Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-11
Mexico and the European Powers The


whole of it.
Mexico and the European Powers The
Gazette.
The Gazette has experienced an attack Of
the Monroe doctrine, and in its Wednesdays
issue exhibits the effect of two separate par
oxysms of that complaint. In one it charges
those foreign governments which propose to
interfere in Mexican affairs 'in the name of
God to take heed" which is something in the
"Ercles vein," and thinks that "the dnimuS
displayed toward the United States by the
two leading powers of Europe has been SO
manifest that there is no fear that this nation
will be caught mapping by any feet that may
approach Mexico under the Spanish or any
other fag;" and moreover, that "the express
sions we have heard so frequently from the
South, of preference for subsection to q
foreign crown to further connection with the
Union, may have been idle bluster or it may
not; :" which is rather oracular than other
wise.
This nation is very wide-awake nation.
Our present Administration, having been
lighted into office by globe lanterns and
coal.oil professions, is unusually wide
awake, even for this country. 1t is not,
therefore, likely that it will be caught nap
ping when any feet approaches Mexico un-
der the Spanish or any other flag. 1t is true
that, somehow or other, few days ago q
British merchant vessel, laden with arms
and munitions of war, did contrive to evade
the almost superhuman vigilance of the
blockading squadron, set expressly to guard
our approaches, and deliver her cargo safely
into the hands of rebels against the Govern
ment: but this case-at least until the
other vessels now bound on the same benev-
olent mission arrive-may be set down as
purely exceptional. When, therefore, the
feet Of foreign vessels approaches Mexico,
under the flag aforesaid, and we are not
caught mapping, the question that will next
arise is, what are we going to do about it2
Upon the point that the South may prefer
subsection to foreign crown to further con
nection of the Union, the Gazette relates a
case, which it seems to think in point, of q
French colony with half q million of slaves,
which was in a state Of rebellion against the
mother country. Insidious ]. Bull was
making his approaches to take in the island,
when the French Government declared the
five hundred thousand slaves free, and called
upon them to rally to the defense of France"
which they ''did bravely and earnestly. The
result was that the British were driven away
and the internal rebellion broken forever"
A historical memory is good-especially
when it retains such facts as are suitable and
forgets those that are otherwise. Hayti was
in state, not of rebellion against the French
Government, but Of civil war among them.
selves. The whites were divided into hos
tile factions-Roya alist and Republican. The
mulattoes were at war with both, to gain
political franchises, which they claimed we're
unjustly denied to them. The slaves on the
plantations rose, to increase the confusion,
August 8, l79lr two years before the British
invasion. 1t is true that after the proclama-
tion of that freedom of which they had been
so long in actual possession, the negroes did
drive out the British and Spanish invaders
But did they restore the country to the
French2 By no means. They kept it
themselves, drove out the French also, and
AfTicdnized it. Does the Gazette desire to
complete the PARALLEL Which would the
Gazette prefer on our Southern border, a
British Province or a Negro Empire
In it's other attack, the Gazette thinks that
"this Intervention is q harsh measure" and
that it twill be fruitful in opportunities and
occasions for war, which will result in the
acquisition of territory" If Mexico is q
good cotton country, the Gazette, which has
been hunting the world over to find places
where cotton can be grown outside the
States of the Confederacy, ought piously tc
thank Heaven that there is reason to hope il
will fall into hands likely to improve it. l
there is aBy branch of profane learning
which the Gazette may be said to have mad
aSpeciality, it is in statistical and geograph
ical enterprises to convince the world that
ought not to be beholden to the Unite,
States for cotton, and TO convince the Soutl
that its boasted monopoly of the cotton cul
ture was to pass out of its hands. What OBJ
ject the Gazette had in this beyond tina
pleasure which certain class of good peo
pie always feel in making every body arount
them unhappy, it wOuld, perhaps, be fruit
less to inquire.
But it is not Mexico alone that is pointe
at in this movement; for, in the opinion G
the Gazette, 'fOreign powers now regard thi
nation as hopelessly broken up, or as follow
ing in the wake Of MexicOi and, with
sharp eye to business, they are looking ou
to see how the American sick man will Gu
up"
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