New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-19


blssphemy, to make any comments whatever OF
conos mt atery tone on any OF the acts sayings Vi
tie stintier portion Of the Universal lankee Na-
ton The erouad Of the cen.ures current upon
certain part Ct the Rele ious World AS 1t styles
tself, and certain portion Cf the keug'ous
Press, which is it's organ OF COMMUNICATION
with its various members, and With thu pnolc
Of large, is that they are interruptions IN WHAT
they do Wien there is auy point to cary, aud dis
reeardful Of truth AID charity IN what they
cay when there is My indlsidus' to be PIT
cut Of the way, AID this to degree when
would be secuted from the Merchants or Tue
Sock Exchange and would be hardly tslef-
ated even in Tsmmany Hall itself Tast these ara
the differences which men of tie world, as We Will
call them, by way Of distiucton from the men oil
the Church, have drawn from the doings of certain
religious bodies and the sayings Of certain religious
newspapers, is fact which can hardly be contto-
yerted. And it is rot necessary to go at present
Ito the que stiOn whether they are logical or not.
Whether if be or cot fair conclusion from IN
doubted premises, we thnk that The O6strrsrs
leader is not without the elements which have gone
Last year tie American Tract Society unan-
"nously adopted series Of resolutions, which
left tie uhect Of publishing on Slavery where it
belongs, with the Publishing Committee" Now
it is unfortunately true that by the ninth resolution
of that series, if We remember Alright the matter
was left, in general terms in the hands OF the Pdb'
fishing Committee; but The OjSerrsr remembers
b <bef tkara
told the Committee what it waS the unanimous
pleasure Of the Society, at that tine, that they
should DO Who would suppose, from what The
Obserrer says on ihe subject, that there was any
expression Of option which honest servants would
have regarded as equivalent to positive Injunction,
that certain tracts suggested by Slavery were TO
be prepared and publist ed' WHO would not inter
tha. the whole mater was lef; in the hands of the
Publishing Committee, to be di'posed Of accord
ing to their absolute will end pleasure Now we
conceive that this is concealment Of truth and
suggestion CT fal:ebood, which weuld not be re-
gardtd as redoundiDg to the credit OF any mere
worldly man OF business about auy mere nun lane
affairs. Ard who can wonder if such one should
scoI at the $uI Cling attempt at plous fraud And
il is no excuse for the false statement that the crack
Ct the plantation whip on the outside of the Tract
Society and the strenuous efforts of the Publishing
Committee within IT, succeeded this year in col
ectipg partsans enough to sustain it in its a:tious
and di.honorable refusal to obey the will of its
masters.
Even more striking instance of the way in
which the surPressiO reri and the SuggeS!io tlts'
are made to work together, is to be found in what
The OJserrer says about our own modest sheet.
In speaking of the treatment Of the editor of The
Christian Intcligencer at the hands of of our
correspondents, The OLseTrer is careful to give its
readers no inkIing Of the nature of charges brought
by cur correspondent against that editor and leaves
them to suppose ttat he was thus eyily en:reated
simply because of "his deferse of the Tract So.
cetym Now, our readers, and the editor of
The OGserrer, know that the editor in question was
condemned, not because he defended the Tract
Society but because lie accused man CT IRE
proachable moral character Of having written ga
70 filthy and impure tract, one "unft to be placed
&" in the hands or under the eyes OF people Of any
proper sense of decency and moral purity, aud
further accused the Rev. DR.. Wayland aid two
other Doctors of Divinity one of them Bishop,
of having considered this obscene work deserving of
prize of two hundred dollars; while it was as
patent TO all eyes that dare to read the tract III
question as to those Of the distinguished dvines
that passed upon it, that il was obnoxious to no
ouch ius. imputation at all. Now, in the world
this sort of thing is called lying, SANDER, caumny
an other hard names, and worldly people fnd it
hard to understand how it becomes nythiGg else
by being done with the pale of the Church. Aud
We cannot think our correspondent. justly amenable
to the charge of L" bl.sphemy" and 9 assumption
L" Of divine prerogatiye,' ia warning toe editor
Of The intsAigencer Of the consequences of this
unrepented sin. 1t is, perhaps, natural enough
that The OJsoccr should regard this as an infringe
MEET upoa ire monopoly of its cloth; but We hold
that it is not improper for the humblest OF Us
TO- point cut TO impeLitent sinners, clerical as well
as laic wbiiher tie downward path they sro tread
ing will finally conduct them.
Tie day is gore By when mcn were dszzled AID
blinded by the clamor of religious Pretension' and
assumptions. Religious men mult be- CONTEXT to
be Judged ia their public actions and printed dec
larations by the ssme rul.s Of common honesty,
average morality and honorable dealing, 10 Thch
their woll3ly ftllow-men have 10 submit! them.
selves Ii any thing, they must look to be called to
even sricttr account siuce they claim to be
covered by higher sense OF duty. When
religious ministers, religious presses and religious
diecpires sle made to psnder to the crimes of the
rstion or the bad passions Of private men no fac