New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-05

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descriptions Of external objects. nH mostly msec
W 81 foh.eyystiops and reflections, the spirit Of
.t;ch will be seen BY few extracts. IN bis chap
tsr headed. The Blsfks and Slavery be ssys;
CON, education, our liberal principles our baon q
ru,onsan equality, make rs consi1er the oiack reco
equal 20 the others; we are proud 70 coon. s.s
hiepds men Of color who have oeen csDPsH -
90 our sfpdie, our eomtades aud our nvais - me
.er;ous career Of life; we make no account o' ~
coor Of the epidermis and we freely declare tns, ,oo
bleckest hearts which we have met with were """e"
under skin of immaculate wilderness. 49,.
Although NJ dAlmbert sets up no defepse Oh
American Slavery, be fnds the material ccsanson
OF our Sou'hern slaves oetter tnan 'hSs .,So
peasants in some districts OF France, Wnss no
defer ds as little and what be, 10 Q ciyihxed, noe
raj Europesu can lees understand, IL thus stated:
"Tbat the North, passionstely Abolitionist has NJ
vipcble rtudices toward the blacks and thas every
nan Of colr there Is the victim OF an orsracism "ncs
is to inccpprehensble IL Is o.ffcua 70 ss.sS
the profound horror, the mingled contempt ans as8e
with which every cooredm man in'pires the AmencsAs'
After speaking Of their exclusion from all par.
,icipation on equal footing 10 the business ana
pleasure Of schite life, their exclusion from puohc
.fces from theattrs and hotels and railroad cars,
be adds:
death itself does not rehabitate them; they have
q separate burying'place' And .oald not SUPP -
me # the Americans should pretend that God had see
apart for III. hell and paradise, so snat me cisS
fcation might be obseredin the other world. 10 nos
forget that this is the case in the Northern Ssscs,
where Slavery has long since ceased 10 exist ana whero
they nanifesi the greatest impatsnee at not seeing
abolished by their neighbour.
Our sorsur continues in this strain, displaying
through MANY pages, which l doubt the Propney
OF quoting, a marvellous ignorap ce oil our pecuhsr
Institutions" Of the North o. we'll as oil the couth.
According to him, this Northern prejudice sgsnse
color il even more "repugnant to the moral idcas
L" of our epoch-to the principles which soe l. g.,
re Europeans, suck in with our mothers mhA'
than the abonlipaion of bodily Slavery. :.
The next chspter, at least my extracts rom u,
will be more fstteriDg; it is the chapter IN "
Gaiartsrie.
lem profoundly Inundated; blu'h 70 the roots
Of nv hair; know not where 10 hide myself On INC
fanh Of tradition l had hitherto believed that the
French people were the mot gallant people IN the
world. Everything supported this convistion. sengss
o oaIs e.. and the ernr Of rego peoes who cay
fom habit, Gallant as Freedman.
II is true that NJ. d'Almbert had observed Of
late ears that bis cOuntrymen turned their atten-
ton from the ladies' to the turf to railway specua
items to fancy stocks, TO politics-but eonsoieu
himself with the thought that this was but pass
ing diversion and that besides II gallantry were
diving out in France, in other nations 1t was dead
al profound error which have recognised with
shame ard surprise Calamity Is not dead. II has
deserted Europe; it has taken refuge IN the un'ed
States. Iproelaim ! opsn ly.I.sr - n
practic,d spontaneously, disnterestedy there WON
an If respected for her own sake, because she y
man; because she s, or will be, the mother Oh
citizer If good thing could be carried To an excess,
should saw that tn. rights attributed to the far sex
are pushed to sxse geration The women know tneir
ROVER. they abuse it as tyrants do who Know 'nee
tLere are 10 limits to the authority
In Summer, when it 10 too warm to stay ss
home. all America travels, by railroad and ~
steamboat. to interior watering places, to seaside
! resorts. or wherever else the inhabitants Of tho
| United States are supposed to amuso themselves
It il in these excursions that one can Judge better
than anywhere else OF the extent and degree OF ms
true geuntiy, and OF the eager Difference soo"m ,h
yariably shown. 10 women. They anive late; all inc
seats in the cars arc occupied; twenty gentlemen I'M
mediatey rise at the ri,k of remaining on their Meet,
or even Of loiDg their journey they quietly sea, them
| selves without much a. saying thank you. . Inc
| least sign of gratitude to the men Is SUPERVISOR.
But forget my purpose Of giving only hsttering
.xuacts from this chapter. The title VI the neat
IL Filtration, pronounced, writes our author,
RwfehiOss whtreupon he breaks out against tho
clashing atsurditi.s of orthoeraphy aid pronun-
citation in the English language, and says II ono
| Of the eraveft reprosches he has TO mako against
u.s. thnt We did not take occasion OF our war OF In
dependence TO shake of the yoke of the language
"A ell az of the political domination Of perhdious
| Albion. As we raised a flag Of our own, 10 We
should have taken an diom proper to ourselves,
70 matter what! At least it would not have been
English.
FILTRATION is as difficult to explain as Il l. TO pro.
nounce there nothing that resembles 1t with as and
a. the thing itself does not exist words for IL are want
ing"
In spite of the difficulty, which is indeed great,
| for one educated under the social conventions OF
continental Europe, NJ d'Almbert, Frencbmsn
AID Paris COckDey though he be, has como 70 .
remarkably clear comprehension and expression
OF What American ftueehsone is:
at il evidently the purest and most ethereal gal
,spisiing TIER white wngs. MademoiseIle seudsry
! could have found 10 fault with it,
| In fine be understands how, In America, two
persons of different sex, young, unmarried, may
! be- ride walk, talk, soias cum sofa, without harm
| in thought or act. He not only understands this
"institutioD," but he finds 1t pleasing one, and
Only satirizes lightly it's more e1travagant Pie
nCmeDa.
should like to quote further from this author;
there are readable passages in his chapters on
! 1.-The WOmsn in Gold Spectacles," 70 strong
minded. literary type) "socisl Positions" (Which
might have been written by TX Marvel or tho
| Howadii) 1.-The Cemeteries," etc. can only
make room for this extract from 1.-THE Fine Arts
| in America"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
there are four similarly pointed pages 10 that
chapter. and for this other from the ingenious
closing chapter of the book:
"F,ance and the French oh bow regrets then IN
foreign land 1t 10 worth the while To usvei often
and It'll ain were only TO be the better con vinced
OF this incoptestible truth-hst God has gwen tho
| finest Of countries to the best OF nations. u
| Duynss begins q new novel this weeh IN tho
fnilleton Of the Steele; Eugene Sue begins one in
the f,uiiIeton Of the Presse and new ones arc be-