New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-19
sIsAM CONsERYATas,I.

We live in an age of solemn and sudden
changes. The Party Of the Pewter Mug-tbe
Party which whilom boosted OF It's Slam, its
Mike Walsh, aud its Gov. D0rr-the Party
which has been went to carry FIVE Points
with hardly dissenting vo:e-the Party which,
preaching us ito fundamental doctrine " tie
supremacy Of man over Lila accideuts,' Lss
smashed balot-boycs and has cracked crowns
in defense of its peculiar principles, has, II we
MA, credit the London correspondent Of TIE
Ne,r- YOrL 1imes brought up with round
turn, IN the very bosom of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and is now especially
prieyod because the Authorities have interiered
with the sacred Offices of prayer Tammany
Hall comes TO the rescue OF The Rights OF
Conscience. and Of Reverend Gentlemen be-
come strangely obli'ious OF thor ord
nation VOWS. 1t is thought 20 b. very
hard in England, tAat priests and doacon'
who spurn ut oh discipline alike Of The
Church and the State, should be ~ "a,
least interfercd with. when they display
their conservatism by refusing obedience to toe
conn ands Of their own ecclesiastical orgsniza-
ton TO pray fer the United States. II they
should plainly preach Treason from their pull
pits, We suppose tha. il would be Ito same.
Morally, oaenscs OF omission and OF commission
are tho same; but some allowance must bee
made. we suppose, tor that peculiar conterya-
tisn which nourishes rebellion aud pr8ys in
"a 4. mt tsf - lfsts ff.r
the success Of faction and The dismcmberment
Of The Union Tie caui,ousuess which once
trembled at the slightest political inno' alton,
aud which begged men 10 be quiet under every
possible proyocatiop, has grown suddenly in
love with violence, aud by garbling the Book
Of Common Prayer, has struck hands with
men who never prayed IN their lives This Is
the full eflloresccnce of Modern Five Points
Conservatism, and the angels will laugh at 1t.
if they ever laugh at anything. .
Aud vino, upon the other hand, are the
Radical. the Disorganizers 1.-The Enemies
of Society Why, the men, to be sure, who
are sustaining Right against Might-the Con.
.titu,ion agaiGst Trcason---Law against An
archy. The Republican Administration shuts
up people who bawl treason in the streets and
publish dsloyaly from the houfe-tops-and 1t
is radical A Republican Congress would fol.
low oil precedcnts recorded since the esiab.
lishncnt of human go'ermnents-and they are
radical Measures are adopted for the coniia.
cation Of the property Of trators-and they are
81 ia Of nf ftt
is radical-it ia conservative only 10 be on
terms of seIni-civiity with proclaimed ielons,
and to have something apologetic to say fer
those who are scattering through thu land
frebrands, arrows and death 1t ID coDserya-
tiye only to hob-uob by sort of telegraphio
understanding, with the C0nioderates, and to
quarrel wth those who would maintain the dig.
nity and integrity Of the Uuiol There was
but one PLAIN way Tor the honorable and tie
intelligent to folow-aud that way, it seems.
in the opinion Of waspsh critics, leads only
to national ruin.
Congress has been only 4 few days in ses.
sion, and already We have indubitable evidence
Of the sort OF criticism to which Sham Con-
servatisn means to subject the Government.
We are entering upon another sealon Of petty
objection and querulous fault-fnding. We hear
already the first barhs of those dogs who do
the service OF the Southern Conicderacy Ia the
United States Already the servants Of an IN.
scrupuloue opposition have undertaken their
deputized duties. They do not like this. aud
they like that us little! One pratcs with
amorous and incOnsoablo grief of the violence
which has been done TO Liberty b. the stern
treatment OF Shareholders, while another, plead
ing, as we know, IA lie knows, as all the
world knows, in behalf Of overt Rebellion,
claims for the yotaries of Treason all the in.
muniiies and privileges Of the Constitution.
These men, with the most convenient of memo.
res, forget eyerything-the causclessnesS aud
the shamolcssness Of the RcyOlt-thc greatness
and the last importance Of tho war
the still accommodating debt--the sacrifice
Of our citizens on the field, where every
sacrifice was murder-they forget all that
we have suffered without fault Of our own and
all our children must suffer without fault oi