Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-07-20
PRRNog PsLIoY IN AMERICA.

France On May last in regard to the United stats'
and Mexico;
Let US now take the two fundamental objections urged
again o. uS-Ihe u.aty and America
IL said that have contracted ind, h1i:e en-
gaRsment to keep troops in Mexico that We have
the loan issued by the Emperor Of Mexico,
a. We have thus violated the assurances given TO
the committee.
really ask myself by what strange abuse Of Ian
eHage il can be said that the loan has been guaranteed
by France becruse FraLce has accepted SKY millions
OF irsncs worth Of binds as payment, and % oohgea
10 negotiate them not the faith Of the country but
on that Of the Emperor OF Mexico, who one guaran-
tees tae payment of the inter, ST. Il Is he who issues
the Mexican llaD il has been voluntarily taken BY those
who cousder thAt sxco esenIs sutsent guaranteed
Aud ia truth what you would do Is net OF na:ure 20
roassure The French cHp al which bias been invested IN
L. Tba is Aot Of opposition, not patriotism; ana TIE
exam, Is Of Fox, which he cites Lem EasLsa mat ny,
dos [ OF bear cut what be says.
You say tue treaty contains engagements difsrent
from those made 70 you. Whah ih%n doss ~ con-
al Ia the latter months Of this year the French
,roops will be reduced 10 25 00Omen; the expedition
at an end a. the letter have Just read fon count
Noatbolon proves. The work Of pae6eation goes on
e,etywhere and 10 600 OF soldiers will be again in
FsI. ce IN January 1855 As for he $4,000 men whose
,tay ia in treaty, what Is tbe agreement
r,gsrding lnemf We declare that We stall remain
cert Ia ms longer Mexico for tS rejection OF our
ila ts-ot LoSe very htsFesls HnlS9 ocoaioneu o
Intervention.
W. must examine the American question at some
lor 9Th IL is not well TO place tAus two great
c.ultr Cd lie France aud America fAncifal germ OF
drord-a sort OF deferred menace against + Ance or
Mexico, wnsn fact there is only passing excitement
Wnon LA. taken possession OF tas Congress not unlike
that which vas produced by he OF Aesers Si-
ce aud Masc on board the Trsnt, and Wnc1 did not
peyelt the government giving up Tie two prisoners
. o.. tly to the law Ct nations.
SSA ID suppose tina. America msditates declaration
o. - sgaiLs. htx.oJ with the sole OF oil upseIung
throue? But ~ this moment that great country 10
torn bY civil var. WA tell when this struggle
Vii s.df Who can ioreseo Tho time when the Jho
na,t.s 20 violently pSIaIed can again uRi.t men,
nsr. / ia pro able Lhat il will be never. Du.ing oil
Inc lime thAs must clap before peace eau be 70 es-
t.o,isn.d ia the Ua,ed States, are IN re MOI good
2 ouuis 10 hope that tho new MEL eau empire viii Oe
Sn.od,t edI When IT length The present sg tatioLs
.rs APPRAISED N America, comm interests vii re-
,une their sway, and viii paIal the inclination for
var With MtxcD and give Use TO friendly nLernaCna
relations between tho Two cou- tr's Believe me. re-
fer 10 these temporary o1uses OF weakness IL America
Only with regret Wnat d=sre for tie hon u OF CIV
n what d. sire Tor The syn pathies with VIII Oh
am an m lied toWAI d. that nAon when France stol
,,nAor m the cradle, lie that the war; WHICH has
Inng wasted he Amer can o5nanspt, y cad ~ spseL-
y "a Ic e,ibls But vi b IN The dy when It shall
nave ended tbGs my security will become create {,
and that snatl Do PIOA-uluy OVU'ibSSH s"as =
uar b,,reen Mex co and America Is impossible.
