New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-20

fact that, notwithstanding the central Due-hghls oi
the Five Points Democracy indicating that the
ship of state must sail to the Maestrom OF Slavery
and death, yet the State has set up her Liberty
beacOns on thousand hills and her lyrics for free
sol and free toll are as grand and full az the ca
dence of her Niagara. There is-there Is some
thing to render thanks for
Sound The loud timbrel DER Egypt's dark sea,
Jehovah has ,riumphcd His people are free"
The people Of this State, by q voice which has
stricken dismay into the oppressOr, have pronounced
for Liberty and against Slavery. The shout OF an
ticpated triumph among the olgarchs and their
tools, gurgles in the throat. They feel that the
account Of despotism in New-YOrk, New-Engiand,
and every Northern STATE is hencetorward settled.
A little more time Thanks to the Giver of all
good therefor
Then are our thanks due for the super-Opuient
harvest. The grains and fruits within our borders
are overlooking. The sublime fact stands before us
that the earth yet loves man when he cares'es her
with Liberty: that although of desOlatiOn is
running among the Slave States, and that their ex-
hauston is only temporarily postponed by the addi-
ton Of new maiden Territores-new victims for
waste-yet in our own sea and lake.bound home Of
Freedom, supply more than keeps pace with de.
mand, and that the sweat of Freedom still given
to labor on this heritage of the Lord shall dimple
il with the smiles of formulating beauty.
The Poor, shall we then have them with us
Yes, The fattcd calf shall be killed for them, and
they shall be filed. Il is not saying too much
when we affirm that, owing to the blessings of Lib
eriy--Of that Interpretation Of democracy which
says that al men are created free, and that the
lI ncip.es OF government come from the consent OF
al the governed it is not saying too much when
we affirm that owing to this, the veriest pauper
may now dine more sumptuously, on festive day,
than could The Duke of Northumberland" three
centuries ago. In no easily accessible proof are
he beauty and holiness Of Liberty more shown
than in the Increased supply over demand which has
marked the progress Of human emancipation. More
aid more 20 each individual acre, comes with the
onward and upward fight Of Freedom More Of
food Ltre Of raimcnt, mere OF shel'er-more OF ra-
diant act Of ecstatic poetry. In the religion of
past ages We read most Ofhuman sorrow. Greatca-
thedrals in Europe, eating up the wealth OF whole
counties, were the nesting places, the houses Of
promise, Of wretched peasantry Of slaves serfs
periodically v!ctimized by the wars of chivalry, and
peiiC Ideally resortDg TO fierce compensation-lists
Of blood aud rapine-of jacqueries aud reigns OF
terror Agriculture, rude, crude and immethod-
ca -labor-saSing machinery thing almost un-
known hey ond tie legacies of antiquity-.he.e
were the means oc badly feeding worse clothing
and worst housing the masses who kne" not
Liberty But three quarters OF a century OF Lib
crt,Liberty partial even, local eyen-Liberty often
chockmated and sadly contracted by q selfish
brutal s'ayehOldiDg interest-the span of time has
resolved the tremendous and magnificent problem
that there need be no Poor Of the antique and
medieval pattern; that THERE Is MORE THAN
ENoUGIi-mvre food than mouths, more clothes
than bodes more houses than livers. Unques-
tonaby, by every standard of the Pastry its
poetry it's prose, it's figures its dsta-there is
more than enough in this Free State Of New-York.
which is just offering up its thanks to the God Of
Plenty. And as society more and more ap-
breaches the perfect order Ut Liberty, the advaa-
taees Of this abundance are more and more equ-
tably distributed. For that, too, let be thankful
In looking over the history of old times, one
CHASTITY entity, one frightiul deaths head stares
in the face, and that is that the supply OF food
never equal TO the demand. The terrible nature
OF the puuishmen,s Of past periods eynces this.
Rene in the hight Of her power was poor, very
roor. She lived by robbery; and punished more
cruelty for petty thefts against properiy-Or theies
against the means Of q living. Leans no matter
how iifamous-tLan We do now fVY the highest
crimes. cIuciiy.on in the tine of the Cesars
was abou. equal {, II ten days incarceration
NOW in this STATE. That, is a crucifxOn for any
little offense not counting crucitxiOn which
master could ipflict slave for caprice aud With
out question So, too all the mddie and later ages
of Furope tOwl with the sorrows Of more stom.chs
than food to supply them. Some 20, OOO beggsrs were
IN, 10 death in the reign OF Engand's Henry VII,
ana that was a Christian country Murder of the
poor Coming 70 our own time, We find the CON-
bped Efforts of ecclesiastical and political tyranny
b,ippiue forth iamine that murdered more than
million Irish. 30, too, the normal condition Of the
European pesssLt is simply glade Of pr 'atoa
and not sopg Of plenty.
Give, then, thanks Unto the Lord, that with Liber
y tie earth laughs aud teens, aud tel ms and laughs
shat the old procession Of mOurners halts and Man
has sEov.h TO cat, enough to wear, and enough 10
build wherewith. Let us not ask whether or not