The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-24

French Criticism or American Affairs.
An aARxnsx APPEAL TO THE UNITED sfArAs TO COME
BACK 10 The PRscIPLEs or CHeisrIANITY.
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French CRITICISM or American Affairs.
An aARxpsx AePRAL TO THE UNITED srArAs TO COME
BACK 10 The PRINCIPALS OF CHefsrIANITY.
From Le Psys, OF Paris, Of June 81
II North America possesses In its political c3nsh
tution In the genius Of its peope and in its terrific
ial conditions, the principles OF an exceptional vi
tality, requires much moro than tina. to shield 1t
nom the internal fevoiuti ms which trouble tbs OLD
World. On tas contrary, runner Jus elements OF dis
solssio. threaten y VITA 50 much the MIRO
intensity, % In thst county everything Is
psoducec with violence, without moderation, with
out oounterpoise. IL Is known through what terrible
6aazcial orssss toe United States buy fsou
time 10 time the freedom OF their twelve nundred
banks. and & unlimited ex anaOn Of their cir spirit
gialatures themselves kinde real brand Of civil war
In promuIgasingt at dictatoral Ia Aled "tho Tenn
pefacoe law. Of which no absolute royalty Of Europe
would dare 90 take the iDit4 i've. Tnose waO have
vsted the country recognise In It many other moro
intimese causes OF suover.ion-the intolerant IA
aa&icism Of the religious SEQ "a tbs insuficsncy OF
the aw Co protect persoos and property, the sbass,
In fze, OF shat individual liberty OF viii IN Amsrica
boasts, but which is ally too oftea exhibited In the
despotism Of tbe minority over tie majority.
Ia true that these diverse causes proceed With
only alow step towari the dissolution at American
society In destroy by degrees the notions Of rght
and OF Justice, witn0u 1hich no society can exist,
to make the brutal Lag Of torso pedouinate as we'll
in tho march Of administrative circles in foreign
policy But there Is one Of them more immediate,
which tenca TO nothing less than TO reni In swas1
the territory Of the UnnD, aud to tear the constei
lated flag OF the confederation: Every one may
gueas that VIC mean TO speak or slavery.
Lit*se Ia Understood In Europe OF the Strange
aEaigsm which 10 presented Ia the Umtea Ssases 0y
the unlimited liberty OF Individuals aud OF assoca-
t0as ana by the slavery OF ths colored race, main
tanned By the mos'sDrs oman laws. Lift do we
comprehend the disdsia With which tie Americans
treat the ties Of fam,ls and morality wh5n their
slaVts ave cnrce, ned, and the Pudtanic rigoriM
which they affect among che nsslyts for everythtag
which cor cerns their social relations Oar con-
aoeno9, more logics and less complaisans On &C.
count Of interests, would not know how to 40
comm0data tSelf TO these contradictions. We
also hagS had slavery In our co onies; but pubic
seAtimsn has never cor lated 1t as regular con-
ditions It was wound awsys sore, which we had
n0t the coorsge 70 hsve beale1 by severe opera
tion bot airst whi,h at least an indestructible
national remCrse cor stsntiy protested.
In America, among thss people 30 proud OF their
self government they 90 lof p,gue themselves upoa
ticuIasfy the Northern States, numerous societies
who have imposed upon themselves tho mission OF
ab0Eisbirg saveSy bas, In fsct fourteen States OF
the Souh POSSES moe than three millions Of
dawes, and make Of t,s raising and selling Of this
human cattle the objsct OF o legal trade. Shl
moro, this trade which they nave organized. IKE
thes Of race of horses, vito refined combinations
Of improving cr,ssas, dG rot create in any one the
slightest rspusop. r Is an industry IS honorable as
any Othe7 Of which the GREATEST personages set tbs
example, and the legality Of which tne clergy
Gots nc hesitats to proclaim 10 tho pulpit. Behold
to what COZ difion has arrived the moral sense 0
that 20 boosted civiliz stion which We sometimes
propces to Ourselves as model OF justice and Of
hatexanys
Sach q a.ate Of thicgs was too violent-too mi
quitoas- attic srisiiao- NOT to provoke agta
tioas ard internal crises. Although the interest Of
the Americans Of the North may BE- the Same as
that Of the slave growers OF the South, since they
pros By ths advsntsaes Of the cheap cultivation Of
cotton sad of sugar. Their was in 1882 first awak
eaipg Of pubic opinion; and since that epoch, the
STRIFE o. sae AbOyttonisss has continued through
riots and excuses Of al kinds, until 1t has become
for this United Stases versable sword Of Dame
cies. AZ one time eveo, iOnr years sgo, II was be-
Ieyed inst She rupture Of the Union vas consaa-
mated TIE compromise measures Of Nc. az
saved the republ from that disaster; but in the
opinion Of aa dis erupg minds it Sas only mo
meassxy sruce And, iDdeed, his distur oicg ques-
ton IL represented To-Day 9Th all It's fASa conse-
qusr cer txus is IL that eSerS neyation Of right
brings With il its inevitable chastisement, IS well
for Easio1s % for ind,v ,asle.
