New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-03

| then the " Peculiar Institution. langhter.I In
year or two Mississippi public report desencean
a. " economic subordna;ion." laughter.l Ana q
Methodist bishop, who owned slaves, was spoken OF
az having an - mpedment, and the late Mr. kufus
Choae, in the last Democratic canvass IN his state
undertook 10 refer 10 the institutions OF the Soatn,
and knowing that his old New-Engisnd bps
which had, during - years, spoken 80 many
glorious and free truths could not foul their
lat days with the hated word, he Phrssed 1t
"a different type Of industry. Hypocrisy was the
homage which vice rendered 10 virtue. We had
another evidence. He believed in moral suasion-that
the age OF bullets was passed and the age of ideas
had come. The old Hindoo dreamed in the beautiful
legend of the East that be the human race led
10 iIs varied fortune. First, he saw man btted and
curbed and the reins went back 10 All iron hand.
His dream changed on and on until be the man
led by threads that came from the brain and held by
an unseen hand. 1t the type Of government,
the despotsn iron and the last, the government of
the brain of ideas. He believed IN II. Yet, he
wo1ld say word in passing. tie Thought they could
make better of iron than 10 forge IL into chains
II they must have metal form IT into Sharps
rifles great deal better than 10 be used in the
clumsy statue of false great man for men To knee
before and worship. Applause and Misses mingled
Our institutions necessarily safe because We
had free schools and cheap books. India And China
had both Spain for three centuries had municipalities
ard town governments. De Tocquevie had said that
for fifty years before the great Revolution public opn
ion was omnipotent in France to-day But It did
not save France. We could not save men by ma
chinery. All wanted of American citizens was
that they should open their own eyes and see
things they were. Against the though-
full determined gaze of twenty millions Of Chris
tian people there was no institution wicked
enough and powerful enough TO stand
In Keats beautiful poem, he speaks OF Young man
who had been led captive by phantom girl, was a
slave TO appetite and luxury, until his old teacher
came and fixed his thoughtful eye the figure, and i
vanished, and the pupil started up, and was himself
AGAIN. And YOU have seen the speaker contnuedl a
great commonwealth represented by pyramid stand
ing on it, apex: a Connecticut born man, entered one
OF that State, fixed his eye on the pirate
Government, and 1t seemed TO vanish al
most by his very gaze. For 1t seemed As II
Virginia asked leave 10 b. of john Brown
at Harpers Ferry. Cheers. Connecticut has sent
ont many "A schoOlmaster TO the many States OF the
Union, but she has sent out Ltchhed school
master to write in letters of life on the face OF
the natural briige-the copy-hook Of nature" he-
sistance to tyrants is obedience To God | said
the lesson Of the hour was instruction. ought
not TO apply that word Ia John Brown OF osstwat-
annie for there was no instruction in his case. II is
"A great mistake 10 call HIM an lnsurgen. ihs
principle, which / have endeavored so briefly to
unfold to you, of absolute write and wrong CON
stitutes what! A Commonwealth OF Virginia There
il not any such thing. There IL no civil
society there Government that can exist except.
ing on the basis of impartial and equal submission OF
liz citizens and by the performance OF the duty OF rem
dering Justice between man and man. Everything
thai calls itself Government and refuses that duty
or has not that assent, Is 10 Government. IL II
pirate chip. Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia,
only chrome ln-urFtcton. i mean Nudl
cav and am weighing my words. She is pirate ship.
and John Brown sails the the Lord High Admiral
OF the Almighty, with letters OF mark and reprsai
against every pirate tina, ne meets on Go1s
ocean of the Nineteenth Century. In Gods
world there are no maorities, no mnorlties.
One is majority have often heard doubtless, and
need rot teach you the grounds OF morals. The
rights of that are sacred IA those OF the
Commonwealth of Virginia. lie has twice AZ much
right TO hang Gov. Wise ~ Gov. Wise has to hang
him. Cheers and Misses You see am talking Of
that absolute OF things that lives IN the sight OF
the eternal and infinite, not as men judge IT IN the
crippled morals of the nineteenth century, horde ol
Stes calling itself the empire 10 traic III cotton ana
selling slaves. What say is this: Harpers Ferry was
the Government. Men erred not respecting the trial
Virginia true 10 herself, has shown exactly the
same haste that the pirate does when he tries
a man on the deck and runs him up the yard-arin.
lnconsciously, she is consistent. Now you do not
think this to-day, some OF YOU perhaps but tell yon
what absolute history shall Judge OF these forms aud
phantoms of John Brown began his hte-hls
active lfe-in Kansas. The South planted that seed
II reaps the rst fruit Ten years ago. the great men
at Washingtor-the Websters and the Clays-planted
a Mexican war; The reaped the appropriate fruit Of
Gen. Taylor and Gen Pierce pushing them from their
satesmans stool The South planted the seeds of vio-
lence in Kansas it taught peaceable Northern men
familiarity with the bowie-knife and the
volver. They planted nine hundred and ninety
nine seeds. This is the first one that has Powered,
the first drops of the coming shower. People do me
the honor to say, in some OF those Western papers,
that il is tr:ceable to teaching OF my IL ~
too much of an honor TO such myself Glad
~, If it not fulsome vanity, would clutch the
honor of the great herolsm and daring Of that man
vi o flung himself against an empire, IN behalf of
Justice and liberty II not the bravest men
that fought in Saratoga and Yorktown, in I'6.
o, no. 1t was the men at Lexington who fired
the first guns and broke the continental silence
If half a century, and threw themselves
few and feeble in embatted file. This nan Was
thought insane. Up to this moment his life has been
one of unmxed success, prudence, skill, courage,
fltrttt tl.10. pf N an.
pOnents undaunied daring in the face OF the nation.
This is IA that could leave Kansas and go into
Missouri take eleven men and give them To liberty,
bring them of on the horses which he had along with
him. and two which he took tribute from their masters,
III order facilitate escape In Cleveland, John Brown
of Kansas advertised these horses for sae, and stood in
front o! the auction stand, not Withholding the fact of
the legal defect of title. This Is the who the
face OF the nation, vowed his right to interfere, by
what strength he had III behalf OF the wronged goes
down TO Harper's Ferry, and there, men say, he |
failed. Every has his Moscow. Suppose be did. |
Every meets his Waterloo al last. suppose he !
did fail he ha. done great deal already Why, il il
Il decent country to live in now. Actually IN this !
SodOm OF seventeen men have been found to die
for idea. God be thanked for john Brown, lap |
plaurel | should fee some patience, n | went !
abroad to Europe, in cOnessng that was Amer-
can. We have redeemed the long iniamy OF twenty |
wears of snbseTvience. But look back bit. |
T. there ANYTHING about this Nothing az all. II y
the natural result Of An-Sayery teaching. For one,
accept IT, expected IL. ] cannot say that prayed
tor IT, cannot cay that hoped for 1t, for should
prefer the level Of people raised 10 moral and intel
leciul protest solely, but al the same time no zane
man has looked upon this country for twenty year.,
and supposed thai could 60 through this great
MORAL conyuson that the great cla-sc OF society could
crush and jOstle against each other Ike tfl1ates IN d
storm and that there should not be such
ihi,. Why. in lSij il the other way; il WA |
nv bull has gored your borse. Ideas IN conflict.
and men OF violence made mp their minds 20 wait for
the slow conyusOn OF eonscence. must have trust IN
their own right hands that believe in bowie-Aniyes.