New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-04
THEE AMERICAN QUESTION y
EUROPE.
Correspondence Of The N. 7. Tribune.

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Of Elk hundred thousand men to look after, navy 10
match contractors and jobbers of all Sorts and Con
gess in session, which alone is generally enough to
try the steadest patience and the strongest
add to all this, the threatened war with England-if
it has not broken ont blown over before you get
this--and nobody can deny that you are placed in
most trying situation. Duly sympsthizpg with you,
l shall in turn beg leave to ask your sympatbies,
and those Of your readers for the trbulatons OF al
ex.Tribune editor sent to represent the commercial
interests Of the United Statee in these parts Imagine
him walking into the spacious Ieading-rooms of the
Torgesteo or Merchants Exchange of this city
which may observe. by the way far exceeds any
thing of the kind you have in New-York, tie ex-
change, the reading rooms, conversation rooms
coffee &c. being all one foor--aud there sitting
down Mt tables covered with newspapers 10 the Eu-
glish, French, German, Italian Modern Greek, Hun.
gsrian, and one or two Slovenian dialects, and
think it quite likely too, in Turkish, Arabic and
other oriental topgues-for l have not yet ascer-
tanned the full extent Of the colection-though
there are none from the western world, except
some numbers Of The TRIBUNE placed there by
your correspondent. Imsgine that correspondent
sitting down rs aforesaid, and beginning with The
london Tunes, running through the articles on the
United States in the four principal languages. Did
ever any one hear such u bowling chorus Of hate
and maligniiy How it is with the little dogs in
the minor tongues, "a don't read tbem l cau't
say. However, have little doubt that they
too Join In the Chorus, and that the howl
is universal. 1t Is true that now aud then
an article occurs in the most intelligent jour.
nails, as in the last number Of the Rerue 6es
Deqr Mondes, which may justly be considered the
ablest as ii is the most comprehensive and catholic
periodical of the day, in which the voice of reason
and truth is beard though in these cases. either
through an inevitable deficiency Of information, or
an injection Of the surrounding moral atmosphere,
which canuot DO escaped, truth and justice are al
most always marred by serious msapprehcrsonS aud
strange misststemenis But these faint utterances,
in which candor, perception of the truth, and a
spirit of Justice prevail totally lot amid the pas
sionate shouts Of hate and maevoleuce which rise
from all the other journals.
Fortunate indeed it is for your correspondent that,
though he reads these European languages with
more or less fuency, he cannot yet speak them, or
otherwise he might be tempted to jump upon one OF
the tables and totally to upset the decorun and pro-
orety which our good Triesteni regard as including
the whole law and gospel, by giving them speci-
men of the stump speech in yiDdcatcn aud honor of
the spread Eagle, such us every American knows
how 10 deliver.
However the trials Of your correspondent do not by
any means end with the foreign pspere. They are
aggravated to ten.fod degree by the perusa Of that
most false, shameless and impudent Of all journals,
Tie Ne,c. York Rerlad, the daily edition Of which.
subscribed for by our correspondents predecefsor,
still continues and viii continue to come for fe "
DAYS to lis Office 1t is impossible 10 read the inis-
nous edi orials Of that paper without wishing that
the dasady authors of them had had The courage TO
keep openly flying tba, rebellion and Secession flag
which still waves in their hears-m indeed they can
be supposed to have hears-so "a TO have led to tho
suppression Of ,hat journal and the transfer of ia
leading contributors to Fort lafayette.
The bewlderment Of misiuformaton and tho
chorus in misrepresentation which prevail through
out Europe on the subject Of American silairs aIe
clearly traceable TO two sources; lint profound
ignorance Of our history, old aud iecent-the prin'
cipal authority in Europe on those subjects beng
Tie NJ y Heraid; and secondly, profound deslre
on the part Of the ruling ciasses-whose spokesmen
and representatives tie newspapers, for the most
par, sre-for the failure aud downfall Of our Amerl-
can experiment of Il Eepublic based on democratic
ideas. The London Times and other Journals com
p,re The rebellion in the South TO the revolt Of tue
Anne rican colonies against the attempt TO tax them
by Parliament in which they had no represen'"'
ives. While ,hese Journals fall into this phfu blum
der, tley totally overlook an analogy between the
pre.ert war and that Of the Revolution, which ia
striking indeed. We are doing now in the South
precisely what we did in the Revolution, namely,
cnnpellip0 the revoed Cotton States 70 cone back
toto the Union which they have deserted. IL the
Declaration Of Independence The CarOnas and Geor-
gia i,Ded; but everybody knows that In the course
Of the Revolutionary war Georgia aud South Caro-
Ina formally seeded from the Union and that North
Carolina which from fret 10 Last wss fall OF Toner,
wac on the point Of doing So. Everybody knows
I-except the learned editors Of European
ncwspapers, with TIE London Times at their
head-that the City Of Eew-York early fell into
the hands OF tie Britfh, and that she was only
brought back into the Union when the war was
brought to termination. Tho very same good work
which the patriots Of the Revolution did for North
Carolina South Carolina Georgia, and the City Of
New York. we are now doing for the three States
sbove.named and their oH-shoots, Alabama, Florida
Missssippi, Tennessee, Arkaufas, Louisiana and
Texas, and for the great commercial metropolis OF
the South-though not to be spoken Of In tho same
day with New. York-tbe City Of New-Oreans. 30
much for the revolutionary parallel aud for European
knowledge Of American history.
Now for the other motive. There Ia in Europe a
plenty Of Red Republicanism Of the JacObn, Dautin
Robespiene stamp; but Of the intelligent and en-
liQhtened republcanisIn Of the old Federal school Of
the United States and OF the virtuous and intelligent
.ao.s,a ,.bo ,neke mn onr noble Union party there