New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-05
HUROPR IN OUR QUARREL.


Although the success of Napoleon iii. in bis
Mexican adventure has not yet been such as
would naturally incte to further and much
larger operations in the same line, the British
aristocratic journals received yesterday by the
Etna revive rumors of trouble brewing for us
at the Tuileries. "The Emperor is indignant"
saws one. cat the facilisios offered by Mr.
Adams for the Transmission OF arms and war
like stores TO Mexico to be used against the
French" That 'facilitiesl' The arms and
stores aforesaid are Of British manufacture,
and they are shipped to Mexico in British bot
toms. If the Emperor sees fit to be "indig'
nant A" in the premises, he should level bis In
dieuation at some or all of those who are do
ing him the mischief; not at us, who simply
stand out of the way. All that Mr.. Adams
has done amounts to just shis--he has appri'ed
American cruisers that these munitions OF war
are not designed for the Rebels; therefore, "e
have no quarrel with their shippers. How can
Napoleon take oiiense at that
But "tbc distress occasioned by tho Cotton
famine is not on the decrease. That is so.
"Our Civil War 10 the immediate cause.
Right again. at will be necessary 70 resort
70 coercive measures" to put an end to it.
True enough: and that is just what IRE are
now about. We shall put down the Rebellion at
the earliest possible moment, and thus hoera'e
all the Cotton in the South; when whoever
will pay most for it will get it, II "coer-
cion" is the right thing We are manitestly The
party to apply it. Ifwrcng, why should Europe
dsbble in it "Too many cooks" are proven
bally apt to make a bad mess; and Europe
will only mako this bad business worse by
dipping into it. -.
But there are grave questions OF maritime
right pending, it is whispered. Very probably;
but not with France. She has built, fitted out,
and manned no corssirs to prey upon our
peaceful commerce; sic has not made busl'
ness of running our blockade; she has no Trent,
no Peterhoa seizures TO complain OF. She pas
treated US quite Exceptionally throughout
our great trial, and we have no wish, no rea-
son, to quarrel with her. And we put no iaith
in these British rumors Of i'll viii on her part
toward US, to be proclaimed BY the recall oil
her ambassador. 1.-The wish was father
Harry, to that thought"
In our private judgment, grave mistake
was made by our Government IN the manner
if rot in the substance, Of its response to the
formal overture of France looking to conciu'
sion of our Civil War; We believe the spirit
that inpelled Napoleon to that act was BY no
means unfrendly TO US; but, oven had 1t been
otherwise, we would have assumed that 1t con-
teInplated peace through re-establshment oil
the authority and integrity OF the Union' not
through their overthrow. We believe that,
had Gov. Stewards response to the French
overture assumed that France could not mean
70 countenance our National disz@ption aud J
degradation, and that We cordially accepted
her good Offices to bring about an understand
ing with the Rebels, and thus restore Peace
on the basis Of reunion, the good will and
good Offices Of Napoleon would have been
secured, and the Rebels made responsible, not
only in truth but in appearance aud the Judg'
ment of the civilized world, for the further
continuance Of this devastating struggle
France wants Cotton and markets; but she Is
aware that our whole country has hitherto
supplied her with these, and that the destruc'
ton of Che United States as q great maritime
power 10 at war with her traditions and her
interests. We think ali this might have been
managed more wisely, so rs to have exalted
tho prestige and gratifed the reasonable wishes
of Napoleon, without damage or peril to oar
country and her cause But we had night
TO decline the French proder conclUsvely. So
here 10 no caase Of war.
"But suppose Great Britain and France
should unite in recognizing the Independence OF
the Rebels 7" Well: what Of IL That would
be annoying, but nothing more. To all intents
ard purposes, saving q diplomatic fiction, they
have recognized that Independence already.
Mason writes letters Of complaint concerning
blockade 20 Lord Russell, and receives civil
secondhand answers; Sdsll spends quite as
much time in confidential intercourse with the
higher French officials as does Dir. Dayton.
1t would be gross violation Of what may be
termed the settled public law Of the civilized
world to recognize the Rebels as independent;
il would form an ugly precedent for the fu.
ture; but it would be Of small practical ac-
count to us. 1t would break no bones and no
blockade. The question of Union or DisunOn
is to be settled by battles. not protocols-inI
America, not in Europe. On the whole, We
shall continue TO be let alone.
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