New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-22

and bred in land Of Slavery made most eloquent pro
test against the s1 Of Virginia But the words which
1860 dares not repeat. Applause lie can 20 from
city 10 city and remember to forget repeated ap.
nlapsel the bravest words which the father Of his
country ever uttered. Well, You tell me he Is
only a scholar. / will take another, one on
whore eloquent lips you have no doubt hung
on many an occasion, compared with whose moral
strength Everett, Ia bnt the sapng TO the oak mean
John Pierpont. Thirty years ago he culed for us the
cream of Enpsh literature, aud gave us the hrss ana
best of Er gsh class books lie issued new edition
of tina, work on the very day that Anthony Burns
went down State street between two thousand mus
kss for no other than that the color OF his SKID
was not ike ours In that edition Of the work all
paragraphs referring TO Slavery weEs scrupulonsly
left out, and the other hoped, In bis preface
thatthe alterations made would render the
book more acceptable TO the public The temp
tation which bowed Pierpont, must be next 70
omnipotent. But perhaps You will say these are only
literary men, 1t sha be- then, one of your prncely
merchants able, certainly to afford the luxury OF a
conscience; the head of large publishing house, re-
producing the literature and thought Of another cont-
nent, the Harpers. The verdict Of Europe upon
American matters, coming back across the ocean, is
like the verdict that from future generation
looking back for a century. Yet you have seen them
once and again in the public preis apologzug for the
accidental virtue of an hour, when they repuoshed
rectied by calling in the edition and repubishing
it again, striking out all relating TO Slavery.
But perhaps you will say that is only the morals OF
the market place. Shall 90 higher to the Tract
House or the Sunday School Union, representing the
piety of the largest and strongest iects in the United
States-stroDg in confidence and wealth Fourteen
wears ago they took from their archives tract written
in 1890 the fruit OF the hot earnesness Of the Missouri
debate. 1t went the wrong way; it went south II
was as if clergyman had preached against theft and
there thief in the audience, and the thief next
morning. called on the clergyman and said, / can't
bear hst sort of preaching But what said the Tract
Society," They said We never meant you 10 see that
tract; send il back wen burn it, forgive us, and we
will destroy the piates and never do 30 again. But
perhaps yoa will it is in the politics, in the parties
in the bold, Wholesome, outdoor influence of the
statesman that we are to ind the lead OF REFORM Let
US look at it. aked man 80 years cid what politics
-as and he rays, III answer IL In the Lat'- -, -.
Politieu' - s"'' ''"'' W" ut non o6enda!
diob0lum.
Did 'ou ever Hnow the time when men lived by
whispering at Washington what they would not have,
for the world, known at home, and at home what tney
would not have known at Washington, and who ded
political death when they were equally known in
both places. Lord John Russell says 1t Is with parties
as with snakes, the tail moves the head. Laughter
and Applsuse.l Some men imagine that the great
brows at Washington the leaders Of the people.
So the boy when he goes on a steamboat, sees the
beam moving and he thinks he sees the power that
moves the vessel. o, no! There's fanatic down IN
the hull Sir Robert Peel the ideal of a politician,
brought forward the measures OF reform in England
only after they bad been agltated by OConnell and
Bright. Then he stepped and stereotyped into stat
utes the puses that other had stirred Mr. Seward
makes speech in Washington on the tactics OF the
Republican party, but he phrases il 30 as to suit Wall
street. If he goes TO the White House it will not be
Wall street that sends him. it will be the bayones OF
John Brown and his aiders Nat. Banks, the Cover
nor Of my State, went TO the steps of your Ex-
change and made speech that mgh have fel. echo
from every bank vault But it wasn't the banks, it
wac the people that made him Speaker of the House Of
Representatives But if you do not find il in wealth,
III, In milf vi
church. Don't imagine that find any fault with our
own institutions. Don't imagine that am finding any
fault with Democracy or Republeanism; l adore
both. Repubcanism is Gods normal school
TO teach the masses ethics. Out of discus.
sion men come nobler, higher, yirtuous.
Humanity looks into the poor mans cradle with pity;
Wall street with pprehension-thinking that she
must educate the boy for her own safety. know /
tread on hot ashes when / come TO the Church. The
Church is potent The Roman Catholic Church to-day
holds up Napoleon. The Jesuit and the capitalist
his two aTms. Seward, when his lips freer than
they now said that 1t was capital which rolled back
the surges of the Democracy. Catholicism is potent
because there are million wills rolled into one.
When the Pope sends ont missionary, he scoops out
his brain, and Gays you won't need it-go and repre-
cent me. daughter. So with the Episcopal Church.
The child bears the features of the father We have
got the voluntary system. The pews support the
pulpit, and it wouldn't he strange If the pulpit shoud
reflect the pews. This s the rule not the exception
The essence Of modern sermons is compromise.
II would be idle to expect that our clergy should be
leaders when they are the reflection, not the sun.
must, then, come TO the conclusion that we have
institutions. You may prefer despotsm and insttu-
tons, but it If tue that we are launched sea Of
unfetered Democracy, and safety is owing only to
the general law of gravtation and the general tend
ency Of the 10 Justice in the long Agta
ton only can keep this from sagnlon and corrup
lion; agitation educating the millions among whom
live, and in the process secure, if not the best,
the best possible institutions. / know the criticisms
which are made on this style Of reform. Men object
10 plain words, but you have to speak them to make
the people understand you Words made TO be
used and our Saxon tongue is emnently rich in cpl
thes TO describe scoundrel, though our Saxon blood
hss twice the capacity for deserving them. Men
always charge the reformer for the guilt of the nstu
agitation of Slavery. In Greenland, when they want
warm weather, they boil the thermometer i remem-
Der schoolmate of mine, anxious for West wind,
climbed the barn and nailed the in that direction.
And | have read of Hindoo once who, when the
missionary showed him in glass OF fair water that in
drinking it he was destroying animal life as much as
if he ate a cow threw the microscope on the ground
and ground it up with his heel thinking that he was
destroying the fact by destroy ing of il.
So men think if they could only strange Garrison,
what happy time we should have. But truth has
foated further on the shouts Of mob than it would
eyer have gone without. / am amused by the a.
tempts to dssuade me from agitation; take Demo-
crat-he is exceedingly anxious that should my
influence; bottle il mp. Laughter and applause. The
people have got their rights but by the thunder
Of artillery demanding them. The man whose name
was scoing with the fathers the children go half
round the globe for marble white enough TO carve his
memory upon. AS Lowell has hymned il:
Then side with Truth noble when share with her the
Ere her bring profit and sprosperou,to beu
Then the brave chooses choice while the coward stands
Doubling in his abject spirit, till hi. Lord is cruchsd