The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-09-26

filled with new inhabitants, ready for al
progress familiar with the newest discover
les of modern industry and supported b,
the intelligent liberalism of the flag O
France. 1t is beginning to be seen tha
our national interest much more than th'
desire of adding a new name to the Ions
list of our military victories has led France
into Mexico Let US not be troubled ther
with regard to the future Of this expedition
Whether Maximilan accept or refuse the
throne of Mexico; whether any other prince
accept that throne or not; or whether be
meath the wing of Our eagles some nameIess
government be established there, the influ
ence of France will remain in Mexico.
The. French soldier takes. his country
with him, Our army. made up of work
men and leborers who all look forward to
their return to the workshop or the plow, is
an army of creators, and not of destroyers
1t takes into Mexico all that Mexico needs:
first cohesion: because it is the most com.
plete and sincere expression of modern de-
mocracy; second, order; because it permits
all citizens of this unfortunate nation to
develop their own interests; third industry;
because it furnishes to languishing enter
prise, workmen foremen, artisans, managers.
because it familiarizes the Mexican people
with the wonders of France and of French
industry; fourth an army; by its example
and its instruction,
Thus, then, and naturally, by diffusion
and profusion ofinterests and of labor, the
desire and need Of firm less in the political
system will be fcr,.fed. In the great
movement of ou' century industrial and
financial inter sts control and conduct so
ciety Questions Of politics disappear be-
fore social questions. Twenty years ago
the opposition was republican-to day it
is social. And the theory of human equal
ity no longer assumes to reduce the great
to the condition of the lowly but to raise
the lowly to the level Of the great. The
problems of general prosperity of the in.
crease of wages, of cheap production, OF
public hygiene, can be much more easily
solved undera powerful government, The
empire has disciplined socialism and put it
to use. The empire has conquered and
decapitatsd anarchy. This it is that the
empire is to do in Mexico, and this it cannot
do securely and properly until tue confeder-
ate states have been recognized.
Ill.
If war had not broken out between the
Northern and Southern States of America
Europe would not yet have been impressed
with the dangers which threaten her from
the power of the Union.
Although she had become tributary to
the new world Europe had taken no precau
ton to prevent the consumatioD of crisis
which she had never foreseen, and which for
two years she has been enduring. 1t has
cost US something to learn how uncertain is
the fortune of an industry compelled to
seek its raw materials in a single market, to
all the exactions and all the vicissitudes of
which it must necessarily submit.
In this respect the secession of the Con
Iederate States is an e~ent particularly IA
gorable to France-for England has now no
interest in the cessation of hostilities and
the consequent constitution of an intermed-
ary power between the federal Union and
the Spanish American States
England trembles for Canada, to which
the North, after the war, may look for the
of its losses. The commerce
Of England profits by the misfortunes of
commerce-she looks with salts
faction on the exhaustion alike of the
South and of the North. She supplies
both parties with arms, and while the
southern export of cotton ia suspended she
is increasing the cotton culture of India
then, will never take the initia-
tive in recognizing the Confederate States,
and the way in which our propositions of
pacific Intervention were twice received by
her, ought to dispel all doubts on this head.
France, on the other hand, cannot hope
to find the cotton which her factories need
elsewhere than in the South Every at.
tempt at the culture has failed, and it is
probable that every such at
tempt will continue to fail The cotton
culture, like the grape culture, is aquestion
of soils A vine from Bordeaux or the
Rhine transplanted under the same lati-
tudes and climates will yield neither Cha
teau Margaux nor a Johannsberg The
wine changes with the soil and so il is
with cotton-its quality degenerates with
the soil. Furthermore, the question is not
TO produce some sort Of cotton, good, bad,
or ordinary, but to produce it at fair prices.
Now, as well in respect to cheapness as to
quality, the cotton Of the South surpasses
all others. The federals are so well aware
of this, that the war which they are waging
is really and mainly war of interest.
The producing, agricultural South was the
vassal of the North, which in.
sists upon keeping its best customer; eman-
cipation is merely a skillful device for en-
trapping the sympathies of European lib
eralism. If the North were victorious it
would never probe the slavory question to
the core. Once masters of the negro race,
northern men would be slow to compromise
the cotton culture, for the sake of which
they are so savagely maintaining an unjust
war; they would then hasten to admit shat
it is impossible to change the vital econom-
ical condition of an immense region by q
battle or stroke of the pen. The north
ern idea of the abolition Of slavery by ma
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