The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-09
AMERICANS IN LONDON.

THE MANNER IN WHICH AMERICANS LIVE IN
LoNDOS-THE COMMON OPINIONS OF THESE
LO-AMERICANs-THEIR OBJECTS IN GO
ING To LONDON TO LIVE.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
writes from London giving an English opin-
ion OF the Americans living in that city. The
Scotsman is the Times of Edinb urgh, and one
OF the most important papers in Britain. 1t
has always been celebrated for the excel
lence of the writing contained in it, and for
the trustworthiness OF its news, the political
portion of which Is received without
doubt from leading man in the liberal
party. The opinion here set forth you must
take for what you think it worth, but can
guarantee that it is given in earnestness and
fully believed in by it's writer. Here is the
paragraph: The number of Americans per-
manently residing in London has largely in
creased during the past year, and iG is still
increasing. 1t is probable that there is more
Americans here than in Paris; but they are
not congregated, as they are there, in one
coiony-they are scattered about all over the
west, the west-center, the southwest, and
tho northwest districts. They do not
seem TO court each others society, but prefer
that Of their English friends, and most
strange of all, they no longer boast of the
superiority of American institutions. Very
few Americans are to be found on the Sur
rey side of the river, and still fewer east of
Charing Cross. Bsyswater and Kensing-
ton are their favorite districts, but
great plumbers of them have taken
up their ab0des in Chelsea, Brompton,
Highgate and Islington. L am told that
these voluntary exiles entertain gloomy
views concerning the future of their coun-
try. They cherish dark suspicious of Presi-
dent Grant, and gravely hint that he will
proclaim himself dictator ere long. Ii one
reproaches them for deserving their country
as on the approach of revolution, they re-
ply, in choice American, that
PATRIOTISM is PLAYED OUT"
and that in this age every one must first
take care of himself. The fathers and
mothers speak with sadness OF the Difficult
ties which they encounter at home in the
education OF their children and in preserv-
ing them from the contamination of the
social atmosphere there. 1t is unsafe, they
say, TO send girl to a boarding school in
Boston or New York; and there is more vice
than virtue taught TO the boys in American
colleges. Many of these people have
come hither simply that they might educate
their children sobsrly and decently, and pre-
serve them from the contamination of Amer
lean life. Il is curiously interes ting to hear
them speak of these things and of the future
of the republic. The most of them look upon
the republic a. doomed. President Grant, -
they say, sis determined TO rule as long as
he lives. He has a narrow mind, but an
indomitable will. He is wonderfully self
reliant, tenacious and obstinate. He is re.
solved to bs reelected In 1876. If necessary
he will put the whole South under martial
law, and count himself in upon returns
manufactured to order. He has risen to his
present position from the lowest obscurity
be has faith in his invincible success; he
cherishes ambitions like those OF Napoleon
These are the things which
one hears in American circles
in London-that is to say, when YOU
America mis- in frank and communicative
mood. 1 don't know how correct these
representations are; but it is certain one NJ
longer hears from Americans that bombasti'
Dragging which in former times marked
their conversation They no Va svuner ro,: NJ
to the other extreme, and are now q
despondent as they used to be exuit2nt.