Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-21

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European View of the American War
French Sympathy With the United
States.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Times writes on the Sd inst:
There are twelve fully-developed daily
newspapers published in Pnris. OF these,
there is but one that openly, frankly defends
and s~ustains the position assumed by the
Southern States. That is the Pays. It's
editor, consistent in nothing else, has been
always consistent in supporting force against
right; honestly, or at any rate boldly logical,
he undertakes the defense of slavery per Sc,
of slavery in the Southern States of North
America, and of their constitutional right of
Secession. lie Pays stands alone in all the
French press in this respect. 1t anticipates
the plan of Messrs. Senator Benjamin and
others for the establishment of a Southern
Confederacy French newspaper in Paris.
The Pays is already acquired to their
cause. AS it has steadily opposed, misfepre-
scented and vilipeuded every liberal move
ment in Europe for the past ten years, so it
consistently opposes, by misstatement and
rhetorical abuse, the movement toward free
dom in America. The harmonious consist
ency of the Pdys's resistance to any, however
slight, even Napoleonic imperial, advance
toward liberty is, in a sort, respectable.
Various causes, not worth the space of de-
failing here, combine to make its VIGOROUSLY
INSCRIPTIONS editor-in chiet, Granier de
Cassagnac, the advocate of black slavery in
America, as he is of white slavery in Europe,
and of all its consequences. Give the man
his due credit. He is logical.
Per contra, except this Paris Journal, the
Pays, whose circulation ranks seventh in
the scale of circulation of Paris daily news
papers, there is not one which dare take It's
position in defense of slavery.
There is no time nor space here to analyze
! the editorial articles of the Partisan daily
press for the past four days, which take the
American situation for their text. 1t is but
truth to say that, while they differ in opin-
ion as to the merits of the practical policy of
our Government-while some of them doubt
the power of the United States Government
to vindicate itself-no one of them questions
the moral right of the position now taken
by the Federal authorities. When | say no
one Of them, / always except lie Pays,
which, besides its natural and radical lover of
slavery and editor in. chief Granier de Gas
sagnac, is contributed to by Louisianian
Americans.
So far as material interests 90, so far as
theoretical interests go, the free-trade doc
trine of the Southern Confederacy is flatter-
ing to Europe. There could be no greater
mistake than to suppose that this doctrine,
even if it were carried out in practice, could
bribe the sentiment of the European civilized
world to approve the position now taken by
the South. What has been said in my pre-
ceding letters of the opinions uttered in the
French daily press, does not need to be quail
lied to. day by a single word. Consulting
the u%tterances of another press, to-wit, the
tri, monthly and semi-monthly reviews, the
same unity of spirit is evident. La Revue
des Deuz MondeS, La Revue Contemporaries,
the two first literary reviews in France, and
the subordinate periodicals in perfect accord
with them on this theme, are unanimous in
their eloquent condemnation of the doctrine
and practice Of slavery, as exhibited in the
Southern division of the late United States.
S~ingularly rising above all the these testi-
monies is the remarkable work of Agenor
Gasparin. In the time when Frenchmen
could freely speak their thoughts, NJ. Gaspa-
rim made himself Justly eminent as the ar
dent 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 oppO-
nent as distinguished by his purity of pur-
pose as by his ~eloquence Of language. Pub
lished within the past month, written neees-
sarily since the election Of Mr.. Lincoln, but
soundly thoughtout long ago, is his admirable
work, as logically sound, as ardently elo.
quent, entitled I'm Grand Peupe 9ui So
TsleVs-Les Etats Unis On 1861. 1t Is very
noticeable, indeed, that this octave volume,
though written and pushed through the
press on occasion of theiAmerican crisis, does
not bear any marks of careless composition.
N. 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 ~religously
liberal, honestly earned, sufficiently proves.
The leading idea of this book may be guessed
from its titled Great People Rising.