Daily American telegraph., 1851-12-31
The UnfOn-Tho North and the South
Their Interests Identical.


Their Interests Identical.
The English and French governments having,
in consequence Of the late Lopez affair." deter
mined to intervene to compel the United States to
keep the peace and behave themselves better in
future, Mr.. Champion, the English Charge, and
Mr.. De Sartiges, the French Minister, "deemed
it due to the frankness which ought to charac-
terize the intercourse between their respective
governments and that of the United States to
make known to the latter that orders would be
given to the commanders Of the English and
French fleets on the West India station to es-
tabsh sort of police over those seas, and a sort
of prison bounds, within which the people of the
United States would be required to stay at home
and mind their own business, and beyond which
their republican sympathes for the oppressed
people of Cuba should not be permitted to pass.
To this Mr. Crittenden, acting Secretary of
State replied in these words, addressed to Mr..
Champion:
81 am instructed by the President to express
his regret that such orders should have been
deemed necessary and proper by the British
be the exercise of sort Of police over the seas
in our immediate vicinity, covered as they are
with our ships and our citizens, and it would in
volve moreover, to some extent, the exercise of
a jurisdiction to determine what expeditions were
of the character denounced, and who were the
guilty adventurers.
"The President deems it unnecessary to say
more at present on the subject of these orders,
than to add the expression of his hope that there
may never arise any occasion for carrying them
into execution"
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of State, by order of the President, replied by a
note dated 22d Oct, 1861, in which, after timid
expression of regret, and an allusion to the doc
trine declared by Mr.. Monroe, (viz: that the
United States would not permit the nations of
Europe to interfere to oppress or control the
destinies of the nations of America he says:
"The undersigned must repeat that her
(Frances) Intervention, in this instance, if at
tempted to be executed in the only practicable
mode for its efectual execution, could not fail to
produce some irritation if not worse consequences
The French cruisers, sailing up and down the
shores of the United States, to perform their
needless task of protecting Cuba, and their un-
gracious Office of watching the people of this
country asif they were fruitful of piracies, would
be regarded with some feeling of resentment and
the flag which they bore-a flag which should
would be looked at as casting shadow of unmer
tied and dishonorable suspicion upon them and
their government.
"The undersigned will add that all experience
seems to prove that the rights, interests, and
peace of the continents of Europe and America
will be best preserved by the forbearance of each
to interfere in the affairs of the other The gov
ernment of the United States has constantly
acted on that principle, and has never intermed-
died in European questions"
1t seems to US that the frank impudence of the
British and French governments in this matter
called for reply very different in tone from the
humble petition and meek remonstrance just
quoted. However, though we do not like their
tone, yet we feel under obligations to the Presi-
dent and acting Secretary of State for their just
appreciation of the consequences of this "need-
less and ungracious" intermeddling, Gmpudent
and insolent would be more fitting epithets, but
are not diplomatic terms,) and of the sunmerited
suspicion and dishonor" which submission to it
would cast on the government and people of the
United States. Some thanks ara also due to Mr..
Crittenden for his attempt to repel the imputa-
ton brought upon the people of this country by
the Cuban proclamation, to wit: that they are
fruitful Of piracies. But the turn which Mr.. Web
ster subsequently gave to the correspondence has
made this language of Mr. Crittenden singularly
unfortunate; for it has enabled Mr.. De Sartiges
to thrust the proclamation in the face of the Pre-
sident, and to reply that the very purpose and
sole object of the offensive orders given to the
French commanders were to suppr ess piracy. In
answer to Mr.. Crittenden's suggestions as to, the
policy recommended and declared by Gen. Wash
ington and Mr.. Monroe, Mr.. De Sartiges repu-
dates those ideas as obsolete He says:
'sThe nations Of America and of Europe are
at this day so dependant upon one another, that
the effects of any event, prosperous or otherwise,
happening on one side Of the Atlantic, are imme-
diatey felt on the other side. The
result of this community of interests, CONNER
cial political, and moral, between Europe and
America--of this frequency and rapidity of inter-
course between them-is, that it becomes as diff
cult to point out the geographical degree where
American policy should terminate and European
policy begin as it is to trace out the line where
American commerce begins and European COM
merce terminates-where may be said to begin
or to terminate the ideas which are in the ascend
ant in Europe and in America"
For these reasons, Mr.. De Sartiges adds the
frank declaration that France viii intervene to
control hedestinies Of Cuba so far at least, as to
prevent g the possession Of that island, or the
protectorship of the same, from falling upon"
the United States
In this frank declaration, and the reasoning on
which it is based, Mr.. Webster would appear to
have acquiesced. For, in reply, Mr.. W. says as
follows:
"Inasmuch as Mr.. De Sartiges now AYERS that
the French government had only in view the ex-
ecution of the provision of its maritime code
against pirates. further discussion of the subject