New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-14
eu.csns tia. 70 Legacy 10 cosored persons shall
under Apy circumstances, b. valid.

IL E pehdlt, When tie quicksilver Is 10 us loiues'
aspirations, to travel with NJ other decided pur-
pose than tina. Of keeping cool. aid We suppose it
must be plsssauter still 10 travel IN the cause OF
truth. We think that it mus. be b. &C inexorab.e
lav that refcImers are peIipstetc, although We
fear that some e them are h,,dly So vice IS Ais
to.le, and that literal deTotion which compelled
them to walk instead of riding would SOON thin
their ranks. A pilgrimage j, Lone the worse fer
being done quickly, aud without unboIed beans 10
the boots OF the palmer; ard if man has
cal to go from Boston 70 Chicago, TO defend a
theory or solve problem, II is well for him to 90
snd be back gain to his busnes, 80 s1on as possible
always provided, Of course, that he has any bust
ress to come back TO. These multsudino1s and
mullif,rous gatherings cannot, Of course, be OF
equsl importance, sud cannot be praised or cen
iurtd according to any rigid and undertaking rule.
Wien all are free 70 ou'pour there will be thoss
who will outpour nonsense. The l,rges. liberty, as
il il usually construed, consists in allowing aHy
man or VIC man 10 cay anything, at any time. If
two prophets see fit TO speak together, why to-
sether the two must speak, 10 sort of duo Of pro-
pheticsl nonsense. Such people DO no. think it neces-
.sry at all, when two ride for one to ride behind
Then there are those who are under the impression
that in order to be faithful they must be arrogant
and dogmatic, and that he is wantiog in his sest-
mopy who does not startle, shock. frighteu ohtpd
or dieust. Theee folk sre the h,as Of conven-
tors. They are only to be tolerated because they
would mike more noise if they were opposed.
They are proof against fuger and thumb and are
nimbest under persecution. He who would re-
buke them efectusTy, must let them severely
a'one. They Will tire soon enough of liberation,
ed will 90 where they can be comfortably scourged
How much they are in the way of genuine men and
women ard of earnest and horest work, We need
lot say. They scorn method; they hout at pro-
priety; they have large faith IN talk, and Little
faith in thought; they wonld frghten away eclpses
by noise and regenerate man by diet of bubbles
and parsdoIes. Unfortunately, the world is net
to be scared into right dOiug and the best Social
work is best confded to those who have brains and
good manners. The main misfortune is, that these
people keep the small wits Of the world busy, aud
are the cause of bad jokes aud much superiilous
Indignation. The camp followers bring the whole
army into dscredit. For consocsted effort, when
It is mu.ty and messy, the world has large
CHARITY; it forgves the fools Of the Tract Society
and philosopbicslly dgests the chaf of Synods and
COME rences. But the man who designs to play
the ass must aDble after approved formulas and
bray BY ancient notation; and woe be TO him who
kicks I'D his heels after novel fashion and gives
us variation or two upon tho old concerto A
stiff starched conservative, whose hide-bound brain
ia mpre enable against all the batteries Of discovery,
is pillar Of society; but the poor creature whose
spoDey head has a spiracls for every Hosting
notion has usually to answer for all the sins Of the
world AID ali the shortcomings of his fellow
creatures He may be kicked for he has no
friends, he may be sandered, for he is constantly
slanderipg himself; and be ia oftensst hogged, be-
cause lie is logged the most easily.
Our main American idea of thorough and re-
morseless discussion and dissectio s unquestons-
bly, just one. But like many other things of
which We are proud, or Of which We are ashamed,
it does not happen TO be new. 1t has characterized
all civilized natonalities from the days of Cecreps
ard Romuus to the present time. 1t shows still
aLimsting US the Anglo Saxon spirit Of construction
and Of reconstruction of impotence at sham and
fraud, of love for straightforward methods and
dislike of crooked ways We have inherited
preference for sound bodies, and We hold conyen-
tons to reform our bills of fare and our wardrobes;
We have inherited respect for conscience and the
Liberty of thinking, speaking and printing, and We
hold Anti Bible Conventions. Often our honest
struggle to be rid OF ussges and institutions is
akin, by motive and purpose, to the spirit which
established them. The history of the Common
Law would afford US hundred Illustrations Of this.
We should fad it harder to tolerate Hale and Holt
than the lawyers who wraDgled in their pres
ence found ii and it is safe TO say that many of the
beet English Judges of the last century would be
mobbed in Boston and New-York, unless they
meuded their manners and their law. That the
world does move, and move onward-that abuses
are corrected AID that errors are refuted-that
there lie something better for man 10 the future than
he has found 10 the past-that the modification of
material processes must modify intellectual pro-
cesses-thst new forms of labor must bring new
forms OF thought-that the relation of man to mau
must be changed, and changed for the better, be is
bad thinker and bad Obseryer who doubts. He
Who expects that gu, work will all be wise-thst
all our strength will be husbanded for emergencies,
snd no. OCCASIONALLY FILTERED aud squandered-thst
We can at once silence babblers, AM suppress inter-
lopers, aud skin chsrlatsns, will be disappointed.
He who thinks that he has found the key Of our
social riddle, ard believes all restlessness unier
formulas to be mere childish impotence, is himself
child. He must indeed have formed bu. Low
estimate of God and Of Gods creation, who can see
in the hubbub and commo.ion arc 1nd him nothing