The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-12-17
LAMARTINR On FRHNCH OccUPA:
TIoN OF MEXICO.

The ostentatous and magnificent panper' !
ism Of LANARTISE is well known. Time and
again has he paraded, in pompous diction,
his indigence before his European admirers,
and supplicated their aims. 1t has not been
long since he sent the same cry across to our
country, assuming that our people would be
as muni6cent in donation as be VAS prodigal
IN expenditure IT was the worse financially
FOR LAMARrIsE that there wasn't potency suf.
cient in his name to cause Amenoanst - over
look his needless spendthrift habits. His
American begging mission was failure. This
may not have been largely without its infu-
ence in leading him TO take up his pen in de-
fence Of French occupation of Mexico, and
become the special advocate Of NAPoLEos's
policy He has done this, rs our readers al
ready know, in his oSD journal, Us ksstre-
.iets Eitferaires, He is, II win be remem
bered, poet. politician, and hence be writes
highfautin. He starts from automatic dogma
-" The Globe is the property Of man the
new continent, America, is the property of
Europe" Hence another postulate Of his:
"The idea of bold and efficacious position
to be taken in Mexico against the usurpations
of the United States OF America Is a new but
lust idea. Europe has the right to take this
position. France takes the initiative" He
holds that Europe has right to insist upon
supervisorship of America because here are
the gold mines and the grAia and cotton and
articles of commerce and consumption that
supply large psrt Of the civilized world, and
the United States should not at its option be
permitted to assume mastery Of the continent,
and prohibit these articles to the world.
This profoundly sagacious special pleader
SAYS:
Thus Who does not know that the grain Of
America, Of the Valley of the Mississippi es-
pecially, does not constitute the world gran
AIRY in case of famine, as Sicily was the grana.
ry of the Romans Who does not know that
the monetary capital of the universe is the
immense mines of Mexico, and Peru, and
Sonora, and that these mines, given mp to
their natural productiveness by good system
of drainage, will place all the capital in gold
and silver of the universe in the hands of the
United States, masters of the two Americas
Who does not know that the master of capital
is the master of interest, and that Europe, de-
livered up to this country Of monopolies, will
be fnrever subject TO its despotism? Who
does not know that, masters Of the price of
gold and silver, they will be masters also of
our most vital industries, end that their coal-
ton already organized against our industry in
silks, which rivals their industry in cotton, win
ruin Lyons, the capital of tissues, and the
second capital of Francef Who does not
know that in depriving us or in depriving
themselves by the extinction Of the South, Of
the element Of this Industry In Europe, COTTON,
tl1ey win continue 70 stArve, ~ they hade a.
ready starved g. COX, 900 of workmen in France,
more than that in England, &. .000, 900 in Aus.
tria, and thus take Europe By famine at every
caprice of their arbitrary interests! Who does
not know, in fine, that our commerce and nav
igation will be subject to the same destruction
as our products
In all this We discover evidently the secrel
theaght which ilspire9 TIE Mexican expeG
ton, IN sxpsdlion which bears the as9sas