New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-27

had the sam~ tastes the same intellectual wants. the
ale Of eocal life the same or higher domestic
needs.
Hwas impossible that men who were under such
cerditiors-a quick, enterprising, industrious, smb
tous peop'e-should not be powerfully influenced aud
that in the earlier etsRes O! nsonel life, the pro-
peliDg power shouc not be in excess and the consoi
dating and stesdyng power relatively deficient Never
vas there people ttuer 20 their circumstances Had
they tiled to live in the past they would have been
ike pl6nt trying 20 grow away from the light God
ther life 10 their Future. They pressed toward Il.
Ev en- The present bu. one broad step, by which
10 60 further toe ard the future And all tbs develop
rlerts az otg have been those which were neces.
sary the imperfect way in which the world al ways
grows TO this answering Of people TO their true
nature
The central faculty which warns, inci.es and in
teIsey influences the American mind, is Hope. And
while We conveyed By this po yer we mus. take It.
With all ite limitations and evils az we'll AZ all iss good
Hope, tempered and judlciousy combined works out
full and fruitful enterprises, and gives light and pleas
uIe TO industry: Bu this feeling is Inject to various
conditions ard diseases Gambling In the worst sense
IL nothing but the last and worst development OF
disesseo Hope. The distance and difference between
the lid beginning aud the terrific end Of this action
il immense. The riqks and ventures of the stock
Erket is another The element Of specua-
ton is derived from the same feeling Hence ma
torBlly and fact of race this feeling is large.
Psst and present circumstances have powerfully de-
velopeC and Inspired it, 1t has given TO In cir
cunstsncts character Of adventurousness, not only,
but great part Of material prosperity mas arisen
from this very thing. We apt TO consign specus-
tors and rash operators t. unmitgated abuse. Many
moral elements Of blame do exist but these not
needed II is the financial impudence which is insisted
o. But il IL last this that gives them benefit. To
sruct 80 600 or 40 600 miles railroad 20 gears
could never be done by merely prudent men Tnere
eee1ps an overriding element in affairs that provides
tendencies that fit the exgepcy II our border men were
net rude, coarse, hard-nature and circumstances
would be too much for them Even when cut Oil, they
are less lose. Living or dying they seem tit
4ad hrd In Of dave
oprnent, there is a need OF pioneers. Men who,
having nothing to lose and everything TO gain, in ven
tursome enterprises shall 60 ahead We are fortu-
pate in havicg SUCH We owe to them an immense
| obligation. II ia the ruined men Of the community
| who make the prosperous men. They went before.
| They ventured az no others would They foresaw,
thought thsy did They had that mnd-eelnent which
made il easy for them, ss it Yves hard for others
Even in the mutations and upsettngs of this class OF
men there is TO be observed wisdom of affairs. 1t
Goes not hurt ssngune man, full Of spring and hope,
TO be destroyed Some men are like some OF the ear
ier forms Of worms cutting them in pieces only multi
| plies them Every fragment gathers up head, and
| finishes out new tail, and moves along!
You may turn life-bost over and il viii right
seain but would not do to try it on fgate or hue
l of-battle ship. Many men in NewYOrk get 80 used
to failures, tina. they expect them as much as en-pns
expect to be tripped up-it is a part OF the game
| When community is moving under such Influence
and pressure there is neither legislation, expert
epce any other regulating power that can prevent
gradual tendency to excess. Some men VIII i've 100
4 y,
| petitions and shivngs in large and fee-acsing
| community will engender heat. Heat VIII carry
people faster than they knew; viii tend 10 develop
that most powerful elementcredit which carries IN It's
right hand blessings and III It's lett curses, Dut ten
| blessings to one curse.
In VARYING periods ten, fifteen or twenty years, &C
coroing to circumstances, will have ventdred so
far along that a reckoning day will come. And such
cases are but that relief which the great system needs
II but fever arising from the reaction OF nature
| the throwing off Of morbid matter.
In THE process suerings Of pride, honor aud even
personal snd bodily tend keep mems faces too close
to their affairs to let them the benefit Of the whole
| operation. liza.
| ter disnay that crises were deadly!
Almost the whole evil is upon indiriduals, without
ipictpg any considerable damage upon society! Aud
even that bcb falls upon individuals is temporary and
by ooa H upon
The speaker referred to the fact that our great n-
dugipg mercy of Health, the land throughout, was
| never more eminent than now; that abundance for
mans eustererce never greater and for the gen
eral atiopal want never available; that it 10 only
particular points that suer that the average virtue
intelligence and progress OF the masses ls onward ana
| rot Backward that we not tangled or wasted by
| foreign wars; that great national struggles are
| pointing toward victory; that Free Lsbor was never
strong now; discussion nsVer SO deep ana salts
| factory. -,
Ard as this revulson treads down cotton, and with
il the price Of those legal conmOditesfor which the
Southern Christians pour out their money, bat Tor
ach0 the ancient Christ poured forth bis fe-if the
motive to prapagsndisn 10 blghted-if but for yea
| or tvo the balance will 90 down for Freedom on this
| continent with preponderation that all the noun
| taiT Of oppression cannot bring up agaih
| But not pausDg upon these themes, let us return
70 the more Immediate view Of commercial elements.
With this crisis nothing pershes. No ships will rot, as
under embargo; stores will not go down. not wheel
will rust but only rest; the railroads, whose creation
has cost us 20 much are crested and will not 90 back,
| but thunder on Not An acre will go again to forest
not seed will rot. We shall hold all the subs.antisl
elements gained losing art, no science, no ideas
no habits no skill, industry nothing but little
temporary comfort and for that shal receive back
stead,ness safety, reality ana consolidation, worth
| thoussnd.fold.