The national Republican., 1862-02-18

death OF hrS. FOOr'S mother. HIS absence, Wc
hear, will Be brief.
EUROPEAN INTERVENTION In MEX.
ICO.
The combined French, Spanish and English
expedition sgainst Mexico, was commenced
with the formal disavowal BY all the parties
concerned, Of any intention Of conquest. The
pecuniary redress Of past grievances and a.
curity against now ones, were announced to be
the sole objects Of the movement.
Tho London Times Of January 81, brought
BY the Asia, lays down principles, however,
which 60 the whole length Of depriving the
hexicans Of oil further control Of their affairs,
and Of subjecdng them to foreign control.
The Tines says:
THE Aexiosns had shown themselves utterly
incapable Of constituting themselves \ State.
In period Of trial, protracted through forty
years, they had been unable to form any stable
or efecuve Government at all. Since their revolt
from the dominion Of Spain they have had ~
different constitutions, under which tyranny
In various shapes has been exercised BY So dif.
terent Presidents. These rulers have not only
neglected their most rudimentary duties in the
protection OF life and property, but have com
on the subjects Of foreign States, that II would
nave been competent TO Spain, or Englxnd, or |
FRANCE TO declare war against the country at
once, and TO exact retribution at the cannon's
mouth. The piratical States Of Bsrbary were
hardly guilty of more notorious delinq uencies
than this miserable Republic, and II would be
Ms easy to justify an advance upon Mexico as
An attack upon Agiers. Most nations, it is |
true, have passed In their turn through pe.
riods Of convulsion and strife, but the Mexicans
have never given as the least reason to hope
mat In their case this novitiate would ever
have An end. II there had been any visible ap.
proaoh 10 better order Of things, or any pros.
peot Of a sound political organization, this in.
tervention would never have occurred. But
Mexico has gone from bad to worse. She has
not only shown no capacity for Improvement,
liens included that she Is utterly inoompe
tent, without further tutelage. to exercise those
powers OF self.government for the sake OF
which she revolted."
The Significance Of what Is here eaid Is not
at all impaired by the fact that there is good
deal Of truth In 1t.
Mexico 10 pronounced incapable Of self-gov.
eminent, and to require the I" "fu,tAer t,aeaqe "
Of ttst European control unwisely thrown Of
forty years ago. And it Is declared to be a.
jusiaabls TO reduce her to her old condition
as 1t was to make French province Of Al.
geris-
It's not doubtful that the aristocrscy, whose
mouthpieoe the 7unss Is, would be glad to Gee
soe United States reduced to the same anarchy
which has demoralized Mexico, and that to this |
eod, they are giving all possible announcement
to the slaveholders' rebellion.
Ine events Induced by our civil war, the
seizure Of Dominica by Spain, the invasion of
Mexico BY the combined European Powers, and
'he desire manifested in England to divide and
conquer the United States will before LONG
produce their proper effect, In bringing back |
the old views of the necessity Of maintaining
our American nationality in a condition Of
strength adequate 10 resist the wiles and
assaults OF the Transatlantic despotism. It ia |
only by being united that We can be really
Independent. Separation means dependence |
In some form and under some name. land the
name h Of little consequence upop foreion
Powers.
Ihe leaders Of the Shareholders rebellion.
rearing nothing 20 much as the personal conse.
quences to themselves of defeat in their present
enterprize, are ready to offer anything TO
Enrope, for the sake Of escaping their impending
fste But If the leaders are ready for this sacri.
fee, the masses Of the Southern people cannot
be 90.
Events have demonstrated that real inde.
pendence is not within the power of the South.
and that what Is called the domination of the
North, If 1t can be shaken of at all, can be 30
'oly at the cost of accepting such foreign aid
y will draw after it, as an inevitable conse.
lusnce, submission to domination =, still
more odious and intolerable.
And both North and South can see, in the
svents passing In Mexico, the results of national
brought on by frstricidal contests
n delivering up first one portion and then
mother portion of America, to the rspacIty and
ambition Of Powers, which, like Alexander,
viii Sigh for new worlds, when they have com. ,
'leted the conquest Of this one. |,
iELEoRArHlc FEAT-On Sunday the military
siesrsph' the lines Of the American Teleerspb
company and those Of the Western Union Com.
psny. were connected with the headqusrtsrs Of I
~ Gen. Mcclellan, and put In direct connsc. I
lon WIN General Buell. at Louisville, General 4
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