New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07
DEMOCRACY And VICE.

The World evidently feels uncomfortable in
its position touching the Slums and Suffrage
and with good reason. 1t declines the ar
bitrament of John Bright and Victor Hugo,
whose names it had logged into the discus
sion as make-weights against us. Though it
quotes very little of our last statement of the
case, we can afford to quote its new shuttle
nearly rerbatim-as follows:
1.-THE citizens of the localities It then named
nhe Five Points, the Hook &c.) we're not made
Democrats by their opposition to Negro Suffrage. Hav
ing become Democrats on other and earlier questions,
they have remained In showing that they are the
side OF liberty may therefore Include all the Demo
In his reasons why am whig.' Mr.. Greeley laid
particular the tendency OF the Democratic party
10 restrict and cura the functions OF the Government
country he said radical diversity OF sentiment re-
speeding the appropriate sphere Of government and.
Democratic politics what did he fndi His parading Of
certain favorte Democratic notices sufficiently ndi-
Gates They were these The world is governed too
much 'The best Government is that which governs
least Laissez Iaire Now II THE TRIBUNE will change
it's prudent determination to back out Of this controversy
we shall be glad have its editor tell whether In his
estimation, these significant notices. which he repre-
politics in the article in which he first urged the
slum argument-we wish we say he would tell us whether
Democratic politics. he then described Them not
on the side OF liberty Pray what disss Jaire but the
very essence OF liberty According to MT Greeley HIM
self then, the Democratic party is built on liberty as its
LdisSea fare Let trade move without restriction.
unfettered by protective tariffs Is not this beryi THE
TRIBUNE may deny, IL II pleases, that 1t wso: but 1t
surely will deny that 1t is freedom THE TRIBUNE. 10
doubt finds il more compendous mode OF reasoning TO
say that the NewYOrk sums always vote In favor OF free
trade and therefore free trade msehieyous than to
fne the freetrade arguments OF JOHN BRIGHT and JOHN
STUART MILL. -
for themselves who shall have the elective franchise Let
no coercve armies supported by NewYork taxpayers,
stand TO compel States TO adopt rule on this subject
which the people Of Hew-York reject Now. whether
this demand Of the Democracy be right wrong, IL Is
certainly on tho side OF liberty II Federal army were
sufrageii right OF choosing State officers were
taken away and Represenves elected from Congress
till we compedwe should hope that citizen OF New
York. from the slums upward would hesitate TO oppose
such abOmlnable tyranny.
asses faire! Let people eat, drink and amuse them
they t so long as they do not infringe
the liberty In others THE TRIBUNE may decry this
and cant against 1t very bad and very wicked senti-
ment but II letting people do they please DO not lib
ery let the editor OF THE TRIBUNE suspend his Rccol-
lectiOns OF a Busy Life, and make a dictionary.
The heart OF man naturally beats for liberty, his
lungs pant for air This aspiration Is felt alike by the
vrtuous and the vicious and like some other noble prin
cples Of nature il is seldom extingulshed The peo
pe Of the dsreputabe parts OF this city will rush with
as prompt alacrty to rescue poor child run over in the
e Of whisky with furnishing stranger, they VIII
readily into burning tenementhouse to rescue the
inmates at the hazard OF their own lives as any member
Of the Loyal League Club Shame on the pharisaism
that refuses TO recognize the virtues OF the
classes When the broke out. from what
localities in the whole country did the men rally
TO the flag of their country and offer their lives IN Its
vice freely than from the strong Democratic wards
this cityf When IL came TO conscrpton they did not
to be sure. exactly see that conscrptlon was liberty