The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-14
The Nows from Mexico-what VIII Ma
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The news from Mexico in our columns
yesterday and to-day is Of the highest i'm
portance. 1t fully confirms our previous
advices Of the total overthrow Of the
French arms, after q bloody contest Of
two days, and that the whole country is
rising to drive back the invaders. The moral
and political effect of this disaster to Napoleon
will be very great, both in France and through
out Europe. French armies are not accustomed
to be beaten in modern times, and the nation
will writbe under the blow. Napoleon himself
cannot fail to feel the disgrace, and the neces-
sity Of doing something speedily to eface it.
In Algeria, in the Crimea, in China, in Italy,
everywhere, the French flag has been borne
triumphant in the battle and The breeze, and
now it is trailed in the dust on the plains o
Mexico by troops that Europeans are accus-
toned to despise.
Will the French people patiently bear the
humiliation Can Napoleon afford to sustain
a reverse which blots out the prestige Of irwin
cibility won for the arms Of France? Will not
his enemy, the church and the Bourbons, take
advantage Of it to fan the fame Of popular dis
content, and to SOW the seeds Of disaifection in
the army, which may soon ripen into crop Of
open revolt As long as the army stands by
him lie is safe. But to leave the defeat in Next
CO unavenged is something that the army will
not brook. Then Napoleon's colonization
scheme in Mexico, the acquisition Of the gold
mines Of Sonora, and the exchange Of Next
can crown for an Austrian prince. in return for
the cession Of venetia to Victor Emanuel, will
become Visions scattered to the four winds of
heaven by stern eality.
Under these embarrassing circumstances,
what will Napoleon do? He must do one of
two things. He must fit out another cxpedi-
ton OF at least fifty thousand men, and he must
constantly keep the invading army at that figure
by large reinforcements, to make allowance for
loss in battle, aud the far greater loss by dis
ease. 1t required sixty thousand men from the
United States to capture Mexico, though the two
countries are contiguous. and though Ameri-
cans can stand Mexican climate far better
than Europeans, and though the cause Of the
war was dispute about mere boundary line;
whereas the object Of the French expedition Is
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its form of government and force upon the
throne prince of foreign blood 1t is need
less to say that Mexicans would make q very
different resistance against the latter from
what they made for doubtful boundary line.
Then tho military expedition must be accom-
panied by powerful naval force to sustain II,
in order to prevent achievements and sup
plies from being cut Of by the foe. This would
be attended with vast expense, more, in fact
than would be necessary for more glorious
war and one on far larger scale in Europe
Then there Is another difficulty in the way Of
any further prosecution Of this war. The
United States will only permit the invasion
Of Mexico under protest, and when our domes-
tic troubles are settled, which Napoleon
sees will now take but very brief time, we
would speedily undo all that the success Of his
arms might have accomplished, and compel him
70 20 to war with us, or be baffled and humili-
atsd In the sight Of his own people and oil
Europe In collision with the United States