For the Tribune.

Voluntary Association.
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4 new influence is arising, which Is suihclently
able to supply the deficiencies ofGovernments, in
| attaining ends which they cannot reach, and IN
| afiording aids over which they have no CONTROL


the power OF Voluntary association. There Is
10 object to which this power cannot adapt itself
resources which it may not ultimately command;


and few individuals, ii the public mind Is gra.
duallv prepared to favor them, can lay the iuunda


ions OF undertakings which would have batfled
| the might of those who reared the Pyramids; and
the few who can divine the tendency Of the age
before it is obvious 10 Others and perceive in
which direction the tide of Public Opinion IS set
tng may avail themselves otthe current and con-
ccntrate every breath that Is favorable % their
course. The excrlons oil scanty number oi md
viduals may swell into the resources OF u large
party, which, collecting at last the national cner
gics into its aid, and avang itself oi the human
svmpathiCs that IN It's favor, may make the
field OF Its labor and It's triumph as wIdc as hui
manity ITSELF The clements being fdvorbly dis
posed spcck OF cloud collects vapors from the
four winds which overshadow the heavens; and
ali the varying and conflicting events Of life, and
The ne less jarring and discordant passions OF the
human breast, when once the channel Is suttl-
cently deepened, will rush into one accelerating
torrent, and be borne toward their destined home.
The power Of Voluntary Association, though
scarcely tried as yet is of largest promise for the
future and when extended upon great scale, is
the influence most removed from the shock OF
accid, MS and the decay of earthly things; renew
lag its youth with renewed generations, and be-
coming immortal through the perpctuity of the
kind.


The favorable result of all undertakings de-
pends upon the previous state and preparation OF
the world no less than thc vegetation of the seeds
does upon the soil into which it is cast; those
who have proceeded farthcst in their attempts,
and gained the point at which they aimed, had
the stream in their favor, and were more indebted
to the strength of the current than to their own
individual efforts their superiority to others con.
sisted chiefly in their superior discernment; and
they seemed to lead their contemporaries, merely
because they themselves were most led by the
spirit OF the age, and took favorable situation
for being borne forward by the tide, which they
had the sagacity TO see was upon the turn. The
Greeks would have conquered the Persans with
out Alexander; the Romans would have been en-
saved had Cesar never been born, and the Ara
oians would have been deceived by other lmpos-
tors had Mohammed never professed himself
prophet.


