Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-12-21

. ] England mas aDdnQoneu IT, ALaANN'
7 when her loyalty in the matter Is Deter
understood, viii bring back England ana
SDain 10 il. or she viii act alone with
DreDonderatine forces. Spauish-America
I will thus be protected, the United states
, viii 6e repressed, Spain and England
brought back, and this grand enter
, prise will turn out 10 the honor
. Of this century in Europe and
the honorOf France in Spanish America.
one can easily understand that this
peonIe have scarcely any of the condi-
fions Of an American literature. The
Nexicans before the conquest, the pre-
tended savages of Montezuma, the Peru
vfans with their poems of quippos, were
in that respect much more advanced.
: The gigantic monuments of the Az
tees have left on the earth traces Of in
{ telligence and of force very much SUI
perior, thus far, 10 the exclusively
utilitarian edifices Of the Americans Of
the North The pioneers of the
North do not build for time, the log
splitters only know how to cut down in
order 20 split up the grand aristoratic
trees of the forests which they see fall
with the ioy of men envious Of the supe-
rioritv of nature. Their eloquence is the
struggle of their legislative assemblies,
into which they carry the rudeness of
their violent manners, and where hTu-
t.tlities OF the gesture and of the closed
fist take the place of the beautiful moral
violence which the great modern or an
cient orators Of Europe exercise by aid OF
persuasion or logic, or men Of refinement
assembled together for the purpose OF
seeking in common after the right and
the justice Of things.
Theirjournals innumerable because they
cost little OF nothing, are only so many
receutacles of advertisements Of the char
latsnisms recommended by the Barnums
of the DreSs-receptacles of caiumnies
and invectives thrown out daily TO the
various parties, in order to fasten upon
them odious appellations or trivial accu-
sations. so rs TO discredit one an0therand
to take away their subscribers. Their
% saloons - are held in hotels; their cir
cles Of men, which are tempered neither
bv good feeling nor by politeness to-
ward women, are only so many clubs
of eager tradesmen, utilizing even
their hours of repose l0r their purses,
proud TO know only that which brings
! Them in money, and entertaining each
other oniv with real OF illusOry enter
7 prises, by which they may centuple their
I fortune. Their liberty, altogether per
s0nal, has always something about Il
/ hostile 70 some one the absence OF all
kindness OF manner gives them IN gen
I eral the air and attitude OF some one
who is in the expectation of being in
suited, or who seeks, by force of pride OF
manner. to prevent the insults that may
( be offered him. They have conscience
Z themselves of the continual disagreea-
bleuess of their manners.
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
elevated to the Presidency Ofthe Repub-
lie, said 20 me one day; "Our liberty
consists in doing all that may be the
most dlsagreeable TO our neighb0rs.
The arr Of being disagreeaDle Is their sec
ond nature. To be willing to please Is
symptom Of love. They love no one;
no one loves them. It is the expia-
ton of cyclists. History presents no
parallel OF snch a physlognomy pride,
GOODNESS, correctness OF feature, meehan-
/ ism of gestures, munching of tobacco in
l the mouth. spit-b0x under the feet, legs
perched against the chimney jams or
I doubled IN on themselves without regard
/ TO the respect which man owes 10 man,
] an accent brief, monOtOnOus, lmperlOuz,
( a disdainfui air imprinted in every Tea
I ture-this Is the picture Of one OF these
I autocrats of money.
With few exceptions, which stand out
and which suffer by the general pressure
/ in an inferior atmosphere exceptions so
much the more respectable inasmuch as
/ they are more numerous in the lnul-
vidual and there is the North American,
! there il the people to whom Mr. Monroe,
/ one of their llatterers, said, IN order TO be
/ applauded, "The time Is come when you
I ought no longer to suffer Europe TO mix
I in the affairs of America, andfrOm which
YOU ought to commence 10 exercise pre-
ponderance in the affairs Of Europe"
A FRENCH JOURNAL on LAMARTINE-
SEVERE AND SHARP CRITICISM.
