New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-04
IBUNE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY a, lst

views Of social science; that honest rulers. b
they must be great. now endeayor to be so
without ignoring natural right. Tho world has
had ages of Human Slavery and they have been
agcs of sanguinary and unsatisfactory expert
ence-haye all these spectators been mistaken
who have loreto,d better thing, IN store tOs
this "groaning globe 2" Must we spe the
vices Of the pact before we can copy its
achievements Must we ignore all the adYan-
tagcs which discovery and invention have
brought to us, and seek for national greotness
only in the rcSusctatiOn of byeone brptalitcs
Would we, if we could, make the United
States bnt a poor copy Of AyNria, Greece,
Rome, Carthage
80 asony-the, cent -, %, ,houid reap
No mehc"er h.f~ .tm
Greatness why nero isu't greater
rotentato IN -. Africa than the King OF
Dahomey IA tho midst of his butcherle3,
WANG ''Lkle-deep ia human blood, building
his p' ramid Of human skulls, be IS feared By
Surrounding tribes and positively adored By
his own Nations calling themselves civilized
can be great in the same way-that is, if they
please 10 relapse into sagagery, there is Il
backward path for them os there is for indi-
yiduas and so they may discard refined apparel
for nose-riugs, war.paint and nakedness--they
may pull down what reporters call "paatial
residences" aud live in wigwams without
chmneys and without windOws--they may be
content with subsising upon the uncertain
supplies of the chase. Brigham Young has
nine wives, or ninety. We forget which, aud
very much is he censurcd for an improperly
which, some will think, must carry with ii It's own
punishment. But this may, with perfect truth,
be said for the Polygamus Prince of Utah-that
he has the ancients upon bis side. In comparison
with Solomon, President Young, is model
of moderation, and, in plurality Of ribs, he
is PROFESSIONALLY far below Darius, Xerxes, or
the Grand Turk. Was Mt Persia great ma
ton All polygamy, sir! Wasn't Mohammed
great conquerer' Look at bis ten wises,
sir TO say nothing of his mistre,Ses, sir Pray,
if our PrO.SlayeTy sages may argue in their
way from tie past, in support Of their iayorite
wichedness, Why should nj poor Mr. Young be
allowed similar logic II does not seem TO
occur 10 the Philosophical DoUghiace', that
there may DO dagger in their passion Tor other
histories, of forgetting our own. Admitting
that all great nations have heretofore been
cursed by a ,eryile cllss it IS certainly as
true that our Revolutionary Fathers aimed at
the establishment of Republic which should
rival antique greatnefs without recourse 10.
antique crimes They did not profess 10 aim
at a revival OF Grccian or Roman chagacteris-
tics. They knew, for they were men of cub
ture. quite as we'll as tho sciost Of
tho present know that Involuntary Ser
but il would be- difficult. and probably
impossible to ind in any act OF their hands or
in auy word Of their mouths the evidence tLat
they sought for national greatness through the
ens'ayemeut Of their tollow-creatures. The
whole current Of testimony runs in tho other
direction. Tie feeling Of the founders of The
Republic made distinction between Black
and White. The debates 10 the Congress- the
known opinions of Jefferson, of Franklin. and
of other leading spirits Of the Revolution. and
the weight OF tradition, all prove this to a Ger.
tanty. They did not pretend to establish in-
situations which should merely equal those Of
the pn.t. Their honorable aud humane nmbi-
ton was TO present to the world an amcliOra-
ting discovery in political science-that of the
equality Of all men. If they had been abso-
lutely faithful. in spite Of temptation, TO the
great idea which animated their careeri IL
they had yaliantly stood fast by the truth in
practice, rs they did by the truth in theory, 7
from what sorrows and crimes and bitter ex-
perieuces would they have saved their chill |
dren 1t is for US to flash the work Of the
Fathers! 1t is for us 10 accept their teach.
ings and to transmute them into tho fine gold
Of q truly Christian pOlity AS we arc wiser
than the men Of the Middle Ages, let IA prove
that ten centuries Of hard experience have not