New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-21

which the Head Of the State wore Loud inter
rupticn on the L eff
VoIcEs-W hat DO you mean By the term Head
Of the State
The MIslsTFR OF WAR; call the Head Of the
State the person elected 70 that place by the votes
Of the country. Renewed interruption As q
bis wearing military unto m il ought 20 be bJrae
in mind thst he j. the head OF the Na-ioual 6 larl
ION the Lef'. No, no and not on,y Of the Ma
tionsl Guard, bu, Of the Army also. Noise on the
Lett But whatever may be the opinion OF hon.
gentlemen on the subject, it is surely indecsrous
thus 20 insult the President Of the Republic
Hear. hear
NJ. CHARRAs said that the Presiden. Of The Re
public lad 10 more right % wear the uniform Of
the National Guard, because be was it, head. than
he had to wear the robe Of the Procu-eur General
OF the Court Of Cessation. because he was the
head Of the various civil bodies"
NJ. Charros is right But there is a deep mean
ing IN the military dress OF the President The
first Napoleon was a soldier; the second mast De
one too, he thinks. Re has taken every occasion
70 swear by sud hatter the Army: be never fails
20 distribute decorations aid scatter fine sayings
The army may always depend on ne. be cries
That il not tie question. IL j. whether be can de-
pend On the army. The last election Shows be an
not. What will be the next move O, the great
Generals remains 20 be seen Slre new irritation
may be sttempted-but when Barbes begs the
people to keep quiet aid trust % their votes tor
dress, we msy look forward Ith confidence.
krow nothing more triumphanily exhibiting the
progress OF Democracy than the notice which
America and Americans are now exciting in Europe
IL seems but yesterday, when their deficiency OF
liberal contributions 10 Art and Letters made them
the scott Of the Edinburgh ReUier-the literary
ThUnderer-the power whose remOtest rumblings
were dreaded by our Provincial neophytes, as they
chose 20 consider themselves. Now tins is chang
ed. No place in Europe, of the same size as Bos-
ton, Massachusetts,, bearing tae quiet relation
of the capital Of one of thirty States, makes as
steady ard bright contributions TO literature. As
we are cut of from Antiquity by being placed in a
new continent with hardly any relation with the
past except the quaint adoptlOns OF the names and
ubrases-not the ceremonial, cOncubnage nor cruel
ties Of the Jewish Theocracy, u wo1d be qaite
natural Tor our scholars TO coniine themselves to
local investigstion,-tO Indian mounds American
history and to the intellectual phenomena, grow
ing out of our new condition Of things. But such
is the generous fecund nature OF the Democratic
mind though We are seriously engrossed IN pioneer
labors in the unprecedented unheard OF tolls OF
bringing parts OF IN Empire separated by Thousands
Of miles closely together by means OF canals roads,
railways and telegraphs, in performing with
twenty-five millions Of people more elementary
abors than continental Europe, with some ten times
as many,-that in Mr.. Ticknors recent investiga
tons into Spanish literature, and similar works up
pear contributions which rightly should belong to
other people than ourselves. 1t only proves, how
ever, that mOssgrown Universities and venerable
foundations are wholly unnecessary to a steady
literature not only supplying immediate wants but
with an artistic cosmopolitanism seeking strange
lands and romantic times for its themes. The
theological instruction Of America is already better
than that Of Eng and considered BY the English
themselves, who have examined into the subject.
This arises from the demand made for well in
structed Clergymen A demand for the article,
III H. IL
ture | use the word secular in its cant sense.
Every writer must be religious, or he is nothing.
His iokes even should have that force. AS such,
they should carry truths with them. and put the
reader nearer heaven even By eughter-a better
spiritual railway. in fact, than dysPeptic anathemas
or stiff solemnites by which barren minds disguise
themselves and pass for more than they are worth.
In regsrd to the deficiencies of their Universities,
the English are beginning 70 be sensible. speech,
accompanying a motion for inquiry into their
condition depicts the dead alive condition of many
OF the fellowships, distinguished for profound but
impracucable knowledge. l have been surprised
at the ignorance Of these men on great questions,
and the modern languages, the key 70 the know
ledge Of the age.
The Agricultural depression Of England, forces
the Tories TO look 10 some economies, which, up to
this time, they have secuted Mr.. d Israeli accord
ingly has made speech on that head TO which
Russelreplied. Hume pointed out the Inconsistency
OF UOlu pdilts-dllu DfELtN tiiIui W .piu IA
insisting on reform. The question OF Consular
Salaries is before the House. The office Of Consul
now is bestowed by the plunderiDg arstocracy
its own blood Places are filed with Consuls |
where trade is wanting. The reduction OF dpo- |
matte salaries will only come with hard struggle. |
That is exclusively the hands Of men OF family.
Sprirs of nobility rise in it rapidly, as they Do ia
the army, navy or church.
The British news from India is p0rtentous ugly |
deiles, fresh incursons chronic bu.chery in word
Candidates for that bUtchery are graduated along |
with those for the Church IN the same college |
Both 90 out together the one TO kill the people Of
India, the other to rob and convert them
South Carolina being foreign State seiz IS upon |
British subjects,-if OF African extraction, upon |
their touching at CharlestOn-not landing. A Gaze |
has come before Parliament: a steward of ship |
ilom Antigua, kept in prison two months, his
crime having oiiciated on board a ship that touched
at Charleston. Under this contemptuous disregard |
OF the lyrical and prosac boasts of England that the
persons OF her subjects, not criminals, are always |
protected even IN the remotest quarters OF the |
Eerth-the English mart they feel the depth Of |
the degradation. But they cannot afford to 20 to |
war with America. The thing was tried when |
Mr.. Buchanan was Secretary Of State. On this |
point the L0HdOR Standard SAYS much that is true |
in the following remarks. international Law is a /
cursed farce: interest draws powder from the big
gest gun the strong triumph the weak are cut 70 \
pieces.
Lord Palmerston,' says the Standard "was |
OBLIGED TO confess the fact stated, and 70 confess
moreover that he had frequently demonstrated 70 |
no purpose against similar outrages on British sub |
ects The answer he received to his rem0n.
strances being that should Great Britain insist on
the rights Of her subjects, the United
States must declare void, as by giving twelve |
months notice they had the right to DO, the treaty
IF ISIS.
T1,;s :. vary liz hnIl,,in, an tho rart Of tho /
United States and submission 70 being bullied on |
the side of Great Britain; but Lord Palmerston |
has his reason for such submissiOn-the excellent |
reason laid by Lord Dundonald in his comnunica- |
ton to the Minister Of Venezuela. Powerful |
States such as the North American States, are to |
be resigned to the natural consequences Of their
misdeeds but weak States, Greece and Nene- |