The Paris journal des Dsbats makes
the following criticism or the above
letter:
"a Since VI. de Lamartine declares him.
self to have alone fathomed the Mexican
business, We must believe him; and
( though il Is held as certain that during
the last century all the world had more
wit than Voitaire, We will admit, out of
Difference for VI. de LamartineEthat in
the present century he has more
cleveTerness than all the rest Of the
world. 1t nevertheless seems TO US,
in all humanity, that if the eN-
pedition 10 Mexico has never been pOpu-
lar in France, the reasons are precisely
those which makes NJ. de Lamartine ad-
mire it, seeing therein a grand concep-
ton, equitable as necessity, vast Gs the
ocean, new as an impromptu, a states
manlike thought, teeming like the
future, sanitary for America and for the
whole world. The common sense Of the
public, which likes 10 comprehend
things clearly. without fancying it.
lna in
this expedition, If not q thought at
least a tendency, hostile to the
spirit of the institutions of North Amer
lea, and that, also, NJ. de Lsmertine has
seen. So far, therefore, everybody is Of
one mind; but here, the difference. be-
plns. The profane vulgar cannot clearly
see either utility or the appropriateness
Of this aggression, which the poet finds
. incomplete and insufficient, the time, rs
bethinks having garrived for setting on foot
{ a general cruzaGe Ofall Europe against the
Americans whOare the modern Saracens,
Where have the Americans been in the
wrong? In possessing in their country
T cotton and gold mines, which Europe
would be very willing 70 turn to her own
profit: nothing, therefore, can be more
lust or more natural than that Europe
should seek to obtain nossossion OF them.
]
eminently faneiful a doctrine. But
, what would the author Of the Medita-
1 tions Pastiques sayif the Americans were
to sci up q claim 10 appropriate
the vlnovartls Of Bordeaux and Bur
cundv. on the ground that they have
none such at home, and that the produce
! il worth its weight in gold. Another fauli
Of Inat people IS that Of violating the
laws Of a decorOus urbanity, Of not tesne
very amiable. and of hcins deficient IN
courtesy. W slRtcver Importance may be
given TO questions Of pOliteness @aa per
. sonal amiability, all I..ust admit that s i
verV difficult 20 declare waE againsta a neO-
] ple for not wearing heels Of the CouTl
Standard. But We hasten 70 quit such
nueriiities, Ia Order t0 come % the rea.
/ charge which n. de LamegGIDe h-.ings
: against The United --..--.t.es. In his eyes
r, they have a third fault much more seri-
! Gus than the two first, namely that o.
represanting In the world the spirit o
I democracy; that is 70 say the spirit o.
envy Of all superioriucs.
The Debots then quotes several passa-
. ges from the article against which II
writes, and refers particularly 70 one as
. sertion made, that the national envy o.
. the Americans occasionally prevented
T LLElT ElEEaALlE a. Ata4AN-AN AS-trN
great men. II then goes on to remark
That envious feeling which bars the
passage OF great men to eminencei mas
! perhaps. obstructed in Americs
. The production OF heroes ,IoTtu'
7 uately for her, we think bul
, it has not prevented the hepuoii'
] Of the United stetas from raising 70 th'
] Republican chair men of real patriolsn
S and Of rare good sense, from Washing
p ton, who had a soul disinterested ant
4 noble enough TO content himself VIII
p being great eitisen down to the glorl
e Gus and deeply regretted Abraham Lin
d coin. The article concludes with tho
e following personal attack on ". de Lam
e artine,
= man may be a poet Of sparkling
n imagination; but is he on that account q
q politician endowed with the cOmprehen'
= ave glance and tact necessary for direct
ing pubic affairs Newton, who, as q
e mathematioian, was supreme, under.
+ stood nothing about the fine arts. Male.
b branche, who knew nothing aboutpoetTy
! thought proper to despise il. Superi.
/ ority is, in most cases, only a spaciality
4 carried as far as possible, and Is vel
worthy Of admiration when confined
= within It's natural limits; but the fallt
n Of these men, 50 richly gifted in certain
.