The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-09-09

tinctly by tho Einpcrr Eapolcons cnvoy-tlraiI
war with Mexico mcas war with France, andf
President johnson is r,t mad enough to bring onI
his hands very scrior foreign war before he has
closed the accounts q the great internal strife.
Still, we can quite nlrstand that the prescacc|
of tho new Emperor ) thoroughly hateful to all
true Americans; VIC Gu quito believe that Mr..
Seward would not tlistmblc his Joy if, some day,
Juarc2 were to rise gain into power and send
Emperor. We can alp understand that if, with
ont open breach of eutrality, some thousand
Mexican malcontents b expcl tho new Emperor,
might express diplomatic regret Mt this violation
OF american laws and International obligations
Tho question is whcher the " mastering out"
in Texas will not help di unauthorized raids across
tho river boundary, a large army actually en-
rolled can bc held inhand, but how can General
Sheridan or Mr.. Seward answer for disbandcd
soldiers paid out tho dry before? The dispersed
Confcderates have swarnod across the line to help
the new emperor, taking his side simply because
they feel that Mnxnilian, is anti-Yankoe by inter-
to ortSt foi!o~ liz 81 tack taking of course
the opposite siI:,. But thnto is this difference
Tho disbanded Feoevul soItiGs have homes and
affection and interest draw 'tlem North. SO that
JuareZ must be very tcmptir5, indeed, before he
can keep the blue coats from tic " sweet embraces
of their wives" and sweetheals, or from the glory
and comfort awaiting returncdbravcs, made much
of in the welcoming cities Of TO Northern States.
Of course it is hard to tell hoy Far the love of ad-
wild ways of war, may mako ION scorn those do
mestic delights significd and bymbozed by one
wife and two or three cups of ea; bat we ere, at
oil events convinced that whichever troubles may
arise on the Rio Grandc will s5ring from reckless
individuals, and not from an! action authorized
by the United States.
had forgotten Mr.. Monroe; oulpnly excuse is that
| the Americans themselves had brEotten him first
In 1923 TINT gentleman was President of the
United States, and Spuin was ten irving to &c
conquer her revoltcd colonies il the New World
England led by Canning, acknowledged the in
dependence of the Misunderstanding new world
| said-and the United States did.he same At that
| time Mr.. Monroe declared hatnttempts on the
| part of the European powers|to extend ''their
system" to any portion of th American hemis-
dangerous to their peace andsafety. This was
| rather ambiguous; but tho President went on tc
say tina. if any European powF interposed so,
| the purpose Of expressing" the bw States recog,
nized by tho Government at Wellington, or inter
posed ''to control their destiny any other man
ncr,'" tho United States would-eclare war? no
would consider the act ''the manifestation of n1
| unfriendy disposition towards tic United States
Yet ut that very time such q Iasc had actually
arisen, and was i'll course Of TRANSACTION. Spain wns
| trying to reconquer and ,'oppTesA States whose in
1 dependence had becn ACKNOWLEDGED bv the United
States, and yet in tho next scntdcc Mr.. Monroe
ayows his neutrality in I'll current war.
It is, we believe the poetry of Aftrichn politics
the glorious, blue, arching, bu inaccessible ak,
! to the brown, bare earth OF Yaulke facts E;eri
nation has in it's politics something imprac,icablc
some outlook beyond the probal!c and actual wori
of the day. France dreams q the Rhine: Ger
many of u fleet; Russia of aamboul; Italy O
Rome and Venice; Hungary e q Magyar king
The Monroe doctrine, as nom Interpreted, m,nn
| that every true American would if he could, plan
| q republic in Canada, in Mexio, in Brazil, ever
| until tho whole continent should be republican
without one trace of the monrchical element
This however,. goes beyond til, original doctrin,
Of the estimable Monroe. He sad: "With the ex
| listing colonies dependencies of any European
power we have not interfercd, old shall not inter
fere." In this present August he New York Her
Canada and Cuba. But why arg ae the point? W.
are always liable to the stern hnd crushing re
tort that the American is /" a .hild of freedom
and that "his bright home is il the setting SUM-
In very close, wet weather like his, when tho ut
mosphere is simply one big tend bath, none bu
an Irishman would argue againt logic SO irrcsist
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