New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-04
THE TRIBUNE.
C.srher des Etnts-Cnis -Onr Protegce,'
Queen Victoria.

= ;,s i..is which scandalized the American editor.
:. los M, content itself with slight notice, but
-. forth manifesto in formidably large type in re
Ply
.h,, Mr. Greeley saw this only in a translation,
,hcr, i, had lost whatever of light and graceful in
"a manner excused piece OF raillery very coarse
:, h. substance. We will admit that, had he seen
as il originally stood connected with other items
!, the playful chronicle of Pierre Darand it would
have impressed him differently
Ru, the cause of irritation in the Courier and OF
be sharp repartces Of its manifesto is probably
xhat was said of the influence among us OF French
raa,ure and French morals to which the "organ
oftbe French American population felt called on
nmake a spirited reply and has done so with less
If wit or courtesy than could have been expected
from the organ Of people who, whatever may be
their faults are at least acknowledged in wit and
courtesy prominent We hope that the French
who come to US will not become, in these respects,
imericanzed and substitute the easy sheer and use
a sucb terms as ridiculous "virtuous nissan
,hropy" &c for the graceful and poignant raillery
Of their native land which tickles even where II
wounds.
We may say, in reply to the Courier that If
Fourierism "recols towards state OF nature" II
was in some respects because It's author lived IN
country where the natural relations are If not more
cruelty at least more lightly, violated than in any
other of the civilized world The marriage Of
convention has done its natural office in saPping
the morals of France, till breach Of the marriage
vow has become one of the chief topics OF Its daily
wit, one Of the acknowledged traits OF its manners
and a favorte, ia these modern times we might say
Me favorite subject of It's works OF fiction. From
the time of Moere himself an agonized sufferer
behind his comic mask from the nhdelities OF wife
he was not able TO cease to love- through memoirs.
novels dramas and the voileyed squbs OF the press,
one fact stares us in the face one of 80 common
occurrence that men. if they have not ceased to sui
fer in heart and morals from It's poisonous action,
have vet learned to bear with shrug and careless
laugh that marks its frequency. Understand! we
do not say that the French are the most deeply
stained with vice of ali nations We do not think
them so-There are others where There is as much
but there is none where it so openly Acknowledged
In literature, and therefore there is none whose 1T
erature alone is 40 likely to depravc inexperienced
minds by familiarizing them with wickcdness be
fore they have known the lure and the shock OF pas
sion And we believe that this is the very worst
way for youth TO be misled, since the miasma thus
peryades the whole man. and he is corrupted in head
and heart at once without one strengthening effort
at resistance.
Were il necessary. we might subsiantiate what
We say by quoting from the Courier within the last
fortnight Jokes and stories such as are not TO he
found so frequent IN the prints OF any other nation
There is the story Of the girl Adelaide, which at
another time, we mean to quote for lis terrible pa
hos There is man on trial for the murder OF his
wife of whom the witnesses say He was so fond
Of her, YOU would never have known she was his
wiie"-Hcrc is one only yesterday where man
kills woman to whom he was married by his rea
tves AT eighteen she being much older and dis
agreeable TO him, but their properties matching
After twelve years marriage. he can no longer sup
nor, the woke and kills both her and her father, aud
nbs only regret is that he cannot kill all who bad
any thing 10 do with the match Either intdeliiy
or such crimes are the natural result OF marriages
made as they are in France, by agreement between
the friends whou, choice of the parties Ii is this
horrible svs,em and not native incapaciy orpurf
and permanent relations that leads 10 such results
We must observe en- PEASANT, that this man was
the father of five children by this hated woman-s
wickedne.s not peculiar to France or any nation
and which cannot fail TO do its work OF filling the
world with sickly, weak or dcpraved beings who
have reason to curse their brutal father that he does
not murder them as well as their wrctched mother
Who, more unhappy than the victim OF seduction Is
made the slave of sense in the name Of religion and
Of law
The last steamer brings us the news OF the dis
grace OF Victor Hugo OF the most celebrated Oh
the literary men Of France, and but lately created
one Of her Peers The affair, however, IL to be
gsblIoly hushed up
But we need not cite many instances to prove
WHAT. known TO the whole world. that these wrongs
are. if not more freqsent more lightly trosied by
the French in literature and in discourse Than by
any nation OF Europe. This being the case, can an
American. anxious that his Country should receive
only safe guard from endless temptations good
moral instruction and mental food, be other than
gricved a, the promiscuous introduction among us
of their writipgsl We know hat there are in
France GOOD men. pure books, pure wit, Blu, there
issn immensity that is bad and more hur,ful to our
iarmer. clerks and country mlincrs, than To those
to whose taste. i, was originally addrcssed-as the
snail pox is mos, fatal among the wild men OF thu
woods; and this. from the anprincipled cup'dity o
publishers is broad cas-, rccklessly all over the lane
We had hoped would become healthy asylum io
,So-e crippled and tainted before by hereshArS
abuses This canno, be prevented we can ON!
make head against il. ard show that there Is real,
another way of thinking and lving-ay and an
other voice for /, in the world. We are natural.
% the alert. and, if we sometimes start too quick
that is better than to play lie Nor Fa'nea"f' I'h'
Black Sluerard)
We are displeased at the uuicel'ng manner IL
which the Courier speaks Of these whom be CALI
osr noodle He did not misunderstood as anc
some things he says on this subject deserve and sus
ses, re,ori tina, would be bitter. But we forbcar
because ii would injure the innocent with the
guilty. The Courier ranks the Editor OF The
Tribune among the men who have undertaken an
'enectual struggle against the pcrversites Of thin
over world" BY inc6cctnal we presume he
mc1ls thar n bsa uavcp succoedNd in exiling owl