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THE FRENCH AND MEXICO.

The following extracts are from late article
tAugust 81 in the 0pinioa Nationa,e, the organ
Of Prince Napoleon, and, above al, Of tho Re-
publieans of France. 1t will be seen that the
French people are far from unanimous In re-
gard to tho operations Of their Emperor In
Mexico.
"We arc about to find ourselves placed, In
Mexico, In n situation perfectly analogous 10
that which We have made to ourselves a. Rome,
between the Liberals, who vainly ask us 10 20
forward, and the Reactiouists, whom We re-
fuse to follow in their backward course.
1--WE do not yet know what the Government
Of Mexico will be, whether IL will be monarch.
cal or republican, nor particularly on what
broad shoulders We arc going to place the heavy
In any event, we have cause to believe that the
"a considerable share Of our attention, of
our surveillance, will have to be devoted to
Mexico; and hence will come embarrassm
difficulties and complications, the responslbili.
ty OF which VIC will be no longer fres to decline
EVERY one has remarked the solicitude. I'M.
expected enough, which the French Govern
ment has evinced for the Southern Confederacy,
and It's oft-repeatcd attempts upon the English
Government, fortunately repellod by tho latter,
70 give an united recognition to the slayebold
ing Republic of which Mr.. Jefferson Davis Is
the Presidcnt. Public opinion In France has
not understood the reason for this preference.
In principletho South is founded upon slavery
an institution that is immoral and PROFOUNDLY
opposed to our Ideas and our mannsrs. Il Is
the South that has commenced the rupture with
the North. Undoubtedly, In point OF view OF
the production of cotton, the South can inter.
est US. But that question interests England
still more than Us, and yet she has not wished.
up TO this time, TO recognize the south; and II
Is she who has stopped the impatient ardor Of
the Preach Government In that direction.
On the other hand, aad admitting that the
soash may form separate State, and that the
recognition OF France may aid her In doing 90,
II certain that our presence In Mexico will
ee still more disagyecable to her than II can be
10 the Republic OF the North. In fact, the Save
holding South has only one chance of living
aud resisting The hostile brethren from whom
u seeks 10 separate; and that is TO expand and
propagate around IL It's domestic iussitutlou,
slavery, restricted, will be secretly undermined
or violently overthrown by the North. The
South can live only by assuming the offensive.
IL has long recognised that fact; and lis efforts
TO acquire or conquer Cuba, Nicarsgua, and the
email Central American Republics, and the ab.
ssrption Of Texas, already yconsummatsd, show
clearly enough that the South comprehends the
necessity that weighs upon 1t, aud that drives
it TO conquest and TO tho propaganda Of slavery.
IN, on the contrary, the South succumb and
the great Republic be reconstructed, we cannot
expect any better fortune. II will not be- In.
deed, for the purpose Of spreading slayery,
which II will have abolished at home, that II
will menace our transatlantic pupils, but |
rather for the purpose Of repelling European
influence, Of maintaining intact the more or
less authentic Monroe doctrine, and perhaps,
also, OF giving employment 70 the generals and
the 1--we or six hundred thousand soldiers who
have contracted the habits Of war, and whom
the close Of the civil war will have left without
employment.
Let US bring back our troops TO Europe
they will not be at any loss for employmeut
aud If Mexico falls back again into disorder.
let not France be drawn Into solidatary which
nothing justines, nor be paralyzed by a transat-
Antlc Algeris, which she would have TO pro-
tect against enterprising and formidable noigh.
bors."