New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-16
EUROPE BY An AMERICAN.
English Political Writers md American
Critics.

Paris Corr dependence Of The Tribune.
PARIS, Thursday, February q 1850
porceyo that Journal Of your City copies eN
tracts from The Tr,buHe containing my letters, OF
which the Editors are kindly pleased to approve
but they add that am every radical Let us
DISCUSS this word Radical We must apply strong
words without restraint TO the inheritance OF Gre
clan, Roman and Medieval iasehood with which
tais nineteenth century is deluged As long as
the patient will bear, the crucl will hck-and the
back lick must be given with Tom CRIB like accu-
ra.y and force 70 the cruel before they will turn the
eve inward aud learn selfknowledge, and, that
learned be able 70 cast a world wide sympathetic
regard. which IS the harbiuger OF the Great and
uaIowed To come TO the precise discussion OF
the matter what does Radical mean 1t comes
AZ the school.boy learns, from the Latin radir, a
A,t The Radical, then, goes to the root OF things
Can writer then, be too radical Is not exact
science RADICAL In Algebra what becomes OF
demonstration unless the root be icund Morals
nolitics social science must be radical, or they are
lalse. Genius is radical God Is radical All that
IS found in the oak lies IA the acorn Mans insa-
buttons must be referred to his individual self and
n they fail in one iota 10 establish the Supreme
Dignity and Majesty of Each Man, they are hes
As such our institutions are hes they make dls
uuciions where none exist. They estabIsh castes
N name or In fact, or in both Mr. Fennimore
cooper in his admirable work on England, says
that IN England as ia America among the white
population, castles exist Mr.. Cooper IS nght w G
nave hdeous castles IN America, az IN the hsst
lndies-differently constituted, existing IN de
,rces not hereditary even, but stu during the ives
OF individuals, as regards their Beng soul Al
y. IA moi - y =
American Navy, instead OF beng considered
source of pride, would be viewed as a source OF
Disgrace with its fierce desPotism, It's mauacles'
Is " hips by which American citizens may be, at
nrecu port even, damned "a the level OF a scdrsed
Heloi The Radical sees God best work IN man
ID him prismatic ooors, essential sounds, are phys
al tvpes of the moral harmonies OF the Universe,
,xhen we shall cease 20 be bulhed by Antiquity
W must cut Dose from English suPeFstitlons we
must write our own literature We must read
English History not as Enghshmen write IL oU' as
Frcemen should write It No man - tree who
makes the least reserve for privilege. either for
himself or another An unrepresenied people
neople OF slaves They may, as in England not ne
secbp,caly tied down 70 plantation. with driver
but ,hsy are slaves-eieh, out OF ten--bccausc gov
.rned without word to say IN the making or al
o,inistrs u on of their laws THIS Is rscicGi eut II
can no more be denied than the Mulnphcauon Ia
be The man was night who IN the crowd 81
msc,in, Al Boston. in which M Webster after his
return from England was addressing and making
,avorahle mention Of her policy cred out, me
people Of England are slaves A~nter 70 DC uue'
therefore must be radical he must not esteem
any institution a. OF more value than smoke wheh
| resh heavenly wind may how away and leave the
atmosphere as clear as the star studded mghi OF Al
| American sky, in which lnfnigude and Immortality
| lie revealed. Ii we were more radical would our
| press be So overland with English ideas, the cor
Supted putrefsctious OF the Norman Conquest Oar
press would then not echo with the praises Of tech
aical LAWYERS and cold wzters. SIS ptilauthroplc
reormers and inspired men Broaghsm. MAcsulsy,
| Pcel-sll such political GuRcks-woald be measured
| ~ = Goa standard, and found wanting w Woalo
know then that IL is impossible for any 70 bod
| an office or title under the British Government
ana De either great or pbilanthroPc. That act Of
tself includes infinite injustice, II Includes the
murder OF Ireland. and the murder Of lnois. the
making Of two millions OF pauPers IN England and
| SootIsnd. and two millions more who are depend
emf for their daily bread, for the accident Of the
cotton. growing and the trsce with Ameriea, Ano
he, i 8 ststesmsnshpi" Huge falsehood TX
tirpate the word from the language dnTe II into
| the wilderness of wrongs, there 10 die. F~ the
sake Of Humanity and Truth, let Us hear no more
such tributes as this to Lord Brcnghsm nom diner
emit American papers on the republication o. ms
| speeches =, ~.