The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-27
The Maritime Powers OF Europe Intervene
ing In Mexico.

The Maritime Powers OF Europe Intervene
ing I'm Mexico.
1t is settled that Mexico is to be taken in
charge by European protectorate. SEEKING
this golden opportunity of our Southern rebel
lion, England, France and Spain, inspired, as
it appears, by the most exalted considerations
Of humanity, are preparing combined naval
expedition for the settlement of their outstand-
ing accounts with the doomed and utterly help
less Mexican republic. British subjects and
French citizens have been maltreated and plum
dered, and their claims upon the Mexican trea-
sury have been contemptuously secuted by the
wretched and constantly changing revolutionary
government Of that country; while the Catho-
lie loyalty of Spain has been outraged beyond
forbearance by those intolerable Mexican here
tics who have risen into power from their spolia-
tons upon Mother Church.
But England and France are moved in this
matter by broader and weightier considerations
They are striking at that European balance of
power on this continent which has never been
lost sight of by England since the day that she be-
gan to dread the commercial and political as
cendancy of the United States. The purposes Of
England and her confederates are the political
and commercial control Of Mexico, Central
America and the West India Islands arainst the
United States of North America for the future,
whether we emerge from this rebellion under one
government, our old Union, or under two-a
Northern and a Southern confederacy. Among
other things, England is casting. about for new
cotton fields, and Mexico and Central America
may be readily made to yield larger amount
of cotton per annum than the largest crop of
our Southern States But we think it may be
England in this Mexican protectorate is q check
upon our would-be cotton producing monopoly
Of the South.
Granted that the present misrepresentation
of this rebellion by English statesmen, English
journals and English emissaries are directed to
the permanent disruption of our Union, it is
folly to suppose that English sympathies are in
favor of an Independent and expansive cotton
growing Southern confederacy. On the con
trary, the most credulous Southern believer in
British magnanimity will be apt to discover in
this European coalition against Mexico move
ment which will also place our cotton States,
cut off from the North, in the condition of de-
tendency of England and France.
Beginning with the Nicaraguan filibustering
adventures Of General Walker, the grand idea
OF the leading conspirators in this Southern re-
bellion was and is great elastic, expansive
Southern pro-savery cotton monopolizing con-
federacy, Chased upon military principles" or,
in other words, fibustering confederacy,
whose manifest destiny" has been fore
Swallowed in the inevitable absorption of Next
co. Central America, Cuba, and all the islands
Of the Gulf But what now becomes of this
magnificent realm of Utopia? 1t utterly
vanishes before this European protectorate over
Mexico, and becomes o mere vagrant, as help
less as Mexico.
The main cause Of this Southern rebellion is
alleged to be the declared purpose Of the do
minant power of the North in the general
government to arrest the further extension of
slavery into the Territories of the Union. Our
rebellous States have, then, taken up arms to
secure the right of extending their peculiar in
stitution. But how are they TO extend it with
this European barrier established along on
Mexican boundary? England, in this thing,
will have contaminated the very work threat
ened by the anti-slavery power Of the North
and thus on both sides superior hostile Power
menaces the very existence of Southern slavery
and Southern cotton, under Southern con.
federacy.
What, then, is the true policy of our revolted
States? 1t is their return to the Union. Other
wise they will be ground to pieces--cotton
slavery and alas between the upper and
neither mllstene. Our loyal States, under an
established government, commanding respect
abroad, idolized at home, and possessing un-
bounded sources of cash, credit and all the ma
terials and facilities of war, and with popula-
ton oftwenty-three millions against eight mil
lions, must ultimately prevail in this struggle
for the life of the nation. The issue is simply
question of time, and the greater the present