New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-17

-. !. !. a manifeet Illustration Of the Old
cmI.s 'sa as that the herarchiel letters and signs
n'ss,S OCCASIONALLY turn up under Hume's writ
VIZ, ned;umship, are demonstrabiy the authentic
.;ssrafures of the deadbest atheism and the most
,s.s.. Inst. He hasn't however, the least notion
~ Hume has any understanding Of the real merits
oT the case, although be rays he has occasionally
zen him exhibit frenzied, instructive dread when
these cabslis.ic characters have been projected.
know nothing Of =" the old magic" aud am
therefore incompetent to estimate her pretension 10
explain the dreary repertofy Of our modern spook-
cry. / incline in preference, for my own part, to
the mulFgrubs hypothesis largely stated; not only
becaure that hypothesis seems tolerably adequate
to all the alleged facts, but because It
is based upon certain incontrovertible data
familiar to every private experience. But
there seems to me quite possible another
hypohess. which ia vastly preferable to either Of The
preceding, and which it might be profitable on all
hands to consider. But my letter ID already so long
that am afraid cannot afford to developit. l
will reserve it for another opportunity.
Berapger's character his life and death, the bear
ing of his poems upon the popular cause the
thorough embodiment he presents Of all that is most
vital and actual in French sentiment ana characer-
these continue still to be the topics Of the newspa.
pers. Three points seem noticeable in all
these geographic sketches First, he was, in
A moral estimation, an unfeignedly good man,
being generous to the last degree in a pecgniary
way; charitable to the extent OF habitual
sef.denia and genial and fostering as sunshine, by
look. and word, and deed, to every one around him.
D He steadily refused the sanction of either Church
or State to his marriage with the Lsette Of his
poems, but lived with her in tender fidelity to the
end of her days. which took place few months
ago, and left him iDcOnsOlable. 3. He persistenty
refused all the veltures of patronage lately made
TO him by the Empire, wishing it to be clearly
understood that, in embalming, as be had done by
his verses, the memory of Napoleon 10 the
reverence Of the peasantry, it was no love OF
Napoleon which had Influenced him, but only
bis love of the popular cause which Napoleon
affected TO represent, against established klngshIps
and priestcrafts, bat which he remOrseessly be-
rayed whenever his own interests led him to do So
In short he seems to have been thoroughly hon-
est upright man, incapable OF Lending himself 10 any
cause but that of all mankind against established
tyranny and superstition lie was aeyo4s %or r.
sinner of the Dieu des bOnnes gens-the God OF
good people-and it is hardly necessary to say that
this is worship which, if it spread, must ere long
undermine both court and cOister, or leave Pope
and Emperor alike denuded Of every tattered rag of
human respect
What possesses you there away in New.York,
that uou don't 90 little more extensively into this
worship, and put a forcible stop to those rummy
riots which disgrace the good city Surely, the
strength Of America is the social sentiment why
don't all the men in the land who feel this sentiment
in them, and who recognize its pregnant divinity,
resolve themselves into Committee OF the Whole
on the State of the Union, and swear eternal hos
tihty to everything which palpably conflicts with
that sentiment! Nothing could be wanting but
demonstration of the numbers in whom that sent
ment reigns, to strike an overpOwerng awe into the
bosom Of eyi-doers, political and civil. and bring
them all like repentant urchns to the feet of society,"
never again to rebel. HI.