Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-15
Lamnrtine on the People Of the Uni.

Lamartine on the People of the UNI
ted STATES.
The extraordinary production Of M.
Lamartine defending the Mexican policy
of the Emperor Napoleon and fercely at
lacking the character and institutions of
the people of the United States has been
referred to by telegraph. A translation
of it is published in the New York Times
of Dec. 18th, from which we take the fol-
lowing highly fattering description of the
American people;
1.-THE pioneers Of the North do, not build
for time; the log-splitters only know now
to cut down in order to split up the grand
| aristocratic trees Of the forests which they
see fall with the Joy of men envious Cf-the
| superiority of nature. Their ~eloquence is
the struggle of their Legislative assemblies,
into which they carry the rudeness of their
violent manners and where brutalities OF
gesture and of the closed fist takethe place
of the beautiful moral violences which the
great modern or ancient orators of Europe
exercise BY aid of persuasion, or logic, or
men of refinement assembled together for
the purpose of seeking in common alter
| Inc ElRuL hHu lutlu6bISS Va lhiA5o-
Their journals, innumerable because
they cost little or nothing, are only 50
many receptacles of advertisements OF the
charlatanisms recommended by the bar
nuns of the press-receptaeles OF caIum-
mics and invectives thrown out daily to
the various parties, in order to fasten upon
them odibus appellations or trivial accu-
sations, so as to diseredit n another, and
to take way their subscribers. Their
saloons are held in hotels; their circles
of men, which are tempered neither by
good feeling moi by politeness toward
tradesmen, uJT1ZIu CTvu 1h4= aEnaGer
repose for their purses, proud to know
only that which brings them in money,
and entertaining each other only with
real or illusory enterprise, by which they
NAV contriple their fortune. Their lib
erty, altogether personal, has always some
thing about it hostile to some one; the
absence of all kindness of manner gives
them in general the air and the attitude
of some one who is in the expectation OF
being insulted, or who seeks, by force OF
pride of manner, to prevent the insults
that NAV be offered him. They have con-
science themselves of the continual disa-
~greeableness of their manner
One of their rare political orators, the
most eloquent and most honest among
them, whom the envy of his fellow-citi-
zens has always prevented from being ele-
waited to the Presidency of the Republic
said to me one day Our liberty consist:
, in doing all that may be the most dis
agreeable to our ncighbors." The art Of
being disagreeable is their second nature
| To be willing to please is symptom o.
, love. They love no one; no one love;
: them. 1t is the expiration of cyclists
History presents no parallel of such s
physiognomyi pride, GOODNESS, correctness
Of features, mechanism of gestures, MUNICH
J ing of tobacco in the mouth, spit-boz
under the feet, legs perched against the
} c~himney-jambs or doubled up on them
selves without regard to the respect which
man owes man, an accent brief, monoton.
GUS, imperious, a disdainful air imprinted
in every feature-this is the picture of oht
} Of these autocrats of money.
With few exceptions which stand on
and which suffer by the general pressure
in an inferior atmosphere, exceptions Sc
. much the moro respectable .inasmuch ai
; they are more numerous in the individual
and there is the North American, there i!
3 the people to whom Mr.. Monroe, n o
their fatterers, and, in order to be ap
: plauded said "Thetime is come when vol
, ought no longer to suffer Europe to mix il
= the affairs Of America, and from which
, YOU ought to commence to exercise a pre-
: ponderahce in the affairs of Europe
: