The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1857-01-30
PronertH.


Mas is The only animal that accumu-
lates private property. The examples
amongst inferior animals are 50 equiVo-
cal nature, as not to be worth adduc-
ing as counter facts. Property, there
fore, becomes enc Of the peculiar char
acteristics Of rational being. Idiots
have no idea of il; and reason regards
itself as employment 10 the highest de-
partment Of thought when Il attempts 10
solve the intricate questions Of political
economy, which all have reference TO
this general question Of private and ma
tional propriety. Our. Legislatures dis
cuss nothing else; our civil tribunals are
ordained for other purpose but the reg
ulation Of the system Of private property
and our criminal courts are all engaged
IN defending the fight8 Of private indi-
Ividuals. Even the ecclesiastical courts
have. reference to this also, and 70 thia
alone-for what are marriage rights but
private property2 and what Is defamation
Of character but a moral attack upon
private property? Property Is not zen
erallt Understood in this spiritual and
moral sense; but the law puts a price up-
on wife and husbands rights-puts
price hPon mans feelings, which are
all regarded as properly. Everything is
priced by law, but more uudisguisedly
IN former times Than now Ter Then, Il
was ustially to put money price upon
life itself - price upon every limb Of
man s body; so that if one man cut Of
the ear Of another he was merely reauir-
ed to pay the price Of the ear iir current
money. And now that man who sori-
mits murder pays life with life--t is
stil payment Notwithstanding, ahd life
Is property. The idea Of property Der.
vades the whole constitution Of societV.
! We have an instructive perception OF
simple property and the idea Of complex
IS one OF the FIRST symptoms Of the detei.
lopments OF reasoni when a human being
wants Il, he wants reason itself. sQ0
The following passage. from an artiOle
IN the Independent, on the Pity OF God
Tor his Children, is beautiful indeed:
Il God'spiiy is not as some sweet oordi-
el, poured in some dainty drops from
some golden vial. tits not Ike Ike mps;-
cal water-drops Of some slender rill mur-
: muring down the dark sides Of Mt Si-
mai. ltisas widea the whole roope Of
heaven. lt IS abundant as all the air.
II one had art to gather up all the golden
sunlight that to-day falls wide over all
this contlnent--ialling through everv 81
lent hour; and all that is dispersed over
the whole oceanfashing from everv wave
aud all that poured refulpent oyer The
northern wastes of ice, and along the
whole continent Of Europe. and the vast
outlay m Asia and tOrTid Of Africa;if one
could IN any wise gather up this inn
! mense and incalculable out flow and treaH-
ure OF sunlight that falls down through
The bright hours, and runs in LIQUID ether
{ about the mountains, and fills ali tha
plains and sends innumerabIe mva
8 through every secret place, pouring over
and filling every flower, shininq down
the SIDES ot every blade Of grass, resting
IN glorious humility upon the humblest
thingS--on stick and stone, and pebble;
Bon the spider's web; the apaito1,s Nest.
the threshold Of the young foxs' hos
Ewhere. thsypl and warn Ihemselves-.a
that rests ON the prisoners vintlov tbN
strikes radient beams through the slaves
tear, that puts gold upon the widow 3
? weeds, that plates and roofs the city with
, FURNISHED gold, and goes on its wild A.
bundance up and down the earth, shipinp,
every where, aDdalwayS since theIdaS
OF primal creation without waste or d.
minution; as full, as fresh, as oYedow-
ing to-day, as If IL were the very first Of
VS. outpla5-if one might gather up this
boundless, endless, infinite treasure. 10
measure it, then might he tell the
heighth, the depth, and unendipa olorV
/, of the pity Of God and anendinS Rlofv
e Eof the pity of-Godl In light---in h hIhe sun
US source--yOu have Gods own 6,,uro
d OF the immensity and copiousuess'of his
8 mercy and compassion. Psalms lxxxiv,
g II, ,l2; Isa iV, 6il3. itf N
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