New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-16

| latter, was 1nIalHOle iii its Pon'P''"6', ~- ~~'
represented the sentiments Of the great heart OF
the nation II was that instinct which our rever-
| end Judges obeyed when they breatbed it IA the
breatb of rs life into the latest Of the great canons
of ouf jurisprudence. In Baltimore, they were
treated like ringers" and they were boldly sa-
lnted os :" minors" in the streets of Brotheriy
Love. The Sober Second Thought Of the People
has settled the matter. The Old Public FUNCTION
ary is sent away rebuked from the bar oil that only
tribunal to which he holds himself responsible.
But this is not all nor the worst This visit has
eccasoned inquiries into the institutions OF Japan,
and given rise to commentaries upon them which
may be of the most evil consequence. SO true is
it that one error opens the way to hood'ude OF
worse ones 1t bids fair to corrupt Mt its sources
that public virtue whose waters are for the heang
of the nation. For example, we have just read
with conflicting emotions of horror and alarm an
article in The Boston Post on the Empire fJapan.
Now, if we had been asked to name mandatory
of Democratic opinions on which full reliance could
be put for the Qpty of the goods it turns OUT,
there are few 10 (Ikich we should have given pre-
cedence of The Post. Standing in the midst of a
stiff.necked and hard-hearted generation, not de-
pendent upon the shifting streams OF local public
sentiment for its motive power, but propelled by
the proauent flow Of the perennial well of the Ma
tional Treasury, we had faith that 1t could never
turn ont bad article. But just look at this;
Speaking of caste in japan, the writer says: :" IL
is difficult thing for an American mind, familiar
with instances of those who have, by their honor
able labors of mind and body risen from the
humblest to the highest rank in our Republic, to
realize the idea of those japanese artisans and
laborers, consigned by so inhuman and unholy an
"instituton to the one narrow, hopeless path pre-
pared for their fathers steps" Did the wrterof
this burst of malignant philanthropy remember
what is at once the Cornerstone of our Republl-
can Institutions, and the Black Marble Keystone OF
the arch of our Glorious Union He must take
care or this Loose kind of talk may bring these
architectural blessings laundering about our ears.
Then again he goes on ." If the intercourse and
influence Of our country and Government with
(" the Empire of Japan continues Gas there is every
reason TO expec) TO extend, assuredly one OF Its
I" first and most worthy objects must be the stimu-
lating of the japanese to the abolition OF this
"wretcbed and demoralizing system" One would
think that it was some ill-conditioned and mouth
foaming Abolitionst who was thus characterizngt
paternal and patrarchal system which ennobles and
strengthens our Model Republic. Does this writer
mean TO say that system is wretched and demon
alizing which fixes the condition of the tillers of
the soil and the hewers of wood and drawers of
water, and peremptorily forbids them ever to rise
above it-they or their childrenl Does he pre-
sumo TO brand as inhuman and unhoiy an
institution which limits the career OF the
artisans and laborers to the one narrow, hope
less path prepared by their fathers steps
| The ark of our covenant is not to be touched BY
unhallowed hands in this fashion. Our holy things
not TO be proGaned with the poluting breath of
such blasphemy as this. We advise the editor of
| The Post to be careful how he permits any rep
eition Of this disguised satire own most
cherished institutions. He should sift his corps of
contributors, and separate carefully the precious
| from the vile, allowing no such perncious heresy
as this to be preached from his editorial pulpit If
be do not he had better take care how he shakes
bis official head or he may find it tumbling off his
official shoulders-long and intimate as the con-
nection has been between them, if we rightly rec
ollect ourselves. So far from the intercourse of
our Government tending to destroy this benefcent
system, the natural effect of our example and our
doctrines would be to strengthen and perpetuate
it, And this common tie may we'll Obviate the oh.
lection the Japanese entertain TO the introduction
of Christianity. When they find how potent an
auxiliary the American Church is of our American
system of Caste they must rather hail than depre-
cate the extension of its benefcent influences to
themselves.
Why, what could The Post say should the jap
anese Tycoon propose, as one main object of estab
fishing diplomatic relations with us, that it might
lead to "the abolition of the wretched and demon
" alizing system" of Negro Slavery We imagine
his ambassadors would find the Court of his
Majesty the Tycoon Buchanan altogether too hot
to hold them The line CT policy to be pursued is
very obvious, and the very opposite of this sense
less suggestion. Instead of any interference with
the Peculiar Domestic Institutions of Japan, they
should be made to see and admire the identity of
ours with theirs. Or rather, the superiority of
ours over theirs-for we believe that the Caste of
Labor there merely confines the labOrers and their
descendants to certain kinds of work, but does not
make them the property of their employers. AS
the japanese are q very intelligent and initiative
people, it might not be difficult to show them how
largely they could increase their property by the
simple process of making all their laborers their
chattels pertonal And, as there exists remarka-
Bile freedom from prejudice in our country as to
the previous status or cogRtry of the labOrers we