New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-11

1he journal ~ commerce inquireu VIII S'o"s
earne.tre.s and apparently with great JUNCTION on
Saturday last Where are the peacemskers 7"
ard this Inquiry is followed up by charging the
lofty crested philapthropsts and reformers Of
tie day with hypocrisy" "gum-elassic consci-
ences," "cool effrontery," "prauks aud summer
SETS" exhibited in their sleged abandonment Of
the cause tf peace, which once had 90 many elo-
quent and jealous advocates among them, incud-
ing several leading political and reform papers"
but upon which nobody, nowadays, according to
The journal, has word to throw away.
"Who row." it asks, calls for congress OF
"nat:oIs or petitions for disarmiDg the militia,
cor opposes the manufacture of the most uneripg
" instruments of death I" can eloquent adgo-
cate of the cause of peace would hardly gather
"full school room of hearers with weeks of ad-
"vertisipg in aid of his mission" 1.-The war
&c. pirit has revived" "Swords are no logger to
I" be beaten into plowshares or spears into pruning
"heoks but rather both plOwshares and pruning
hooks into Sharp's rifles"
the copse quence of this abandonment Of peace
prir cples, The Journal draws an alarming picture
The fruits of the revival Of this bloody spirit are
becoming every week more apparent, but
nowhere so feaffully 40 in the viciuage OF
higher law pulpits and Black Republican news
"pspers. Massachusetts, even, the glory not only
of New. England but of the Union, cetters IN
" Hood, even in her rural districts; while the
81 record of crimes committed in her puritanich
capital fairly frightens those who melted them.
Murders, assassin atoms suicides and rooberies,
are in the train of almost every day events, the
"cemmon laws being psralyzed By the doctrine
{. Of higher law which every criminal may enact
=" for himself; while the blasphemous sentiment
.. that one Of Sharps rifles is better than hundred
Bibles, which is even now at times heard from
the lips of church members, by converting tho
"depraved into infdels, annbilates the restraints
(which conscience and religion throw around
Chem" As this was written the very week of
the Massachusetts election, we must make some
little allowance for overpewerng emotions but, even
after all attachments on that score it would seem to
have abundant grounds for renewing the advocacyOf
of peace. In fact, we could not but Aatter our.
selves with the idea that this great cause being no
longer rendered distastefal to conservative minds
by Objectionable advocates was about TO be taken in
hand in good earnest BY The Journal Of Commerce
itself Instead Of that, however, we 6nd this Ia
meutation of last week over tho decline and sban-
donment Of the advocacy Of peace followed up this
week bya no less extraordinary apology for war
and the pretty Distinct suggestion that war is just
what the nation stands now in mOst need Of.
Nor IL it any little war, any war on a small scale
that will at all safety the beligerent appetite of our
contemporary. "We can conceive" says The
journal, "that even in our own instance harvest
"Of good might be reaped from war which tenn.
"porsrily anDihilattd commerce, destroyed msnu
"factures, killed agriculture, imposed enormou,
tsIes and rendered one. half the nation bankrupt"
In fact, The Journal seems to think that "section
alien" csn only be got rid of by just such a war;
and that nothing but plentiful effusiOn Of blood
can make US brethren again, "from Maine TO
Mexico, from the salt waters Of the Atlantic TO
1.-The crownir surees Of The Pacific" nor does itsee
sry other so promising means for extingushins Nor
{" mopi.p, Aut!-Slavery and Red Republicanism."
The journal goes so far as TO indicate the Gulf
of Mexico as the 'eat Of this regenerating warfare
though it does not yet to have quite settled to
its satisfaction who lie to be the opponent or
where operations are 10 commence. We would
bunbly suggest that, while the present financial
trouble lasts, We erjoy many Of the alleged
benefits Of war in the way of the general derapge-
neut Of commerce and industry, without the
necessity Of fighting for them.