, 1863-08-27
TEE FRENCH OCCUpATInx
OF MEXICO.
Prince E1po1eon,A Organ Cou3emnIn~
the Ew peror>s Policy, mud Shoyy.
Ing lts Inevitable Result to
be a War u fSh America.


is charged with the maintenance OF public
tranquility, writing here that Il, COO men Is
too small q force for him, and demanding re-
Inducements.
We do not yet know what the government
of Mexico will be, whether 1t viii be mon
wlat broad shoulders VIC ara going to place
the heavy burden Of abiiitatiug bankrupt
nation: ln any event, we hare cause to be-
Neve that that Iaborious work wf1l tall entirely
to our. charge. In fact, what they arc little
deficient in everywhere, but at Mexico more
tran anwhere else, Is capable men. twill be
for us to organize the army, the fi~ance, pub
lie education, highways, and the admfnistra-
tioD. We viii find ourselves compelled, By
the dearth Of materials, to do everything By
ourselves. We will have to dninlster great
empire; re will be responsible for its desti.
pies, and II success Is to redoundto our glory
1t must be admitted that, by tair return, its
failures VIII be imputed to Us. a considera-
bic share Of cur attention, Of our surveillance,
will have to be devoted to Mexico; and hence
will come embartassments, difficulties and
complications, the responsibility Of which VIC
will be no longer free to decline-
Inrain shall NC ask ourselves whether it is
useful or advantageous for France to 20 far
to geek grave cares-to neglect its internal
dertakipg education at 4 remote point, and Of
necessarily charging ourselves with despesate
cures. The answer will be that It is too late,
that VIC are engaged, and that the honor Of
the flag does not permit us to abandon the
work commenced: This prospect is SO much
questions Of internal organization always
very grave and very compllcated-Me1ico Is
destined within q very fGW years, perhaps
months, to raite for us grave foreign dificnl-
lies with the United States, and to draw US,
perhaps, into IN absurd and most deplorable
strife.
It. is curious and characteristic but incou.
testable fact, that in France, at the present
day, no enc knows exactly why NC hare gone
to Mexico. 1t ls simply piece Of obstinacy
that ba6 grown serious by the very obstacles
which it has encountered. Is it d vast pro-
ject, nlatu1ely weighed, to give to France IN
American 1Edia, to be governed and exploited
as England governs and exploits AsiatIc IN
dia: No one can say with certainty But
certain Indications permit the supposition
that this enterprise had, In the fdea that con-
ceiyed it, q certain connection, difficult to be
defined, with. the events that are passing In
North America.
Every one has remarked the solicituac Jun
expected enough, which the French Govern
acy, and its oft-repeated attempts upon tho
English Government, Fortunately repelled by
the latter, to give united recognition to the
sIayeEo1di1g Republic Of which Mr. Jefferson
Davis is the President. Public opinion in
Faarcc has not understood the reason for this
ed upon s!ayery-an institution that is I'm
moral oDd profoundly opposed to our ideas
and cur manners. It Is The South that has
commenced the rupture with the North. I'm
doubtedly, in the point Of view of the pro-
duction Of cotton, the South can interest us.
more than us, and yet she has not wished, up
to this time, to recognize the South and 1t Is
Enc Who has stopped the inpatient ardor Of
the French Government in that direction.
On the other hand, and admitting that the
South may form separate State, and that the
recognition Of France may aid her in doing SO,
it Is certain that cur presence In Mexico will
he 6tnl more dlsagreeable 10 her than it can be
10 the republic OF the North. In TACT, the
slnveholdipg South has only one chance Of 1iy-'
iug and, Of resisting the hostile brethren from
whom 1t seeks to separate; and that is to ex-
rand and propagate around it Its domestic in
stitution. Slavery, restricted. will be secretly
undermined or violently oyerthtoHn by the
North. The South can live only by assuming
the offensive It has long recognized thnt
fact; and Its efforts to acquire or conquer
Cuba, Nicaragua and the small Central Ameri-
can republics, and the absorption Of Te1as,
already contaminated, show clearly enough
weighs upon 1t and that drives 1t to conquest
ard to the prop1g acda Of slavery.
II, therefore, the South Bhou1d-succeed in
conaummating its separation, It Is not doubt
favor, the French lag floating over tho soil
Of Mexico and protecting It from its arowcd
covctousness. Our Mexican Establishment
will then hare dangerous, threatening vicl.
nate. So It 1s one Of not the least aatoniBh-
n.ents provoked BY this expedition that the
French 6oEernment should persist In seeking
to inauce England to recognize with it the
Southern republic, whose attacks the French
1.g, II 1t remains in Mexico, will Inevitably
have to retel. II, then, a4 is believed, and Us
facts appear to indicate, there Is connection
between our expedition to Mexico and the
policy pursued in respect to the Southern
CoDtedelacy, 1t must be nckno ow1edged that
that myteilous connection escapes al our ex-
planatioEs. The only point that remains eyi-
dent Is TINT If re remain at Mexico. and If
the South succeed, 1t will resume its projects
of couqucsts, that have been suspended By
the eiy'i mar, and we shall have to sepel IN
Il, On the contrary, the South succumb and
the great republic be reconstructed, ne can
not expect my better fortune. It will not be,
indeed, for the purpose Of spreading slavery,
which 1t will have abolished at home, that 1t
will merace our Transatlantic pupils, but rath-
er for the purpose of 1erelling European in.
1uencc, OF nalntaining in tact the more or
less authentic Monroe doctrine, and perhaps,
also, Of giving employment to the Generals
and the five OF six hundred thousand soldiers
Yho have contracted the habits Of war, md
whom the close Of the civil war will hare lett
without employment.
when 1t is justified by tho success Of q great
cause, when the blood she'd is the redemp ption
for great injustice, and the price Of great
step towards the moral reconstruction Of m.
tions: But really to provoke o certain war
with North Ametica-certain in both hypoth-
Fr AZ nj ~
tion-and Ill tor the vain glory Of TTeaning an
old colony which our DIPLOMATS have! mis-.
taken for yonnE nation, would appear to us
so deploIoble, 80 Ecnseless, go pe.1lous, 30
perfectly opposed to the interests. instincts,
without profound apprehension that we see
our government plunge, without care, and,
aa 1t were, in u tit OF distraction, into this
fatal course. At this moment the whole
swarm ,oi contractors is buzzing around It.
Nothing j. spoken OF but railroads and canals
to be built, mines Of gold and silver to>be
gold;" and If the government Is wise it viii
hasten to profit by the temporary paclt1catloa
at Mexico, by promptly constituting there the
best government possible, aud bringing back
our troops and our flag: ..-f
Let it give advice, let it lend ski1lful men, II
up In o guardianship Of which the present
generation would NOT see the end. Above Ill,
let Il not be seduced by the tallacious hope Of
recovering the expense Of the expedition;
it Will { con hare expended thousand millions
to gain back three hundred millions. If these
three hundred millious,are lost, SO much the
WoIEc. Let us pass them to the account Of
profit and 1oss, and let us not engage BIND
folded in an unknown way, Mt the end Of
which Is to be eecn only certain War with
North America
Lct Us bring back our; troops to Europe;