New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-08
ONE sDEA.

ONE Idea.
Rabblers, to escape ridicuie. should exhibit q
little variety. An eternal cnckoo-cry, ia pub
lie discussions argues ouly boltOm'ess bgotry,
and All incapacty accurately to estimate hu-
man yicissitudes. Fichte. the great German
metaphy was wont to begin bis lectnre'
by saving: Gentlemcn, think tbs wal !!
After short pause, he would add; " Now
gentlemen. think him who thought the wall =
so tac-e Pro-Slnyery people are philosophers
wi,hou. knowing it, for they cherish One Idea
OF One Idea--they have but Single Notion that
Others have only Single Molten, and pnilo'oph'
icany. not 10 say logically. they are IN just
the pred cament which t Is the narrow business
o; tnrir limited reasoning to coutcinn. The
Anti.Slavery advocate, Ike every other pleader
for radical change in the cons i.tution oi So
cieiy. has undoubtedly q single ceptral principle
which he mover forse'a; but there IS no great
work which has ia il such infinite variety az HIS
He must be- armed at ell points against al
comers Now /, "a mis- Ia,h tO unhorse some
doughty Doctor of Divinity mounted upon his
enc idea OF the curse Of CsGean-now bo Is
met b, tue Ph,lo,osis. who for the sake OF
ms definition of single Greek word, would
copsign n race, numbered by millions, ~ al
,ntcrmiuabe bondege--now L. ubst break a
issce with the Osteooeiat who finds the .ospe!
o. o,.rrssion revealed in facial angles and shin
sones-avw he must encounter some Political
Ec.a0mist who demons.rates wrong 10 DC rsghl
BIZ the sum total of the c0sJol cEoP-now be
must gruppe with The Historian who cannot
fer the liie oi him see why tAai which existed
IN Attica aud Pale.tiae should not EXIT 40
North Amcr..a-nos lie disurbs the rcYerles
Of the QuIcis, Who droes'ly or peiuinnty com
plain. of the noise, and w not be wsrsed al
the tbunJer.shock winch must soon eaccluaDy
dlssipate his lazy dreams To charge pan
who successfully encounters all these champions
o. mody despotism, with lackiGg largcuess OF
Of conception and breadth Of action, is the sum
init of absurdity. These engineers are Leo ,ted by
their own petard. They are of many varieties,
but they nll think the Same although and
mouth the same dull jarson.
"A ia - very dl.credl,ube Tor tho Ant.
Slavery speaker. writer or soldier 10 have but
Onc Idea, We beg permission 70 ask how NAM
Ideas have been youchsa.cd 10 the Sayelod!Gg
Rebel He should have nj opuleut aaor.
mrnt, since his friends cast such ioul scoru
upon tho Intellectual poverty of his ab.aeO-
nlsts-aud yet it IS he, of all others, who
thinks OF the Black, dreams at tie Black, writes
of The Back, talks of the Black, and never for
an instant has the One Idea OF the Black out
of HE mind How. indeed, eau it be- other
wise In hIs political scheme, all other con
sdcratlons must give place to that of the per.
petuSton OF Slavery, which ho has made the
Chief cornerstone OF his hrenew republic, or
democracy, or Kingdom, Or empire. or concd-
crncy, or whatever be- may call It. Without
considering Mt oil bis morality, We viii do HIM
the justice 10 Bay. that having One Idea, he
adhcrcs 10 it with al enthusiastic desperation,
and is not in the least afraid OF being de-
nounced as fanatic. 30 he wrong or right,
sane or mad martyr or n feloD, he cling,
TO his dogma and deies tho world to dislodgc
him.
Col. French. who is just from New Orleans,
where ho held n considerable official poslto
in speaking in faneuil Hall the other day,
said:
Am glad Sir. from the ConledeTsey 20 .'e".
FngAud from the midst Of Rebns to tho nd't 81
loyal whom soy loyal men the sn he1r III
tAneu hal, whose loyalty doe. not huge upon soS orc
idea lAPplau,c and 'Good.'l Aud mran 'ros e,..-
Eens, not ioyAty that Ia i,te turn Of even o. F Jus
solve its.h into mo sIos.cst oisloyay but mean "'
broad enoush 10 sand upon tho Constitution"
One Idea. again but here It is the same
Idea. limiting tho loyalty of many Slave
holders, who are ready, If their prtJudlces ere
not tendcrly respected. for "t the erossest dis-
loyalty" And yet, with this One Idea satur-
atng far more than moiety OF the public
sentiment of the South, und palsying the eIer.
tons of too many men who yibrato between II
iancled interest and an explicit duty, We are
told that it is just upon this point that our
own Loyalists must not touch under pam OF
being denounced a. Men Of One Idea In the
name of common. sense, how are these mis-.
taken persons to be met except by pointing
out to them their mistakes Where Ia there n
glx.tongued attorney who could talk for fifteen
minutes about this Rebellion, without alluding
10 Slavery ldlers have amused themselyesby