The Paris correspondent of the London Globe says:
The election of the new President, Lincoln, seems to have strangely exasperated the slave-holding Americans. On Thursday last a scene occurred in the common breakfast saloons of Meurice’s. At one table sat the Hon. M. Colburn, son of Lord Seaton, and next him were seated two African chieftains from Ashantee, well-informed gentlemen, speaking French and English better than most of the Southern Legrees, from Alabama, discussing the affairs which had brought them to the Imperial Court of France.
Three American slave-drivers were at work a la fourehette, in a distant compartment, when they espied the natives of Africa, on which they, insolently advanced to the table and vented their coarse and unmanly prejudices in the most ruffianly language. The member for Waterford, Mr. Blake, as well as Lord Seaton’s son, protested against this underbred and ill-mannered conduct of the Trans-atlantic bullies, whom the law of France would soon bring to their senses (if any exist), and teach them that educated chieftains from that quarter of the globe are higher in the social scale than folks whose escutcheon is a cart-whip.
Cincinnati Daily Press, Cincinnati, OH
