New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-27
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY NOVEMBER o. 1868

mon Catholic asyums plots of city land are sold at
nominal rates for the sites of Catholic cathedras by
the city step-fathers as they called. Not even in
the West does the Latin Church gain ground more
randly than in New-York City; there are $4,000 pro-
fessine Catholics in Boston"
| Tho mi. chief has been but lately done. Ten
veors AGO TN, third and fourth cities OF the world
New.York and philadelphia U were as English as
orr London the one Is Tlsh now; inc o'her al put
German Eve, Philadelpha-the " ',''S
easygoing town will be not little surprised to nu"
herself set down as the fourth city in the woiaiA-
cannot long hope to remain German "rne Germans
tSS,, aro ooipO ont upon the land the Irish alone
ponr IN unceasingly.o What happens to Philadelphia
is TO happen generally to the rest All great Aeri
con io,1ns viii soon be Celtic while the country con-
t;,pos nolisb. fierce and easily reused people will
tbroro tho cities while the law-abding Saxons who
| fill the land will cease to rule It," From thls
oscendancy our author finds three perils sprnging
| two perils to the Republic, one to England ltseI'
The Irish are dangerous inhabitants for mighty
cities OF the 10000 persons arrested yearly III new
| York three-fourths are alien born: two-thrds OF
those are Irish Nowhere else in all America are the
| Colts at present masters of city government inc
| forpets Bostonl nowhere is there such corruptioh'
What Englishman would be ready to ascrlDe inc COZ
ruption TO Democracy Not so, Mr.. Dllke. lie mus
| Melbourne more democratic than New-iork' yet
admirably pure it proves that the 1ault uoeS nos
lio in Democracy: it is the universal opinion OF
Americans that the Irish alone responsible" Inc
second peril is dsloyalty. Mr.. Fernando Wood, the
eoct Of the New-York Irish deliberately proposed
tbe secession from the Union of New-York City
which is true, but is followed by statement any
thing Int true that "of all the Northern States
| Newly York alone was dead weight upon the loyal
neone during the war of the Rebellion" The danger
70 England itself Mr. Dixie regards as of much less
moment than the peril oyerhanging America our
relations with America matters of small moment
by the side Of the one great question: Who are the
Americans TO be ~ And again; 1t is America that
Fenianism invades from Ireland, not England from
| America"
In all this there Is some truth but much .exaggera-
ton. We have never disguised ourEopinion of the
disastrous influence exercised upon New-York City
by corrupt politicians, nor denied that great part
of them were Irish. While Fernando Wood wields
one-half the Irish vote at will, and while Sweeny
and OGorman control the other il would be absurd
to look for a majority on the side OF virtue OF
economy. But Mr.. Dixie has escaped the hands OF
the negrophobsts only to fall into the power of a
clique which replaces the negro by the Cet, and
contemplates future of unmixed gloom under the
rulo of either. Alarmsts Of the Anthony Trollope
school bitten with hatred Of the negro. sacrificed
trutbfulness to love of overlooking Mr.. Dixie,
with great deal more honesty and intelligence has
been led into similar extravaganza in respect to the
Irish The influence of that nationality is undoubt-
edly great in the cities of the seaboard but there is
no one in which it has set reached the hight por-
tmyed In this book.
New-Yorkers will find that their visitor had an eye
for social peculiarities as well as political He
expresses a hearty contempt for Americans who
think America not good enough for them;
"Many American mon and women who have too little
nobility OF soul to be patriots and too little understand
ing TO see that theirs Is already in many points, the
master country OF the globe TO and bewo The
fate which has caused them 20 DO born citzens OF
republic and jewellers I'm country where men call vice.
by their names The least educated Of their countrymen
the only grossly vulgar class that America brings forth
they fly TO Europe to escape democracy aud pas
their lives in Paris, Pan, Nice living lbcls The
= country they believed 20 represent"
Whoever has travelled in Europe has had TO know
with shame this class which ought TO see itself il
this mirror but will not. Without going to Europ
we can find some Of those whom another coat fits
the rich New Workers who take no steps to checl
the standardization they lament
"Instead Of entering upon a reform OF their muncpa
Institutions they affect to dcspse fee government IN
stead OF giving the oldest New England families hnv,
DONE their time the State schools they keep entirely
aoof from School and State alike. Sending their boys
Cambridge Berlin heidelberg anywhere rather than {,
the colleges Of their native land they leave To learned
pous Boston, 20 supply tho West with teachers. and {,
keep up Yale and Harvard Indignant they poineC
at no Americans they seem TO separate themselves
from every thing that Is American they spend Summer
In England Winters in Algeria, Springs in America an6
Cooradans say with snecr, Good NewYorke go L
Paris when they die "
DR. Holmes will be glad to learn that his celobra
ted apophthegm has been adopted by the inhabtant
of Colorado Mr.. Dixie will find a corrected version
OF il in The AufOcrdt Of The Breakfast Table In som'
other descriptions of society he has made mistakes
which will be readily pardoned since they do no
spring as English mistakes only too apt TO spring
from a determination to see only the dark or ludi
crous side Of American character. The politica
chapter Republican or Democrat" though its spir
is unexceptionabe is one which Mr. Dixie would dc
well To rewrtc.
There is little 10 feed the perverted popular tast'
for personal gossip-a taste which English critic
would locase as American, but to which most Eng
lish tourists and American correspondents of Engsl
journals openly pander-not without knowing then
public. Almost the only American Of eminence wh'
is mentioned in Mr. bikes pages is Gen. Grant; ant
even about him the reader will find only one or TIVE
scattering remarks. Mr.. Dixie was impressed by In,
co miles of earthworks about Petersburg. "Tremen
dOus works but il needed no long interview Will
Grant to understand their capture. had not been II
minutes in his Office at Washington, before / saw
that the secret of his unyaryinR success lay IN hi
unilinchnE determination there is pth in In,
American COnceit which reads in his initials, t. s. G.
, Unconditional Surrender Grant, He appear
, again in company with the Monitors. Gen Grant
first words to me at Washington were, glad 10 NEE
you, what have You seenf The Capitol Go a