New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-24
THE TAURINE TEMPER.

ing whatever for the good opinion of mankind.
We are so morbidIy sensitive, and take disap-
probation so ill., that we fancy oil other people
must find an equal pleasure IN foreign praises
1t may help to preserve our equanlmity' II we
remember how chronic is the contempt when
England has always manifested for tho Judg-
ment, whether favorable or adverse. OF the rest
of the world In this respect, che takes rank
with the semicivilized Chinese. We think IL
| is Mr.. Emerson who has remarked, that
wherever no may 90, the EDgishman never
loses his nsular habits Ho may discover new
lands and plant tbere colonies, but instead OF
assimiating with the aborigines, he is not easy
until he has exterminated them. At home, 10
keeps up the same contempt. The Engiish
populace is notoriously uDcisil to foreigners
Mr.. Dsraeh, in his Curiositcs of Liter
ature. mentions that Queen Mary. upon her
marriage with King Philip, issued Procama-
ton, commanding her subjects not to insult The
foreign retinue of her husband "by outward
deeds. haunting words. unsecnly countenances,
or BIZ mimicking them" Froissart. who was
time, nearly five hundred years ago, COM
planned OF English envy of anothers
good fortune" ard tells us that the Lngllsh
Knights swore "by God" that if Philip Won
Artayelde chad had two thousand Eoghsh
lances Mt the battle of Rosebecque and six
thousand English lancers not one Frenchman
would have escaped death or imprisonment.
When Urban was proceeding against Clement
Froissart says that English Knights would not
move, though promised bales OF pardons, with
ont wares prepaid in hard cash. So in En-
plish Comedy, Freedman is always made
ridiculous, lingo being put into BIS mouth
which Frencbmen never did talk or could talk.
however ignorant of the English tongue. The
Italian. in the English Epilogues OF the last
century, is always spoken of a "a thing.
In tho same contemplate productions, English
men. we are given to understand, always eat
beef aud Frenchmen only frogs. Nogartb,
who was every inch an Englishman, never, If
orr memory serves US, drew a foreigner ex-
cent in caricature The utterly absurd Mt
tcnpts in Pune. to deliDeate Yankee peculiar.
tiles. hardly one Of which il ever bit upon BY
mistake, are probably more familiar to most OF
our readers.
We adducs these illustrations, to which
many others might be- easily added, by way OF
consolng those OF our irritable counirymen
who feel too keenly for their dignity or COM
fort the calculated comments Of the English
press upon American affairs. For our part,
We have begun Arcgard them as ludicrons
conGrmations Of toEic truths. aud as contsi-
buttons which some future writer upon national
character VIII find somewhat valuable. IL rs
quito in keeping with established precedent
that in this American contest England should
forget the morAiiic., or should postpone their
considerations until her material necessities
are no longer discommoded. II is not at al
astounding, ns between those OF whom ale
must bug cotton and thoso OF whom she may
buy corn, that sue should bcstow her implied
approval upon the producers II the frsi-named
commodity With the right, or rather with
VIVA. her keen shopkeepers would call the
romance OF the matter, she declines TO have
any thing TO do. What 10 talk about human
liberty Mere stuff aud CANNON What is
human liberty Does 1t sell by tie pound or
the peck, the barrel or the bushcl, 10 bulk or
in boxes, on Change or IN Mark Lane Does
IL como in duty free Is II considered extra
hazardous ut the assurance offices What do
they think Of human liberty at Lloyds7 How
is il at present regarded by the men of tho
City1 Is Liberty Bull or u Bear Putting
his own prc.ensions TO Freedom out OF the
question, the beel-fed and teer-nourlshct Brit
.sh stock broker regards Liberty as something
of which hungry poets rave aud political dream.
ers write and .eedy adventurous talk when
coutendiDg for seat in Parliamcni-as some
thing fit enough to be discussed in vcstry meet
ings aud tavern debating societies. and college
cubs--as well enough IN Greece AMI Rome
and highly respectable in the days OF Magma
Charta, of which Lc has heard, OF which be-
often talks, and Of which no never read ole
word. Brltons never Will be sayee,' be
basls in his cups. For the rest oil mnnkiud,
if they want liberty, why don't they buy II, M
he does, by prompt payment of prodi-
gious taxcsl He is well enough of, he
has Ilabeas Corpus--whateyer that may
be--and Trial By jury. and Freedom oil
| Speech, b. which ho means Freedom of
Swearing; and let tho poor, miserable
rest OF tho world go whistle IN its CHAINS .
Now aud then, John catches in the glass II
glance Of HIMSELF but although be il little
nstouisLed, be never reforms His own come
d FANS laugh at ham 10 bis face. Ills own jest
crs put him in Il pillory Of pasquiuades. HIS