Ye,l the war IS npo4sipl:, impOssbl, By reaScn OF
, symrath es o. France Tor America, of Amsric4 fer
Frspcs Ct tie detlaiauon Ct the Uned Safes Govern
men1 and of the pAnep'es and in'eiess thAtwA pre-
vent it.
soon "a the war sads it will % not the aImes o. tie
TT,i,sd Safes but r6s Of sdVsnu ers who will in
v.ge Nj x:cc. At the beginning OF the war, when
spthusa.m lau high, before the population had
heen deeipstsd, If happy reconciliation had been
eff, ed between tbs Nostn and SJuth, aad the va
had suddenly stopped, it IS possible that the sd'
venurers whose occupation gone, Digh. have i'm
n n5sn,Iv h,taken themselves 70 Mexco and carried
var with them. This might have been. But 1t that
s,,t there ara no more. The war bas moved their
ranks TGose who Low hshAng the ba'.lss OF both
countries are unhappy woikmep, wretcaed huds, torn
by the eonscripion iLom tseir homCs and foTosd 10
daily hgAts under tee conauc' Oh ooe's huAme1 Win
ardent passions.
Tboss unfortunate soldiers the day that peace po-
G aimed between North aud South, vii re 10 their
des rtsd workshops, to their abandoned poWs; they
viii run after no Mexican adVenturefs Believe me, the
day that peace restored their only mo- gus will Do to
seek An honest l2boT ample and remunCrAtive wages
for America exhausted with long Wsrs must heneeIor
Ward sesk in indu try aud cohmCrcs the clements Of
r, generaton-and il is with my WbOlS heart that wish
iteWSich m y restore her TO the rank OF great ma
t On PfOlOrg'd aPPl'use.l
",
American govern ment acts n. F4vre has quosed
aia despstches III Which he farciCs he finds the proof
OF the agreI INT Of he Government with the declarations
made 6y tie Congress of the Ia ted Ss5tea have
T. csc despstchcs in nv haud aud here is what read in
that OF 0sober ~ 1868;
"Tha Uited States according to their principles can
ouy legV5 the dssnies OF Mexico in the OF its in
hS6itAu,s and recogn ~ their sovereignty and th ir
cadence under HhaEeVer form II peases them TO
recoyuiH, this sovereignty sd independence"
Ths il the language held by hr. Seward TO Mr.. Day
ton. aud communicated 10 the minister of foreign
aft irs sOcs this spontaneous declaration has been
mad, tou, on ihe roolu ions Of Congress. The mnis
ter of foreign srs has Addressed 10 all his SCENTS
dsrprch da'ei Hay T. 1854. in which these e1plaES-
lions are ret forth, l. ia enough that l read it.
then rt ad the spAich from the miniter of foreign
affairs to French Ig ms
Yeu have here, senl,m N, the declaration made by
thu American Government on the morrow Of that OF
the H.uss Of r personalities. Aud what has boone
of tat d:clSfalon tssi! The Senate has adjourned
/ 8 examination indt 6Gi,ey. WnoeVer has studied
American sf irs understands the home reasons which
produced this movr. A presidential eciion agtateS
A ue.ica ct this momtnt; and all Democratic and R.
publ can alike, ere Tuluiag after popularity. S1me
think TO fed il in cpposiBg the newly established
governments of Y 90. Bat in fact, the Danger OF
srus gle directed AZ Ing. Mexico is impossible and ire
conclable With the principles which the u ,Ited
8 sc 8 repoee What Here IS q country choolirg by
uniVer al suffrage, form OF government, monarch Il
or republic ~ and II is in the name OF national sJver
eigo,y TIA; he American Amy would inte fere in the
s s.e, Of Mexico 10 imp-ss Nhsts form different to
that lch they had adopted and proclaimed.
Truly America Wouli thus yioAe the very essence Of
Der Goveruent-libsry aud rational sovsrignty. She
could not even support herself the Monroe doctrine
which has en- so wrongly nVokec for those who have
r, tho theories of President Monroe know Il at they
have evidently but meaning, and il is this: that
tie Ured Aes would not voluntarily sgres to cooni
z.tioa BY Europe in America Europe hoiing colonial
pot ssons, possessing by rghs OF conquest such or
such territories and Tor instance converting hexi into
An Algeria under the 5cspre of che Emperor TIE Mon
roe d.c:rne pronouoces itself very strongly against
.uch eeesions It esa5lthe5 the principle every
for HIMSELF every in his own home ("ehaeua ehtI
sOi ehGeuR poWr sou
Ate he Mex CATS 0. 10 their own home Does net
Mexico exercise legtmIte right Of sovereignty when
she chooses PRICE for her Emperor? Are there any
conditions which render the nperor OF Mexico the
IieuteLa5t OF the Emperor OF the Frenc