Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-28
THE o. STATES AND "THE WORLDS FAIR"


The following article from London print, which
a friend has forwarded to US, is in so different a
spirit from most of the remarks in the London Jour
mails on the American part in the Great Exhibition,
that we lay it before our readers In doing so, of
course, we do not endorse all its views or express
sions, however right in the main.
from TIE LONDON STANDARD OF JUNE 3.
While all eyes are intensely directed and every mouth
loud and We believe justly loud, in commentator Of the
grand Exhibition to be in Hyde Park and while CO.
lumns after columns written 10 It's praise by the press Of
the metropolis perceive with surprise and regret the crosk
ing jee which dfgure the columns of few Of our conem
poIaes eveled agan.t the national character Of our trans
atlantic BRETHREN 10 reference TO the asserted paucy and in
slory Of their contributions TO the SHOW Foremost in this
uncouIteous warfare, we perceive the Times and the Morn
ing Chronie cnlng out rbsdy Of inferior note when their
exertions fail them. From the Times no one now ex-
pecs 10 find any thing generous and nobehs organ Of the
moneyocracy, Of Mammon--
" The basest spirit that fell from Heaven
The only thing the journal alluded to looks at dwell on
or praise, Is dear gold and cheap the commodity
gained by traffic without profit and the other produced by
labor without remuneration to stuff the bellies Of the golden
gods to the utmost possible extent but at the least possible
expense From the Morning Chronicle we expected
thing dren especially while was lectung 90 strongly
some Protecons leaders for want Of courtesy we should
hardly have expected that it would ncsutousy have
mied himself in in which the total want Of gene
roslty and the deepest ingraitude Is shown.
scarcely necessary to remind the public aud the jour
mails in question, especially friend the Chronicle, that by
their advice and following out their precep and their prnc
pes the freerade statesmen in America crushed the
factories and energies Of their country, in order that they
might thereby nnnes they were. extend and support ours
which long protection, producing abundant capital had
deed perfect than theirs and the riches acquired by
counymen sought for the ornamental more than the
useful regardless Of the cost While Government by
the advice Of the journals In question: reduced the duties on
E~wot.
manufactures the late United States administration by
the advice and under daily peans avshed on for its
wisdom, taxed all the materials of every kind ntroduc-
ed into the United States necessary for the carrying any
manufactures in that country, thereby annhlang, far
it was able, the industry and manufactures Of that
try, in order TO afford paramount preponderancs to Man
chester and Staffordshre. saa Cd 60
Under such disadvantages, It possible could be
expected, that young and rising nation like the United
States should in competition with this country in any
thing that very gay very saudy and highly ornamental
though such things are after ALL Of small importance when
compared to those that really useful in civilized life
Certainly not; and to reproach friends with the want
shows great deficiency Of Judgment and should not be al
uded to except at the same time gancng at the negro -po
brought from British colony (St Chrstophe to show to
the Cockneys in Hyde Park curiosity which any one in
the place from whence would have kicked out Of his
way with scorn And. further it not most unknd and
ungenerous the part Of the instructors above mentioned
after the Americans have BY their advice pursued system
which has kept them back from In competition and
rivalry, sheer $50 Satan treats all those who obey hin
and treat them lightly This is not fair This 10 not British
But do not let our contemporaries be uneasy.
Our transatlantic brethren will match at the next Fair
that may be held not only in manufactures bat in most other
things Sculptures statues, vases and paintings will follow
respectively, and 10 Nor afraid though they
do So There Is enough in the world for a and the
territories Of Great Britain and the United States will not be
fully peoped at the end Of hundred years hence. There
is however, this difference between them and u.s. and most
material difference it that the Of the population Of the
United States in such circumstances that they can afford
purchase to eat and wear and these superior ar
cIes which the mass Of population hardly afford the
expense necessary 10 look at.
After ALL what all these jeers and SCOTS about The
American articles are, like the industrious people they come
FROM and the position the advancing position, in civilization
which they hold, for than for ornament With
them their first and proper learn how and by what
and instruments they cuvate the earth to the
greatest advantage plough the with the greatest speed
and safety build dwellings with the greatest efficiency and
economy, and spread education and knowledge with the
greaest effect and celebrity In all these points our ransa
lantc friends stand forward in position wherein they need
not be ashaas2 ha vhek Many we'll
desp.e the of the thosghtes and with der
sion the remarks of those who stand still rerograde
while they ADVANCE must advance and will advance rapidly
in their career of improvement and power.