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Show OUR DAILY LITERATURE. If the daily papar is from tbo nature na-ture of the case the dnily social mentor men-tor and expositor and preacher of truth, will it not follow from tbo ntiirfl of the case that ha appointment appoint-ment and the exercise of it (unction are rt'ulated by some cer-tttiuand cer-tttiuand generally recOKiiizd cahuii-i? I-t thr-re nnt kiiiii ultimate court of judgment uid appn.il hviai; an h f-t.aivw f-t.aivw pMvr,? C rj it he lint ttt-rt'.-.tiiieiic in -1 ' ifi .t ih pn i wli-.i!ly ti'ii-- u:.i.-d? si; :o i-xpr - n Preely i twiy utor an nb ilin poor'? -,;d. iu r y .-.ivl i -hi . n--1 vr!. Anitinci: .jiiiul, w!i ,,i -' . . ru iHht or pricter, rund -c.-t "i mi w. uiore or leew directly, to carta. ti gri ultimate priuciplea ou moral and practical aubjecta. Distinct acknowledgement acknowl-edgement ol amenability to these uui vernal truths, and an intelligent nvowal of tiiem ia the daily naDer'a act of conformity, the subacription to irrre vttrBiMe maxima of buru-u culture cul-ture and conduct. This is what converts the daily paper from an instrument of arnachy into an instrument of order. la the relert-nce to uui vernal moral and filial principles in this connection connec-tion far letc.iit d? Teaching, censorship, censor-ship, Kiuclauce, 'aw aD Obiigalioua r.:vu really nu meaning, purpude or luundation niiht ut such principles. The presd has uo tuisaiun and do eod, except a commercial one, with out ibein and I am speaking speak-ing of the Literature of tbe presd. Editing without the acknowledgement nl ultimate ethical truth is "beating i (he air." Aod I am Baying that the most direct and plastic of all secular agencies for tbe formation of human character, muet hve uodempath its action, if not openly exhibiting it, a plan or scheme of ultimate truth, up toward which it is aiming to elevate humanity, and by itaderee of ddelity to which it aubmitsitaelf to be cried. Whattbeniatbecourt, and how composed, which uita in judgment, iq the matter of literary fidelity and loyalty? who presides in tbe cape aod applies the rulee? Trie vox populi is ait true an axiom, critically and mo rahy, as it is ecclesiastically. Evidently Evi-dently tbe people, in the use and exercise of the innate laws and specific characteristic powers of more or leas cultivated humanity, are the court of ultimate appeal and will give lenience in the case. And the d'flerence between gimuine daily lilera'ure and spurinu daily literature mil inereiore be found in the (u t that the one is built on acknowledged universal truths; the oiber on narrow virwi of truth; the one is an appffti ".0 man us man, tne other addreeers his pnjudicen; tt.e one is catimlic in tone, the other 18 sectarian; one has, the refinement of charity, the ututri coarse. While some good critics wou d, I perhaps, say that tbis ia radical and ; open- tbe wy to skeptical develop-1 incut, others wou d podoib y think it ai.mcientiy con-ervattvi:. Lobmg! upon the present condition ol the popular mind in America, while I see I out one tribunal of literary appeal j And one morally executive ageut, I aee aleo m that tnbuoa! and in that! ag.-ut, hupe and a ground of couraKd. I Fur free thinking may be sound , thinking; aud w iih the hlgb court my lor tne present be obliged to listen lis-ten to flippant denial of the louud-t-iiouB ol law and morality, tor coo trolling dtcisiou wni, in me end, t? practically (obr aud din. r-rH I lie ijpnius of America is the ruprerffvii uve of a ladyhood that, in a bad cneitt, can heieu to what is lot -8 wiibout being corrupted; tbe erubodi ment of a purity that makes other ihiDga pure, and which can admire only what is lovely and of good re port. True moral university aud irue Christianity blentl and become identical. Can tne Amercan heart bp detached irum the love oi th true, toe beamiiul aud the good ? the absolute y true, tbe Universally beau-tilul, beau-tilul, the infinitely gotMt ? If Dot, we aie "all right" and reasonably nafe, and inis tbjug:it uuloldj ihe true scope O! our daily lirera'.ure Fur, should it he said, tne daily prea cannot be avowedly bound to even the morality ol tbe Bible, but must be left tree in its axiom, rules and methods as untrammeled as nature, a Belt determined as the power of willing grant it. But then, it in thei - xercirie of the highl gilij accord j me to tbe very beat method i the daily piea can neither Iree nsil Irom tbe .;okiei bood that hiudc humauity to ihe va Hirp and fiuiveriDg 'f truth, brauty and goodniva socially or is unable to find -v more complete moral and coucreie practical exhnnuou oi them man is found in Ihe Bibiy, it wilt hardly be necessary for the press i to boast a freedom wider or purer than that of revealed truth. Still let absolutism in speculation do its beat lor humanity; only let benevolence be the motive, aud tbe greatebt good of the greatest number the practical result and teat of truth Gentile. |