New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-29
A PLEA FOR TOLERANCE.
AN ADDRESS by HENRY wATTERsON.

for Tolerance He said at the outset that he had 10
offer few loosely jonted reflections upon everyday
life with some particular references to the compro-
misses needful to its well being and safe CONDUCT
After explaining that the foundation OF all greatness
in maa is character he said
believe that I'm tho conduct Of life the first OF the v-
tus Is tolerance Indeed tolerance OF oor, NM The
basis of physical necessity. We do not move aong te
street or afs nv r ah1Is svns The Way to no
keeping own course regardless or c0hsequ
Everybody and everything in ysn and practically IN
an idotc effort nj direoness The man VINO uocs .'
s rs ~ sG IsSsi bIcRsnar and bully
once who did not end his days IN iunatc
I'm his mortal frame, who had passion, s0ms"Ia, exag
grrated an bound Ia admit for keeping tDe neigh,no
his acute sense OF pr9prlety re Wa c was ss
great personal courage and Vigor OF ineeC., vas 800
and take passage of pistols with on summers Day
an Apollo Bclyiere pidslDe, anu ~ n
inc For ten years lie kept many hundreds OF people III
sse of perennial terror swearing all the while, and be
eypg that il were moi for him Things would 30 W te
had Well finally he carried his regulating prOpehsties
to a point which young friend of his could not DrooR
and TO use o newspaper techncay the vcdiieV Oh we
coroner's Jury was "justidablc honicde Inc peopIo
t1apa,ho,ts were Immensely relieved, and began forti
with t. make hero of tho slayer VINO was eoeVo" " ~
il in most OF your primitive school readers bit
OF yersifcation which reconts an interview between
the great d ha ami Of oof
have always thought the bandit got the better OF me
g
'sbo carried his revolving, sybarced system OF
domestic reform too arlike many an other social PM
sr in consequence But after all, what more Odd DC
do than Alexander Napoleon, and Bisnaaek i"o u"
Nnt 70 foo classic nor yet to vaguely usra
tive let ~ take the present situation OF
Dgoint Of view You all admire Prince Bismarck lie IL
your current type OF hero, uniting many ai'cIsme
anu niabt niou hoId his own with Rolando or Robin
Wood; cnltivated potcs meaphysclan, able to cope
win GaaGnf % vi creaycnied Napoleon and sent
Gambeta down to the loot o. me class >1n noaue Ire
IL snccessfi You DO not ask why or how. You 90 not
stop to consider whether he Is right or wrong |neter
no i hat they do not Immediately affect YOU You
merely see being who mows down oil before MN IKE
,nd - mayer beaten Taere Is nothing like scces So Yes
feray il was Hero OF Austerliz to-day IL Is inc
Won Who can tell SO you fall down and WORSHIP lhc
craven image OF success, never thinNn3 OF Tue
ntcs who fan his way and arc wiped OUT never caring
for the principles OF evil or OF good which he may en
poy sacrifice in bis career , 10 MT s,ronottze with
France at all. The beautiful country! t1e brave tne
generous people! who have necn Iie out Of Of Ir n
pilses vet witna frugal and honest pyhg thelr Just
debts refusing to confess defeat or TO 10 nu,Ieu ~
Gaming their ioobod and coming again TO the scratch
nndantl d In spirit undminshed III ardor, demOnstIi-
tive and sympathetic and true 10 their ha.te Souy
lies m fine French the freedom lie enjoys tO-y but
not many Frenchmn IN neric@ wh arc con
sIdcrably ahead in the struggle Tor aDsViulc SUBJ
On the urt of Bismarck and for national existence on the
nar nj France why you let your opsions cheap e an
nnmarkcIaDe out-Oitheway tenenen ana 20 ia lor 1e
,,nua,r dog in The fight.
