The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-15
FRANcE ~ ARMS.


French nation has never in modern times en-
gagged in trans-marine war without meeting
discontinue and disgrace. While almost |
every nation on the continent of Europe has
SUCCESSFULLY and repeatedly been the reluctant
theater Of her martial proves and glories, al
most every colony and every sea known TO
navigation has beheld her defeated From
the days of BLAKE to those of NELSON, it has
been her fate to build navies for the future use
of England, into whose hands they have most
generally fallen; and while the great captain
Of modern times was planting his victorious
flag on every continental capital from Lisbon
to Moscow, a few negroes in the colony of
Hayti were dispensing, annihiIsting some of
his finest legions. Colony after colony was
wrenehed from his grasp, and those which
France now possesses, she, in great measure,
owes to the magnanimity of England, in 1915.
In late issue of the APPEAL we gave list
of the war ships of France, list SO formida
ole to the eye, that talk OF French interview
tion in American affairs, SO rife of late, might
well awaken some uneasiness in many minds
70. apt to remember that strength is far from
oolng tie only requisite of success in war. In
cur issue of tomorrow we viii lay before the
reader Observation-Disclosures of the land forces
Of TIE great Empire, from perusal of which
3 still greater degree of apprehension might
easily be evoked. Be it remembered, however,
that the transportation of half million of
men to Mexico, the marching them through
&c ~
to the United States, is simply an impossible
task. Were there even no active opposition
made to it, the passive ones of distance and
outlay would be found to possess difficulties
wholly insuperable.
The ideaput forth in a late French Jour
nal, that the possession of Mexico was de-
sired by LOUIS NAPOLEON simply as basis
of operations against the United States, may
sound well enough in the ears of those who
have not watched the career of the man, and
who have not observed, that throughout his
whole Presidential and Imperial reign, he has
used the Press Of France to create belief in
plans, the realization of which, he never in
tended even to attempt, while hspwas busily
making preparations for deeds and machina-
TORS on theatre wholly different and remote.
Algiers was the mask to the preparations for
the Crimean war. And the annexation of
Savoywas in its inception woombed before Vii
la Franco and few Frenchmen, we take it,
will feel deeply astonished if the future,
Mexican expeditions, and talk of American
interventions, turn out to have been mere
wells to THE ANNExATIoN OF ITALY Ia
Daariere de mon onele. 10
The man is too shrewd to involve himself in
war with the United States, war which
would paralyze half the commerce of France
which could yield little Of that peculiar glory
NAPOLEON prizes, and which might well end
in utter defeat. The serious entertainment Of
such an idea is no more in his line than hon
esty in a politicians. Interference on the
score of humanity is only huge joke, resem
bling his decree hberating the press "under 9
certain censorship" That he will use, indeed
that he must soon use, the vast ornaments hi
commands, is true; but that he win ever seri
ously peril them on our American quarrel
while Italy presents the temptations she nov
does, it would require manifestations of radi
cal change of the nature of the man to induct
our believing. He has no political or mora
objection to our cutting each others threats; in
deed, seems rather to like it, and has therefort
no objection to the press of his capital giving
moral support to the weaker side, to encourage
its holding on q little longer to the detrimen
of the whole country; but as to lighting {
trans atlantic nation that has 600, 900 men il
the field and heavy navy, the results are to-
indefinite, and as his uncle said at st. Helen'
of the Spanish war-Le jeu ne UatGit pas Z
chGndsNe-angIice 'twould be paying toodea
for the whistle. We therefore entertain ex
eeedingly minimized spprehensions Of any &C
tive French Intervention ia this trifing domes
tic difficulty of ours, and no less certain do W
feel that honest true old Abe will have re
stored order in the family mansion before an.
foreign freebooters attempt an entrance.
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