New-York tribune., 1867-08-16


;,t borri5 death in temporary huInOr, which Will
leave centuries of remembrance herce enough,
and three million Blacks men ana ~ orOteaSS rS 'nto
the career of improvement-ikely to be lmpioYeu
off the face of the earth IN a generation OF t"ot
THAT IA the dismal prediction TO me- OF the warIeSs
erIbusiast to their Cause whom have KNOWN Oh
American men-who doesn't regret his great efforts
either i'm the great Cause won. Cause Incompar-
ablv the most important on Earth or IN Heaven aC
this time. Pdp1e, papde wOnderful lndeeul
In our own country, too, SpdrIaey has played
great part for many years past and especlay is now
PLAYING in these very days and months our ac,
cepted axioms about Liberty Constitutional
Government" Reform" and the like objects are OF
truly wonderful texture: venerable by antiquity,
many of them and written in all manner of Canonl-
cal Books; OF else the newer part OF them celesiay
clear as perfect unanimity of all tongues and o6
p0pui roe Iei can make them: axioms confessed OF
even inspirations and gospel verities TO the genera
mind of man. To the mind of here and there % man,
it begins to be suspected that perhaps Hf aT or
cOnditioually true; that taken uncondtionaliyi VI
under changed conditions, they are not true' pu'
false and even disastrously and fatally So ASK YOU
self about &" Liberty for example; what you g uIg
really mean by it, what i'm any Just and rational sour
is that Divine quality of liberty Ihat go1Sa hi n'r+
be free" as we calf it, be permitted 10 ulioiu ,
self in works of goodness and nobleness Is SUI SUI In,
blessing to him. immense and lndsIchsaIlcd be
and to those about him. but tIat I" p" articnlsr
reo-pemitted to rln9ld hse CURSE m Won could in
fIict ON him; curse and nothing ese U II1a n "l,a
all his neighbOrs. Him the 'siS urac in,
call upon you to persuade, ~ Ill Io;rH.
dnce rompei into something OF Well-doluR
;fSyou absolutely cannot if he viii continue III III
dong-then for him Il can assure YOU Sno',gh vi,
be sncediesf paIlows YOU can lead him to- Speedest
that at least his ill-dong may cease guam prtmHm'
on nv friends whittier are you buzZng and swarm
ng, in this extremely absurd manner EXpeccthR -"
Millennium from extension OF the suffrage, later
ally, vertically, or in whatever wayt
All the Milleniums ever heard OF heretofore were
TO be proceeded by "chaining OF the Devl iOr u
thousand years laying him up, tied neck and heels
and put beyond stirring, as the preliminary lou lo9
Il liIt,ina
more ardor for thirty years back but they seem 10
be all in the opposite direction cutting asunder OF
straps and ties wherever you might find them; pretty
indiscrminate of choice in the matter; general re-
neal of old regulations fctters and restrictions lre
strictions on the Devil originally, believe ior noSI
mart but now fallen slack and Intellectually Wncn nau
become unpleasant to many Of yOu-with loud shout
ing from the multitude as strap alter strap was cut
"Glory, glory another strap Is gone Lbhs' 5, 5lIHn,
has been the sublime legislative industry Ot IaIlid
nent since il became Reform PariIament; VIC
toriOusly successful, and thought slblHe ana sehe
cien by SO that now hardly any mp Oh tde 70
Devil has thrum, or latter OF repe OF IgaIIer Oi.
upon it there needs almost superhuman herOlsia ~ IN
you to whip a GarToter; no teIlan taken Nun ,;
Teddcst hand is to be meddled with, uhder Ptnatcs
hardly murderer, never so detestable ana mdeOns,
but you would find him insane, ana board i,lhl at
the public expense very peeuiiar D'5Iom ] !b
VERIFY if YOU will consider the sense of w0rds lke
wise become an Emancipated Gentleman; ilthe OF
limb, as in Adam and Ives time. ana scaICeH q VOC
OF finger of him tied any moro. And YOU my aston
sling friends you are certainly gettlng INTO NH
lenium such as never before hardly even In tho
dreams of Bcdlam. Better luck to you by the mdg
NV poor friends; little less of buZzing huminlng
iodIming Il. c. tumbling IN infinite noise ana Jar
pes that you might try 70 ioqk Rnt g aeed s ToGr 1Dr
Reform movement, from of old, has been wonder
full to me everybody meaning by 1t, not KeiOihla-
tiOn" practical amendment OF ms own 1oul courses
OF even of his neighbors; no thought ot ina, what-
ever though that you would say Is the one thing 70
be thought of and aimed at put meaning siiipN
Extension of the Suffrage! BRING III more vOthS;
that will clear away the universal rottennesS ana
puddle of Inendacities, in which poor England I5
drowning: let England only vote suincienly ana MI
is clean and sweet again. very singular STarmfry
this of the Reform movement, must say.
