The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-11-12

/ EUROPEAN IVIEsxs OF AaEE1cAss.-Persist
ent Misrepresentation on the part Of the Brit
Ei5h press. and the exaggerated and distorte,
pictures drawn Of US BY European travellers
has prevented the people of the old world ar
irving at any thing like correct idea Of Amer;
can societyEs-its morals and manners. Unit
within the last few years, during which on
intercourse with Europe has been greatly in
creased, and our people, in great numbers, bav
travelled oyer European countries making them
selves personally known and popular, the grea
mass Of Europeans have regarded US as aseni
savage race, roaming through our vast wood
and Wilds, lighting Indians, and one anothe
on the least provocation, and paying but littl'
regard to the restraint of government.
/ Indeed. the idea impressed on the popular
mind regarding American republicanism was
that il was d sort Of anarchy, in which neitSe1
life nor property was safe. Even among the
better educated classes the grossest ignorance
of American character prevailed up to very
recent period. Through the rapid extension Of
our commerce; through our relations formed
BY the vast tide ofimmigration which has been
flowing 70 our shores; BY our sympathies with
the oppressed; BY our inventions. and even by
our literature, we have been making ourselves
better known to the outside world. We are
no longer regarded barbarous; but as a rude,
free, ambitious and aggressive people, who are
advancing with has'y and daring strides to the
position Of great and commanding power.
A vague idea has spread among the COM
mon people that we are, some way, one day to
become the deliyerers of Europe from its sys-
TENS Of oppression. France was once regard
ed as the deltverer, but Louis Napoleon's iron
rule and the submission of the French to his
dynastlc scheme, have almost crushed out that
hope. Now, the thought that moves the imaei-
nations and kindles the hope of the enslaved
masses of Europe is, that the day is not far dis
tant when all the despots of Europe will unite
in grand alliance to destroy the American
republic and blot ont free institutions in the
new world, and that then America, appealing
to the laboring masses of Europe and rolling back
armed muBlituaes ofh eager, wrathful immi-
grant population upon their oppressed father
ands, will be the fierce, invincible and trium-
ohant leaderain tile great struggle which is to
smancipate Europe aid free its people forever
rom the rule of tyrants.
But not merely is the vulgar mind occupied
With the idea that Europe and America are
destined to come iii collision. 1t is specula-
ion advanced by writer's of intelligence, who
'redict with no Little confidence that in the
'reat battle which is Jet to be fought for the
berries of Europe, America must, of necessi- {
?, take the front rank in the contest We may :
ow be disposed to regard these speculatons i
$ wild imaginings qfspch men as Kossuth and S
litchell, and as originating in the. natural a
ndency of all down, trodden people to look f
broad for aid toithrow off their yoke; but they n
e, at the same time, the evidences of the h
'read of our influence upon the minds of the ii
.ople of the old worjd-an influence which W
we continue true to: our republican princi- o
es and to the honor Of the republic, must go c,
increasing until it is felt as revolutionising ii
ID enlIgghtenng power throughout the evils h
world O.
TExAs.-Harriscn ceunty-Buchanan 595: &c
,,n,oro zoz IL. -. -. o di
rried the county by near $50 majority. Rusk Id
unity is reported to have given Buchanan $50 Is
ljority. Cass county Buchanan $50 MAORI III
Upshur county Buchanan 400 majority. 10
cogdoches county Buchanan $50 majority. pr
nola county Buchanan 300 majority Red an
7er county, Buchanan, 355; Fillmore, 1876. !"
August the democratic majority was 212 Pc
mar county. Paris precinct, Fillmore, 173; pr
chanan, $40. In August last the average WI
nocratic vote in Ismar countr vos on,r, - tn,
vie county, at Dalby's, Fillmore received ma
the votes cast; at Boston, IS majority for J va
'hanan; at DeKalb, Buchanan Is majority. uss
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i1DEs.-For some months past there has the
unusual animation in the hide market us
Oh has at length attracted the attention of est
northern journals. We find in the N. Y ork at
an elaborate article on hides, tanning, etc., will
uoipg the following statement of the imports ply
sea of hides into the port of New York for old
last five years, and tte monthly sales dur ser
1855: 49,,
mo- lSSS
NS go l,563 900 inr
- 1853 ago s0o nov
- 1852 :. ~ as9 0oo
ie'i 100000
MONTHLY SALES. con
anc a,n