New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-18

OF America end human frcPdOn 90 now aiihost VIII
versally find in France. The qualifications OF its
universally will here impartially note TO begin
with, the real, popular mass OF the French know
very little more about the United States OF America
than they do about China; and when say the
popular mass do not mean to exclude the hlgn
vulgar Many of your readers would be- ast0nlshed
to know, in detail the number of educated, refined
French gentlemen whom have met in the last ten
years, who had not the remotest conception OF the
nationality Of the United States as anything distinct
from the Spanish States of North or South America.
ia fine they know as little of the physical or poIlti
cal geography of America as begging whatever IS
the requisite number of pardons---the number being
exactly proportoned to the ignorance OF the par.
toned twothirds of the intelligent readers OF
TIE TRIBUNE know of the political and physical
geography of Continental Europe. Limit your pas
sion, my intelligent subscriber, and hound " Ger
many---tell where Belgium begins and Holland ends;
be sure that you know the positive positions and
relative distances of Lyons, Narsellles, Nancy,
Orleans, Tours, llavre, etc, before you come down
too hard upon the benighted foreigner who is
confused as to distances between Boston and
Detroit But to pass these accidents of bungling,
just often and just as grossly Detailing Americans
as Europeans: How do the French, really inteli-
gent, regard us now : have already, in previous
letters, given some proofs of the drift OF French
feeling in the case. BE assured that this drift has
not changed it's direction. That the French should
prefer the imagined and imaginative pure tree-trade
tariff of the future Southern Coni,deracy to the
moderately protective revenue tariff OF the United
States was natural; that some of the French should
confound words with things, and mix tree.trade with
all sorts OF freedom, is not strange But no greater
mistake could be made by hopefully arrogant. mag
NATIVE "SouthrOn or by nt-hcarted, shily shay,
uRprincipied commercial Northerner, than TO sup
pose that the best moral sentiment Of trance would
n -. H.. - .sl.ru NJ.
The thoughtful aud unthoughtiul the interested and
disinterested advocates OF ree-trade, c0nfUundng,
more or less integently, the word free with what
ever thing is adjoiued TO, are all to-day, from IN
terest from principle or trcm confusion OF the two,
naturally and radically opposed 10 the Morrill, tariff.
But not the most of them. not one in ten OF them,
coniouuds a pOlitco-econOmical question about
which lis mind is,righty or wrongly dchnltiyely
made up, with question OF humanity question
OF history Of civilization, OF practical policy.
There are twelve fully developed daily newspapers
published in Paris. OF these there is but one that
openly, frankly defends and sustains the position
assumed By the Southern States. That is the Pays.
Its editor, consistent in nothing else, has been al
ways consistent in supporting force against right;
honestly or ut any rate boldly logical he undertakes
the defense Of Slavery per Sc, of Slavery in the
Southern States OF North America and OF Their con-
sfiiu,iOna right OF secession. lie Pays stands alone
~ AL tue Ithtl psteS III lHiS IcaItCt'
pates the plan of Messrs. Senator Benjamin and
others for the establishment Of u Southern Conled-
eracy French newspaper in Paris. The Pays s AL
ready acquired 10 their cause AS 1t has stead
ily opposed, msreprcscnted, and yilipended every
liberal movement in Europe for the past ten years
it consistently opposes by msstatement and rhe-
torical abuse the movement toward Freedom IN
America The harmonious consistency OF the rays
resistance TO any, however slight, even Napoleonic
imperial, advance toward Liberty is in sort re-
spectacle. Various causes, not worth the space OF
detailing here, combine 10 make It's VIGOROUSLY un-
scrupulOus editOr-iu-cbiei, Granier &c CaSsagnac,
the advocate Of black Slavery in America, as be s
of white Slavery in Europe, and Of all its conse-
quenc,s. Give the man his due credit. He is logical
Per c1Rtrd, except this Paris Journal, the Pays.
whose circulation ranks seventh ia the scale Of CIR
cuaton o; Paris daily newspapers, there Is not one
which dares take its position in defense OF Slavery
There is no time nor space here to anayze tie
editorial articles of the Partisan daily press for the
past four days, which take the American situation
tor their text. 1t is but truth 10 say that, while
they differ in opinion as TO the merits OF the prac-
teal policy of our Goyernment-while some of them
doubs the power OF the United States Government
10 vndicate tsclf-no one OF them questions the
moral right OF the position now taken by the Fed
eral authorities When | say no one OF them, i
always except lie Pays, which, beside its natural
aud radical lover OF Slavery and edi,Or-ln-chef
Granier de Cassagnac, is contributed 10 by Louis
ianan Americans.
So far 40 material interests 20, far as theOret
zeal interests CO. the iree-trade doctrine of the
Southern Coniederacy is hatterng to Europe.
There could be no greater mistake than to suppose
that this doctrine even if it We're carried out in
praciice could bride the sentiment OF the European
civilized world to approve the position now taken
by the South What has been said in my preceding
letters of the opinions uttered IN the French daily
press. does not need 10 be qualified to-day by
single word Consulting the utterances of another
press To Wit, the tri.monthly and sem-m0nthly re-
views the same unity OF spirit is evident La Eerue
des DeuI MOndcs, La Rerm Contemporaries, the
two first literary reviews in France and the subOrd
nate periodicals in perfect accord with them this
theme are unanimous in their eloquent condemna-
ton of the doctrine and practice Of Slavery,
us exhibited in the Southern division of the late
United States.
Singularly rising above all these testimonies is the
remarkable work of Agenor Gasparn. In the time
when Frenchmen could freely speak their thoughts,
NJ Gasparin made himself justly eminent as the
ardent advocate Of Protestant and human rights.
To Slavery, in all shapes, whether imposed by the
Church on thought, or by whites on blacks, he was
long ago an opponent as distinguished by his purity
of purpose us by his eloquence of language. Pub
lshed within the past month, written necessarily
since the election Of Mr.. Lircold, but soundly
thought out long ago, is his admirable work, as
logically sound as ardently eloquent, entitled Un
Grand Peupie qui Sc retere-Les Etats Unis en- 1851
IL is very noticeable, indeed. that this octave
volume though written and pushed through the press
on occasion of tie American crisis. does not bear
any marks of careless composition. NJ de Gasparin
is an old consistent lover of freedom in its largest
proper sense-as for the rest his formerly eminent
position as q French Protestant, politically and
reigiouSly liberal, honestly earned, sufficiently