Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-04-07
THE HERALD.
LANCASTER, wis, SATURDAY APRIL I, leecl
QUEER REVELATIONS WHAT a n
MAN SAW IN AMER nc A FL III KfHhs OF
CHiyALRYs

~ RtestSh oliicef WHO spent stApisti
months travelling in the United States last
year, has Just issued book ID which he
praises the American peotle. He regards
them as laying the foundation IF a form or
forms of government which will give all
monarchies, despotisna, and religious HER
arches more trouble than all else combined
probably be the ruin d all Of them and
cause democracy % DO the established form
Of government in all quarters IF the globe.
Such people with energies and practical
skill-both the direct and unquestioned off
shoot ofpubic school education, must con-
quer and subvert every thing opposed
lie says that even the fashions, laid ID Par
is and adopted through all civilized coun-
tics, are Only accepted in America So far
az what is practicable or useful We think
he forgot crinoline and tho apeings DC cod
fish aristoeracy. This philosophical french
man travelled in The rural districts, talked
with the people, the husbandmen, rn2ehan-
les and artisans visited the schools, work
shops and flat boats; talked with country
women and children; visited the slave pl IN
tatioris, and the negro quarters as well as
the mansions Of the lordy drivers and pro-
prietors; he travelled BY cars and on foot,
IN country wagon and coach; he travelled
from Maine through Canada, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois; thence South
to New Orleans; thence through The South
era States thence Pennsylvania, New York,
New England and Ohio. He describes the
farm machinery, government, schools, roads
customs and opinions with surprising ac-
curacy. He crticises what he thinks is
wrong and approves the right in such a way
as to show that he was in the pay of no
one, nor under the influence Of any power.
He deyotes lengthy chapter to the
sources Of power Of the American people,
as well as the weakness. THAR power ex-
lists in and through the education Of the
masses, and through their form Of govern
nent a perpetual discussion ofpublic affairs.
Such discussion vents itself through the
ballot-box, and when SO vented, new dis
cussions arise preparatory to the next cleo
ton, and SO on. He saws this is nnques-
tionably SO, as there are parts Of the United
States where there are no public schools
consequently, but little discussion Of public
affairs, and no energy, no progress-not
even bravery, except as displayed in the
mob and duel, which l,esets down as more
Che e~idenoeofeoward and weakness than
Of bravery. This he illustrates in the case
Of John Brown and the Harper's Ferry raid,
where brave old man and d score Of as
brave followers SO terribly scared many
thousands Of vain, Boosting, chiyalrous Vi-
ginians - among them the government
troops. He. sets down the Southern peo-
pie of the United States as in a weak con-
dition through neglect Of education among
their masses, though the sons Of the rich
may possess some spunk. In the ReYolu-
ton for independence, when liberty was
the powerful incentives the Southern people
doubtless exhibited due bravery; but at
present, liberty can never be On incentive to
war in the South, or if it is, the masses viii I
be arrayed hand in hand with the slaves
against the lordly masters who neglect to
educate the one and subvert every spark of
liberty in the other; in the writer's opinion
such result must inevitably follow within the
present life time. In the Harper's Ferry
raid, our Frenchman says, snorthern edu-
cation and spirit, northern tact and sagacity,
northern power itself in the persons Of a
score, came very near oyerturning q mass Of
people thousands Of times their own mum
ber.7 aRome" says he, ''was sacked and
conqgsered III its stupid moments by a few
hundred north-nen" Then he goes on to
show that ignorance and slavery are the
parents Of weakness, stupidity and ruin;
and these parents, even now, prefer to be-
get more such children than to dispense
viii those they have. lie says that the
government Of the United States IS foolish
II aiding this ignorant and weak slave hold
ing element toying to increase its dimen-
sions, even silly encouraging the slave trade,
thereby heaping ignorance to ignorance,
evil to evil, and thereby ensuring greater
catastrophe and even fastening the day Of
deliverancs through insurreetion and blood.
lie Tugs III Gle Kansas raid Missourians to
illustrate bis Aaleas; there SAYS he, was an
exhibition ST mock chivalry--such as is be-.
cotton in any slave country, in open attack
upon north-inen who are inspired through
education and bg motives ofliberty ana hui
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