The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-12-16
Foreign Intervention.

Tho oracular G80the SGduton has evor been held
| one of tho pithicst pieces of wisdom handed down
to lib by antiquity. In liberal English transla-
tion, these two Greek words represented by
the homely provcrb, "AIind your business -
But, like many other wise saws and ancient i'll
stances, it is no longer considered binding by our
enlightened m0dcrns. Tile maxim now seems to
be- never mind your own affairs but he sure to
pry into your ncighbors. Wc were iorcibly struck
with this, some time ago, when we saw Il Ions, let
ter of advice to the people Of the United States,
by JOHN STUART MILL, NJ. F., the renowned Eng
lsh publicst, and learned writer of heavy, ut,-
readable books. That Mr.. MILL should favor his
ignorant transatlantic cousins with the light of
his wisdom, and suggest reforms and improTc-
mcnts in national polity, is perfectly natural,
when we consider that England no inn5rr affords
any sc"pn For his labprs. Unlike ALE,; ,yDHH, he
need. no: weep because there a!c no more worlds,
for him To coi.iuor. .Amcricu is ,inc miasiauary
field, and when Mr.. SUMNER shall have carri cd his
twenty-five bills and this Continent too shall lie at
tho great RcfOrmcr's feet, then Achiopia (propcr)
will stretch out her hand, and we hope her AIajcs-
ty's Government will appoint Mr.. Mill envoy cx-
traordnary to tho Court of TIaIBUCroo; and we
greatly err, if tho learned gentleman will not find
work sufficient in that promising fold to occupy
him the remainder of his natural life.
Not content with this high English authority
the Loyal Publication Society" noxt saddles us
with long letter, written in first-rate Parisun
French, by Monsieur DE GAsrARiN, and addressed
to the President of the United States; and not
bcing quite sure that his Excecncy studied his
Ollondorif i'll Greenvie, Tenn, the Society con-
sidcratcly gets Miss MARY l.. BooTu to translate
tho document into plain English, and places
copy of it on-tho desk of every Congressman and
Senator
We have not this letter, but from synop-
sis of it in of our New York French cotcmpo-
rares, the "essager Franco -Americain," we learn
that it contains q profound discussion of the
problems of tho day Oh this side of the Atlantic" :"
"Tho work OF Mr. LINCOLN" says NJ. DE GAsPARIN
to Mr. JOHNSON, twas war, and the abolition of
slavery. This ho gloriousy accomplished. Your
work. no less glorious is the reorganization of the
country, and the proclamation Of the rights be-
longing to tho freed negroes" Mr. JOHNSON no
doubt, is highly delighted to learn further, that
tho wisdom and tirmness Of his administration
thus fur, had the sincere admiration of his French
adviser. He says that 'thc authority of the Presi-
dent is greater than that of the Queen of Eng
land but still il tho fate Of the country depend
ed upon the acts of single man, tho people of
tho United States would not bo n FREQ people,
Tho will of tho President therefore, il subordinate
to that Of Congress-; and it is important that the
Congress that carried On the war should be the
same that now arrangos the terms of peace. Re-
bclion and slavery were one and tho same thing;
and rebellion, therefore, must have no hand in
regulating the destinios OF slavery"
All this is very clear to this French lecturer; 30.
also, that tho very first step Congress must take,
is to declare universal suffrage. But now ARISES
n q. .,,l IL
que te Congress? Ccst ie peupe represente ?"
"What is Congress Tho representatives OF
the people. The assembly at Washington has
no other power, oxcopt what it holds from the
people. Whatever it does or ordains, is in tho
name of the people. How, therefore, can it i'm
pose on tho South law which is objected to even
at the North2" Our learned French logician
merits some little credit for this much candor-
tho moro, as he attempts no answer to this knotty
question.
The political status of tho South at this momont
is not over-pleasant to contemplate, with Messrs.
STEVENS, SUMNER, WADE, WILSON, &C., armed
cap-ape with resolutions, bills and speeches, all
tending in tho samo direction but TO sec meddle-
some foreigners volunteering their advice, and
heap gratuitous insult upon our devoted head, is
little too much for our oyer-taxed' patience. Arc
there no grievances in England? What of-+he in
como tax, the poor rates, the oppressed miners of
Cornwall, and tho down-trodden, halfstarved Ian
cashire factory hands? What of China and India,
tho Ionian Islands and Affghanistan7 And what
of Ireland2 OF course, all is we'll over there Un-
til Mr.. MILLS letter came tho seas in search
Of proper field for his philanthropy, we I'D no
idea of tho happy condition Of everything English
did not know that universal suffrage was part of
the English Constitution
The samo might bo objected to Monsieur DE
GAsrAnIN, only he could give much better OK
cuse for his letter. He might say, true, we have
great many grievances in this happy empire, but
as liberty of tho press is not of tho Napolconic
ideas, prefer to be discye, and hurl my thunder
bolts across tho sea, whcro they will be nj loast
harmless to mo-
QnconS and literary women very seldom
handsome, but there arc some exceptions to tho
general rule: Tho Empress of Austria is one of
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