9"n viii understand that am pleading for tolerance
inst brte force and, to maze the point SIN clearer
and bring my meaning nearer nome let iuo CVio aon IL
dsslnsons You have most gacOusly invited me 10 iu
dress you restricting me III notiing, ain as ~ & m
flint should belong to an American citzen YET hni ny
SELF and The class OF PEOPLE wno W @ tc
,au IN LIE
10 demonstrate with yOlinoJ against the personal 'se,p
~ sr yvhich care nothing whatever but against the
,rson the policy the rght-mndedness and the right
heart.dness such Determinations am not gong ..
discuss American conflict; nor ssl apusH ""
hostality au confidence By dyeitins what Should DC "a
purely ethical inquiry into partisan alsc"sSoh' At
j. for tolerance tgat es,; spe"A' An io Of yon.
dare say, have been tapght 10 pelo'o IN ~ u,
freedom and to hate human slavery. ielr v,';;1
tte of human slavery tho central ngue, wherein tnc
Iva no,SrI was Deacr Ergo there Is nothing quite
oyuer II there be a Onesded question III the Woriu you
iI n,, - ia the slavery question: That and
, "a 'lt d Sold like sheep tnat they should be
% ho treated worse than we treat our cate-nO
sncn thing wedlock yet the common instinct
OF parontigo-fahcs aud mothers divided children SCI,
aed ANA scateiod-the twin devices OF the master ana
The oyeseer making profit ont OF wrctccdness and
sIualOr uniting themselves % tie brutish passions
uf absolute authorty-cUud any picture OF Dies
pots and deprayity 20 further or excite deeper fei-
ing OF dcesliIOIi Certainly not and you Vslt all the
ali and blame up0n the beaten parry in sectional
Dict wherein many issues Involved falling totally
to see the other side case; WHAT was the Africans
condition in his native couuyl How came he, BY Gods
Providence, to to Americaf VINO brought
Inn herei Why, you In the North are equally
to OF the wrong, If. indeed TO the final account the
balance be really the side Of the wrong Originally
ayes were owied ia the North rs well as in the south
Inc North found tlat negro labor was not probable,
aud 50 il sold slaves where they could De PIT To the
,n utapcous u,,s Ineyer have heard IL stated
that North Jailed to put tue money 1t received for Its
he h on lie hand utilized It's siaycab0r as best
il could acc Ording notion, and doubtless did
deal which morality can approve. rs Lot slavery
fbat defend wien ask you whether IL is yet deter
mined tat the ioint sin OF tic North and sonth against
humanity N the person OF the African ad NO Iedccmns
feature ana may nt DC legitimate sGS1 sre
directed by Divine hand under the inspirations of the
Dvlue Lam The tesidelatum of 3u.se s. a mere pDysi-
cal incident having abstract moral force would have
made every soutncrn Colder a patriot and a hero,
d4herent label. In snort, ITO not allow our moral
nature be bu'ied 10 net allow our outer man
be- by the idea that he who is in tie ascendant is always
rghti thiuk We 40, and 1t is from IA that
popular troubles spring, the children or nifrOw-m nlcd
ie and Iol-headelless aruy manipulated by unscI1l.
pnous demagogues DO you suppose there ever could
nave been sectional war III America III the
people OF the Noftn anu T.; SCUM coudu nave
1ney would have hanged dozen fanatical ana llprincl
pied agtators On either side nave settled the epress-
BILE conflict slave labor Labor
Of gradual reform toward final emancipation, have
avered war, and the Dacu period OF reconstruction
following war; all the nterp0siton Of tolerance,
which, like good nature IL u national characteristic
left unexlited ana undis urbed by the politicians.
there being no reason wny the Ohio any other
line separating your homes ana mine, should make us,
sprung are from tho same Ancestry tAe representa-
tiyes OF TWO or more races.
What mean, in shore and in fine, is this, that the
world habituy dupes itself to It's images and its pas
sons the extremist sets idea going and the deIns
goguc this soon IL be made effective
not rewarded PANS cI far in the rear and
ont OF sight Tine shiiy manager takes up the at the
an ideal theory local application aud utility.
The North Is made afraid VI the slave power