The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-23
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Mr.. Roebuck would, probably, concede all
this to be true, in the abstract; and, neverthe-
less, in the concrete, he could not restrain
his desire to "piteh in" and exhibit his
genuine and inalienable British contempt for
America and everything American. So much
the worse for MIR. Roebuck's reputation as
gentleman. Even if all he said was true,
he should have abstained from saying it at
such a time. If Mr.. johnson had felt in
clined to entertain the Cutters Company of
Sheffield with debate, he might have denied
Mr.. Roebuck's fundamental proposition that
the working classes of England are filter for
self-government than those of the United
States. Perhaps Mr.. johnson may have been
deferred from disputing the point, no less by
good manners than by the reflection that the
introduction of three or four million Africans
to the political community of the United
States might be taken for a confession of
very low standard of intelligence among The
white people. But it was not on this ground
that Mr. Roebuck made his accusation. He
declared America to be deteriorated by ga
tide Of corruption, feculent torrent of almost
all the vice and turbulence of Europe, the
wild Irishman, the fiery Frenchman, the
assassinating Italian and the dumb-founded
Spaniard." Mr.. johnson, as quasi Demo-
crat, might have found fault with this descrip-
ton of the foreign population of the United
States; but it is strange that Republican
journals should find fault with it. There is
scarcely Radical in the land that does not
lament the neutralizing of his newly caught
negro votes by those of white naturalized
citizens. There is not Republican that
does not solemnly assert negro to be quite
as good morally, and far better intellectually,
than the European immigrants who come to
maintain the power and grandeur and pre-
ponderance of the white race on this CONT
nent. With the Radicals an Irishman is
naturally "wild," and Frenchman volatile,
a German stupid, and we have no doubt that
they would cheerfully agree with Mr. Roebuck
in stigmatizing the Spaniard as dumb
founded"
Perhaps, however, Mr.. Roebuck has incur
red the resentment of the Radicals by another
of his propositions-to-wit,t that 1.-the educa-
ted classes in America have stepped aside from
the political torrent and have let political
affairs settle in the hands of what may be
called the buccaneering portion of society"
Considering that the Republican party has
ruled the country for the last eight years it is
not unnatural that the Radicals should resent
this intimation of lack of intelligence on the
part of those who claim ''all the morality and
all the education, and who regard Sumner
and Phillips as the most profound of scholars
and philosophers. So atrocious a libel on the
dominant party ought not to pass without
contradiction. Mr.. Roebuck may well appre-
bend the lapse of power in England into igno-
rant and uneducatedhands (; but the existence
of the reconstructed governments in the
South, the proud predominancy of intelligent
carpet-b aggery, and of virtuous scalawaggery
and the nomination for President of an
eloquent statesman like Grant, prove conclu-
siyely that intelligence and morality have
achieved conspicuous development in
America. Hence, after all, we can excuse the
rage of the Radicals against Mr.. Roebuck,
and join with them in censuring the want of
good manners which he displayed in making
a social gathering the occasion of his unpalat-
able denunciations.