The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-04

eewarA,s New MEXICAN Enpfr...The
Escape Of Les..-Ths virtues Of
Chronit spleen.

W ~e 'N"AoT Siait July GJy 1000.
Someho " or other, and Notwithstanding
Chrissophf fr North's laughable burlesque
on him, | have always thought 3 good
deal Of William Hazlitt. He was little
bit testy, admit-cross as bear with
sore head, If You please--but, take him
all in all, be Was an acute reasoner, a sound
philosopher, an original thinker, an ap-
preciativs critic, an earnest patriot, an
amiable gentlsman (after good dinner
and toletably bad painter. He said one
thing, Al any rate. which ought to place
his name among the few, the immortal
names, that were not born to de-
Spleen said Haxitt, sis the soul of
patriotism and Of public good" That
sentence, in my judgment, embraces the
whole eva ngel of freedom and of honora-
BILE politics. We must hate tyranny and
chicanery with = perfect hatred, with .
chronic spleen as is spleen, il we do not
w.nt 70 b. governed BY tynnts, or what
is worse. BY diplomats.
1t Is nRon thia aniahle principlA that
my feelings, in common with the feelings
OF nearly all the people Of the country Who
do not ~ ear by the Albany Rsgsncy, are
fully justif led in 20 far - they 90 toward the
most unnnixsc hatred of Seward, whose
puslllaniul lous diplomacy has jus. resulted
in the rs rs-sstablishment Of monarchy in
Mexico. Some three months ago / call
ed the att ention of your readers to m elab-
crate article in the National Iatelsigencer
of this city upon the subject of the Mon
roe Doctr inc, arguing against it, both ~
theory, and rs . matter of practical op-
Grafton and if remember correctly, l
then said that the practical effect of this
abandonment of the hereditary doctrine
of the country would be the same as tel
ling Napo oleon To 60 in and gobble up Mex
leo, lug and baggage, if he wanted to-
And, acc prdingly, he has done it. The
Mexican Republic is for the time played
out, wiped off the map of nations by the
bayonets of the French and the diplomacy
of Seward.
1t was no time to 90 to war for an ab
stract do ctrine, | admit. Mexico was
poor. weak nation. it is true. But she
was not DO poor, and not so weak as to bt
unworthy the sympathy of sister repub
lie. Bee dause she was poor and weak thii
governm snt should the more willing,
have extended toward her at least th,
renewed Assurance of distinguished con
sideratio D." To insult her in such a cri
sis and TO treat her hard oppressor will
extraord mary favor (do you not remem
Der how France fitted out her armament
in our ports and Mexico was not permit
ted to bl ~ muskets y was to reach th
depth of even diplomatic shamelessness
), t The power of public opinion, which, a
: Webster said in speaking of the Gree
revolution, is greater power in this civ
ilized age than armies, was not brought I
bear at I'll sgainst Napoleon in this ma,
= ter. on the contrary, SO far as the put
lie opini on of America might have bee
supposed to be represented by the Stat
4 Departn rent, that astuse despot had n
slight re ason for concluding that we side
: with him rather than with Mexico An
"a the result Is that King governed Enron
,e fnds ne " hopes Of power, new facts againl
70 the peopie--a palpable argument again
J. Republi cs which will yet require volume
2 7 of diplo macy and streams Of blood to n
: fute.
r, Mean while, it 10 consoling to reflect tn
it the last Mexican Empire, about fort
% years ago, lived not quite year, ar
= : then ing gloriously died the death Of Il
70 wicked. Perhaps ssward's reticence
l. to Mexi co, no doubt in obedience to Il
Ell wishes Of that amiable sheppard of Il
70 70 New York riotors, Archbishop Hughe
- - may not have more lasting triumph. ]
" that eve mt, this latest bid for the inf
encs of the Romish hierarchy in this cou
10 try will have been made in vain.
It, For the recent escape of Lee, BY near
CO the same manner, and by precisely t
st same line, in which he escaped from N
be Clellan last fall, Meade is directly, al
ct Halleck indirectly responsible. Mea
directly, because. with twenty thousa
more reinforcements than he asked,
u. concluded five days Of inaction, in a
vh one of which be could have cut Lee
ey pieces, by calling council of war, inste
- OF perfmptorily ordering his troops
- = move upon the enemys works--and m
ed erable, sham works they were at that
es, He knew that council Of war would
at eide against fighting, and he cannot 81