The southern press., 1851-08-28
Engllsh Accounts Of France.

We some days ago drew attention TO one
those paragraphs which are set agoing in tn
American press for the purpose OF leading t.
preudces and errors respecting republican
France- We showed .tlssa, that sccosdiag 10
calculation made by gentleman curiousin sucl
matters, and published in England, crime wa
some four times greater in the latter country thai
in France. }a
we now come to another story, headed q I'm
morality and crime in Paris" which we sbal
show to be equally false and absurd 'N
But first OF all, let US remark, that these para
graphs are too English TO come from any othe
source. They are on par with the /" Anglo
Saxon farce, which certain personages havs
been instructed TO impose upon the un-Euglsi
population Of this great country, in order to ex
cite feeling for aristocratc England, in oppo
si,ion to democratic France. TO the latter
country, struggling for freedom--the old and
generous friend Of American independence
every honest man must turn with hope and in
terest. t t seaa
Since l848, England has been zealously court
ing this country, out of fear of the natura
sympathy which exists between France and
America. A union of democratic Europe with
its children in this country would be disastrous
TO the old party in England and thus, while
still abusing and insulting Americans as slave
holders, or the abettors of slavery--a system
she introduced herself rs conducive TO this
country's interests---she attempts to curry favor
with them by talking of Ango-S o-Saxonism, and
comparing battles in Mexico with the victory or
two she happened to gain over the French
But what were Agincourt and Crescy, or Poi
tiers, about which the Anglo-Saxon' talks SO
much? If we had not read of Orleans and
Patai and Beauvais, and thousand other bat
tles--and il we did not kno that England was
repeatedly driven out of her French provinces,
we might think there was something in them.
But what is the historical fact?
The Norman conquerors of England pos
sessed elsren provinces by right and marriage
the French King only four, around Paris
Backed by their AaglO-Saxons, they, during
some 400 years, made many efforts to conquer
the little French kingdom; and 50 often set trea-
ties and solemn engagements at naught, that the
French gave England the epithet which still
clings to it, Of "perfde Albion" Every time
England was beaten out of France, the French
King, according to feuda custom, restored the
conquered provinces-the English sovereign
doing " homage on his knees" and begging par
don for his "crime" in attacking France when
engaged in other wars.
England cnce or twice, during the madness of
French King, and intestine broils, got as far as
Paris. This was nothing to boast of. AT last,
TO terminate the English pretensions, the Frer ch
were forced to keep possession of Normandy and
the west of France, since which time England
and her allies have won but two battles against
the warlike populations Of the continent.
What then is the accidental victory of Agip-
court-originating in mistake--or that of
Crescy or Poitiers, seeing that the Anglo-Saxon
was not only completely beaten out, but repeat.
edy beaten out of France,
Americans, who are the descendants of the
most independent, moral, and enterpri ing por-
tions Of European nations, are not to be en-
trapped into Anglo-Saxonisn, merely because
England became, by her insuar position and
accidental circumstances, the land through which
the tide of moral liberty flowed from East TO
West The proposition is too absurd.
But LET us come to the attack on France
"ImMoRALrry AND CRmE IN PARIs-A GEN.
sus has recently been taken in Paris, and one re-
u,xlt ,o "a hat I.t. Ill Il
thirds of the adult female population are aban-
doned women, licensed by the police, or living
under the protection Of men without being mar
ried" UtH0 aII ru m
d at is said that is all the author knows.
But the police report shows the actual number
on it's list TO be some 5000 In London the
number at the lowest estimate, is 80 900 women
Of that class In Paris, licensed bad houses
are under 800. In London they amount TO |
npoards Of $1,000 In Paris there are some
thousands mo- e women who in spite of the ex
ireme severity Of the police, escape being on
their lists. In London some magistrates have
calculated this uncertain class at 100000 or
100000
" In making up the lists, the authorities, Il APP
pears were astonlsneu NJ nnnlU1 sucn an extent
of moral depravation. Entire quarters of the
town are occupied by mensges, whose union no
priest has blessed, no law sanctioned; and in
entries Of children page after page are in the
column headed illegitimate About three fourths,
II appears, Of the females who call themselves
renters and propretaires, are Of loose charac-
ter; and Of dress-mnkerr, shop-girls and such
like, there Ia not one out Of ten who is pure In
n word, such a mass of scapdslous immortality
was never collected within small space. ns
that which now exists within the walls Of Paris.
But this is not all"
This ia all ex,ggeration and falsehood. In
Paris, there are, as in London, great many wo-
men who live with mem but there is differ
ence between them that ia worthy Of note, The
Euglishmnu, generally, abandons the woman he
hns lost At an early period This is the case
with soms upper class Frenchmeu. But many
Of the lower class French view the religious
marriage az an antiquated formality, and choose