The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-05

suact-Frszsr River and ahs New Era OF
Paaspsrafy,
The new movement which is spring;ng up in
consequence Of the discovery Of geld at Frazer
river, has direct tendency, both in England
and in this country, to complete the overthrow
of the fanatical political isms Of the age. witch
was go largely accomplished By the commercial
| revulsion Last fall
The contest betweea the practical and the
| fanatical is not Of modern date For genera
| tons parties in England combatted on the ques.
ton Of dynasties and the Tudors aud the Stusrts
| deluged the country in blood. Men got tired
| of the eternal strife of the severa. par.isaus,
| and Cromwell came, +" in the name of the Lord
| and with the sword of Gideon" to drive the
combatants out. The long Parliament, with its
| Praisegod Bsrebones and other sanct;morious
leaders, then governed BY the rule of morbid
conscience till all parties were Disguised. Crom-
we'll was forced to dispense them, and thus leave
| the world in doubt whether be WAS hero or a
| hypocrite. TWAS these struggles and alternate
| triumphs that droveP Puritan and Cavalier TO the
| New World; ard thus we inherited TIE con:es.
| of the mother country. When the dynastic
l QUt6tAOu ecteACQ uOW1 Ia GukldL4 Alltl VIC
house Of Hanover, the conflict that had ragged
under Charles I. and Cromwell, subsidized into
strife of parties. and assumed a somewha. diff.
Serent phase. After the conscientious thso.
ries of George I'LL about the divine right
| of kings were defeated by the practical
rebels Of America, the practical party got the
upper hand in England, and built up her empire
with wonderful rapidity. The West Indies
blossomed like a garden; Hlndostan ripened
into a mighty empire the Wsttses, the Ark
wrights and the BridgeUaters were in the as-
| cendant at home; and arts science, literature
| everything that betokens civilization--prosper-
| ed amazingly.
| After time the evangelical or conscientious
school grew strong there. A few questions of
popular right at home were first started Some
political ameiorations, penitentiary reform and
religious freedom were it's early loves As it
| gathered strength the feeling grew morbid and
| then fanatical as a continued harping upon
conscience always will. Self Righteousness
usurped the seat Of judgment. Fanaticism pre-
vailed; but it is tyrannical and allows no truth
but what it dictates, no right but what it ad-
judges, no happiness but what it gives. 1t sees
the mote in its brothers eye, but not the beam
that lie in its own. Therefore it aspires to make
all the world walk by its rule, and is always
laboring to change its neighbours plan of
| action, without reference to the different cir
cumstances that may surround him. 1t looks
only at the abstract, and not at the practical In
| defence Of itself it stops at no misrepresenta-
ton; and the writings of all the ismatics from
Las Casas down to Theodore Parker, are filed
which truthful history rejects and the world calls
by harsher name. The practical school
fought it !; prophesied that its theories would
bring industrial decay which must be succeeded
BY moral darkness. But the conscience Of
England had grown morbid, and it closed its
ears tc'reason. At its bidding the social or
ganizat;on Of the West Indies was destroyed,
aud creased cartridge stuck between the teeth
Of the Hindoo. The result is before the world;
aud the practical party in England-the Man
chester school of politicians-are rising in pub
| lie esteem
On our side the same struggle has existed
but here it has never obtained power, because
the common sense of the people never would
give way 10 fanaticism. Men here are governed
by their individual interests, and not by classes,
as in England; and it Is the aggregate indivi-
dual interest that rules. In New England,
where sect has had great influence, it has been
most strong. Niggers and temperance enact
ments, and all the fanatical isms Of England,
have found their genial soil among the de-
scendants Of the English Puritans. A morbid
harping upon conscience has led them into the
same desire of meddling with other peoples
business and directing other peoples affairs. The
Tribune and the Times are the selfrighteous organs
OF these fanatics. With the Inconsistency common
TO all the sefrighteous, their acts are continually
| belyiDg their professions Who has sharper
| eye to the main chance than your New England
| Puritan? Who has more abundant record OF
villany than the 'little villain OF the Times
| Who has greater love for "free wool" and
| thousand dollar checks than the saint Of The
Tribune? They are but the organs Of a fanatical
faction, not of the American people, whe believe
| that honesty OF deed is ss requisite as honesty
| of profession. In seeking to develope the mate
| rial, honesty Of deed must be the rule. When
the million Of people in Wisconsin feel In their
pockets that railroad president and a few
| corrupt rulers have defrauded them of millions
of dollars to divide with the corrupt owners Of
the TINES, distrust displaces confidence, aud the
material development Of Wisconsin il delayed
until honesty again rules.
II is the revolutions Of TIE late commercial
crisis and political chickering's that are leading
the people to place more reliance upon honesty
of conduct than upon the pharisaical professions
of morbid and i'll directed conscience, which
always degenerates into fanatieism. Kansas
has torn the veil from the political fanatics Of
| this country, and shown that true morality aud