New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-25
NdTTON1L ULlS.

AT the late Snngerfcst in Cincinnati Judge
Stallo spoke of the bondage which tetters MS
" not by tangible gives but by the bonds of
{" our own past-One in which we feel ourselves
60 oppressed on all sides hindcred by belittlng
"foms, and by veneHted prejudices kept out
"of our mental and physical advancement
"Thclc isn said the orator. "a captivity OF
he mind slavery of the soul, which I'M
poses upon man service meaner than
chat paid by serf to lord. To abolish this
slavery is the highest Of duties assigned to
"us in this new world These duties belong
mainly to German Ideas Not in the least
roHshiug this proud assumption" Gas he calls
iU. a writer in a Cincinnati newspaper has a
GOOD deal to say, and to say rather Indignantly,
or "The Mayfower" and plymouth Rock"
and "the ideas" imported in the one to the
o.lcr-" ilcas professedly Christian and at the
same time, in the highest degree, humane
"tdmr Rather unfairly, if not "proudly"
l.- champion of "The American Idea as
m.s Hat THE German Idea ms cypr ssed
by judge Stallo, merely means unlimited lager
and unr.stramcd ratiOnalsu The gIsr of
o. the German Idea is selfish" he SAYS o.
Sensual Uioyment;" and in proof Of .hi5 he
quotes from a banner borne IN the Srlge,-
/ i,,. procession: .Let others fast and let lneu
"u.ay. But give rs joy by night and day p
coUplrt which may mean DO more Jlln %
Thousand careless expressions which tall from
Che lips of men upon convivial occasions.
We are not among those who are fond of
/ seeking in the different elements of our popu-
iaton for lingering signs of the antayonlsm
/ OF races We have believed, We still believe
that the work Of assimilation viii 20 on, until
differing traits shall De blended into q national
character new Ia The experience OF The world,
vigorous beyond the possibilities OF an I'M
mixed lineage, and with % freshness ia it
which must secure great etide in human
advancement This, indeed, must be the work
of time, and of more than one generation
but we are not to assume, because the Gel
man adheres to the customs and language of
his fatherland, or because the Irishman cannot
forget the green island of his birth, that these
emotional memories will not eventually fade
away, leaving behind them, it is true, the
perennial virtues which they indicate, and
which the country could i'll afford to lose. 1t
is ii severe trial of the patience and philosophy
of the native American that this change can
not he instant and constant but a little re-
Election will suffice to show him that the
slower the admixture of blood, the more de-
cisive and permanent will be its result. The
history of what is called the English race
shows that the work of creating national
character cannot be fastened. 1t has taken
more than twelve centuries to give us that
wondr0us blending of Briton and Saxon
and Norman which has resulted in the
Englshman of the present In America we
weakly think that the whole matter may be
settled and the new type established in some
three-and-thirty years. But if the work can
not be fastened, it does not follow that il
may not be feolishly and needlessy retarded,
with good deal OF attendant discomfort and