Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-07
HIEXECO,

Within a few days the Government of the
Republic has been driven out of Mexico and
the leader gifts forces compelled to seek shelter
in fight. MaXimillian has thus succeeded to
~" fruits OF conquest and rules the country
"'lh despotlc sway worthy the worst DAYS of
Ioman barbarity; at once oppressive TO the
Mexican and insulting to the free Republic
upon whose borders France found it conve
hicnt to plant an empire. \ correspondent
OF the New York Tribune, writing from the
ci'F OF Mexico, remarks That the establish.
h'cht oil the Empire was not, as some people
imagine, the Introduction by violence of a
fo.eign government, but the deliverance of n
nation which, during the last generation, en-
dared all the evils that could possibly aflct
people. This is a smooth mode of charac-
tcrZing the most fragrant usurpation of modern
times, and which instead of improving the peo-
PIE Is only rendering them more helpless and
degraded. The last news from the unhappy
MeXicans represents the imperial authority as
anything but lenient and magnanmous.
The manner in which possession was secured
lay the French cannot be forgotten or over
looked. Had our hands not been occupied AT
home in struggle to save our own Govern
ment from destruction-had North and South
been as united as they once were-Napoleon
would have had no simple task in establishing
his crowned iavorite upon American soil We
can scarcely think that the Emperor has failed
to reflect upon a contingency which NAV vet
Nndlcate the Monroe doctrine at the expense
on his new empire in the West. At present
we have gigantic difficulties to settle and ar
range at home. Meantime, with nothing TO
fear from MaXimillian or his hackers. we can
well afford to await our own good time for
action. 1t is impossible that the United States |
Government can stultify itself by allowing |
deSpotism to rear its hideous front at our very
doors. Sooner or later Maximillian must leave
quietly we think he will ere long, but if not |
quietly he must be forcbly elected from a |
position to which he can present no claim in |
justice or right.
From European stand point sensible and |
unprejudiced men have regarded the interven-
ton of France as an unwarrantable attack |
upon our flag, and wondered that we should
patiently submit to so gross an indignity. In
ioof' Richard Golden, statesman whose
memory Will always be dear to every true
American heart, writing to French gentle.
man thus referred to this subject:
IF the North should realize my expectations :,
viii present itself before the old world in na y
most formidable attitude for will have proved itsni
rs great in war in peace 1t is the only country
IN the world which, while it is n first class naval |
power or its mercantile tonnage is equal to our own
can keep 100000 men in the field. Has your Emperor
thought OF all this in connection with his Mexican |
expedition? | confess saw with amazement as well |
ms regret thecouse which he took in sending an army
country. 1t reminded me in its impolicy of the ex
pediton of the first Napoleon from Bayonno into
Spain. No human being can restore Mexico to order |
requires the hand of God Himself to effect such
change in that degraded population of half-castes
But does the Emperor know how deeply the public |
sentiment of the United States is outraged and hu-
inflated by this attempt of foreign power to set up