The New York herald., 1872-11-11

CRUMBLING RUINS.
There i4no other city in which 1t seemed possible
that snch destruction could be accomplished. Gran
tie, sel the child Of nre, and able almost to with
stand its ravages, melted under the agency Of the
nAme AZ II II were wax. 60 back TO my boyh0od,
when ! lived there, and remember all the
streets that have been des0lated. l have
played on them. / remember the old South
side; how little by little business has been
eucroaching; how street upon street has been given
up to 1t, and how hundreds Of residences have had
their places taken by buildings devoted to commerce
A change has come over this ancient part OF these
streets what capacity Of stores were here what
piles of commercial bulldingsl 1t seemed as
though architecture had done its best. 1t seemed
as though buildings were erected there to last as
long as
TIE PYRAMIDS HAVE STOOD.
But the namos have snuffed out their life and they
are gone. The sun went down last night smiling
upon great and prosperous city. 1t rose this
morning looking down upon roaring name and
tonight 1t settles upon a city Of ashes and OF
gloom. We could never imagine loss SO wide, so
sudden, so contrary to oil human chances. 1t
Is In in some respects unmeasured and un-
measurable; to individuals and the products
OF skilled labor It almost transcends all
calculation. Men say $25o,O000c0 was lost
lost we cannot understand. The loss OF build
ings, OF machinery, is no small loss; but what has
been the loss OF the work OF the loom OF fabrlcsS
but what is the loss OF the fleece Of
the nocks what OF the fruits and prod
uce that the ships have brought, what
OF the brain powerS This has been transcendent.
The organizations Of labor that have been knocked
asunder, all this loss no man can attempt to esti
mate; The individuals, too, who have been placed
by this under serious embarrassment The man
who yesterday looked through
GOLDEN AVENUE
coal ana asS pcHre need no be
IN color. Tonight think Of the poor who have
port year ago Chicago was prost9rated;
sate then city W whose history had to be nade made
history S' So SSss East na Ts se
joined together In one common calamity. In no
hT could y have where It would
ils; idsss-i mean mean, something that is ts; tan
sprung from the people. and is ordained for the
peOple-ideas that have faith In the Judgment, self
ton % and in the M growth Of Substantial Institutions.
mean by American ideas the faith OF man In the
mass and the whole OF society," and that this Is more
important to the nation and the totality OF life
than the privileged or upper classes. Boston
stands f0r
AMERICAN IDEAS
Our earlies heroes of liberty and its blessed fruits
were planted there. 1t was from Massachusetts
that Virginia kindled her torch, and when the
mother country made war upon her, and we began
our War of independence, the King was discounted,
and all throughout the land we began to read his
draw the first writ During all the burden OF the
American war it was at this fountain that the ma
darkest DAY Of Old Massachusetts, when liberty was
in the field and was imperllled, that Boston or
Massachusetts, ever ninched: Here, then, began
that there has not been other land
marks, but liberty began to be planted there.
Ever since this has continued Other States have
fallen from their manhood, and gone down and
down. Massachusetts, has never taken step
backward. Boston has never since the first day Of
Its history failed to champion knowledge, liberty
or religion. Hated the city has been because
because disorder hates order; because ignorance
hates intelligence; because hunger hates regulated
liberty. There Is no State-there is no place In
these federated States-that does not owe debt
OF gratitude to the city OF Boston. 1t has given SYM
pathy to al, and there is not q place, how
lcavened by the influence of Boston. The
whole continent has been her debtor for schools,
for literature. for scholars, noble band Of men.
From the earliest days to the present this has
been her history and her scholars were never more
illustrious than they are today. It has been her
so large class OF literary and educated citizens
her force has been expended IN making her highest
children. You cali Boston aristocratic. You smile
at her peculiarities Smile at them il you will you
cannot hurt her. She can bear this There are
no such institutions on the globe There Is no such
proficiency that which she gives in music, In the
nne arts, in the elementary studies and in the
as that which she gives to the sons of her immi.
THE BLACK AND THE POOR WHITE
in her common schools and In her high schools,
aud this too without money and without price;
that instruction, too, was given more than
a ss sen Sale a1r afe
of Boston, 1t here that were originated the best
things In the land. shame on that man who, in
ity God could not have laid his hand of fire on
any. city that could touch the feeling Of the
not been H local calamity il V is national at disaster
The patriotism OF every heart should be stirred by
It. Every man who enjoys any refinement in ltera-
debted to this city, Let us avoid, In looking
at this calamity, speculation as to the action OF
ed did and %Sy Sd WHY
say it was sent TO humble proud heart as though
God sent
as though Brooklyn did not need the same school
master, as IL New York was not bad enough to re-
to humble MS. But who shall say why this disaster
is sent in any other way than the Summer Is senty
Can sRarrow da to the ground ~, without Ut the view
ifiis into the sea on its solitary lone:
by the providence OF God. 1t is providence, but
God works through laws 1t Is prepared before
hand. He does not send plaques to one nation be.
cause they are idolaters or cholera to another be-
cause they are Roman Catholic or Protestant. Such
interpretations are simply delusions There Is no
authoritative Interpretation in our day Of the way
in which God acts. There are moral uses
which are the answer to the 'Why was this doneyn
But this being done, the question, Is how shall we
benefit by the disaster2 We are good in the inter-
probation OF the future, not OF the past. Cities
which are the grandest products of civilization and
the most admirable in their order have been the
worst in their administration. The plague has
brooded their streets and their avenues; there
have been vast interests Of se1shness created,
and punishment has followed directly or indirectly.
why the streets should be
NARROW AND CROOKED
was not determined by any architectural reasUn.
Where hundreds and thousands OF men are Great
ing malaria by living so closely together, was 1t
wise to live So And yet 1t took this plague to