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AMERICAN BALANCE OF POWER.
FRENCH INTERvENTIoN.-No


AMERICAN BALANCE OF POWER.
FRENCH INTERyENTIoN.--No. III.
say it with due respect, that the present minis
try of France may be called the dynastie ministry
One of its great objects seems be TO strengthen the
present dynasty, instead of consulting at all times the
real interests Of the French people. Is it not for
this purpose that the ministry is strengthening the
dynasty by intermarrages, and by the aggrandize-
ment of the several scions of the family And is
there not some danger, that in comforting eeiaf and
power on the family, II may bring the nation into
necessary collisions with other people, and sacrifice its
real interests to such schemei Has not M. Guizot
some wish to carve out establishment in Amer
lea herself, for dynasty fertile in heirs We wish
to cultivate the most amcable relations with all the
monarches of the Old World, and particularly with
France. But utterly repudiaie the establish
ment of any new monarchy in America; and would
be as much dissatisfied with such project, as the
European monarchies doubtless would be with an
attempt on our part to establish republic in
Europe. How little the latter would relish this la,
idea, appears from the unsparing erasure which
they made of the most potent republics of Europe,
when, having the power, they proceeded to dust
the affairs of that continent in the manner most
formable to their own views of policy Holland,
Venice, and Genoa were swept away without a
| sigh a lamentation their republican institu-
tons. Isolated Switzerand--em in noun
tans, cut up into little cantons, and too poor to at
tract much attenton-tte Geneva, and Lillipuan
San Marine, were all the republics left in Eu-
rope by the treaties which succeeded the down
| fall Of Napoleon Can the declaration of NJ Gui.
zot contemplate the establishment of a new dy-
nasty in America He would find in the United
States sturdy resistance 10 any such visionary pro-
jects. He must seek in Europe for the splendor
necessary to reconcile the old powers thoroughly to
| a dynasty which most of them have regarded as
intrusive 1t is notorious that Russia has view
ed the new dynasty with aversion and consid-
| cred the venerable King of the French as much
an "intrusive king" as the Spanards did Joseph
Bonaparte. II is by wise policy in European af.
fairs that M Guzot must obtain for France the glo-
ry which will assure the dynasty. He may over
turn governments in Spain; substitute Christina
and Narvaez for an Espartero in that peninsula ;
but when he comes to regulate the balance of pow
err and perhaps undertake revolutions on this great
western continent, he will find he has gone beyond
| the length of his lever Not the most expert bar
gaining in interchanging equivalents would prove
adequate to the execution Of such designs in North
| America. We know, indeed, the principles on
which the attempt would be made to carry them into
effect, in forms somewhat diversified; the same lead
ing means have been substantially employed by the
powers of Europe for the last two hundred years.
| The Of them is contained in the following
views extracted from the London Quarterly for Jam
uary 1884, Let it be observed, that the balance Of
power is the pretext plea here urged and the rem
edy, "to secure share of the spoil by severaly d-
viding it." The reviewer is speaking of the proba-
BILE future partition of the Turkish empire and the
course which European powers would adopt in cer-
tain contingencies
eiy Of Tepose viii give rise to fresh qarre and they
their turn commissions Here two the most
likely of several probabilities to the imagination
viz the partition Of European Turkey between Russia
France Austria; and its conquest by Russia alone.
The latter only happen, conceive in the case Of
Russia attaining preponderance equal to that which has 20
Europe against France The former might its birth to
the that has occasioned similar catastrophe
within recoection-one of the few crimes within
that period chargeabie to the French The leading
powers the continent each conscious of the same de-
or activity rival might deem more prudent to secure
share Of the spoil by severally dividing it, than to risk
ios. ii a %Sua V
the compact Of spoaton and combined attack would Of
be the readest way to execute so sacred alaw
Thus we see that, in this supposed instance-fol-
lowing the track Of great catastrophe the parti-
ton Of Poland, which has already occuTed-the
law of selEpreservaton may necessitate in the wri-
ters view the maintenance of the balance Of power;
these nations "severally dividing the spoil"
Territories not to be kept in stafu quo but to
be distributed in such manner, that powers which
before had none, may have such share each as the
balance of power requires. This is the modus oper-
a,,di supposed and in Europe 1t is to be carried
out under certain contingencies, in relation to the
: Turkish empire. But M. Guizot is not conented
with Europe and the eastern continents for its ope-
ration. He now issues declaration which i'm
mensely enlarges the field. The United States will
ponder this doctrine, when thus announced IN re
lation to America. We have seen what the real ma
ure of il s-the practical illustrations which have
been given Of it. It's application on this continent
would not differ from its application IN Europe ex
cept that some notifications arising from more i'm
mediate interests might mitigate its effects IN the lat
ter BIT it is essentially the same. 1t opens the
way for France to come in stand in the shoes OF
; some other power, and become one Of the American
, powers, while processing to adjust the balance
Doubtless America is suffering her share ofthe evils
of humanity; but she will not call in the intervention
of Europe to lessen them. The Britons invoked
the aid Of the Saxons, who made their groans heav-
Ter than they were before. Subsequently,, the
! Norman French gratutousy interposed for the
regulation of the affairs of the Apgo-Saxons; but the
: effects were equally bitter to the latter
In America, we no propagandists in relation
1 to republicanism; example is the only method by
which rational men propose to give currency else
where to republican principles but we are equally
adverse to the meddllng Of monarchy In American
concerns any further than 1t is already authorized
to interfere by its possessions on this continent
E We desire peace most truly and sincerely; but W.
can see in M. Guizot's declaration the lurking poin
= of the sword without single equivalent benefit 4
France for the loss Of confidence and the risks L
which il exposes her. Could he ntermeddle in Amer
q lea without recompenses II so, why waste so mucl
of Gallo strength in such an nterposltIon, when al
that strength, and more, may be needed TO proven
!, the Mediterranean from becoming British lake
|, If M Guizot must look to the balance Of power II
America, and expects recompense for whateve
services he may render in the case, can he snppos
d that England will not demand equivalent Ha
h he forgotten the with which England has con
fined French influence in the Mediterranean? forgot
ten that Nelson feled, eulogzed, and raised TO tn
y peerage for destroying the French feet at Abouki
forgotten the recent demonstrations in Great Britain
when France was engaged in the war with Morocco
the fears she evinced that France would hurt tn
Mahometan too much drive him too far for III
good Of Chrstendomi Have these things escaped him
h IL so, we may feel assured there are Frenchmel
d whom they have not escaped. This declaration o
: M. Guizot il voyage, in which the hazards ar
!" great and numerous, and the returns for the mer
e chandise il carries out likely to be many per cent
:. below the original cost The balance Of power i
/, Europe is something worth careful consideration
= albeit such great mistakes have been sometime
L made in the practical mart of the process We re