of childish play.  Around the mansions of these people universally are pleasure-grounds, permeated with delightful promenades through parterres of flowers and lawns of grass, covered with the delicious shade thrown from the extended limbs and dense foliage of the great trees.  These children, when wandering here, never trespass upon a parterre or pluck unbidden a flower, being restrained only by a sense of propriety and decency inculcated from the cradle, and which grows with their growth, and at maturity is part of their nature.  Could children of Anglo-Norman blood be so restrained?  Would the wild energies of these bow to such control, or yield such obedience from restraint or love?  Certainly in their deportment they are very different, and seem only to yield to authority from fear of punishment, and dash away into every kind of mischief the moment this is removed.  Nor is this fear and certainty of infliction of punishment in most cases found to be of sufficient force to restrain these inherent proclivities.

Too frequently with such as these the heart-training in childhood is neglected or forgotten, and they learn to do nothing from love as a duty to God and their fellow-beings.  The good priest comes not as a minister of peace and love into the family; but is too frequently held up by the thoughtless parent as a terror, not as a good and loving man, to be loved, honored, and revered, and these are too frequently the raw-head and bloody-bones painted to the childish imagination by those parents who regard the rod as the only reformer of childish errors—­who forget the humanities in inspiring the brutalities of parental discipline, as well as the pastoral duties of their vocation.  They persuade not into fruit the blossoms of the heart, but crush out the delicate sensibilities from the child’s soul by coarse reproofs and brutal bearing toward them.  The causes of difference I cannot divine, but I know that the facts exist, and I know the difference extends to the adults of the two races.

The Anglo-American is said to be more enterprising, more energetic and progressive—­seeks dangers to overcome them, and subdues the world to his will.  The Gallic or French-American is less enterprising, yet sufficiently so for the necessary uses of life.  He is more honest and less speculative; more honorable and less litigious; more sincere with less pretension; superior to trickery or low intrigue; more open and less designing; of nobler motives and less hypocrisy; more refined and less presumptuous, and altogether a man of more chivalrous spirit and purer aspirations.  The Anglo-American commences to succeed, and will not scruple at the means:  he uses any and all within his power, secures success, and this is called enterprise combined with energy.  Moral considerations are a slight obstacle.  They may cause him to hesitate, but never restrain his action.  The maxim is ever present to his mind:  it is honorable and respectable to succeed—­dishonorable and disreputable to fail; it is only folly to yield a bold enterprise to nice considerations of moral right.  If he can avoid the penalties of the civil law, success obviates those of the moral law.  Success is the balm for every wrong—­the passport to every honor.