New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-11-21
PASSING AWAY.

The future student Of history will note that
in the year l-65 the Civil Government of Turkey,
striking blow at il, messy and moldy monas-
tic system sccular1ed the real estate OF the
mosques while in the same year the United
Stltes of America, tolerant no longer OF an
equally antiuuatcd and outwon institution,
cmancipatcd all the sla,cs within lis bonicrs.
It is curious to find Turkey in the nineteenth
century doing the work Of Henry VIII, while
under our very eyes the remnants Of ieudalism,
its virtues long gone and It, vices only remain
ing are swept away as dangerous 10 our moral
and material wel-bcing. But il is not for US to
know the value of work like this going on
under our own eyes, and III our own day and
generation. Man follows his best instincts,
with little thought Of bis record in tho chroni-
clcs. "The fanatics in The mosques, the tat
fellows in the monasteries, the autOcratic
barons. aud their legitimate successors the
shareholders, werc all similarly disguised so
the historian will write-"but their wrath
proved insufficient to arrest the progress of
society, nor could they save the thing which
was rotten from being buried out of sight and
out of smell forever and forever" 1t is this
steady improvement upon the example of our
ancestors which makes ms worthy of the reyer.
ence of our successors. Human slavery was a
horrible legacy. Whatever other burdens we
may impose upon our children, we shall not
curse them with that; and they will rise up and
call US blessed, if for nothing else, at least
because, under the pressure of events, we grew
wise at last and refused any longer to profess
with our lips that which We were too timid to-
do with our hands. The yalor OF desperation is
wiser than persistent cowardice Political
blundcr, imply activity which a. infinitely
better. whether it fai> or succeeds. than slow
decay.
We may well believe that Fuad Pa,hl. the
Grand yider has not a very easy work IN hand.
4 decree, which changes the tenure OF three-
fourths or the real estate oi the Empire, i de-
uouuced a. a robbery oil GOD aud tlr Prophets
lust as divers Doctors of Divinity told rs chat
10 abolish Slavery was to ty in the face Of the
Almighty, to cast contempt upon the memory
OF AN"ff tlIil 10 N4"l' NIiN ilI' Iin tNlAA IA
iug- of no less parsonage than - Paul.
When the world takes % step forward there is
always somebody to howl O. Groom Ike this over
expiring wrongs and doomed abuses I'm every
Ephesu5 there viii be mouncrs for tho dciunot
Diana The wall Tor Slavery abolished viii
hardly die away tomorrow; end i1f long and
weary time the unconyinced and mortified de-
tenders of tho institution will find ruin in every
phase Of our regeneration and failure in every
poiGcal symptom let those who may be
discouraged by adverse manifestations, con-
sole themselves with the thought tha, nothing
could well be worse than the old system.
and that God and Time will repair all
bo.ch-worS OF mortals We have taken the
costly first step, and all we need is patience.
We are living in historic times, and it is great
privilege TO do 30, because national activity of
reform implies personal wisdom and conscience.
The grumblors tell rs, or, just before the cleo
ton did tell us, that the experiment of JUS
tice and OF Emancipation is a dangerous and a
doubtful one-at any rate, it is "an expert
ment' 81 II is when n man undertakes TO live
yirtuous life, when he gets married, when he
goes into business when he emigrates, when he
selects a calling for bis children. History is
only a record of national experiments. They
are going on now in Russia, in England, in
Mexico, in all South America. nation that
does not try experiments is not merely bone
broken, but dead and dccayng. When man
fractures his leg his dr..l business y to Try tho