New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-11

thc east Ol IL, not increasing i'll huin e ..ao
They are somewhat disappointed, owing, ., 1oufi Gni
to their Ignorance OF our insIl'u. ;,'I ,var
that their 0p,nion that the American civli war
was n war between Freedom ana slavery IN
which the latter was doomed to defeat, seems 10 De
an erroneous opinion. AS the s0ulh UNDERTAKES W
destroy the Union in defense OF slavery the NORM
must destroy Slavery in defense ol Inc Union Ids
class of people like all other large French classes,
"a ant IN take military views and to furthermore
nsl! .sIf this war is war, why not carry it on
tuartiallyf la guerre CONNIE Ia guerre. 10
un1ertaie the subiection Of some nine millions OF
vour enemies and to maintain in subsection TO them
some four millions of their enemies, is most unex-
"ampled waT-programme. If this war IS war,
"but not one ia which Freedom and Slavery are at
"direct issue-only war in which great political
'Sand material interests al direct issue, why IT
"ceases Of course to have any more claim on our
"sympathies than the Crimean war had on yours.
"Whether it result in your recovering the South
"with its slaves or in YOUR losing the South Win
ats slaves, is matter of indifference as ques-
"tion Of humanity; for in either case, Slavery Is
maintained though its power ia diminished; as
"question OF political liberty: for Democracy as
" a principle is not on trial. There only remains
"the politico-economica question, ard that we
"French folks persist, however enormously, IN
thinking would be best answered for our purposes
"by a direct trade with the free ports OF
"SOuthern Republic.
Let me quote here from very clever (0strlch
patriotism forbid that j should say JUST critical
article published in La Presse of last Sunday on
the
"Message remarkable for its dislectic ability, in
which Mr.. Lincoln perfectly demonstrates thSt lhe
responsibility OF the conflict must rest With tie South
1t is to te feared then, that victory
will be very difficult either side and that II VIII
produce no decisive result. The patr tic expenditure
blJod and trea uIe is ALL tie expenditure must
also be useful. Now, what fruit does Mr.. lineol
expect from it The restoration of the pat, thtt ~
the maintenance OF the that have pIoduco lle
actual conflict, that would be again provisional f'''e
Of thiugs.
"TLe President reproaches the Separatists for hay-
ing adopted declaration OF iudeI endence III "hiel,
uLhke tie good old one Penheo by Jeherson, lney
omit the words all men are created .qusl' 9, FAi
from mpu'iog this OMISSION as crime 10 ne eii'e-
ties il mich pass for merit in item. 1ley nave
been more frank and more sef-eonsistent tban the
Republicans WHO proclaim all men equal, HDd mean
TO naiutain iour million blacks III tMv.fy' e ~ s w
this Inconsistency that tie Aue lean Union owes fe
present crisis She has been false 10 her e, 10 her
gospel; she is now undergoing the pena ". :.
Democracy, teen, a. rrinclie, Is hot j. question: ~
has been tired and successfully lroved bat mor'l1
germ was impruceLy left iu the system OF this robust
sound democracy. This fatal germ has destroyed IT
self Not from Liberty bat firm Slavery comes The
malady of the Republc Of the United STATES. iheIe
is the us with it IL for Ler TO expe aid lot to pre-
serve under penalty Of indefinitely proionglng her
constitutional debility
To the eve of the logical French thesricians, our
practitioners Of the Washington school are d0ct0i-
ing symptoms, only, and only homeopathicaly ut
that-Simiita simitibas euTdEinT. The disease Is
Slavery, and the proposed means OF cure Is slavery;
Several c. :. A. pamphlets have been punished
here o late, ofwhch the most meanchohcaiy hugn-
able is entitled: HoBlms ou SiEge, on la QUESTION de
PEsciarage GRI LtOis URis, and the least laughab!
serious: La RerOiatiOn AmericGine Dero'fte. The
author of the "Man or Monkey, or the Slavery
Question in the United States, who is down on
the Niger and up on the monkey with n zeal 80
reckless of morality natural history, political econ
Ony the simplest logic, and the most patent acis OF
American life and manners wisely begins by ward
ing of suspicion which lac seems TO think would
naturally arise in the readers mind. BE therefore
states on the cover of his thin Syo. view OF thngs
that he is hight NJ. Poussielgue (thereiore Homme
and not SiRge ex-attache TO the French Embassy al
Washington And here arises comfortable reflection
in the American patriotic mind, TO w.t. that some oi
the Diplomatic officials are no more tt Tor tIeT
places than many Of ours But not only is the ex-at
tache not Gorilla; he is not, he takes predatory pains
inside the cover TO say, even creole, nor yet re-
lated to any creole owner of q cotton or sugar
plantation, nor, finally, bribed by any such TO let
off this present pamphlet against the negro. lLe
implication that some panpEleteers and journalists
in France are bribed TO utter ph0-sayery doctrine
is worth nothing by the way. But that any South.
eIn man or set Of men, "Or any other man,
tboupb in possession of the mint and all its branches
and Of all the Australian, California and Uralmoun-
famous, and Potosian gold and silver mineral roofs
of the same, should, i'll the most whiskey y-exclted
mood of spendthriit wasteiulness, throw single
dime not out Of but through the window OF bis or their
glass house. TO brbe 10 his their service, the oy
notdangerous goose quill oi Poussielsue
that is gigantic, an elephantne, Himmalayan
Joke past the compass of Poussielgue, his vision.
atnfp Mt (snc bX
law Of lueus nom is that the negro being is as
much monkey kind as human kind, therefore was
meant to be and should be kept in slavery; that
he is extremely happy as he is; that Mrs. Stoves
Uncle Tom IL mass OF eXsggeratiOn; that the Amer
lean slave laws in shameful need Of radical re-
formation; that American Shareholders equally viO-
late the painest laws policy as well as of morality
in giving way to their brutal passions, keeping slave
harems and propogating mixed race OF " "coored
men," who, combining the human with the snian
elements Of their respective parents, will surely
revolt against and overthrow the despotic rule Of
their white relatives; that the Union and Northern
folks under their cloak Of Anti-Slayery cant, are
actuated in their present conflict with the South,
only by gross, condemnable material interests that
mere interest should lead the French to sympathize
with the &. s. A., whose territory is chiefly iDhab
tied by descendants from French and Spanish colo
nsts; that-but really the little pamphlet is not
worth the pains of further analysis. 1t is not all
nonsense though. The hit upon we Northern
amis des noirs, who will not suffer "colored" +"
folks, let alone colorless, pure blacks to publicly
ride, dine or study, or dance, or pray, or die or
be buried, equi-collateraly with ourselves in New
York cars, 'busses INNS parlors churches hospitals
or grave-ysrds, is aptly dealt by native of Pnrls
the capital of the civilized world-where Alexander
Dumas Of merchantabe tint, was familiar vistant
of the Orleans family, and commercially y-shaded
Gen. Yussuff of the French army, has his entTee
at the Imperial Court The other pamphlet,