New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-08-11

If there be an English word Of which our people
have yet t. learn the pristine and absolute sgnif-
cance-f there be a word which illustrates the iu-
teIent morality of al accurate .aDguage-that word
is "refcIn." Almost everybtd y uses il not in its
Just scientific .er,e Of amGk5ag orer, bat ia the
quite different sense Of annibiictOn. The value Of
the difi,re1 &C must be sppreesble 10 the crudest
thinker tiaee the object of reform must have at
least nucleus of trs!b, while the object II aboll-
negro slavery cannot be reformed for the better,
becsu,e philosophieally it can have neither bot
ter nCr worse and If thing be abstrac.ly all bad,
ikere can be no reconstruction. The marriage re.
Iat;oD, berg based on seNevdeat realities may be
reformed as TO psrssitica! details and eAcrescenees
1t. Vitality is n .s absolute good admitted By the
weight Of human opinion. We do not believe, put
tirg merely animal decs ncy ont Of the consideration,
that any healthy man or woman will fail to recog-
nze tie beautiful simplicity OF law fully developed
in the human species, and frequently observed in
lower forms Of life, which, in order to secure a
minimum ofpIopr;ety, and to strer CITIZEN as much As
possible the chsnces Of infantle nurture make, the
relation iIdssoluble in the human species, and only
transient N inferior forms Of existence, because
Development in them is short limited aud transitoy
ard becau,e, too, We may suppose the spiritual
elem mt then sid there n be waiting at least in
sny serse necessary TO the present condition. 10
an affair Of 20 much delc,cy, and at the sane time
Ct such incelculable moment, no accuracy OF pos
tulate or of squent be fairly considered to
L. c. -iplo ID
ygorOus minded can not-be afraid in this cOntro.
very Of rigid 6ialectcs because here the danger
is in fatally facle generalization. in con-
| founding rule ard exception; and in using one
iact which is probably AZ exception as An Offset to
uiLety and line different facts which make the rule.
We are siktd to discard the institution of mar.
iisge-ior, practically, the request amounts TO so
much-sipply because il has the universal lack Of
absolute syunetry and partakes Of general huu,n
irfiImi,y; and We are also asked to take away the
perpetuiiy which sf)ids the strongest motive for
avoiding the very evils which are the subject OF
complsiit-that lie, IN allowing one couple 70 sspa
rate, on account OF incompatibility Of tempsr, We
are to loosen the iurest checs upon domestc ira,ci
billy, ard TO make much more miserable those who
are compelled BY circumstances, or b, some H.:
feIirg memories, or By common love os children
to keep together There neyer was 40 intellsctu,
folly United TO cuI,e the race which lefs after i
suoh trail Of shiny AID Dois,me aboYication Al
this.
| II may seem unnt ce,,sry for US to complain o
that general otsne. of proposition which chra,
ter yea tie mauift..oes proclaimed a. Rutland Con
ytnticrs ind upon Berlin Nights. Ba! this m,.te
j, surely cf importance enough to require tolerab'
accuracy Of statement. How can We be othsrSis'
than inpatient Of ineOterent talk about rights,
ard shri!iss,' ard "repulsions," and "synpi
"thiesl" Bad or coed, to be received or to be re
jse.ed, LET Us know distinctly VIVA. We Arc aked
isss urou. There IS . terrible Danger in t..