III.
Inexpressiby delirous seems TO me, at present in
my solitude, the puddle of Parliament ana IuDHc
upon what II calls the Reform Measure; that Is to
saw The callingin OF new supplies OF blockheadiSn'
gullibility, bribeabillty. aen0Dly 10 peer ana par
derdash, by way OF amending the woes we nave % TIu
from our previous supplies of that bad Ttlclc Inc
intellect of man who believes IN tho posslmhty on
Improvement" by such method is 20 me finished
off and shut up intellect, with which WOMB not
argue: mere waste OF wind between us 30 exchange
words on that class OF topics. 1T ~ not lhougt hs
which my reforming brother utters 10 me WIN Suei
emphasis and eloquence; it IA mere reflex ana
reverberatiOn." repetition of what he has always
heard others imagining TO think, ana repeating as
orthodox indsputable and the gospel OF our saliva
tion in this world. Docs not all Nature groan every
where and lie in bondage till you give II Parlia-
menti Is ono man at all unless one nave sluifa8G
to PaIliaInentf These arc aX0Ins admitted bY az
English creatures for the last two hundred years III
Won have the misfortune not 70 believe IN them at
all but TO believe the contrary for long time past
fine nferences and inspirations drawn from them and
the saarmeresn aud enthuaasms Of mankind
thereon. will seem to You not little marvellous =
Meanwhile the good that lies in this delirious new
Reform Measure'-ls there lies something OF good IN
almost eveTything-is perhaps not inconsideTabie 1t
accelerates notably what have long looked upon as
inevitable; pushes us at once into tho Niagara
Rapds: irresistbly propelled, with over-ncreasing
velocity, we shall now arrive who knows how soon!
For tho last thirty years 1T has been growing more
and more evident that there was only this issue; but
now the issue itself has become imminent, the dis
tance of it 10 be guessedby years. TraitoTOus Pot
clans, graspng at votes even votes from the rabbe.
have brought it on one cannot but consider them
tTaitOrOus and for ones own poor share would rather
have been shot than been concerned in it but after
all my silent Indignation and disgust, cannot pre-
tend to be clearly sorry that such consupmaton is
expedited. say to myself, We'll perhaps the sooner
such mass Of hypOcrsies universal mismanage-
ments and brutal platitudes and infdelities ends
if not in some improvement then in death and hnis
may it not be the better The sum of our sins in
creasing steadily day by day will at least be less
the sooner the settlement sw Nay, have not
kind Of secret satisfaction, of the malicious oven
of the judiciary kind tsohddenf nfeide nisohef.joy,
the Germans call It, but really it is jusfcc-joy
withaJ that he they call "Dizzy is TO do it that
other jugglers, of an unconscious and deeper type
having sold their poor Mothers body for mess of
Official POttage this clever conscious iugger steps n
Soft you, my honorable friends; / will weigh out
the corpse of your Mother mOther of mine she never
was, but Only stepmother and milk wl;-and you
shant have the pOttage not YOURS You observe but
mine" This really is pleasing trait of its sort.
Perhaps the cOnsulnmation may be now nearer than
is thought 1t seems TO me sometimes as if everybody
had privately now given up serious notion of resist
ing it. 'Beales and his ragamufins pull down the
ratings of Her Majestys Park, when Her Majesty
refuses admittanOe; Home Secretary WalpOe (Icpre-
senting Engands Majesty listens to Colonel Dick
son talking of barricadesP improyised pixies" &c;
does not order him to be conducted, and if necessary
10 be kicked downstairs with orders never TO return
in of worse and when Beales says, Il will
that the Queens Peace is kept Queen (by her Wal
polel answers - viii you, then God bless you ~ and
bursts into tears Those " tears are certainly an