New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-21

an. n.ss a5zht that common deprsvty hob Re md
VA ans toxetheY in 6rm.r bends Tran ecnmoh yrtrei
and they seem 70 have haa IN veT Phelou.D N TIE
his ~ II Da.iors ard s.2tss s'Ar W 'A' now pre-
serted by the United S.ates 49,.
1Iftle7 ere night, then certainly tness states are
ltd nv a stronger bond tasn any cone lerscy ever
b. ssed By Heaven
Rather strong language, this, for Az ericsn s.on-
aets but LET the reader imssile biDss If European
reading only the most degrAged Of ) merioan oeEs-
pspers. and thinking il tse organ Of the popus-
sentiment, let bin read continuous ly KscsLs new',
the treatmen. of the Indians the forts 10 open the
slaye-trsde and steal Mexico and Cuba, and think
what Judgment be would nat' rally form Of the
Transatlantic Republic AgJn:
"Tbe President admits, what we long have knoEn,
III AZ the elections 10 Congress carried By means OF
cd and hiots farther tnst Ie members Of the SAFE
Ierfsat1res as wen ss c0ngr cas-, open % bribery
an 1 we krot- thst tais offer has taken psce-tha,
when the question has been upon the route of rsii-
road or canal or upon the ae Of pablo lands and the
hike, il has been held mater Of course 70 irsnoate
large Gums INTO the pCcke Of leaders ADD influential
members Of Congress. Al Washington knsTs that
than once III gre trades Of this sort tne amer
c,n papers have made known the sums pad to this or
that Representative AID Munster Head OF Depart
mentl 80 ~
The President !, Of opinion thst in this wise free
Government 10 poisoned nj its solrce, ana the VIZ
'tue of the peopis undermined Bat sUch things are
the Foundation epikes without which the Democratic
reonbhc cannot exist; JET them fall sway, doTo goes
tie republic
The English Parliament is Tow s9duced as also
asordng plenty Of examples of bribery and corrup-
ton, and then the question is asked
"Why, then, does Buchanan see in similar cases in
America a sign OF DEATH instead Of eXcuslng them oY
the e1.mple OF England
"The snswer to this question lies in America open
N N nriba has In,
be the exception: is longer consderet disgrace;
since there gold bas become the measure of all values
not alone Of those which are material. AZ man can
there become q member OF Congress, Mayor a
Judge for his money, 20 for money can he become
a philsnthrOpist, man OF honor.
Again. he finds IS a reason for the difference be-
tween the public men of the RevOlalon-the
Revolutionary Fathers"-sndthose of present,
in this matter of bribery, the influence which En-
glsh opinion then exerted upon America:
"Americs of 1853 has now become a land most
strangely the opposite Of Euglsnd-One which has re-
ceived from the mother country only the negative side
ofhberty, and thrown the positive overheard"
That is, we have no sristocrscy, no established
Church, and the Ike. Our writer s,ys that the
widest dreams of Spectators have been realized in
America, in the perfect religious, political, social
freedom of the individual, and the genius of de-
mocracy might truly reign, did not money rule:
"The Constitution is faultless; nobody could im9g
inc it boder, freer, simpler; but st it bears false
show-it is outside temple, within place for the
money cbsDger; a slavemaIket.'
Something else is necessary then, he thinks, than
free Constitution. Buchanan only speaks of viz
tue in general terms as being that something. But
the virtue to resist bribery is not sufficient he
argues for this idolIzing of money is only one of
many symptoms of national sickness. One great
symptom is the want of truly agricultural pOpula-
tion which loves and feels bound TO the acres upon
which it works. On this point, and especially in
regard to the Slave States, he largely cites from
Mr. Henry c. Carey work on the Slaye-trate.
quote further, only a part of the conclusion Of
the article:
"Thus il is that the furrow of the plow usually the
line that marks the path of civilization and national
growth is in America onS too often the way 20 des
truction and ruin. An incredible but well proved
fact
"The aim of the agriculturist money becomes
naturally that Of all other working classes. wild
unbrdled emulation Innges the masses; the desire of
gOld capital as the only sure thing where all else Is
so insecure, through the uncertainty of agriculture,
rules all classes and we can hardly reprove this desire
s,Rce The possession Of gold alone secures the Rdr!daak
from becoming stare.
Slavery is advancing in America; while during the
y,
States the abolition of Slavery earnestly thought
Of now not only does the South defend il divine
Institution, but il has found already in the North de-
FEEDERS enough and begins to make its encroachments
there"
The writer concludes that upon the whole, Amer
lea is fast verging toward military despoiism
and that Buchanan, in his "hints" and OZARK init
"mations, has no other idea at the bottom.
What nonsense says the reader, with con-
temptuous shake of the head. Admitted; but does
the fact render it any the less painful to us here,
when we are forced to admit al the facts upon
which such articles are based Because We feel
that New England, New.York, the grand, free
Northwest, even sleepy Pennsylvania herself,
Kentucky and Missouri will yet, by their free act,
crush the vipers who have been SO long poisoning
the fountains of our republican principles and that
time will come when the right shall prevails
this any reason why the folles, crimes, senseless
ambition and lust for Slavery of the men in power,
should not make us hang our heads in shame when
they are flung in our teeth
The two most notorious Of Buchanans public
documents, the Ostend paper and the recent Mes
sage, remind one of the portrait of his concubine
which the Bayaran King hung in principal room
in his palace. The American President seems,
ike him, 10 glory in his shame.
Has any Member of Congress called for the cor
respondence between the Department OF State aad
the recent successive Ministers to Prussia on the
question Of forcing American citizens into the
Pru,sian army If not, it is high time it was DONE
In the Autumn of 1852, THE TRIBUNE took the
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