The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-12
PRICE TWO CENTS.
FRENCH, AMERICAN, AND ENGLISH YOUNG
LADIES


The last London Ahenaeun, in a review of A re
cent French book, entitled "Marriage in tht
United States, takes occasion to make the follow
! ing remarks:
| No two nations do the same thing in the sam.
manner. We do not make coffee alike, we do no
dress alike, the biftek au natrel of even cordo,
Die" is not the beef-steak Of London chephouse
the Chnamans cup of tea is very different tn ing
to that affected by Mrs. SOapsuds, the Turk
narghiIe has but little resemblance to the Irish
mans cuttypipe, and that which seems the best
way OF loving and marrying to one set of people
| horribly ofends the instincts and moralties OF
another. In the civilized Christian world there
cannot be a greater discrepancy in this last par.
| tlcular than between the French and the Ameri
cans From the first look of love to the last word
ol marriage there is not stage of the affair that
Is conuueted IN the same way, not round of the
great iadder which is hewn out of the same block.
The French girl never leaves her mothers side.
unless, indeed, she be brought up in a convent
me American young lady neither claims nor would
submit to the most ordinary protection of friend
! or parent. The French girl is married off bv her
! mother, without even the sembance of cOnsulta-
ton; suitability Of fortune and condition being
much more important matter than any such moon
shine as suitability of temper the elective ain
ties. An American does her own husband-hunting
single handed, and if she does not quite take the
Initiative in the moment of proposing, does not
hesitate to make her preference as undisguised as
words would have made it.
The same national opposition holds GOOD after
marriage. The French wife is free emancipated
almost lrresponsible-a leader of socety a person
age, power; the American loses herself when she
gains husband. She is henceforth scarcely n
side ornament where she was lately crown and
scr sceptre ~ both oung and handsome, she 70 n"
sooner married tnan sIe Is uraTted of to the elderly
section, with whom there is longer question of
| Irritation; and the world which forgave her even
grave indiscretions while she was single will now
severely punish the slightest infraction of
ances. 1t is curious and an instructive inversion
the French granting to the wife the liberty which
! the American grants to the maiden; and both so
terribly shocked if by chance, their women change
places and cross hands over the code.
Between these two extremes, we English hold
our usual middle place. Not so strict with our
girls as are the French nor so lax as the Ameri-
cans; not so liberal of social freedom to our wives
as the one, nor so niggardly the ether we think
on the exact golden mean, and shot our arrow into
the very bulls eye of the question. We saw, we
give our young ladies sufficient liberty to form
their characters, and time and opportunity to know
their own minds. We do not marry them off to
the first eligible bidder, like so many tender little
doves sold, hoodwinked, in the temple; neither do
we suffer them to roam unguded through the hus-
bandless desert, like wild creatures seeking their
prey. We make our bands and bonds elastic and
fling the shadow of the broad maternal wing yerv
far; so that, by these wise measures, we secure
race of maidens perfect in their fearless inno-
cence as our wives are hawless in their crystal
purity.
Our friends across the channel, on the contrary
prefer pretty dolls, in the one case and matrimo-
NAL freebooters in the other; and our cousins to
the West hold the best preparation for the fetters
of marriage and maternity to consist in laWless
license, and think protection bondage and pruden t
counsel mental slavery. Of course each of the
other two countries is as justified to itself we
are Tor where was ever the nation to be found
Whlch was not, in its esteem, the ultimate sum
of morality? The line to the right hand or to the
lelt spos all the symmetry the dash of blue or red
destroys the whole scaie of color La recherche de
raosotM is always successful in the aggregate; and
there lives not man who does not think his ma
tlonal home the most perfectly organized and his
countrywomen the most charming, the most yir-
tuous, the best brought up of their sex.
GEORGE BANCROFT AND THE ENGLISH.
The following we take from the Grafton of the
Hon. George Bancroft, delivered in Cleveland
Ohio, on Monday, on the occasion of the inau..
! guration of the Perry statue:
ave have met the enemy were Perrv's words
as he reported the result of the battle. And who
that "enemy ?" A nation speaking another
! tongue? State abandoned to the caprices of
| deSpotsm? A people inimical to human freedom ?
! No! they were the nation from whom most of us
| sprung, using the copious language, cherish
ing after their fashion the love of liberty enjoying
internally the frees government that the world mad
known before own. But the external policy oi
their government has been less tr0led by regard
| for right than their domestic administration; and
series of wantOn aggressiOns upon us, useless to
England, condemned now by her own statesmen
ana Judges as violations OF the law OF nature and
the law of nations, forced into conflict two peoples
whose common sympathies should never have been
disturbed. And is this aggressive system for ever
to be adventured by her rulers ? How long is the
OvershadOwing ariStocratc element in her govern.
ment to stand between the natural affections OF
kindred nations?
Even now British Minister, whose past career
gave hope of greater fairness, is renewing the old
system OF experiments on the possible contingency
of the puSillanimty, the Indifference, or the gn0-
rance of some future American administration and
disputes our boundary in the northwest, though
the words of the treaty are too plain to be per
verted and though the United States claims no
more than the British Secretary of State who
offered the treaty explained its meaning before
it was signed British soldiers are now encamped
part of our territory which bears the name of
Washington. With moderation that should have
commanded respect, the United States waived their
better claim to Vancouver, and to any part OF
1t; thinking it conducive to peace to avoid two
jurisdictions different parts of the same island.
and IN return for this forbearance the British
Minister, yielding perhaps to some selfish camor OF
trading company, as much against British inte-
rests as against American rights, reproduces on an
American island the Inconvenience of divided occu.
patton, which 1t was the very purpose of the treaty
to avoid!
If the hum of the American seaboard is in part
the echo OF sentiments from abroad, here the un-
mixed voice of America may be heard, as it pro-
nounces that it is too late to wrest territory from
the United States by prevaricatiOn, by menace, or
by force. From the English dockyards it is a long
voyage to San Juan; the only good land route
across the continent lies south of Lake Superior:
in few years there will be three Ohios on the
shores of the Pacific. 1t is England's interest as
well as duty to give effect to the treaty as it was
interpreted by her own minister to ours. Your
voices on this memorable day give the instruction
! to our own government to abide by the treaty
faithfully, on the condition that Britain will do
! the same; but the treaty must bind neither party
| or both-must be executed in good faith or can
| celled. Th men who honor the memory of Perry
| will always know how to defend the domain OF
! their country.
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