New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-27
AyyEEICA AND y.IFsOpE.

! We print herewith letter from Mr. VIM
Cornell Jewett on European Mediation and
his agency in inaugurating it, through the we'll
hnowu action of Napoleon III. and his Foreign
Minister, N. Drouyn de Lhuys. The subject
is one Of very grave interest, in view of the
concentration of strong French Military aud
| Nayal force on our Southwestern frontier,
and the very manifest disposition of certain
French agents in that quarter to make trouble.
We need not say that Mr.. Jewett's estimate
Of the purposes Of the Man Of December diff.
fers widely from our own, and that this differ.
ence accounts for the wide divergence whica
is apparent in our views respecting Mediation.
Let us be clear on this point:
Wherever war exists, no matter whether
international or civil, We hold that there il
ample excuse for friendly and impartial me.
diation. We can scarcely imagine case
wherein such mediation would be justly re.
garded % impertinent or in any way offensive.
IT, then, the Emperor Napoleon or the British
Ministry had seen fit, at any time since the
bonbardment of Fort Sumter-having pre-
viously given no just cause of ofense to either
party--t0 say tO.Our Government and to that of
the Rebels respectively, Be entreated to stop
fighting, and lot US try to bring you to a bet
ter understanding and better disposition,
We should have regarded the interpOstion as
kind and humane. No matter If the ac-
ton were not strictly dsinterested--concede
it to nave been prompted By regard for the
interests Of European Trade aud Manufactures
quite as much as b, anxiety to spare the ciil-
sion OF American blood--we still insist that il
would have been justified and proper, and That
orr Government would have been bound 20
meet it in conciatory spirit.
But how have We been treated b, Grea;
Britain
Immediately on the outbreak OF our Civil
War, aud before waiting to hear our new
Embassa dor, the British Ministry made haste
10 recognize the Rebels as belligerent, and
thus 10 place them on an equality with The
Union. The Queens Proclamation warned
British subject. not to commit specified acts of
hostility 10 ihe United States; but those VINO
have deied that warning to our injury have
nevertheless been protected and shielded by
her Goyernment---as IN the Trent affair and
50 many Others. Nassau ard the Bahama5
have been in profound sympathy with the Re-
bellion throughout. and have been harb0rs OF
refuge fox blockade runners, and Of outfit and
replen si!Inent for Rebel privatcers throughout.
Lord John Russell, her Maesty's Foreign Min
ister, made haste 20 PROFOUND his dictum
that the North was fighting for empire,
tie South for indcpeadsnce--a most unfair,
disingenuous attempt to conceal the real
anmus Of the Shareholders Rebellion.
Prime Minister Palmerston took occasion
to sneer at the UniOnsts for their
rout at Bull Run. Chancellor Gladstone has
recently acknowledged The independence of the
Confederacy in dinner-speech, BY declaring
that JEFF. Davis had created a nation. Add 10
this tho peremptory harsnness with which we
were treated in the settlement Of the Trent
affair, aud the abusive, insulting travesty Of
our whole contest and its causes by the Brit.
ish journals and graycr periodicals patronized
by the ruling classes, and there il presented
IN aggregate OF injustice and covert hostility
such as 40 nation ever before suffered at tie
band Of friendly power. And ii is this mass
of c, idence OF British determination tlht the
Union shall be destroyed which would render
uselcs, any profier Of mediation from London.
We repe the interpretation Of Great Britain,
because wc know that her rulers have pre-
iulged the case. II is with them a foreCOue
conclusion that Disunion must be the basis Of
Peace. We cannot, therefore, conide in their
justice or consent TO their arbitration.
As to France, the case is somewhat differ
emit, or 1cas prior to the appearance OF NJ.
Drouyn dc L.1Iuys's overture to Great Britain
and Russia. We will not here critically
examine that document, having already done
so; but its assumptions were so ore.sided and
30 mistaken that we cannot regard Its author
or bis master as in q proper frame OF mind
for fair and useful mediation-Mr. Jewett to
the contrary notwithstanding.
But if Government VIGOROUSLY free from
partially or from sinister impulses-that Of
Switzerland, for example-were 70 tender 10
ours its good Offices to bring about recoa'