The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-19


or fire clay. In all the ravines immense quantitie
are 70 be had for the gathering and thus Tar our fur
naces in this part of the State have boeh thus sup
Piled by the farmers, Associated wi,N the kidne,
clay Iron stone' Of the European miners. This ire
quently ea In compact strxti6ed seams several fee
Ia tlckness. The area Of this coal and iron xsgiol
Is uinc thousand square miles, and we OF inadana
think u VIII not be Inaiy years ere we sh1ll ceHt
bringing over the Ailegany mountains iron for orH
roads
Indianisns are all Union loving men Ito say no.
thing Of the wonen), and we shall all join in con-
tfEution 70 raise money enough TO erect high post
and boafd fences around Massachusetts, and South
Carolina If by doing the balance ~ our country
ear but be left quiet aud the continual harpng Of
"nisgtrdcm be stopped. Our state il illed up with
such operations AZ have been going on at Louisville
ard Philadelphia by the one party, and the Pierce
administration on the other side, we feel constrained
to cry Where shah We goa' q.
English Writers on Amesira--Thetr Igno.
rance and RIunders.
TO THE EDITOR or THE NEW YORK pgRALp.
Nothing more aptly demonstrates the want Of
that fund OF common information viii Ii every
schoolboy in this country possesses either from the
public school or the public presthan the productions
Of European writers upon the subject Of the Ameri.
can people or their peculiar institutions.
with the customs and institutions o, the people he
intends whiting, and ia therefore quite at homo
wherever he goes This knowledge be acquired in
the schoolhonse. and rcans and extends by reading
the ncwspaI ers-nccessary duties here, created by
tie high state Of intelligence throughout the coun-
try, but privileges elsewhere. to which the poorer
ciasses are strangers.
When foreigner visits this country. he is pre-
pared TO End wilderness Of tall, thin Yankee ped
lers speaking through their noses paironized By
terrible blood-thiisy slavelrivers, skinning and
roasting their negroes for pasiime, and filing
up the remainder Of their existence with lying,
cheating. numbering, whiting and blowing up
steamboats,. And you know quite well, Mr. Editor,
that in ninety-nine cases out Of hundred this
il exactly Whit he expects.
With 10 class Of people is this amusing ignorance
OF our social and political system 80 amentably com.
mon as among tire English adstocracy. need not
recnii the many Imaginable stories which have grown
as common as household words to support IN asser.
tor.
Nearly every intelligent inhabtant Of continental
EmoIe il imbued with some idea Of lborty-ooks
forward To the realization Of that dea M an event
bound to happen, sooner or atcr-rogards the Ameri
can republic with interest, IL not love, and knows
f,metbing about u.
Not so In England. There the people love their
arissoclacy, worship them venerable them--glory
in them. They despse the cheating Yankee, care
NJ thng about him and know less. The mercantile
classes, indeed, as may lie supposed, possess some
den Of our institutions and habits. and perhaps TO
that fact among others, may lie ascril ed their very
FAINT republican tendencies but to them alone IL Il
confined, all other cas e. being in az total ignorance
OF tie subject az an inhabiaut of Little Britain il
pres med to know 81 TIE price OF rents IN Beigrava.
j. il II 10 he expected. then, when m kng,ishman
visits this country and finds everything 20 vastly
different IRON WHIT he has been led TO expect that
lie should be able, after tour Of twelve months
through the States, to give, on his return Impair
TIL account OF the state OF the country, attribute
tire actions Of our people TO correct motives or nc
count for the state OF tceliag or opinioal
He comes here preudlccd man, imbued with
afisiocratic feelings Institutions ard manners Gnds
what he never was led to expect, aud cots away Il
fool. He fancics he knows ali about Ameiica--te,lI
longer stories than his predecessors aburt "thc
slave hounds That nr Everest saw IA Mississp ii and
Carolina or the cheating peders OF the North.
with an occasional description OF the manner in
which VIC swallow cur dinncrs whole-trcat our
Il ends 10 en- exeicise on the bowie knife
revolver or expectoratc al o mark with oar feet
over maniei riecc- and writes the ate,t book on
America forming, alas tho highest stone II that
nlcnun lent Of folly and ignorance in Eugiih .cra-
trie called Travcis In America d,sgrace - the
century.
Tie writer in the JFssfminsi.r Rsrier,, quoted In
Wednesdays liEBAIp, forms no exception to tais
amusing state Of affairs: indeed, he hut mount still
higher the ass 81 folly and, after a mad race Of
nine columns. winds mp with an alliance Of Ameri-
can black siasedrisers. ard English white shave
drivers, and IL declared to have made the best time
yet"
Were these efIhsions not received in England With
implicit confidence; did they not foni the seed from
hic springs the harvest Of British opinion upon this
subject they would be indeed too ridiculoa- 10
tee. But what American can hear with patience
the absurd notion TINT" the shareholders n other
words, the most influential body Of In the re.
public may search In vain through Earope for any
persons with whom they have, in te most important
Of their social relations 70 much reason 70 synpa.
thisc az the Russian nobles!"
50 long the heavy tax Of royalty barthens the
people so long as in exclusive aud corrnpt ati4to-
ciacy exercise unjust pieropatises--so long the
nssn s ace privilege TO caste sla Or ssion
ar that quoted by Mr.. Baxter from the Boston atm
mot all the "reminiscences oil our a Intimate reia-
tons th the Old County, or oily cnconit,n Of 1-t
refusal u permit American priyateets to carry hqs
eiau letters Of Inarque--no. not all the holy wars
b. creatior--w!ll make the American people syinpa>
.hise with oppression or wrong
Americans know quite well--ior they AN en-
ighfsItd peore boast M more schools thao !rgass
ard more lust and enlightened men than would form
u standing army--that the success Of Great Britain
ard france in this would retard the gro sth OF
European liberty Tor aResi tbat IS lODg ~ 'le WIZ
continues adverse to the Western Powers The voice
or liberty Il heard complaining aud. too. in tbe
homes Of the people we lose hest though hate most,
that is proloDgetion and inefficient proAec ltiou
10 Is the nheci'y Of ueir darling arist)cracy aud
the adj 1T Of freedom and that the triumph
Ct Rnrsia would te the triumph ~ iiberiy--for In
ripe all CorsacSwould soon become all republican
The sinister anxiety OF Great Britain, too, " se-
cure cur sympathy in her Easfefn war contrasts
very Gntavofaby with the cold Indifference Of her
antagonist who cares little whether we BympathiZe
with her or not English loans, IL ever offered
50 cur people, will hasc very few subscribers.
Enlilh war alliances, II ever offered Ia govern.
neDt vii! receive IN unqualified rejection
The attempt to attYibut. the state ri feeling In
this country " the ranking memories VI old ,nju-
rice,' or 10 supposed sympathy with the I'm ,.sh
expressions OF Ir'sh nmigrant Is trily pitIfI
and eAhibits the most profound Ignorance u Ameri.
can telling aud sentiment.
Thee things have been. Pat time and circum
stance have changed
Ind neither tho idea that the member Of Ccn.
gress compares himseF with he member Of thu