The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-06-26
France and the United STATES.


noun! importance ly al who have had an
opportunity Of asceIlaining us great value
both Intilnscally and n a commercial nom,
Of view and We take il for granted tliat
the favorable opportunity offered by the
Mexican War viii not he permitted to be
lost, without obtaining the cessiun Of this
territory ffnm that government, "a the
price Of peace, and as an indemnify for tic
just aud long deferred claims of our citi.
zens against II. II is not only deemed i'm.
poriant that California should belong to the
United States bot II is supposed to be
even more essential 10 our interests ,hlt
Great Britain, into whose hands it VIII
doubtless speedily fall ii we fail 10 acquire
II, shall not obtain possession Of II. The
enquiry, however, naturally arises, how
viii this expansion Of our limit. be viewed
by other European Powers, and especially
by the French government, whose Prime
Minister 50 rrcenily undertook to apply to
thus Continent an lnapplcable maxim Of
European policy, by reading Us Il honily
upon the necessity Of maintaining undis.
turbed "the balance Of power !' We cen.
Tess we had feared, as well from this init
nation on the part Of VI. Guizoi, as from
The marked anxiety Of tie French Cabinet
TO preserve with that Of Great Britain the
g cordal uhders anding' which las so long
existed between those parties hat. III the
event Of an attempt on tic pant q our gov.
emmett to acquire additional territory in
the direction Of the Pacific, by tic dismem.
bermcm Of Mexico, ,lthcr by COZ quest or
by purchase, France would be found uni
ting with Great Britain in protesting a.
galnst lis con.ummltlun, and possibly in
resisting II by force. Recent mtimalous,
however, etnanutlug from sources entitled
10 the lghestfespcct, arc calculated 10 ie.
lIeve all approLensious Of this sort and to
Justify the opinion that France will be rath
or pleased Than otherwise at seeing Cali.
iofna annexed TO the United States.
one Of these limitations is an article in
the Courier deS Etafs JaiS, the French pa.
per published in New York, the editor of
which is supposed to be 10 Iigh favor with
the French Government, aud intimately
conversant with its opinions and wishes
That paper declares that if France shall
interfere in the affairs Of Mexico at ALL il
will be only as friend to the L. States,
and IN the form Of an appeal to our mag.
nauimity and f5fbsuuuce toward weaker
neIghbor; and il adds the following strong
reasons why the French government should
adopt this policy:
" Mt only has France no major interest .
in preventing the entire or partial conquest .
Of Mexico By the [. States, but she might .
possibly, both in political and commcr.
clal sense, fad more interest IN such a con-
quest. Mexico ust now Is under the eX.
elusive influence Of England, v ho uses her
politically aud commercially as she would
one of her own colonies. She has mono.
poli1ed her mines, her markets, her reye.
nues, and she coyels those same provinces
which are row about to fall into the hands
Of the United States. Well i, better for .
France that California should belong to I
America than TO England; it is better the .
influence Of the Cabinet at Washington
than that Of ST. james should prevail in
Mexico for the first is as naturally the pc.
IItlcal and maritime FREUD Of France, as
thing to fear from tho on,n;no,ancn IF En-.
land and n ,L,nr from ,La oo,Yer sc -
United States. On the e nrrory. ,Ia J Do"
velopmen! Of the latter power is in itself
m onvaptaoe for II. irasruch a. il i n
peril for Our eternal adversary. In the
hands of The Americans, the great civil. I
zers Of the new world, the wealth of Mex
leo would be augmented ten fold. Tina,
country would offer 10 Europc markctsten.
fold more extensive than now, and those
markets would be under no monopoly.
French commerce would fad ADVANTAGES
in such restoration Of the mercantile G.
luilibrum, Just in proportion as that of
England would lose by it. The ,ranickcrs
and producers of a II nations. now subject 20
,exation and spola,iou under this exclusive
regime would benefit bv the Creedom end