New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-25
SIGNS o. CIVILIZATIONS.

There never Was a bladder faulty than that OF
the Rebel Shareholders. Never did engineers
% hoist tlcm-o % thc.Town pciarls. Only
a little while ago and through the length and
breadth of tlai territory which Il cursed, the
Slave Power. an iumeuiable and irresponsible
incubus, haughiily silcnccd all discussion OF is
merits, aul owning 10 r. pect for the forms OF
lnw. dt p,uaod ~ rude roycnges by Che hands
of Vigilance Committee aud Mob. When We
remember that only a little while ago, it was
high treason against tho majesty Of man-ownlng
to whisper o. donbt Of the wisdom aud justice Of
the institu,.on-that travellers went about ii
not with binder. over their eyes, at least with
gag. IN their mouths--thAi Il was dangerous for
them to have 20 much a a Northern newspaper
in their pocL.ts-ihat he Slaycholdng police,
with an is violence and terrorism, was vigorous
and chrc'.yr-wlcn sc remember All tins, and
now Observe that IN every quarter of the
Conirdru.r. slavery j. at the mercy oi presses
printed without lci aud specohci uttered without
hudmucc We begin to understand the old
proyrrb about the rIadness of those whom the
god wish 10 destroy. Wherever the Yankee
soldier goes hc establishes a newspaper No
sooner does ho occupy town aiording typo
graphical materials, than he begins to Issue pes
tilcni Abolition journal, sufficiently outspoken
20 drive nll the pairiarchs mad in the neighbour
hood. Thee soldiers newspapers have already
been established, or al least issued in Virginia,
the Carouas, Florida, Louisiana. Mississippi,
Kentucky, Tennessee, and perhaps in other
Slayeholdng States. We have before Us list
Of these Abolition sheets printed in what must,
with such influences, soon be the Free south
printed, edited, bought and read by our soldiers,
and not, of course, by them alone. The iacii-
ties Of the slave for learning 10 read must now
be- considerable, TO say nothing of the opporlu-
mites afforded to whites whosc early education
has been neglected. The schools Will, of ncccs-
sity, speedily follow the newspapers. The " In
stitution" il certainly getting INTO most prrilous
position. For, ever since We have heard any
thing about it, we have been informed, prnci-
paly by il most icyent supporters, that il
dctested schools, of all wicked things in this
wicked world-thai spelling promoted iniidc,ity
and that reading made men ianatical-that pop
ular ignorance was public safety and popular
enlightenment public pcril-that the smaller
the number OF the educated class the greater
was the stability of the political body See
what Common Schools have done for tho North /!
See what newspapers have done for New Wing
land. See how the art OF printing has promoted
unbcei, and skepticism, and the incontincncy
of the married and single, until all New Eng
land is no better than a very bad Sodom-whilo
we well, if you want pure, inlexibic and mimi
table virtue, and enlightened, uncompromisng
and rational religion-you must look to Us
who has not heard and read this sort OF loose
assertion over and over againl Within the last
few years, it has been the warp and the wool of
speeches without sense, and Of sermons without
grace, Of irrational reasoning and of bottomless
social philosophy. Jack Cade never held read
ing and writing in deeper dctestation. The con.
sequence wai, that tho STAKEHOLDER who would