1t il from Bostcp, in thu ate Of Massachusetts,,
tbat WIS issued in 1862 toe acst serious proessstion
sSaa1s- alsgery, under 70 respected impulson OF
tia. Che new sboliiioniss caD pag1 commences, not
only ageinss the compromise measures OF Mr.
Clay but sganst all American legislation relative
10 AAyee Il known that slrdy the streets Of that
city and OF several otbe cities Of she North have
been bioodied fer that Gu sed human law; finding
itself evidently 10 opposition with the Divine Law,
with the mos. sacred princOles of hu nanty, 1t was
impossible shat there should not be produced the
sa6dsst Of spe ctacles In civilized society that OF
iudees bang 70 wed 10 public Contempt, aud OF TO
volt hairx oYanis prsaSeeS sssnss ausnony' " tne
neoeeessy Of length to depart from impassiveness,
and to carry the debate upon legislative ground: and
there hssust been presented 30 rho Senate Of ston
sprojecs cf law, which Is plainly and utterly in op
peGtio1 20 the late act Of Congress, deman ling
the dismiesa and inelgibility Of every magistrate
who wou-d cause tie arrest Of fugitive slave.
Tba bold initiative Is only dent, but it occuls
in oppcrtnne circumstances, and it has been
imncdia.e,y supported by other Mgnid ISN'T
manifestations. At New York, in the annual
session Of the sboh ionist societies, federal
81. ntv9 ,.o mad. sna
tho rupture of the unity of tue States.
At ths other sxtrem Of the confederation, in the
still little known countries Of tue far West, the
harmony with the bali savage manners Of that
region. The-e have been armed assembiies, and q
anesxes killed at Leaven 0sth, In Kansas; aud the
latest ssuthssn mat announces that popular storm
But IN the present condition OF feeling on the
other side Of tue ocean, the slightest spark Of civil
war may LEAD to . general conaagrsd0n. We In
France are unable to form an idea Of the extreme
potosl theories which oarate the citzs OF the
great Rep1blic. The ancient dsmarcations exist no
longer. The t-adia ms of tae heroic ep,ch have
disappeared. Every capital question creates ga
aew camps, composed u heterogeneous elements
There results snsTef.om universal inquetude " aich
pSofits exclusively nen Of disorder. Tne journals
Of tho United States are fuu OF reports oil rl0ts
and sonetiries of assassiaati,os, on tue subject oil
those popuIsr e.ectioIs w5ic1 they apply to eve y
thing n ia en- intolersbls REGIME which very s.
rio1siy pteoccupies She disan suished meu OF that
couEfry snd which makes shen dread an impending
catastrophe, perhaps at the epoch OF the next Pre-
aidentlel election.
A government respected and intelligent might
have bter able, up 10 certain point, 10 ward of Oh.
evil by rs1yirg ound 1t all these dssolviug rival
ies. Bot M. Piercs, who vas carried 10 power by
so imposing majority, has preserved nothing OF
the prcc'igs shich made his strength. Suspected
by the No'tb<rn States rs q declared partisan Of
slavuY, be has succeeded in alternating from him
even tire Southern democrats who had chosen him,
hy Tho uncertainty aud the ntradictorioess of his
poioy. HIS ia an authority which Is passing away,
and whiod i. Is already soueh, to rsola,e, without
parties beirg able to como 20 an understanding in
a6vaace, even on the general programme Of the fu
$xasa h Is At tia Last