The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-25

70 interfere in the inter nal affairs of
any powers 70 consider the Govern
ment cSJaep as the lerifimate Govern
mens Tor uz 10 cultivate friendly reia-
tons With it, and to preserve those re
lations BY a frank, frn 4nd manly po-
Icy, meeting IN all instances the just
claims OF every power, submitting Il
injuries from none
Thus originating and thus expressed
the resi- support of the Monroe Doc
trine" IS neither vague nor mysterious
for ourselves, nor nenacIng 10 other
powers L has no favor Of manifest
destiny nor Is with the least ress-
on be regarded as the gospel Of the ex-
tenders OF the AREA Of freedom"
II is simply an American reinforce
ment of the British protest arainst the
doctrine Of divine right and the prsc
tee Of military propagaadisu In SOC
tar e It represents the resistance q
modern society 70 the theories of Gov
eminent which feliin the French Rev
olutlon, and we're attempted to be re-
vived by the Continental members of
the European Holy Alliance. II a The
doctrine not Of the United State
alone but Of ali Christendom, in n
Day 3 doctrine not everywhere tri-
Hnphant indeed, but everywhere adj
yancing 70 triumph, the doctrine that
numan beings organized in political
communities have such an interest ID
then own welfare, and such a title to
administer il as 20 them may seem
besS as 10 Government or dvnatv can
possibly dlFest them Of
In 50 Tar IS il protested against the
practice ofmil tary propaganoism, tide
noaneed that practlce As strongly when
undertaken IN the nam of republican
institutions a IN the name Of monarch.
ical institutions.
Bow, then, ara We to apply the prin-
ciples Of this declaration OF President
Monroe 1 the case Of the Mexican EN-
pire, established BY the help Of French
arms 2
One OF two things is evident. Either
the French intervention IN Mexico was
such an intervention sc that contem-
plated By the Allies in 1923, and, there
forei directly menscing to ourselves, in
which case no American Government,
consistently with the national honor
and safety, could permit it to take
place without a most emphatic and in
dignant protest; or Is was an interven-
ton of q different kind, open to our
disapprobation, indeed, but in no man
Fer demanding action of as, or even
hampering the course of our diplomacy.
The FIRST of these alternatives is une
tenable in the face of the action of oar
own Government The explanation
givsn by n. Drouyn de LHuys, three
yeas ago, 70 our Minister in Paris, Mr..
Dayton, Of the objects and intention .
OF France in her Mexican expedition, /
was formally accepted by the Secretary
Of State as satisfactory" and il is,
therefore, matter of record that 1
GoTernmentidOes not regard the French
Intervention as made in the interest of
those principles Of Government which
il was declared by Hr. Monroe in 1922,
that we could not patiently see intro-
duced By force Of arms into America.
How, indeed, could Napoleon III, rep
resenung, as he does, that democratic
imperialism over which the "Holy Al !
lance triumphed at Waterloo, be
reasonably charged with attempting to
propagate in the New World preten-
sions fatal 70 his own dynasty in the
The second alternative must then be
adopted, and we must regard the
French intervention in Mexico as q
piece of military propagandism, the
objects Of which do not indeed, bring
it within the scope of the Monroe
Doctrine, but the character Of which
subjects 1t Justly TO the protest Of that
doctrine against az military propagan-
dism whatever, in the name Of what
ever pr nciples of policy undertaken
80 regarding the French intervention,
its results remain for our deliberate
judgment on their WI merits and BY
the light of our general political and
diplomats p~recedentA If the Mexicans
choose 70 accept the Empire which
Napoleon has been so kind as to invent
for them; If they suffer their Republi-
can institutions to crumble away, and
the Government of Macmillan 10 be-
come the dc faetO government of their
country, Mexicans administering it,
and Mexican troops acting with Frene,A
troops 70 maintain it, we certainly hive
nothing 70 do with the matter. We
long since discharged all possible obi
cation of ours to Republicansua in
Mexico, when, by joining with Eng
land to prevent the subjugstOn of the
Spanish Colonies, we made the expert.
ment of 3 Mexican Republic possible
That experiment. wal pursued for forty
years with a marvellous infelicity and
with results far from agreeable 70 the
friends of freedom. IL now there is
nothing IN the circumstances attending
this new political experiment OF a
Mexican Empire TO conslrain as. by
imperative eoDsiderations OF our ma
honsl interests or our national honor,
into emphatic national action on the
subject what better can we do than
echo the words Of George Canning aIn
Gods name, let them Try what expert
ments in political science they will,
provided we are not involved IN the
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