The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-17

ance of = temerity without c0mpeaAtaon, and
behind which alone in France have sen the
general utility.
The Paris Debats has review Of LAMAR
f1KE's article from which We make the follow
ing extract:
Since NJ. de Lamartine declares himself to
have alone fathomed the Mexican business
we must believe him; and though it is held
as certain that during the last century all the
world had more wit than yoltaire, we will
admit, ont Of Difference to n de LAmartns,
that in the present century he has more clev-
erness than all the rest of the world, II new
ertheless seems to us, in all humility, that if
the expedition to Mexico has never been
popular in France the reasons are precisely
those which make NJ. de Lamartine admire it
seeing therein "a grand conception, equitable
as necessity, vast as the ocean, new ~ IN in
promptu, Q statesman like thought, teening
like the future, sanitary for America and for
the whole world The common sense of the
public, which likes to comprehend, things
clearly, without fancying itself vast as the
ocean, saw in this expedition, if not thought
at least tendency, hostile to the spirit Of the
Institutions of North America, and that NJ. de
Lamartine has seen. So far therefore every
body is of one mind; but here the difference
clearly see either the utility or the appropri-
ateness of this aggression, which the poet finds
incomplete and insufficient, the time, as he
thinks, having arrived for setting on foot q
general crusade of all Europe against the
Americans, who are the modern Saracensl
Where have the Americans been In the wrong
In possessing in their country cotton and gold
mines which Europe would be very willing tc
turn to her own profit; nothing therefore can
be more just or natural than that Europ<
should seek 10 obtain possession Of them,
Political economists will appreciate 90 emf
nently fanciful doctrine But what would
the author of the Meditations Poetiques say
if the Americans we're to set up claim te
appropriate the vineyards of Bordeaux ane
Burgundy, on the ground that they have nons
such 1T home, and the produce is worth III
weight in gold? Another faha Of that peo
pie is that OF not being very amlable, and o
being deficient in courtesy. Whatever I'M
portanoe may be given to questions of polite
ness and personal amiability, all must admi
a people for not wearing heels of court stan
dard. But we hasten to quit such puerilitie,
in order TO come TO the real charge which NJ
de Lamertine brings against the Cnitet
States. In his eyes they have third faui
much more serious than the two 6rst-name
ly, that of representing in the world the spiri
OF democracy; that is to say. the spirit of env
of all superiorities.
Tie Ussals tnen quotes several passage
from the article against which it writes, an
refers particularly to one assertion made, ths
the nsiionsl envy Of the Anericaps occasion
| ally prevented their electing as PresideI
, some of their great men. He then goes on
remark:
THAT envious feeling. which bers the pa
Q cage OF srsap men 10 eInlnence, has perhsl
obstrueted in America the production Of h
q roes fortunately for her We think); but il hi
not prevented the repubGc Of the unjte
. States from raising ta the Presidential cha
y men of real patriotism and Of rare good sens
r from Washington, who had a soul dlsinterea
!, ed and noble enough to content himself vii
: being good citizen down to the glorious al
. deeply regretted Abraham Lincoln.