The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-10-15
British Protectorate of Mexico.


Our Government may yet, as they say Of q
person bcseU on both sides with dangers, have tC
look two ways for Sunday While contendine
with open enemies at home, it would seem ne
cessary to keep an eye on covert ones abroad
Among all the late foreign movements which can
have any bearing on our present National affairs,
there are none on which we may turn more
doubtful and questioning eye than the late one
just announced by British official organ for
establishing foreign protcctorate over Mexico,
or rather an intervention to coercc restitution
Tor alleged public grievances and the payment
OF individual claims. The London Post, the
not only admits what has been before denied
chat England has formally entered into con-
rention with Spain and France for the purposes
above named, but publishes the terms of the
agreement, which 90 for the seizure of all the
Mexican FoaportS i'll order to command all the
custom receipts from which to indemnify those
powers for all their respective claims and griev-
ances.
BY this move, as will readily be seen, England
can open for her unrestricted commerce. and
ior any OF the covert purposes She may enter
tain towards us, every Mexican port up to the
line Of Texas, and with them a ready interior
communication into the rebel States, by which,
IN spite Of any cheek we arc now prepared to
mterpose, she can introduce the munitions of
wal and all the goods most in demand. and bv
the same avenue receive or smugglc out cotton
and tobacco in return.
/" e may not be justified in pos.hrcly asserting
chat Great Britain is. in this new movement.
deliberately planning means for an evasion Of her
duties as neutral power but the question
forces itself on our minds, why it has been made
u8t at this crisis OF our affairs? Why has she
NO suddenly thought Of joining in such bold CO.
erciye measures on Mexico to redress grievances
Of which we have heard 50 little before And
now comes il that the unhcraldcd movement 50
closely follows her late loud clamors for the cot
ton in the rebel States, and the threats of her
journals that measures would be taken to obtain
it in spite Of our blockade? If the British
a&tloIltlCS would d6 IN case OF the bermuda, |
suffer large vessel to be fitted out under their
very noses, in England, and against the protest
of the American Minister, with arms for the reb
els would they not be still more likely to encour-
age the safer course of smuggling in such NUM-
tions for cotton, &C., in return, by way Of the
Mexican ports they propose to seize and con-
troll
All these may be chance condolences, to be
sure but they certainly look sufficiently sus-
picious to put us on our observation And, in
case the covert designs we have indicated should
be further developed, we trust our Government
will promptly avail itself of the privilege it is
said to have secured, through minister Corwin,
of marching an army through the borders of
Mexico, to checkmate all such contemplate pun
poses.
We have named only England in connection
of this armed intervention for the reason that
we have no ground for jealousy of Spain or
France in the movement Spain may have
grievances of her own to redress, while she may
have lingering desire to recover her control
of Mexico. And France, also, may have con-