New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-27

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PLANTATION of its purpose would have conveyed good
deal of novel and interesting information But there
was mistake about it. The author came to America
TO pursue an inquiry, springing more from morbid
taste than from scientific curiosity, into the creeds
nd practices of few eccentric sects. lie visited
tho Shakers tIc Oneida Community, the Mormons.
ond other bands of more less religious fanatics.
Win a single exception they are unimportant in
.'.-rs unknown to the IaJv,.,'lv OF Americans
num-, 80 inquiries he collected into aD ok
Inc ,cSu',9 - - 90 ,;,,o name NeD america"
With Englishmen not well hi-'i"1u "OUuV
,r,orico-tbat is with nine-tenths OF them all
this record of religious caprces passeu DO p'1o-
logical history of the United States; 0'"tements
nortiallv true of few inconsderahle denominations
were received as accurate accounts of nationality
or rs presenting detached views which were proper
SAMPLES of the whole landscape. MI Dixon need not
be surprised to learn that his book was not hked
among the people whom he cancatured. Wereau
his book because il was lively. We resented IL De
cause it was unfair. An American friend tells us
not no once asked an Engllshman who visited the
States in the year following what people said about
Mr.. Hepworth Dixon We'll the truth 49," replied
the Enelishman Il could not get anybody to tax
| about Dixon They wanted to be civil to me, ana
| they changed the subject" We venture to say that
| Mr.. bikes name will not be avoided in that way
Three volumes of Toyages 10 the South Sea were
| unfinished in DR. Johnsons old age, upon which the
| norose old follow chose TO remark There can be
little entertainment in such books one set of saw
ages il like another They are different enough In
| Mr.. Dilke's sprightly pages. The Maories OF New
Zealand the convict settlers OF Australia the I'm
| ehalese and the Hindoos have sharpydefned traits
They are agreeable people to meet in Mr. Dukes
company, whatever they may be IN the flesh. New
| Zealand is comparatively new ground mdia mas
| been written about in some hundreds OF travellers
books, but on all great countries much still remains
to be said In discussing English colonies, Mr. Dixie
gets rid of English prejudices to an astonishing de-
gree; examines crticises and proposes reforms with
an openness of mind very unlike the average British
tourist Ii has not cost him much effort to believe
that a thing may be bad though completely English
or good though unknown TO the manners and Gus
| toms of the kingdom which he somewhere describes
disrespectfully enough, consisting OF two small
| islands, If the English in New-Zealand have not
committed crimes Eve have certainly not failed TO
blunder" In Australia it has been much worse
| the whole system of convict transportation Is
costly mistake cruel, inefficient, and fatal to the
country in which 1t is carried out No crtcism could
| be too honest on policy which resulted III Sueh
state of society rs this.
"A tho settlements waxed in years and size the
OF convict PARENTS grew up total ignorance, while such
few free settlers arrived tho ancents as they were
styled, or the ancient nobility OF Botany Bay'-were
wholly dependent convict tutors for the education OF
their chldren-tho 'cornsalks' and currency girls;
and the chief amusement OF both sexes
| Tho newspapers were without exception conducted by
gentlemen conycts, specials, as they were called,
who were assigned 10 the editors for that purpose ana
the police force itself WAS composed OF ucketoteaVs
men and 'omancipists' C0nyicts were thus the only
schoomaser tho only govenesscs the only nurses the
"a thor We
men and university professors the training OF tho youth
Of the land was committed almost exclusively 10 the
! fclons' cares
The clerk In charge OF % the great convict bar
racks himself convict, and he had an understand
ing with the under ms that they might prowl
about AZ night and rob- on condition that they should
share her gains with him, and that, II they were found
out he should himself prosecute thcm for being absent
without leave Jnres composed either OF conyics or
pubcans dependent the conyicts for their livelihood
and convictions were Of necessity extremely rare In
plan case OF murder the Judge known 10 say; III
don't attend 10 the recommendation TO mercy. these ic
lows will never ind a guilty OF murder again aud
nrymen would frequently hand down notes 10 the coun
sci for defense aud bid him give himself no trouble
! as they intended 90 acqui: their friend"
Tho lawyers were mostly conycts, and paying in
discounts was rife II has been given In evidence before
! a Royal Commission, by a magistrate OF New South.
wales, that sydney free Immigrant once had taor's
bill sent IN which he did not owe, he having been but
weeks In tho colony. He Instructed lawyer ana
| did not himself appear In court He aftcrward heard
that no had won his case for the tailor had to the
bill but the inning grants lawyer to trouble had
called witness who to having paid II, which set
tied the Sometimes there were not only convict
witnesses and convict Jurors, but convict Judges"
What Paradise for our Naturalization judges,
and what a consolation TO find that New-York has
not a monopoly of her Barnards, and McCunns. and
Cardozos!
We are inclined to consider the chapter on Pro-
lection the most remarkable in the two volumes
remarkable not for any doctrine but for being
written by an EnglIshman. The arguments for
Protection are as steadily ignored IN England the
arguments for Republic You may search news
papers periodicals. speeches. and modern English
books in VAN; you will not find one where so much
IA an effort is made 10 understand what we
cherish in America fundamental doctrine No
mans mind is open To reason on that matter. The
Engshman believes in Free Trade he believes in
grayitaton-and most Of them secretly consider 1t
ns of much more importance to the welfare of their
islands II is doubtful if Mr. Bright or Mr. Goodwin
Smith for instance could be got TO attend to a
statement of the theory Of Protection, on which
American legislation Is based and on which Amer
lean Industry depends for its development Mr.
John stuart Mill Is the only eminent English
man whose impaTtIality of intellect may be deemed
capable of dealing fairly with arguments
which strike nj the root of the commercial and man
ufacturing monopolies of Great Britain. We have
known Mr. Mill to listen with respect to n statement
of the American side of the question, aud even to
admit-as he does admit theoretically in u we'll
known passage of his Political Economy-that for
America in her present stage of industrial enterprise
policy of Protection may be prudent and necessary
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