The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-15
PREVOST-PARADOL.


COURSE TOWARDS THE-UNITED STATES.
AS already announced by telegraph, M.
Prevost-Paradol, the new Minister from
France, arrived at New York in the steamer
Lafayette on the 18th inst, and proceeded at
once to Washington. A New York paper
thus describes the new diplomatist:-
M. Paradol is middle-aged man, of me-
dium height, strongly built, and erect in
figure His face is full and ruddy, shaven,
except a light moustache, and the features
are bold. His conversation is rapid, marked
by slight accent, and singularly vivid and
interesting. In dress, M. Paradol is quiet
and tasteful, and his general appearance, not
less than his manners and conversation, mark
him as q man of culture as well as of ability.
HIS ACTION DURING THE AMERICAN REBELLION.
During our civil war M. Prevost-Paradol
proved a warm, consistent. and influential
friend of the Union cause. On the assasslna-
ton of President Lincoln he paid, in the
Journal dtS De60tS, an eloquent tribute to
his memory and the principles he represented.
Having detailed, in that able article, the rea-
sons which allured the sympathies of some
Frenchmen from the national cause, and
pointed out that every one enrolled himself
morally in and of the two armies according to
his habits of thought and the bent of his in
clinatioD," the new French Minister said:-
''On the other hand the political instinct
WHICH lduc OnllSutOhOu lOhChh4Oh AlAVO-
rested in the maintenance of the American
power, more and more necessary to the equii-
brium of the world-the desire TO see great
democratic State surmount the terrible trials
and continue to give an example of the most
perfect liberty united aCHh tie most absolute
eQu0lity-the need, in short, of lodging
somewhere q sympathy, an admiration, and
hope which were but little stimulated in the
Old World, assured the cause of the North
number of friends jealous of maintaining the
political traditions of France and the liberal
spirit of our country. We 0urse50es Scere Of
tH0t 7l1na6e7, and we still remember with un
easiness the first words of that President,
then unknown, upon whom heavy task had
fallen, and from whose advent to power might
be dated the ruin or regeneration of this
country When the inaugural address to
which he alludes was made, he says ''it
seemed that fate itself had pronounced in
favor of the good cause, since in such an
emergency 1t had given to the country an
honest man.
M. Prevost-Parodol proceeds and shows
how admirably he appreciated the faith and
firmness of Lincoln:-
$50 nothing could shake him. He sup
ported both patiently and ably the ill-will of
Europe; he saw without alarm the armies of
the republic losing courage or dispensing; he
saw without fear and danger his capital filed
with traitors he carried recruiting in the
middle of New York when the city was on
fire. He repelled all idea of Dictatorship
submitted himself, at the period fixed by law,
to the popular election, and taking his burden
willingly upon him, set out upon his road,
and took no account of obstacles. A sense
of duty has this extraordinary advantage in
it, that the chances Of life cannot affect it.
Then, in words equalled abroad only by the
eloquence of CASTELAR,, he concludes
''He could display with some degree of pride
aloft and triumphant that Union flag which
bod 4xuio ntr11ct to1 &nh IN1,ni al,
he had preserved through so many perils. 1t
is at the moment that he is struck that the
unforeseen blood resounds sogrievously in the
hearts of all honest men in the Old as in the
New World. The Romans have held in pious
reverence the memory of certain Fabius
Dorso who during the siege of Rome by the
Gauls, passed slowly through the enemy S
lines, carrying with him respectfully the
necessary offerings for sacrifice which was
to be offered in day and at place fixed.
1t is in a very similar manner that this honest
man has pursued his course for more than
four years, holding religiously in his hands
as a sacred deposit the threa tened exist.
ence of his country. Less fortunate than
Fabius Dorso, he has fallen at
the very foot of the altar, and covered it with
his blood. But his work was done, and the
spectacle of a rescued republic was what he
could look upon with consolation when his
eyes were closing in death. Morever he has
uOt INSu diOuo MS Sluce lie
leaves to every one in the world to whom
liberty and justice are dear great remem
brance and pure example.
FRENCH OPINIONS OF HIS APPOINTMENT.
The gifted and versatile NJ Edmond About
in a recent article says of his nomination.
''What would be the Joy and surprise of poor
.Sainte-Beuve if he could learn that twice, al
an interval of six months, two men renowned
for their intellect had invaded politics The
empire of '52 treated this unhappy literature
as suspicious; it esteemed courage devotion,
lineage, display, speculation, and obedience,
but it avoided the intellect as fire. Weiss
and Paradol have broken this charm: place a
geSp7it :"
The Moniteur Unioeygel, a Ministerial
journal, says:-"When the young writer ap.
peared in the Deb0tS, and there commenced
that brilliant and incessant conflict for liber-
ty, he did not certainly court fortune. He
placed his pen at the service of cause which
was proclaimed lost by those who would to.
day, if they dared, boast that they were
always liberal
In the same cordial manner, the Journal
deS De6dtS speaks of the new Minister, re-
ferring to his acquaintance with our Ian
guage, institutions, and literature, and
adding
''Full of faith in their future and faithful
in their cause in the midst of the severes
trials of the civil war, NJ Provost Paradol has
never separated the interests of France anC
the United States, and has always maintained
that the friendship of these two great peoples
, is as advantageous as it is conformable t.
their national traditions