New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-11
AN APPEAL IN BEHALF OF LAMARTYNE

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
We have heard with the livehet fellow. feeling that
the ilustrious ALPHossE DIX L,MARTiSE calls across
the Atlantic to the lovers Of Literature in the United
States to take part with him his struggle with the
evil days on which he has fallen
In letter to Of us he writes:
"0rs Of fortune have since 1913,
In behalf of this literary labor have recourse O.your
Success 10 for me affair Of life or Death"
No words Of others could touch the heart Of the
public like this ingenious appeal from man who
ever judged it inconsistent with his honor to accept
emOluments favos from monarchical Governments
which he could not approve, but deems right to look
for help from the voluntary subscriptions Of free
people to his productions "a an author. This con-
feesion of hard necessity comes from a who, a
poet orator, legislator historian and statesman, has
united in himself more varied claims to distinction
than any public man Of our century. lie may Justly
look for sympathy, for it is the unanimous testimony
of living has all the regularity and simplicity of man
Of emplary industry has been the habit of his life
to feel for and relieve the sorrows Of others-tO do
good to those who were sick and suffering and in want
according TO his means, and often beyond his MEANS
When his glowing words, his personal lntrepidity,
and his love for Progressive Liberty caused him to be
bone by reclamation to the highest place of authority
in the most powerful nation Of the Continent of Eu
rope it is matter of history that he sought to his
popularity and the vantage ground of his station not
TO usurp dictatorship for HIMSELF but to constitute
France Republic. Holding high and, for time,
irresponsible power, be retired from office poor, and
with such spoess integrity that not even his enemies
breathed reproach the purity of his administration
in its relation to his personal fortunes.
A lover Of peace and of his fellow men, he seized
the very moment of the highest excitement of political
revolution to repress the disposition for war, and in
the name of the French people TO utter inefacesble
protest against shedding blood for political ofenses.
Nor may we forget that, twenty-five years ago,
when the United States pressed upon France its claim
Of indemnity for wrongs and the two countries were
for season arIayed against each other that the in
diligence of national passion might easily hsve pro-
yoked conflict he saw that the demand Of America
inosputably right, and rising superior to the sens
tiveness of his countrymen, cOmbsted the opinions OF
some of those whose friendship he valued most, and
by bis manly eoquence essentially contributed to the
settlement of the controversy on the basis OF impartial
iuttice.
Bus it is not by "reminiscences Of his public
that Lemartine asks for sympathy. He tell Us him
self that he wraps the obscuriy of private life around
him like mantle, and eLtanged by no connections
with Government he comes before us exclusively as
man of letters. Wherever his plan is made known we
find it is received with great favor; and we earnestly
hope that the result may be such as to the great
man in his oitude, and tighten the intensity of his
distress.
GEORGE BANCROFT, RICHARD b. KIxs,LL,
EpwasD Ev.ssT 1;' snS p aossis.
HrsRyw LOsefELtow, FITz.GRIEsE HALLEcK.
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JARED SPARKS, JOSEPH HENRY,
Dudley BEAN,
RoBERT C. WINTHR9P, late Speaker I, House Of Reps
J. u. BRIGHT President OF the United states Senate.
n. p BANKS, speaker of the L. =. House Of Reps.
WINFIELD ScoTT, Com. in Chief U. 5. Army.
LEWIS CAss. United States Senate.
J. J. CRITTENDES, United States Senate.
JOHN SLIDELL, United States Senate.
HUMPHREY MARSHALL, L. $. House Of Representative
WILLIAM SEWARD United States benate.
r. TooMBs, United States Senate.
J. L. BENJAMIN United states Senate
w. w BOYcE, 4. s. House Of Representatives.
HAMILTON Fish, United States Senate.
JAMES C. JONES, United States Senate
ALFREB IvERsoN, Uni ed States Senate.
JAS NJ. MASON United States Senate.
JNo X THOMPSON. United States senate
III. STEPHENS. L. 5. House Of Representatives.
L. + s. FOSTER, UJited States Senate
CHARLES DuRKEE, United States Senate.
A. c. NJ. PENNINGTON, u. s. House OF Representatives.
JACOB BROOM, u. 5. House of Representatives.
CHARLES l.. STUART, United States Senate.
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