New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-23
VIEWS OF THINGS IN AMERICA AZ
SEEN FROM FRANCE.
From Our Own Correspondent.

lately Southern NeW-1Orh Jouino' "e' Po'"''"
out to me yesterday, where the writer says tnat
the Paris press ia favorable TO the South. ms
10 an nntrnth. The South, its Slavery and
Secession, have but one advocate in the daily
press Of Paris, lie Pays, whose circulation ranks
beloW nj least seven OF the thirteen Journals OF
Paris. and whose influence is not even proper
TONED to its circulation. IL is true that the
French did not like the Morrill, tariff so well as
what they supposed to be the free-trade Princi-
pes of the South.
The vigorous action of JEFF. Dayis's irrespon-
sibe Dictatorship excited certain respect as
vigorous action always does. The seeming mac
nyity of Mr. Lincoln was hardly cxplicable to
most French minds except by has weakness, or
the weakness of the nature of our Government
or by both. Not all Frenehmen admire our poll
teal institutions; very few understand them;
still fewer admire or understand Honest Old
Abe
All This ia natural. But between this aud
iavorina tue South, is the Unreasonable distance
| between truth and the statement OF TIE HerGhS
correspondent. Here am not answering base
assertion nv . base assertion. My proofs are
| mt IN lnt lsst tII'' hs'HiIr Hb'H VI wv
! OPINION Nqi,Onaio, toe S!6oic, La PTeSSe, Les
Ddats etc., Of he daily press, in the late mum.
bers of the Gorm de- Dan NoadeS, Rccm Con-
temporaiae, Rerre GeraaniqHf, etc, OF the more
stately periodical press.
Wien, month ago, it seemed probable to
mnny Fr, nchmen that The " late United States"
vas soon 10 be cut INTO two nations, nothing
was 50 natural as that they should lock TO
commercial intercourse with the Southern Com
iedcraoy with pleasant hope OF proht. But not
then did the French press favor the Southern
spccialiy Of black Slavcry--nOs in the least.
When hand is extended TO us in commercial
treaty, We must tsk. 70 without TOO closely
" scanning It's color or Cleanliness That was
the facor.bh way they talked OF the South. BIT
rake this slsye-dr,ing hand as the hand of
gentleman our social cqua. .iaoHs done!
l have spoken of the French press for the last
three months But lo,k at your Paris files for
the last week--at the articles written since tie
news reached here Of the grand resurrection Of
The American people" Ia GRIND Pfppie qr' {"
q yelsce." You viii see in them that, 81 lar as
feeling rocs, it is al one way--all oHr way. lie
sure thai the sympathy OF this great, generous
nation Is Thoroughly witt as. lie opinions ~
to the coursc aud issue OF our new war OF indie
peudence, 81 forth N the-e articles, are also
| worth noticing. Not all OF them are Aatteriug
10 ns. One often repeated one II that ctr Gov
eminent BY ts very nature must be inefficient an
circumstances Ike The presents that II bas no
controlling power over toe nation. In this mag
nficent rising Of tie people winch rcroindf the
! French OF their enrulLErnis ia o 10 tie cry OF
the " Country is n Danger tie peculiar feature
to them is Ne indiyldualism and lscallsm. Inc
people volunteer, nqh hecsuse they ara called on
by authority bnt because they think the cali -
right; the - Ststcs send tlcir militia ~ Wash
"ington, not from obedience to the President,
bot from sympatly for the cause he defends.
VIII TIE unau'Dty Of the people make up ior
tie want d ccniI4lzlg power IN the Govern
mentl In Tie We" OF thoughtful European ou-
lockers, he political pnncpIes of our peculiar
State and General Governments are on trial-a
doubtful tria--ihe result Of which, many think
will De 10 strengthen the General Government al
The eIpense Of State sovereign rights. But what
ever doubts are exp. ssed on this AID other
points n qUt-to on, NO doubt il expressed on tie
main rracl,'a point as to the final triumph oi
the Nation over til Seccdcrs.
Amer sp' ing OF the grave obstacles in the
WAY oi protecting Washington, and recognizing
the possibility of lis being taken by the Southern
forces, la Presss goes Oh 10 say: " Still the final
- issue cannot be- doubted Of even though MI the
fifteen Slave states -holld make common cause,
(which will be inevitable ii the North turns IL
" account TIC terrible tAat offers ,seii IL the
- shape OF cal To- s.ryIle Instruction. The
" p'snieis, it Is true, Gre 50 confident oi The
fidelity at their slaves that some have prOposed
10 arm them. rs wen NJ accept the offers oi
service of free negroes. Bnt the trouble would
"be not to ara them but 10 disarm them"
"In this sinister lCel, says Le Taps, be-
tween Liberty aud Slavery, in which one Of ihe
cornbatants nust ial, it is not Liberty that
VIII fall" -..
Very noticeable is the extent of the belief here
that the abolition of Slavery in America will be
one of the results of the war now bcgun-must
he one Of ITS results, in the Border States at
least. See Joursai DIES Dfjats. S6ote, Prose-,
OpiaiO,l N0tioaeie, H. Temps, etc, of this week.
A word about lie Pays. Mention vas made in
this correspondence, at the time OF their puoca-
fion months ago. of the marvellous articles Of its
editor in.chiet GranieF dc Cosssgnac, in favor Of
the South wherein he maintained the constitu.
:ional right of secession and the moral right OF
Slavery. The mans ignorance IA the case was
only matched by his mpudonce. lie 1t was who
! declared o,isiaun Ohio Kentucky tn have