New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-03

America-ttose who are the first 70 suffer from
the growing unpoIU arl,y of the United States in
Europs-ihose to whom an uninterrupted. and, il
possible, a growing immigration of their country
men from home would be increase Of iniaencs
and poweI-those " no are lndignan a, the narr,w-
minded intolerance OF the native party-when those
make profession of deprecIating, by their cores
pondence and literary labors the country of their
adoption. the act ia simply foolish. Criticism, how
ever spiteiul, may be thought legitimate when il
can be supposed to have bettering influence upon
iis object: but this il impossible when II does no.
come 10 the knowledge of those wIth whom the
fault is found as ia the case OF beng written IN
language which they cannot read but II, N what
eyer direction YOU look, there Il only harm and no
good proceeding from IL. harm even T. the critic
himself. then We cannot help saying that he acts
iocIishly in his efforts.
II il however. fact TO which this fjly has con-
tribu,ed that the United States have lost consider
ably in IL good opinion of European nations. But
peIhaps they have lost aud gained at the same tlme
As far al least as Germany Is concerned, ehre
say that itrtslly is That beautiful ideal c dt-
mocracy aud republicaDism which they once con-
stituted in the political imagination ot lneNperlen
ced millions, they no longer exhibit. Inc run oil
tie tree of knowledge mas been tasted, anu tae
sweet illusions of mln1 longing for freedom AMI
hapliress and trusting TINT such state OF society
sonewh,r re existed in this world of Dlperfec,ions
have been destroyed by the bitter taste OF reality
Rut if the romance of American liberty has thus
lost its charms, the reslity of American life ha,
gained its true interest. Ii the United States have
lost ground in the favor # theorists and here-
teal minds. of reyolutionists and enthusiasts,
tbey have begun To claim the interest oi those VIC
ln0w tha, the difficulties of progress do not consist
in ideas but in their reaizatiOn-that, the princl-
pa stress once laid on the real in opposition to the
merely imaginary, a period Of an essentially utlh-
tartan character has been inaugurated IN the hlsto-
~ of the world, in which period the lead has been
given to the United States, however imperfect Their
soci, system may he IN many respects-and that
as 70 these imperieciions, liberty is not gift qu
etly 10 be enjoyed after it has once been acquired,
but treasure for the safe keeping 0t VII CD the
battle of life is 10 b. fought t. the end OF tlme
If those who are weary OF an Old and outworn
ciyiiize-Ion-those who, 10 Germany, called then-
selves EHropdm ade-an expression so full oi meat
ING that it cannot be translated in one word-if
they expected TO find in America the tranquility Of
a calm aud beautiful evening, inviting the weary
traveller to the enjoyment of repose under the We
randa of ho. pitable roof to look at the setting
sun, enjoy their meal and the society Of good peo
pie and then go To sleep-they We're sadly mistaken
in the worlds tim, of day. What they had hailed
as Meir quiet evening the noisy morning OF the
day OF other people who, by
Double eouhle.
Toll and tEoGble
bereaved them Of their nights dream of hope.
That sun was not the setting but the rising star OF
the day-a1d Of what day "a day loud and deaf
ening by its noise ike that with which Goethe opens
tie second par. Of his Faust:
Verehe,! horch.l dem Strrri der 9orsn,
TOn,I wiId fur 0,..sohf
SGT on Ger neue ras geboren
F.l,er.h huarT.u rasseln9,
Pbobus RAIDER roien pssseind;
W,.h G.iose brintt cas Leht
Thus much of the Germsns. With the English
il is quite different thing. With them the Unit
ed States had great sympathy 10 lose from the
beginning, certainly not sympathy based on an
interest of romance, ne was the case with the Ger
name With the English the United States viii
gain in proportion to the growing power OF the
| Dion, Euglishmes, Ike Anglo. Americans, more
generally sympathizing with the strong and the
powerful than with the weak.
Aud once speaking Of England, in reference to
tie general character OF life in America on one
eide. and in other European countries on the other,
LET me make remark.
Whoeye. has formed his notions Of the outward
and material perfection of English life by the high
reputation England has for t-tor lis comforts and
cicanliHess, and for the superiority Of furniture,
utensils and other articles of common use, and by
the high pretensions made by travelling Epgsh-
men--WhoeyeT, l say. has formed those notions
abroad and has generalized them according to tho
more democratic character OF life in the cOntinen-
tai nations or in America must be astOnsbed, when
he comes 10 England on dis covering that the great
majority OF the English, M home, have 10 content
themselves with domestic comforts and with art-
ellen and goods as inferior as those in common use
among the great mass OF the continental nations,
the French ana Germans. Those English models
! Of Industrial and technical perfection, much ad
mlrrd aud enyed by tue world abroad, only exist
for the use Of very limited number Of exclusives
-nsy-in many cases are even concealed from the
proiale eye oi The common purchaser, while the
lmrtnse majority even OF the middle casses-Or at
least Of what would be- called the middle classes on
the cOntinent-haye 10 submit Ia many prva.iOns.
at the cost Of which, in the best case they have to
purcLass that outward show Of comfort which il
with English comfort and technical perfection, as
il s with French elt gance and high taste and it
is with German philosophy and scholarship and the
immense proGuctyeness of German literature. The
genuine article forw hch those different countries re-.
spectiyely famous, is for few; while the rest,
with all their pretensioDs, have a sham, if not
caricatllre OF il, or nothing at all. cannot help
preierring state of society like the American,
where happy middle condition prevails ia com
forts as well az in taste and in general education,
and where cleanliness and domestic ease ARE gene
raj in the nation. julius FROEBEL.
INTERESTING FROM RUSSIA.
We translate from Lc Nord the following CORE
s3cucence:
ST. PETERsBVRG Nov. I, 1888.
The question OF the emancipation OF the serts af-
vaIces slosy and steadily. have To ialofm you OF
Il IT,.