New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-31


the oevelopn eD Of mind the great duty of scholars
Government il but n school, Gods school to effect
this development. Religion, liberty, commerce. art,
are but the schffodiDg 10 build up the structure man.
He would charge the words Of the poet and say:
TIL, venerable wood.-rivers that NOV.
In msb sty. and the &C Dplsinng brooks
n s ' s.s and ns.neao, S poured round
Are but the col, mn dsclsf alions all
or the srest sehoolof man.
All bistor, was but school, and all institutions were
vain, only for the ideas which they have impressed.
Centuries were consumed and the Irish nation was
ur.d up in nppressiDg upon the human race tho idea
az the uLity OF God In this country we have existed
two centuries Ia learn tie idea Of national indepen-
6ence. 1t has been learned, and in such g manner
that il could not be boied out by any possible con-
currence Of circumstances. Democracy here prevails
in the widest and most unni1ed theore'c form the
vorId has ever seen. Our theory il that the people
rul, ard they co rule. Ii one too powerful element
eopros the Government at Washington IL is because
the u.ople choose 10 have it So II is in vain for
wealth to endesvcr to create bulwaIk against this
lower; it is i'll vain for education to claim prepoud
rating influence. In the long run, in the critical hour,
The masses prevail. Ii is the duty Of every necan
m coepze this state Of ihpgs and to lie ,fn mo spirit
AZ b;s t,uts The great difficulty is that We " ait untl
trinmpb flares its e,ultstion IN our faces We do not
see the Truth in its principle. Absolute democracy,
the uuou.l lifted, unchecked opinion of the masses
rules. For an illustration, go back twenty
Eve years aid we find the faith Of the
Fmpre State pledged to a set OF individuals. Law,
wealth ap,iep, privilege, their Size. but tae
masses we're against them; and where now arr the
nar.r rights ii the old families OF New.Yorkl That
stsesnnn who has just closed his eyes at Saratoga
w,s accustomed to say bot for @nat Nap leon
thought oi the iIhueLce Of newsp ipers; the Press
N,w.Y~k is the organ Of wealth, of intellect, VI
"tbe Wing party 1t is against me- bat the masses are
" on ny side, aud defy the Press. lie was night
Whatever undertakes to rule this Government 10
Good or evil must reach these masses. We are
accustomed to say that live under
the government Of public oplnion. We turn to the
dream Of the Ilindoo, who III vision saw manknd led
out 10 it's history FIrt appeared man, curbed aud
With an uon bit in his mouth, from vhirh the reins
w.It back to an iron hand This was the government
of despottm. The scene changed, and he saw man
led BY threads proceeding from the BRAIN and gong
back 10 AN invisible hand This was the government
of iceas. All gOvernn. hts are those of iaeas. The
great how the sentiments Of the masses
10 be Influenced! Men may gay that they dislike ae-
tbtion but IT is not matter OF choice lien Pullp
wrote TO Aristotle that sublime letter which has foated
dowl to us across the ages, be said, Z" l thu, the
DIVINITY not 70 much that he has given me Alexan
der as that be has giveI him i'll day when you can
"fom him worthy to rule Macedonia. Every soul
born within country Is ali Alexander, ana mnst DC
formed to rule worthily Macedoni,-. When Madame
de S,ael to fatter the Emperor Alexander, said to
him you Sire, are n Constitution he replie6
"No, Madam, am but haPpy, eccldent here We
have no euch happy accidents Who're are tie schools
in which these sJvereigus to DE formed Where IL
the mold in which this public opinion Is I" he nut
The Press is the ling power OF the times. The age
sthft sInen Is over, VI 10 oNpA
the age Of The printing press has come. What the
invention Of gunpOwder was to the at Of war, making
any man Who could pull trigger equal to the mG't
powerful warrior, the press is m rearing age We
lave invened the pamphlet We nave calied rito
extepce the fourth estate Of the realm, it is brains
Men sometimes think that the great oro"s at
Washington control the nation SO the boy
who trst sees STEAMBOAT, thiLks that tho
waking beam is the prvpclliog. power, but
below there y fanatic feeding The ares.
Where il be found the type OF the scholarship 81
the present day? We have q sutjec. IN our midst
which illustrates its spirit and although the o'anc ;;
do as well Of brODzs If 1t be OF the night length
That subject is spIitualism. Suppose 1t an error; yet
tbse are errors, says CCleridge, which no wise man
will treat with rudepess while there Is possibility
that they uay be the refIacon of some great truth
vet below the horizon. While the people are
wsr 6eriDg shout in mist OF 'acts OF supposed
facts where is sci. nee! Why does She ROT i2at her
torch and say, this is the way, here lee t;uth ana
here lies error" A scholar known throughout the
wuld goes to Albany and ASKS convention Of scien
DR.. Hare with rdicue. As a further illustration
the cowadce Of the scholarship OF the pr sent day
The orator referred 10 coward Everett who, undertake
ing in this age to tell ,1s sory 81 oa s
upon the gratitude of his country, 1t Is
hat wing in Slave State he above surrounding
preudices and left upon record the most eloquent pro-
iests againrt the great crime OF virginia; yet ms
eIicnn scholar remembers only 10 forget that he
ever uttered word against Slavery.
IA few hisses were heard upon the delivery Of this
massage, which were quickly lost in storm OF sp-
pause.
1t was not upon scholarship se this that the popu
lar mind NUT epend the education which II ,eds.
II age calls for martyIdom. Every country has had
it, aiyr ages, which were only the cpa5ms ana fever
fits Of a corrupt political organization. What he
claimed for the Republic that it should have an
everything forlorn hope Of nartyrs The claim was
great but the wider the gap Of pabc necessity the
greater should be the readiness to I'LL It, The effect OF
a popular agitation directed toward practical ED
was the most eicsciOus means of educating the geo.
ple. The temperance movement had taught the
mssses more than all the lOgicap' from Aristotle to
Whately, or all the preachers from Luther to
Beecher II is the search after trurb which is the
glory Of the mind. 1t was better to 90 TO the
bar Of j, dgmept covered all with intellectual
erors but with heart beneath sincerely DESTROYS OF
the truth han to 60 armed with the five points OF Cal
yanism, and the Compromise, which IL tho American
devil beneath. Inc agitation which he advocated
was not an accident which could be got nd of. No
the mama Of Republican liberty must be daily gath
cred or il will rot. Democrat IL office viii warden
into despot unless a miloD Of eyes watch hun CON
trually. A Tory is young Democrat gone TO seed.
Eternal vigilance is the pnce OF liberty; rels1
it, and de.potism, ike q MIST rteais over
the mirror Of the Republic. Agitation by somebody
there must be- Drop the truh into the midst o. ma
tiop, ard there must be commissions, as when the
giant turns under Mount E,na. II is the indolent IN
activity of the mssses which has allowed the Goven'
merit to drift toward detpotisn so lar a. IL mas DeS
potism il bold-the are fimid This 1t is winch
enGaDgers the Government to-day. Onr country ID
rot homogeneous. One half of 1t Is seventeen nun.
bred years behind the nineteenth centurythat part
where the faggot still burns, and where opinions
are met with torturrs. That country has
ceased to be Republican whicG meets tie
widest insanity Of opinion with anything enlargement.
Universal sufiag. implies thu most uOfeered widness
# Thought; it pre.upposes the most unchecked laai.
viduaiism Of opinion. Some men speak OF the Empire
as vIgorou. b. its extent aud estimate IT. sIr Dy
the number OF States The American RsPuoh, eS,sn'