New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-13

L would NlluUlIN Trh my VIC ha4. Nv tH'A-h sNi
NV eLersc,sT /, exst ry sts0s. mean to prepare
the sty fer futuy; we have seen such heuies sue
oetsful wien the protector Is c21-tsni, Ihs' way zee
prepared by Integrity q concuct aSence hnI study
J Aner an education q q merchant, during which he
once et least CONDUCTED voyage, and once had the
obsrpe of Liz employers business he found himself
able 10 repsir to Hewl ok, where he entered tie COZ
ge before the etd Of 1913. framed! nom childhood
10 take care Of himself lie posses manly seli re
ace Ills fret synpathie in tine contest had been
re R-iiish eide against tie Americans bat he
changed his opinions and in July, Ia cosmopolitan
Nev.l ork where be had neithtr father, nor mothe
NOR liter nor brother one person 10 whose veins
ran The ss1ne blood hs adopted the volunteer
from the tropics as its fon.
JOHNSON
While such WAS the state of angry opposition be-
tween the citizens and soldiers at Boston, Lord Howe
AT London finally broke of his negotiations with
FrarkIip. and the Ministry used the pen of Samuel
johnson 10 ipfame the public mind. johnson was a
moor mans son. and had hiuelt tasted the bitter cup
of extreme indulgence. His father left 10 more the
twenty DC unds To bury his mother and pay her lit
tie debts he had written Rasseia' For years he had
gained precaTious support as an author' lie mad
paced the streets of London all night long, from not
bAyjpg where to Law his head; he had escaped pr-
son .or tIife be owed by begging an aims Of Rich
ardson, had broken his bread with poverty aud had
even known what il is from sheer want to go without
a diner Wien better days came, be loved the poor
az few elee love them; and lie nursed in his house
whole ne-ts Of the lame the blind, the SICK and the
soirowiul. man who had thus sturdy battled with
social evils and was so keenly touched by the wretch
edness of the dowE-trodden, deserved to have been
able to feel for an injured people, but he refused to do
SO. Having defined the word pension as pay given
to State breing for treason to his country, he was
himself become pensioneri AID at the age OF three
score and ak with small hire, Ike bravo who loves
his trade he set about the tack of his work
In tract which he called Taxation no Tyranny"
he echoed 10 the crowd the naughty raDcor, which
passed down from the king and his court, to his coun
Gil TO the ministers to the sristocracy therpareses
and followers, with Lothing remarkable IN bus party
zeal but the intensity Of its bitterness or IN his man
ner but it, unparalleled irsoence; or IN his argument
but its grotcsque extray sgance. .
Had JOHNSON been truly man OF genus he would
have escaped the shame Of having, in his old age,
aimed at freedom tie feeble shaft which was meant to
haved earned ruin In spite OF the cstentatouS pomp
OF his morality his own heart was rveted to the earth
At the last he covered under the fear of dissolution
rs though death were an enemy; scariiyng hs limbs
in the vain hope Of breathing though but few hours
more unable in the moment of change to TX his eye
Oh God or to grasp eternity tue emblem Of the old
political system, which also lay on its deathbed help
essly longing TO live His name is never bresthed
as wachword his writings Fever thrill as oracles
WESLEY.
The lure-rninded man, who in sensual age, be.
came the quokener of religious tervOr the preacher
to the poor, John Wesley also came forward to de-
ftnd the system Of the Court with the usua! arsu.
merts He locked 80 steadily toward the world beyond
the akics that he could not brook the inter- option OF
deyout gratitude BY bloody contests in this stage of
being. Besides he saw that the rupture between the
English ard the Americans was growing wider
every dsv, ard to him the total detection OF
America was the evident prelude Of q conspiracy
acainst monarchy The thought of sucl q consp
racy made Linn shudder. No governments under
Heaven, said he, "are 50 deSpotic as the repuDh
cam no subjects are governed in 20 arbitrary man
ner az those Ct a Commonwealth. The people never
but once in all hisoiy gave tie fsoveeign power, and
and that was to Masanelo of Naples. Our sins VIII
never be removed till fear GCd and honor the
kirg" Wesley's mental constitution was not robust
enough to gaze the future with unblenched calm
He could not foreseo that the constellation OF repu6
lies, 20 to rice in the wiids OF America, would
welcome the members Of the society which lie was to
found as the pioneers Of religion that the breath OF
liberty would wait their messages to the masses oil the
people; would encourage them to collect the white
and the negro, save and master, IN the green "oou
fer coun ell on divine love anu the full assurance OF
grace; AID would cary their consoatlon and songs,
ard prayeYs to the furthest cabins in the wilderness
To tie cadGest of glad dings for the political regen-
eration of the world Wesley listened with tmid
trembling as to the fearful bursting OF the hoedgates
of revolutions and he knew not that God was dong
a work which should leave tie nations Oi the eaith 10
joy.
From, tho copious extracts which ns haze .:ivsn
from this volume, it will be seen that in respe,t of
composition it is model of vigorous condensation.
IF it does not display the sweet and careless flow OF
the father of history its terse breyity riSss the
compression of Thucy dides or Tacltus. On this
account It will be welcome TO the earnest student
who wishes for amplitude of facts with sparlngness
of phrase, while il abundant illustrations of the
heart of Nature" fully sustain the position OF the
work as popular fayorite.
DISCO! RISES or RELIGI9S Mo GaS PlIL9 2 N.Y.
L. I2mo, pp So. b. + Hatch
In tie preface TO this volume il is stated that the
discourses Ct which il consists, were delivered by
a Young woman CT eighteen, with only common
school education while in STATE OF trance, and acting
as dunn Of spiritual agerts Apart from the peeu-
liar ccumstances Of their origin, rs alleged by the sdi-
tor they possess special claims on the attention oil
the public. They mainly occupied with Gu EXPOSE
ton Of certain principles of natural religion AID ethics
A. opposod TO the current doctrines of theology but
present no views that have not been long common
among a numerous class of modern thinkers Many oil
their pretended philosophical statements are in the
highest degree urphlosophical. few passages are
not without certain drean-!ike beauty, but as rule,
the etyle Ike that of most productions of the spirit
literature, is feeble and Emphatic 1t lacks the rudy
glow of life, ard Of region of specters ana
lobeobins Little importance can be attached TO such
faint dagueireoiype repetons, purporIng to be nom
pretesna,ral sphere Of IDEAS and impressions when
| are sufficiently common in the everyday world.
FIRES.