Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-07

neutrality, and his treaty with Great Britain prevented Ame
ca from being precpaed into awful vortex In his cir
eula address of 1885, he had said There natural and
inevitable progression from the Of anarchy the
IRENE OF tyranny, and arbitrary power is easily esab-
lshed on the ruins of liberty abused to RIGHTEOUSNESS" In
1893 he behed this aphosm be realized in France
and ne therefore strained every keep his country
aloo from the consequences In opening the final chapters
Of Ptkns work and the biographies of Washington by Mar
shall and Sparks, learn the ouages which commit
ted against the American Government and the laws of
tons by the Enjoys of the Convention and the Directory e-
net Fauche and Adet These fanatics greatly impaired the
OF the French Republic in the minds of the spasson
ate and considerate classes of the Americans Had their
measures and language been the evese-had the French
rulers given them concaory ucons they might owing
the grateful pepossesons of the Americans have accom-
phed that democratic family compact and alliance offensive
and defensive which they preached the country in defiance
of the Government and with every kind of insult to ash
ington, his councils and his voares The French rulers
only avished ndgnes the Government but violated
American neutral rights, and plundered American commerce
on the high and every wheete such extent indeed
that the President and Congress found themselves obliged to
declare null and void all the treaties with France resort
to hostile rupture. Surely gratitude that an
independent people should for the aid received from another in
conqueng their independence, sacrifice it. and all their high
est interests to the ally and submit TO immense spoiatons
and other and manifold wrongs Situated as the United
States were, with constitutions with heavy debt, with
disputes unsettled between them and Great Britain with In
dian wars, without navy, and considering the situation Of
France torn by domestic feuds, and in conflict with all Eu
rope who question the necessity, the propey the Dig
nifty Of the neutral system of Washington
In spite of all provocaons he refused deliver up Genet
when this peurbaor demanded by Fauche in order that
ne might be sent to France and there be ercud command
Of Robesperre. In the official instructions Mr. Monroe
in 1884, the President declared That he had been
early and decided friend of the French Revolution that he
mmuabe in his wishes for its happy accomplishment"
In the year 795 the President the two Houses of Con-
gess celebrated the exchange of national coors with the
French Government. Congress instructed Washington to
the Committee of Public Safety, which he did in the
that
nifty OF congratuatng the French nation upon their brilliant
and glorious achievements and hoped that those achievements
would be attended with the liberty and happiness Of the great
and magnanimous French people," All this profoundly
sincere the Union concurred in it. and moderation and
justice the other side would have perpetuated the Ame
rcan partaes and secured intimate alliance Unfortu
naey the Emperor Napoleon, after amcable adjustment
with the United States and good understanding for several
years. conceived like his predecessors the design of dragging
the Government into league with him in his belgerent and
anti commercial schemes and unfortunately too his ea-
sures not udcous temperate than those of the
Convention and Directory. We forget the Berlin
Milan, and RanbOtd DEGREES, under which American pro-
pery to the amount of upwards of hundred millions Of ancs
abruptly seized and awlesy conscated The amount is
exhibited in official estimates and lists reported to him of Anne
can vessels and merchandise either burnt bounced
uponin French ports and IN The ports Of nations nomiay
DEPENDENT The Americans could have submitted with
out protests to his maxm proceedings and purposes unless
they chose to put themselves subsection than Eng
land medtated for them. Napoleon and the British
Government furnished each other by their orders council
and their sweeping DEGREES, with petex violate American
rights At length the United States decided for with
the latter although it threatened them with intellectually
evil than Napoleon could nc They dscamed any league
with him; but they fought his enemies The party in Ame-
opposed the selection Of England repoached the Gov
eminent and the Democratic party with having INDUCED
gross and ruinous bias in favor of France
The treaty for the twenty-five millions of francs, and the
persistence OF the Americans in requiring its execution
frequently thrown up examples OF American ingrqtitude
We know, however, that the in which the American
The pf
araes which they suffered and that the treaty duly
concluded by the authority in France which the French
Charter assigns the treaty making power On the ulfment
OF the treaty, which to his Majesty Louis Phppes
prudence and Judgment and his the honor and obi
cations of the CROWN France should have been glad bury
the whole subject in oblivion There yet remain unpaid to
the Americans Of the poaons of the Revolutionary and I'M
peral Governments balance greater than the total of the
French direct subsidies to the American Revolution
II would be superfuous to expaae the magnificent
ovation of Lafayette in his last visit to the United States
The fond transports and pous homage Of the whole American
people formed manifestation of national gratitude such
known They excited by his presence and
addressed to him. their first and seadast French champion
but they touched and embraced every thing French the
saon and Acknowledgements incident the oaduvancy
of independence all revived The narrative of that
unparalleled tour by Sarrans is every
reproach from French quarter.
The writer in the Debats adverts to the sums applied by
the American Congress the relief of the wretched cooss
Of st. Domingo Americans, older probably, than he is
who witnessed the arrival and distribution in the United
OF the fugves from the Island have described to the
der coincidence and respect with which the gves well
coined into the American families, and supplied long
they needed hospitality, with every comfort attanabe for them
by their hosts might ascend far into past ime the SINH
lar reception of the banshed Huguenos Of the thou
sand Acadans expelled by the British from their settlements
in Nova Scotia of the exies of the Revolution and the Re-
storaon, who well the Polish refugees endowed
by Congress with extensive Of land All cherished
without distinction of banner, simply as Frcnchmen.
The London oraces sometimes feel themselves constrained
acknowledge applaud the prodigous public works.
the marvellous prosperity, and the martial ats of the Ame
They then embazon the AngloSaxon race and claim
for themselves a reflected use from the American exploits
The Irish, Dutch German Swedish Swiss, Polish, and
French stocks compose, however, considerable part Of the
present generation Of the United States French blood by
various and large emgraions from early date, much
widely infused than is known commonly in France
French belong every compartment of the American
temple Of fame. Why should France and cherish
the kindred Baron de Grimm, in his correspondence of
1885, mentions that Maby had undertaken sketch con-
uton for the Federal Republic the other side of the
Atlantic, and he adds
"S Pom pouvait esperer que les Americans vouusen
aveug lois leur avor ndque pare
legislator era doute de part trait de la plus
proonde polique suiyant les admrables deve
loppees dams Irate de Ia Legislation, que leur
mendat- de cultver la terre, dere pauvre amb
ton. C'est assurement qu lie meux neres
de la France, repos de rEurope entiere."
De Grimm was mistaken about the interests Of France at
least the wealth and the ambition which give power and