The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-12-09

IRE french Pwe.s IN American Ar
fairs, -


some Of the leading French papers. 10 their o's.
r,s,ioa Of American affairs, exhibit an seeross
and even ccsrssness Of tone towards te's c'a""s'
.hieh. unit, a late period, did net charac'e',Ae
French journalism in It's deportmens TOWARDS '.'
Iynited states. France, our anciens any, was ~
vays regarded here With peculiar kHhoo'eS'
Nth, ana r..nect--sentiments which. even unasr
~. i.c,,,,, ate nonarchs, have been cordially re-
o,n,r,...d The proverbisl politeness OF fne
r....h rs,nle was formerly reflected IN ther |
r.-.n.ner press, and, isdeci, 1t seemed something
-. than politeness which animated the re'a- |
49,, At Franco It's citizens and Its Journals to tits
.on,,rv There vas on both sides sincere friene-
nj. and An honest desire, each for the others
n,o~nsv.tx and reuown. II Is only since the se-
copd Napoleon has seized the reins OF empire, gag
rad the newspApers, formed the Ang'o'French ~
lance. and revived the grand colonial policy OF u
nr.. Emperor, that we find leading French joui-
mails using language Of unfsiendiness and menace
10 this country, charging 1t with greedy spirit
of ACKNOWLEDGMENT In general, and rapac'ous ana
moncpoiizlng policy towards Central America IN
particular, and indniging 10 tone Of snpefehr
business and arrogance, wholly unprovoked ana
uewarranted by anything that has been said done
or contemplated by the United States or its
people.
We can only account for the had manners OF the
French press, 80 different from French manners in
general, BY the fact that the Emperor has intro
duced many adventurous parvenues to positions
for which they not fitted by education or breed"
fne. These persons, notwithstanding their trad-
,ional hate OF England, have an inward reverence
for that erea. and sensbe country, and are inord.
nste,v eIated by the respectabity Of their con-
nsxion with such power, as we'll as the prospect
ofthe nniversa, dominion which it holds out 70 tn.
alliance. "If we're not Frencbmsn,' said
,omp,aisapt johnny Crap to a John Bull, 81 would
prefsr 70 be an Enslishmap" 'If we're not 40
Enslishman," replied the sturdy Bull, 81 wouldn't
care whatl was" There is wide gulf, wider than
the Channel, between Pride and Vanity, and the
vaiu With all their thirst for appreciation, respect
the proud, and feel Gattered by their friendship
The French editorials exhibit this spirit of late 10
an inordinate degree. Moreover, their Imperial
mater does not permit the editors OF France TO
open their mouths upon home policy, and there
IL no outlet for their bile except In the
Western hemisphere. He does not even permit
then to be tart upon England. nor to assail Russia
hia late mortal foe, but Of whose favor he is now
solicitous. The only chance to keep their rage
from rusting, is to exercise 1t upon American
affare; to fill columns with splenetic articles upon
our barbarism, rapaci'y, and fillibusserins; TO
threaten us with the ibterposition OF The Anglo"
French alliance in Central America and elsewhere,
wherever it may be necessary.
We know not whether these demonstrations are
at all significant of the policy of the French ao'
vernment. The United States have no purposes Of
monopoly in Central America; no fllibusterins
views upon Cuba or any other of the West India
isles, which call for European Intervention. Our
country is certainly in no condition wantonly to
provoke the hostility of two such formidable pow
ers ss France and England. Bat if wantonly ass
Sailed, It has spirit and power enough to stand
upon the defensive, and however much it might
and would suffer at the outset, to protract the con
test till it had inflicted upon its enemies the most
ample retribution. But neither England nor France
can desire such contest. England cannot be pre-
pared to give up cotton, nor to cripple the only
Government upon which she can rely in a future
contest with European absolu.ism. France has DC
interests to be subserved by war with America
In comparison with those which she would sac.
ri6ce.