New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-12


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London Correspondence OF The Trbune
LosDos Fddsy, sspe 20 1870
Btsp, Greeley 4 MeEtran o,to
GRETLE&EH-I have many topics to SPEAK o. -
day,. and do not know that stall have si1' v a.
complish n1y tssk But at must begin Wv 80.
event that is past-thAt is the mosap8 rod
Peace Congress recently held At FfanA0ss r -,
s,ent deal to say to you soe PA'' 20, oo,.
Peace Congress and while e@PlsSa. ..o.,+;o,.
onrysnoa in its oriucipsg naac '0--.o lat
T., ,.o.yd to tho anti Socialist
s,,ro6or If the members Of this A's'n,V,5' 0SPo1'N
800 ,vbo represented France ana hog,anU
'n'ss 49,, original intention to attend the ConYen'
~ r-enkfors, but was prevented IN part oy
sa.sonents with still more important york
80 even that Of the Peace Congress-the work oil
CHRISTIAN socialism, the work Reorganization aud
narc;iation between Rllinterestg, Of which Enga
AZ this moment is the actual and only center, at
lea.t so far as the Old World il concerned Beside
that am not yet 10 suitable condition TO present
mvser before the Peace Congress, "a should Do
compelled to stand on ths defensive against most
Of its members particularly the French members
who have waged, and still wage against ns ciaei
war There are additional reaGons, which keep
hack or the present, Butt gives me none the lees
rlessure TO state that the principle Of which
The Congress is the organ ID making q deep
~ immersion on the public mind. The pro-
fa,ss0ly serious journals still make believe laugh
Al ;t--wi.pfa. ire aGtioles OF The I%naes--but
,.ag oernot asi5 acknowledging its Importance
Az &c ire journals which laugh at everything
- Paaeh cr example - they have oonFo'ssd
e7en ghiie following their sad trade OF public buf
foops. that The idea WAS ripe and pregnant with
great resuts the Wait Of Elm BURT! and Mir
sturpe to Denmark, certainly did not have for ito
object tompke the combatants 10y down their sfms
The missionaries Of the olive branch Who are pr&c
ticsl men, whatever may be said of them, did not
expore themselves TO such fidicule. Butt il Ger
tain that their noble course will produce grca'
effect on tbs general mind that IL will ditPose sbe
bellieerent parties themselves TO eXhioit more
p]acabls temper, aud that it will alao exert good
influence on thas different kind Of Peace Congrass
whicb ia now ia session in London tllQda 10 tho
conference between she plonpotausiaries OF Eng
land France and Husaia, Independently OF iss an
Dua eepion tbs Peace ConBreas, Whose permanent
Committee fesidea as London, s constantly sE worH
III. now taking the necessary measures 70 give to
tbe ne xt session which 10 TO be held ~ London
during the Grand Exhibition, all the Importance
belonging TO the extraordinary occasion OF Cos
mopoian Convention. The Committee ha5 held
aoycrs meetings this WeeBi tasll8 adFaptsge OF
the presence Of q certain number OF Its hoss dis
tinanished members from different oountrlas
know hom the beat authority that Cue iirs appeal
for funds to ensbe the Cons csc TO carry It'd plans
for s5l into effect, has elresdy producsd me sum
of $4,000 Lgmartine who has be3n in London
for few days past present day before yester
dav at one Of the meetings oil the C0mmiCee. IL
was wished to call q public meeting to eoao!e hin
10 present 80 the English people his yiews on the
situation of France, ard the prospects OF Europe,
He declined the honor Every one Judges Of things
In bis own point OF view. II | were Ia Lamar
tine's place should have preferred 10 Spcak az
tw enty meetings in London In order to remove tho
effects OF the paid catumnles ths have been dlraot
ed against the Government OF which he :" as part,
rather than TO pubiAh 10 the COnSetteT dtt Peupte
his disttibea aud Destinations sgainss Socialism,
which he has nos yet taken the trouble to oompre-
bend
However this may be, Lamartiue, 1t ia said
made an excellent speech before the OOmm'Eee of
the Friends Of Peace, and what il st, better tue
Fundamental idea IF this speech wae, that tho trae
pacific queston wa not merely International
peace but peace in the bosom of every nation
bets cen tho rich and The poor, beeVG8n ptali6Fa
and Iaboreg Lnmattlne declared shGs this qu9s.
tlon wss brought for*srd TO DAY throughout I'll
Europe, Bnd that lhere was no mathCd OF psci24-
ton except 80 far SIS il was received by tna ooacd
latina process of science, by th5 pd@elal moral
action ofreigion, and b. tue iHtllA1a az fhe 'saee
CONGRESS- itEeE
Ht, Gntly, invited the Peace Congress- 80 ia:cr-
pose batweon the oe.lgertnt p&fties ia tbs social
war, and IN this conflict t. take the Attltud3 which
becomes the apostles OF the oHve.brEucn Il bs
lopgs TO the olive auCd and A0t 10 the cagabnes
of Cen Ohsnegn 4darmes or 10 the nuskets
of the National Quad, 10 bring she revolution in
Francs 10 cose, And the close Of the revolution
in France, Is neg arrangement Oi 81 The social
interests
H. instead of thus eGpresaiNg himself baf1re
small committee, Lamsruue had accepted the pub
lie meeting which vas proposed, he would nave
done moro tohasten the work Of cancellation, shan
he die during the past year 90 retard H. oY hlt
imprudent aud rttrograde manifestations IL the
C0nSeitley dt Fdupie We shall ace what use me
Peace OongreaS will make OF tbe advtca OF La
mavtipe But the impartial cetloa NJ witch aim
in my correspondence with The Tribune, aud my
old affection for L amartine equally induce mo TO-
say that forthe uGst time, tho PeNee Congress has
heard tho expression OF true mlsslon, and tn1E
Lamsriine has as length opsned toa way for
Gaping from ali tho Contradictions in which i; has
been involved by its exclusive sympathy with tho
Egononl sta against the SooiatsEs Nor should it
re forgotten That ths French Secretary of the
Peace Congreis, n, Joseph 6arnier, Ia one OF the
ptil cipal ed,tore Of tho joorns La Pdtr1ti which
may be considered one of the sau ard bearers N
the oiv, ypr OF the capitsists agsjoAt the labor.
eIs, and thst the greater part OF the French nom
beTs of the Congress, with tina exception O( u,
de Girsrdia, and uow Of Lsuartina. are editors OF
the orsan Of the Ec nomisls, which saAtes with
the Academy Of Moral and Political Science, all
the r. aponsibllity of the psrddous attack on )
Itis & sinsul1r fac: that tia Peace O3n5yess has
hitherto been unwilling to perceive shAs the civil
interior peace 8tsteg was the first cspse OF the
maintenance OF peace betTeeA nations, ami THAI
the p.cifcstion Of Europe USE ! dream 10 long as
tbs governments had more mead Of 'hair soldiers
to fuppya.s in.urrec,ou Shan 70 defend thaiVfCoa.
tier, The Pcscs Congress, IN exclusively esp9us,
ing the economical doctrines OF che sohool OF tree
competition, go called, but which Is better styled
the tchoolog antagon-.io c3mpali;ion has alIed 10
understand that Hsok sides wi:h she principle
which sanctions Ia all civil transactions, sho RICH.
OF ,ha st1ongaa. ard OF me aharpest IN Lha ba.ta