Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-29
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NEW YoRK. Sept. 1857


how it is that that people, with all their ad-
vanfages, Should live and acr, and think and
feel so unlike those Of other sections of the
country, even those of the neighbOrng cities,
not divided from them even the distance IF a
days travel-this is abstruse. This people are
remarkable for their energy and sciivity-they l
have higher conceptions of large business
and do larger business than any other peo-
~ple. This fact is exeu,plifed on every hand
Where in America viii you find such business
structures, such shipping, such stocks Of wares,
such banking institutions, such churches, such !
pnblic works, such hotels, such newspapers,
such msgnlfcence in private residences as in
New York city? These and much else, repre-
sent the business energy ard capital of the
city. Then there are the inferior grsdes-in-
f-rior here which would be superior elsewhere
followed by descending series, down to
J that which, in obscure streets and with cheap
rents barely contrives to produce a scaniy
! livelihood for penurious shop keeper-the
gradstions occurring and extending through
/ out all the pursuits and avocations Then
| there is an army of srtizans and labOrers, fol-
/ lowed by an army Of loafers, fauked and
backed by still another army of swindlers and
thieves. Well, they are all here together.
/ They come down out of their places in the
morning, and from merely welI-to-do residen-
ces, and from novels, and from dsns-and
focking together in Broadway, and the Bowe-
ry, and a few other prime streets, pass aud re-
! pass, like rapid and restless swarm, as they
are, erowding the sidewalks, filling up omni-
| buses AMI cars. and SO continue to pour back
and forth till midnight. They are heterrgene-
| ous-full OF diversities and aDtsgoasms-yet
! there is one sentiment, one passion common
to all. They are all avsricious, graspiDg, We
! nal. The esteem, the passion for money is
universal. To it every other sentiment of the
human mind, every other emotion of the hu-
man heart is secondary, subservent They are
virtuous in SO far as it is proftable-tbey are
honest in so far as il is politie-they al gene
rOus in so far as it is remunerative. l speak
Of the mass, as you see them every day and
everywhere. Yet as paradoxical as it is, they
are sometimes kind, benevolent, philanthropy
| c. We often see them flying to the relief of
the needy, and displaying a muniiceuce of
charity, which would throw credit upon the
really good. But these are spasms-some-
times they turn penny-sometines they af-
ford display-sometimes ;hey, perhaps, dis
til balm to a long-sutfering conscience, tenn
porarily aroused. They are wet-weather
springs yielding ftful gushes, drying up incon-
tinently-tbey are not perdurable fountains
constantly, uniformly bubbling from the pure
alembic Of spontaneous and unselfsh Benev-
! olence, and pouring over the heart perenni-
al flow OF kindly emotions, nourishng, the holy
qualities of tenderness, sympathy, a dutful
goodness. They have golden rule" but it
has 20 semblance to that which fell from The
lips If the Nszarene. They worship; but in
stead Of the God, who shook the crags of ST.
mai with the thnnders of lis power, whose
mercy streamed from the smitten rock, and
who sent bread TO starving Israel from the
Rranaries of the New Jerusalem, they bow to
the smelted deity Of Aaron, the heather. This
passion has taken thorough possession of the
! city. make exceptions-bzcaQse no one mil
lion of human beings can be moved by one i'm
pulse and one sentiment in the general con-
Germs of life.
Now, if I were writing under the prestige
of name, should be pronounced a SANDER
err. But let US see. The greed for gain--e-
noble when it is exclusive, well enough wh,n
made subservient to comfort and we-beiug
and well doing-has changed the scope and
| development of the man, throtfled his better
nature, and concentrated Ills powers into that
CT annel of exertion which ministers to that
passion-henoe the New Workers are COM
mercial people, business people. They are
| else and by over much Of this sensual people
Mark the Pupit-whatever line of discourse
secures the greatest eclat, attracts the largest
congregations, is pursued. If slavery fanali1
cism is to be l}andered 60, the pulpit has it's
minion, its instrument for the work, aud bro
ther Matteson, and brother Garrison, and bro
ther Frederick Douglass, have their brother
Beecher If it be the sense of the hour that
theatricals are harmless, that they are to be
patronized- not merely the elevated drama,
the deneatioDs of human character and hu-
man passion as Shakespeare mirrors aud Nor
dooh, or Booth, or Forest, or Logan, or Dav-
export impersonstes, but the disgusting vul-
garisms of the Bowery, aud the scurvy with
cisms of the olympic-then the Theatre shares
/ the eulogums of the sacred desk with the
| ieheSuAy BnVNuSo-i h4SNehOSr1 AOl OShEhuCts
gentleness, loveliness of Christ. Witness the
press-tbe leading press-that which is scat
tered over the city and country, as the leaves
of the trees are scattered in Vallsmbrosa-
which is folded on hundred thousand break
fast plates every morning, and which seems as
necessary to the digestion of coffee, toast,
steak and omelet, as the morning smash" TO
revive the over nights debaaehee. They are
substituted, corrupt in every line. Whit cares
the Tribune or TIE Herald for principle, or
virtue, or moraity7 The CHEF study Of today
| is how 10 produce q sensation tomorrow
Whatever OF establishment, or want If prin-
ciple, disregard of deceney IS the price Of
this, Il is paid on the spot. II il shocks the
moral sense, or outrsges propriery, il is no
maIter-ii It "takesp fit extends the oircula-
ton, increases the demand, bJ al hundred or
so, then "'twere well done" II one of there
quite worthy papers lakes The palm to-day ~
| the rehearsal OF scenes or occurrences grossly
offensive to morality or g0o.l taste, The otL,
tomorrow castigates it roundly and severely
for Us moral obIiquiiy-shd Sios eeysa The
pot is constantly quaFrelline with tie kettle
because the kettle is black. Mark further,
tue financial opefaturs--those men who take
rooNs Oh Wall Streets great dina avenue
| which Il oyershadoyg4d BY bnns efruesures ~