New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-27
THE Brand or BARBARISM
WHAT EUROPE NOW THINKS OF AMERICA.

WHAT II ROPE NOW IhlNhoO VI =
Cou,spohce4ce o. TIE " Y. Tribune. 10.
Os 1HE BHISE, Oct. = 3d.
runv No. he urin,.r.stinc 70 those who are accus-
toned 20 travel ~ and down the Hudson uP W Inc
Frercs skiddy and Isaac Newton, TO take h'5' 'P
in q Rhine steamer Just by way Of comparison.
Down tlroreL Rotterdam, guessing ut Du;cA enough
to make the driver understand that W. were l" se'
the quay III the lea. possible space OF tne' We ''u'D
ourselyes at 7actly the night minute, Oh oo'|u '1'
Rhine steamer bound FOR Heidelberg.
ANtr taking q las,~look at the receding cry o. E'1-
nus, with ts broad water streets and leaning muses.
and great church Of st. Lawrence, We made ou' way
down into the cabin To- collect ourselves aie' 'v nun
and COZ fusion aud 20 get little rest. InH -
engaged" cried lady's voice a. soon as on' Iolu
emerged from the gangway This struck Us Is f.te
an unn portal matter, Tnasmuc. n there aPiea.e'
b. plenty more. l. seemed. moreover, h'Ae IT,
naikabe that the lady should ,bow 90 nuch shAe'!
about retaining her particular seat, These seaS aie
oil engaged cried as we advanced sep OF '"''
another lady seated about five fee, si1 inches rom 10"
first; "And vel they may be, remarked tie thrd IN
order, for we have been sitting spon them ioI 'ne
last three hours 10 keep them.
There was someh ~ quite startling IN TIE tone OF
auxe'y and alarm with which al tits was uttered ana
On sudden tie real state Of things tashtdup oA ~
This one row Of harrow hair seats on each side 81 tie
little cabin were the only sirYing accommodations 90
loard the King Of Prussia the representative OF steam
navigation upon the famous river Rhioe inese poo
unherpy pass. myers had been rendering themselves
vrechfd for the last ,hree or four hours TO maintain
possession Of those exceeding slippery and DUBIOUS,
lockI beds. Tie leading sprl ~ the party "as an
oficous fulfaced John Bull of the PickTcNan oiueI,
with countenance that bespoke at the same tune por
ter and bengnity, who insisted in the most gracious
and paierna manner that if the ladies were only pro-
vded for lie should be perfectly happy on the io'r
remaking blandly to us that we should arrange mat
tiers for ourselves without the slightest difficulty
Tie evening wore on and after another stretched
himself out upon the seats for the purpose Oh Sc
curing them from further intrusion than with any idea
# sleep; for our not over-gigantc King OF Prussia
managedto keep itself in state ofperpetu44 agauoh,
as If suffering under chronic palsy, 40 that, indeed,
our teeth chartered purely from the shaking ana sleep
at best could be but rapid succession OF Nightmares
At length the Englishman, after some hustle, dis
covered what pupoIted to be siate-room wlhch was
in fact little sde-room, fitted up for ne-drnking
Into this two Of the encGmped ladies withdrew, kmdIy
resigning TO us their places. Tired and sleepy nom
the DAYS tumu we stretched ourselves ont and were
just upon the point Of being shaken into doze, when
the ladies returned with melancholy looks, saylng the
place was too short and it was impossible To sleep
Mr.. Pckwlck insisted upon our taking the state
rom" leaving him 10 arrange matters IN the
cabin. little Yankee ingenuity and few
minutes time sufced to get up another bed OF chars
and the like and sailed out again in search OF ouG
American friend whom We found cooled up Ike por-
cupne in one of the windows, with nothing better than
the hard wood for bed, and travelling bag Tor
Iillow but nevertheless entirely obvious, and by no
means 10 he disturbed; and, moreover, We found MI
Pckwck stretched out upon the cabin floor just occu-
pying all the vacant space between the two rows OF
tables with his head blocked up at IN angle of forty
five degrees just preparing to 90 into his hr1 night
ware We aroused him and took him with US to the
state-room. After pronouncins solemn eulogy upon
our ingenuity and insisting upon bringing the ladies to
witness IT, he oceeded TO arrange himself upon the
seat Just about half wide enough for his " breadth Of
be am and slippery wthala precarious position GER
tairly for an elderly gentleman-and fell asleep. As
for ourselves, crawled upon deck next morning
feeling, no doubt very much az Sancho Panzs did
after being tossed in the blanket by the giants, and
eager in our philanthropy to warn oil our friends
against attempting the first half OF the river Rhine by
steamboat.
The Rhine is unquestonably excellent thing in It's
wav. hut if ts peculiar merits were to be forced upon
unhappy America every time an enthusiastic traveller
sails w il, she were much to be ptied only wish
that the ercied heard, not only on every Rhine
steamer but Ill the Continent could now be "hs-
uered into American ears, that she might hear what IA
said of her We only wish that the refined and cnIv-
alrous South could make the tour OF the civilized
world! she rould hear her'e!f spoke- Of sor. She
never can have better opportunity to learn the esti-
nation in which the world hold her.
1t must be said however that those words of shame,
and scon and sonow that ia from the bps OF men OF
al nations IN whom the love OF freedom and OF night
is net wholly extinct over Americas disgrace, do not
fall uIon the South alone, indeed they needno Inc
time. for the present at least, is gone when one can
travel through the Continent with feeling OF prde
that he is an American, and the consciousness that
such an announcement will bring him homer and con-
sideratcn.
On. has now no vaunts 20 make OF the land of pro-
eress and of freedom but "a he hears on every side
Shame. shame for disTaced, bulhed and lawless
America" he has nothing TO do but pass on in silence
and endure the reprosch. As the outward pressure
of opinon at Washington is sufficient TO compel half
Of the North 10 tow 10 its omnipOtence, 50 Il would
seem while travelling here, that the oEcdr9 pressure
nj M ,rlole voyid would at length compel our nation
10 repouIce ts barbarsm or consent TO be outawed;
I'm, We FORGET that no voice that censures Slavery
oep ndu,tanc. TO the South, and by one-hai Of the
Nor even such voice is suppressed as fanatea and
daIGe Us.
such thoughts and feelings forced themselves upon
rs along up the lower Rhine; but when at last the
poro onotonou. Dutch level gave way, aud the glo-
mons mountain scenery of The upper Rhine came be-
fr r with it, castles and It's legends forgot al