; and that the heart
+ Of man and his head should be SO educated as
to make him willing to work and to work
rightly; and that all eleemosynary assistance
should be refrained from while there was field
for labor and strength with which to perform
that labor. And, besides these different plans
for the Improvement Of the human condition,
thousand others have been devised by one-sided
souls who wish to make the human panaeea o.
one thing - Of Calvinism, Of anti-slavery, q
pills, of temperance, or Of some other single
agent.
II cannot be denied that the present organi.
| cation Of society is imperfect. But what is
there that is perfect? As it is imperfect
| it ought to be remedied. What are the
remedies sufficient to such on end - sure
safe and speedy The world has pronounced
against the patriarchal organization Of society
and compared it to the Nomadic, or, at best
II .1.r hop mo
manifold punctures in those plans which seek
| to render community Of suffering and poverty
an insurance Of wealth and happiness Free
Love initiates against our municipal regula-
tions; and the semi political, semi Theological
polygamy Of the Mormon Saints was too intol-
erable to be borne where civilization had any
pretence. Religious education and soup soeie-
! ties are but temporary reliefs to the wants Of
the physical man, how lasting soever the efficacy
of the former may be upon the spiritual being.
The great primary fact Of society, so far as
any discoveries have been made by the means
we have alluded to, seem to be also the only
| and final one; or whatever else has rightly
grown out Of the Investigations has been onl.
| incidental and correlatiye-has been as o mat
a
be made in one part without Affecting all. Tha
1 which benefits the individual benefits society
i Of which he is representative and that who
Injuries him is also injurious to his great con
stituency. Some plans may have broade
scope and diffuse greater blessings, but in o.
there lies the great primary fact that it is j
u the individual good the greatest good Of sooiet
I !, tI,o=p of Not
must be brought about by that of its membert
A individually and not collectively taken.
i those contracted plans which select and sc
apart few hundred Of the elect for aid and as
sistance, there is but partial benefit to tn
world The problem includes oil mankind
And as the world itself is the natural, read
and only phalansterre in which many can b
improved, any radical reformation must includ
the globe. To drive in an ulcer, here and there
i is an evil rather than 8 blessing, when tn
i whole system wants the reorganization Whic
only time and education Gun give. To then
therefore,, he care Of society be committed
!, The steamer Star of the West, at New Yorl
which brought the first consignment of gol
) from Nicaragua, on Saturday, also brought tW
gentlemen, who came, it is said, for the purpo:
i Of forthwith providing suitable machinery f
the full development of the new mines. II
well known DR.. Collyer, the lecturer, is said
be concerned in this new gold speculation.
From the 1st of January to the lst of Decen
. Der last, the gold coinage at this mint (Phil
: delphia) amounted to $40 ,49S,04s, includi1
$16,746,500 in double eagles, and IS, 201 ,o66
: imported bars. The silver coinage amounted
. $161 ,075. The amount of gold deposited W
e $21, 374s71.
: Jacob Mercer, bill for whose pardon was r
8 Gently before the Georgia Legislature, died
suicide in Stewart county jail on the 2lst I'll
the day he was to have been executed. T.
poison is supposed to have been given by /
n wife.
g NJ. de Bonpland, once the celebrated fello
"a traveller of Baron Humboldt, now eighty thr
d years of age, has turned into an American pla
le ter in Chill. He occupies himself on his hace
re das with the rearing of Paraguay tea.
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~ The premises Of Elder Weaver, the late que
a. Marshal of the city of Bangor, Me-, were e
a. tered by his successor in office on Thursd
er last, and between four and five thousand g,