New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-29
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From tho flrst hour OF our present Struggle
may, from period still earlior-the hopes
OF the Rebels and their Northern allies have
largely rested on some form of Foreign Inter
vention. For q time they fancied that the
dearth of Cotton would speedily incite revolu-
tionary commissions 10 Western Europe from
which the Maritime Powers would gladly
escape through Recognition, Intervention, Rails
ing the Blockade and Of needed) open War;
and when this dream was rudely shattered,
they made haste to replace it by another and
another whereof European aid was ever the
central idea. That their leading emissaries
abrond have been instructed and ready 10
make any bargain, profler any concession, sa-
criice any interest, principle or cher
ished tradition, if they might thereby
be enabled by foreign help to beat the de-
tested "Yankees &" aud divide the country,
was indicated by Mr.. Russell of The Times
Nondon) during his Southern tour, before the
attack on Fort Sumter, and has ever since
been manifest. The French raid on Mexico,
if not actually suggested and impclled by their
diplomatic agents. has from the first been re-
carded by them with undisguised satisfaction
and undissembled hope. True, the ostensible
author of the so-called (and grossly msappre.
hended) "Monroe doctrine" was a Virginiap.
but be was also one prominently AMERICAN
TO the core, while tho consplrators for Dis
union, though mainly born on our soil. are in
heart aud purpose men Of another hemisphere
aud bygone age.
II is hard, yet scarcely Unfair, that the
crimes which The Southern cousprators we're
allowed 10 commit in the name of our Union
NOW evoke formidable III. will 10 that Union in
i,s hour of peril at the hands Of those traitors.
The indecent rapacity whercwiih Texas was
seized. and Mexico invaded. and Spain bullied
10 surrender Cuba 10 insstiate greed. Was in
spired aud fononted by the slaveholding oil
earchy of the South; but the Union suffers for
and the traitors profit BY it. Great britain.
France. Spain. all remember and resent the
hecto.ing bullying. overbearing spirit evinced
BY our Government through its past years Of
security aud strength, and forget or refuse ~
note that SAID Government was then controlled
by the very men now seeking their aid ~ eiiocl
iis overthrow. Intelligen. nations cannot al
yays bs thus undIsceraing or unjust
The virtual degradation OF Mexico into
French satrapy is direct rcsut OF tho Slave
bold,r.' Rebellion. Nobody imaginos that Is
would or could have been effected had thl,
republic been united and free 10 act rs IT was
ten or even Eve years ago. Our extremity 10
Nspoleon's opportunity, and no has improved
il. Slidel congr a,ulates him on bis triumph.
as do the lacquey kiDgling' who tremblc at his
frown; our country looks on With dignity. with
profound interest, bu. without apprehension aud
certainly without approval. The hour for re-
monstrance may strike; but 1t is not yet.
There arc those who make this sutjugation
of our Southern neighbor an excuse for assail.
inc our President and his Administration. We
ought they say, to have protested, and lent
Mexico moneys, and helped her to arm, and
by some means have averted her downfall.
But how were We 10 lend millions 30 Mexico
when our resources were taxed TO tho utmost
exert a controlling influence over the delibera-
tons of European cabinets when our country
was distracted and crippled by civil war, and
even our capital was seriously threatened :
Gigantic Treason had, for tho tune. Invested
us of all ability to aid our imPerilcd neighbor;
WHY should We mock her with proiiers Of
assistance that We could not furnish or pro-
woke the dersion Of Europe by menaces that
we were notoriously unable to make good1 Did
we not consult our own dignity by preserving
silence when to break it would but expose US
to be told in diplomatic phrase that our scep-
tor had departed!
From the beginning Of our domestic strife,
disloyalty at tho North has We'd with overt
treason in tho South in efforts TO embroil us
with some great European Power. The object
was plain, and it will be sedulousy pursued to
the end. War with Great Britain or France
would place US under the feet Of the Southern
traitors. Hence they and their friends persist
emily plot and scheme for it: hence our Gov
eminent sedulously avoids it. And in this it
does wisely aud WELL
Nearly forty years ngo. President Monroe,
in his seventh Annual Message, gave Europe
fair notice that
1.-THE political system Of the Allied Power-hs H. the
monschcai sb.outist syssem-s essentially different
from that Of Amsc. This difference proceeds from tina.
which EXISTS in their respective Governments We
owe A. therefore, eGndor aud to the siesbls relations
isng between tho United States and those Powen to de-
clare that should consider any senPt On their part sI
their system 10 any portion this hemisphere da"
oevous 10 our peace and sd)efv"