New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-16

These experiences have made US charitable as well
ss tough We have had the APPRECIATION OF msnhiha
to a suff.ient degree. though moderate one; "hd
when some gentleman Who kGo~s no more oil tue
management of n newspaper than n Knows OF
the mana cement of the temper, from some ann'-
yrrsary platform pruclalms us {" be false "r bar
full We csu be much Obliged Ia him. and relish his
wrath exceedingly. Bccau-e orr office has not
been inulbcd: hecaUse We have mob achieved the
honor of tar auc feathers; because the struggle has
pot made u, di-courtc"us sud uncoaIitaoe; because
we have not exhausted the resources OF paradox
and have venturrd sometimes rs'her tn rrmonstrate
CALMLY than to rrbuke rampantiy-we have been
pronounced Erastian IN politics, ia morals and IN
religion We have been too bot for many. and We
have been too cold for some; bat ~e hope that all
,bis has taught not only patience but even WIS
dom; that it bs. led Us tn respect honest cosvic-
ton wherever We NAY observe It, and To- ice that
MAJ with au object may be respectable even IN
lis weaknesses and psrdonable even 10 his prrju-
does
For eur own part, We esteem II SIGNIFICANT
sign of the tunes ard peculiarly of the country
tina, there sh"ulo be many anniversary meetings
III NeW-Yorb, aud that 50 many of them should Dc
disturbed BY debate. Anything. anything rather
than drDdefUnct organization, respectable tor
is years. IT'S wesIth and It's worthlessness; which
meets once in tw evemnnth, to drone c"um0n-
psces, Ia spawn st-reotyped reports aad rgni-
role resolutions, aud to listen to speeches which
are h wrariness to hear aud which cannot be- read;
4 nd
depatt like shadows. A fierce assertion ct t,l-
he, more tolersbe than TIE dull declaration Of
philosophy An earnest uIan who Is ~roDg is more
rnsi, endured than 4 dali uan who by accident Is
right. Ii Is for this That We circoser 50
usny admirable creatures in the American Tract
Society We have become accustomed to Tue
broad ard yet comparatively moDot"nou' Pd'lan'
thropy of Mr. Jay; but who would ever weary ot
Sir. Daniel Lord When the excellent Dr. SPuog
pending a resolution IN the same Society,
cr.ts out, like Cassaudra IN black
coat, You stand upon the verge OF deep abyss,
and will make shlpwreck Of morality and
shlpwreck of religion" We admire the motives
Of The good old MAD. although We cannot particl-
pate in his fears. One good excited meeting Is
worth dozen little and tame ones. Thus. with
What pain did We learn that ~hca tbe Setman's
Friend SOCIETY met ia that highly marine though
fare Fourteenth street "thr Church was not halt
full" Upon this subject the Rev Mr. Bnreigh'
who is the correspondent in this cit! Of The Bosoa
yosrnal writes not only disinally but beautifully.
As the President" he says, down under the
pulpit, began the exercises his voice rang along
the arches like the voice Of one crying III the
:. wilderness" The Rev Mr. Sawyer broke
down in his address," rhc Rev. Mr Bart
- lett had headache 1.-The Rev. Mr..
"Carpenter refused 10 speak" The Ancient
mariners" of New-York may well be gloomy
under these depressing circumstances. They had,
as our readers know already, Il much lveiler time
bt the meeting of the American Au,i.Sl,ve'y So
cIety wher, the Rev DIR. Chceyer was dlssected
in scientific style by Mr. Parker Psnury. and the
Rev. Henry Ward Berchrr shosn tn be M better
than he should be by the same able orator;
where Tho hoo- York independent, win It's array
"Of clerical editors and contributors" were ~.
solved "to be- siill IA ecclesiastical fellowship and
"unioD with Slavery and shareholders" But We
need not recsptulate the killed, the wounded aud
the mlss'ne Ii Ii enough 10 say that the annual
massacre tnsued aud to hopeful, subjon what we
honestly believe, that good many men were not
entirely killed after ali, aud Will br heard of still ia
this lower sphere. We chcerfuly forgive our own
little rlb roasting upon the occasion; Tor other
ard better men suffered much more feaduly.
Gentlemen must undoubtedly say what they think;
We trust that they think what they say. 1t /,
easy to cNsglerate it is easy to bestrIde hobby,
and fancy the streds of all other men mere lean
aud spawned Rosnaniesi It is easy IN the heat of
speaking to utter things Lch the cooler Judgment
may tot approve. But let us not complain. This
world i. very far from being what it should be;
and Heaven help all who seek t" set 1t right
The laborious consideration and painful soufon,
or still more painful Dou-soution. of uump 'rtant
problems does not seem 10 us tn be- the way out al
darkness into light. But every man must gang
- his aiu gait" We only ask the privilege of
going ours undsturbed We shall exercise il,
whether il b. disturbed or not.
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