New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-16

mOCerate itch TOT Writing ana spehhIDR.
The country quiet in 1856; to-day 1t " plunged
into troubles that may well become disasters for part
of the Union. But we mst not Judge Mr.. Buchanan
more severely than he deserves 1t is not he alone who
is guilty The party that raised him to power must be
held respopsjbe for the evils that now threaten the Re-
public But his position enabled him TO present himself
as grave and impartial mediator between the North
and the South yet, contrary 10 all rational expecta
ton his Message TO Congress is diatribe against the
seventeen Northern States, and almost an ENCOURAGE
ment to revolt for the fifteen Southern States. he
envenoms instead Of calming the situation"
After analysing the Message, and presenting fair
" it's authors propositions for settling the great ques
ton in dispute, our French publicist adds
1.-THE North has Just triumphed, and condemned ns-
very 10 a slow but certain DEATH Good now Lei
renounce its victory Jet 1t make arende hosoTao, ~
II proclaim Slavery holy and immaeulatei Perhaps,
then, if its conduct Is such as becomes suomsnve
subject the South viii magnaDimousy consent stu 10
cell her cotton at good price,"
Another, singularly able and always philoso-
phically calm writer, treatng this question OF se
cessiOn, concludes thus:
"a peaceable secession might be arranged, II the
Mississippi River neutralized and this would be
the best settlement of the matter far the Northern
States are concerned. But nothing could be more dis
astrous for the South than TO be abandoned TO ilse,
with s horrible system of opposition to all free discus
zion its constant terror Of servle nsurrect0n and It's
large population of poor whites (6ancs dc 6as eogc
sunk IN profound ignorance and gross sensrality."
Ii is not pleasant part of a foreign correspond
dents duty TO quote such passages as these from the
best writers in the hest journals Of the day. But 1t
ia his bounden duty 10 say that the above brief ex
tracts ore chosen specially because they are char.
acteristic of French opinion respecting our great
American question. 1t is the simple, incontroyert-
bic fact, that you cannot find in oil the French
press, what am told, is to be fOnud in the Boston
press. a defense of Buchanan and Slavery. II may
be wrong or right, but it is fact that the French,
AS the English are Oh the side of our American free
dom. To the general tone OF the French press, in
treating Of our American crisis, made paragraph
or two above. cassexception. The UltramOntane
pans the organs OF the old Lesmist party they who
ill preacl that Francis of Ga5ta is Gods an0inted,
ard that Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi are the
devils OVID, they who humbly " claim that man
and nature should be but sleeping partners in the
firm of Heaven and the Pope, OF which the Pope
has the sole signature-it is these organs alone
that are at dscord with all others. But even they
do not present themselves az frank c0adjutors OF
The Charleston Mercury. Despite themselves, de-
spite their theories, they are affected by French
principles; and the foremost, most completely So
cured Of all the principles of 20 is the equality OF
man as mnn. SO, these Ultramontane Journalists
can at best rejoice only in this: that the actna
American crisis threatens hopeful end to the ex-
pertinent of people governing themselves. They
rejoice in the downfall of the American republic.
They say:
longer than the republic " Robespierrc still II cnoi
escape its 18Th BrllmaiIc.'
The Journalist who wrote that last quoted sen.
tence OF the American Republic is be who wrote
some years ago aiming TO prove that the young lieu
tenant Baltimore Patterson Bonaparte (grandson OF
foolish odJcromc) was the destined crowned mon
arch Of the Southern of the eI-United States.
This journalists hatred Of Nspoleonim il altogether
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To return now, for paragraph or two, to your
correspondeIt's proper domain, Of French aud Pa
risisn affairs. For the past eight years have con.
stantly and il il 10 he feared, wearisomely hsrped
on the question Of the press yet, be sure Of H. II ID
the pivotal question of French questions. That 1t
il OF first rate importance is one Of tho very few
points on which your humble" correspondent. has
the honor 10 be strictly in accord with his Majesty
Louis Napoleon, Emperor ofthe French. That gen
tleman il now trying for the third time, aud with
some special though faint chances success the
cessyey difficult project Of obtaining boldly respect
iul, submissiyey independent cOnser aiyey innoyst
ing press. What he needs is press that will say all
that il thinka all that il wants, within constitution
al limits, which limits Government viii not nicely
define. Using words in their proper sense, there is
no question Of the freedom OF the press. The Em-
per0r however, ia more than willing, nay very de-
sirou. 10 DO all that he, being and pupcsing dynas-
tically to be- Emperor possibly can togIant much
License to the press as he can possibly bear. Writ
ers i'll and Owners OF newspapers are to prudently
calculate bow mach hi, Majesty can bear.
Whatever Else you may think ofLouis Napoeea's
religious qualities this faithful feature cannot BE-
denied, that be il most proyidcLt Christian for his
OWN family Nov, nothing ~ more directly ne-dful
his dynasic interests than that the nation should
20 with him, and be with the nation. Hence his
anxiety 10 know whittier the nation is going. Hence
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newspaper press, the only reliable guide.bosrd Of
the route the national spirit is following Therefore
there is nothing oxtrayagant in tle current runor
that al the approaching session Of the Senate
propositon will come from Government for a modi-
icstiOn Of the organic law the press thu drit OF
which proposition will be to loosen the halter about
the necks Of journalists and 10 slacken aud prolong
the length OF the legal halter TO which they are at
tached. Bat the other end Of the halter will aud
must remen Va heretofore in his Majesty discrc-
tionaIy hand
II il wer. not sithin ten minutes Of posting tIue
should Ike 10 paragraph 81 length on the weather.
We have had sloyenly snow storm drawing through
the week, with greater aggregate fall OF snow than
We Parisians have secn since the Winter Of 1853.
Ii would be n tribe in New-York, but il is worth
treating Of if time and paper space served from
national point Of view.
You have no notion how much OF national traits
comes out in q snow storm. | have only room to
note that the late snoH-ial has called out the mill
taIy forces to help clean the railroad tracks that
rls ont Of Paris thst owing 10 the accompanying
seyert, Of the temperature the commanding
Marsbal OF the garrison OF Paris has ordered that
tie soldiers at the numerous post. shall he relieved
every hour instead Of every two hours; that
whole brgsdes Of sweepen, hOers, shovelers are
in The streets TO clear awsy the snow almost AZ
fact az il falls; that Majesty has ridden out
in seighs on the Champs El-ecs TO the
great admiration of Psrisinn tadavds unwonted
TO such sight aud that paryenu Spectators at the