Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-10-14
" CuEYALIER'S PAMPHLET.
Translated Tor the World.

In France from tie earliest times, dis
tan; expeditions when they began have
alwuys prov olzed bitter criticism on the
par. 0t the Opposition, and have always
met with but little sympathy among the
supporter. Of order We are inclined to
attribute ~ dis fact the relative Inicriority
Of our country as a commercial and colo
NAL power, while it occupies the second
and almost the first as naval power
FreHchmln Is infinitely better fitted for ac-
lion Than for traffic, and in war he COM
monty considers its military glory, some
imes lts political results never its busi-
ness side. Ii this respect We are at once
superior and interior 10 our allies the
tns.lSh-supcriUr by all the greatness Of
cur generosity and our diSiutereslUdness (;
nieFnT by all the depth of their calcula
4lonS and their mercantile genius. Thus
was that when after the rupture of the
!eatY OF La Soledad, England and Spain,
which had interviewed in Mexico under the
nne pTcteXt as France, retired from the
Intervention, leaving to France the cost
$50 NSii'NNt uCl4NNS Va eAAiN2 SAINN&'AkCAl
which had been commenced Ill common
mere was but one voice in our country TO
dep.0re tie situation IN which we had
oeen .ctt by our allies. No one then sus-
Eecied, and no one chose 10 suspect, the
n.IIul results Of our intervention in the
a1a!s VI Mexico. Ii was then tashiona-
te ~ calculate the sums which it would
S'st 10 transport soldier from Cherbourg
= vera Cruz, and 1t was attempted TO
'aJ" that our only object was TO impose
nant more or less hostile to their taste and
10 their convictions President Juarez,
Notwithstanding his numerous refusals OF
.-sNce, LIs open contempt of pledged
'NIh, ard the divisions excited by his de-
Po-a0!e administration, still, in the eyes
u European demagogues, remained the
acred representative of the national will
o. Mexico, the paragon of liberal ideas.
II was repeated al nauSeant that the En-
pe'0r Yielding to a natural love of adven-
.lre had allowed himself TO be seduced by
'a.laclous stories of the wealth of the an
geht empire Of the Montezumas that
having thrown himself headlong into an
expedition which could have no end, he
peFseVered in it through obstinacy, and
'Aat our soldiers were marching to a most
useless, dangerous, and ruinous conquest.
Unfortunately, the first attack on Puebla
UleFed the enemies of the expedition a
natural opportunity for redoubling their
Gainors. The echoes of the Palms Bol1'-
oo' THE Corps Legslatt) rang with cal,
umnles which up to that time had beer
o.l'nad to purlieus of foreign newspaper
OIleeS, and nothing less than the authori-
"'Ive eloquence of NJ. BillaulL was re-
g1''ea TO clear up the question and dispe
Tue clouds which masked the future o
our intervention. The fruitless, or ever
@e unfortunate result of warlike ope
ration proves nothing against the origir
u the actual war in Mexico is more thar
justified by the wrongs which France i
0ent upon redressing. The object of tha
war Is to aid the Mexicans in establishing
according to their own free win an,
c''oice, a government which may hav
some chance of stability.
lhe failure of the frss attack %