The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-06

ung than the Tepue of power ef-susained "Nihil
rerum moftalum, says Tacitus tam Unstable &C hux
um est guam lama potenhe non sua vi nike" Young
Amenca may see tha sentence executed Great Britain
but, as TO the french monarchy, 'The whole his
tory" said Fox in the House OF Commons the whole
history OF the last century is little more than an ac
count of the wars and eaames arising from the
restless ambition, the inrgues, and the perfdy of the
House OF Bourbon" Their destiny was 10 revoutionze
France from anarchy through dictatorship il not despo
ism, to repubeansm-he highest step las Mr. Lamar.
tine writes 10 all foreign mnisters the highest step in the
gradatons of good government
Regarding still more selfish American interests should
seize the French revolution with all our national
avidy for gain, well all innate attachment to
freedom ? When Franklin sent by Congress 10
France in l7s, he LAID in the treaty OF Paris the udi
ments OF international peace, commerce, Order wealth,
prosperity power and true glory in concert with Gerard,
the first minister OF France these then united colonies
struggling 10 be States Source and model of all the modern
wisdom OF treaty spuaions, that treaty nobly declares
that commerce between nations ought 10 stake for
basis the most perfect equality and reciprocity, carefully
avoiding all those burdsnsoe preferences which are usu-
ally sources OF debate embarrassment, and discontent
founding the advantage OF commerce solely upon Tecfp
rocal utility and the just rules of free intercourse"
Always venera,ed for proclaiming those with other
principles OF freedom France, his obituary panegyrc
pronounced by her first orator, Mirabeau and, by
March, 1871, President Washington requested 10
TO be communicated to the National Assembly OF
France the peculiar sensiby of Congress the tribute
paid TO the memory of Benjamin Franklin by the en-
ghtened and free representatives of great nalion In
their decree of the 18th June, 1890"
Let seize the present occasion of these
long forgotten principles of American rsove and pri-
meva policy almost lost under the rubbish OF natural
and than natural, of habitual-Englsh and colonial
attachments.
Let renew, in ls4s Franklins French treaty OF
177s with few notifications.
Let US no longer cripple our own commerce by suici-
dial prohibition of that of France Let us no longer alb
surdly lock up cotton tobacco COAL flesh
and other superintendent staples, by such heavy mposs
the wines, silks brandies jewely velvets, and other
French products her only of paying for
exports to her.
The present crisis the accepted time of profitable free
dom, urging us to be selfish, and almost sordd in our
encouragement OF French independence; and while the
French secretary OF foreign affairs is poet and free
trader who has appointed the Duke OF Harcourt, another
French free trader, the minister England lei us no,
be outstripped by Great Britain in what an English
statesman, likewise poet (Addison,) prescrbes TO all
considerable men, when he makes Cato declare that
The mobile mind each
Commercial freedom, with vast development of the
merely profitable and lucrative intercourse between the
United States and France, stands ready Paris for our
acceptance, u sce take H at once
But that is not all, by The first treaty
of IT'S with France renewed by that of $780, negotiated
by Joseph Bonaparte with minister's Ellsworth Da
vie and Murray, both go much further. Those treaties
stpulate the sovereignty Of the free ships free goods
blockade, but by actual investment no contraband
but articles strictly of war; search and visitation
but the restricted and nofensve By that cordial
understanding, renewed between France and the United
States, the black code of British maritime supremacy
mother of and confcts-ends forever the peace Of
the ocean becomes involae its profits TO American nav
igation beyond pnce
Such the cold calculations OF American interest
the eervescence OF enthusiasm, respecting the policy
of at once encouraging the establishment OF grea
French republic hastily thrown, with Difference before
that country and this, by representative of one,
well wisher of the other
c. J. INGERSOLL.
WASHINGTON, April 5, ls4s.