Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-22
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TIE IMPERIAL CgON.

It becomes more apparent every day that
the Imperial Government Of Mexico, since the
annihilation of rebellion in the United States
feels itself in precisely the predicament of the
coon in Hooser tradition, who, while mounted
on a big tree saw Captain Scott approach with
a rife. Everybody knows that the coon, after
running here and there, up and down the tree,
suddenly stopped and called out to the Cap
tain, as the latter was taking aim, ,-'Hold on,
Captain You needn't fire. III come down.
The London ErdmiRer aptly remarks on
this question of cur relations to Mexico, that
"Ihe Yankee veto upon Imperial projects of
aggression in the new world is a sword in the
scabbard, not a sword drawn and II adds:
The Monroe doctrine is not dead, is not disowned
Is not even dormant: what mlght nave G been had
before it was exhausted and overpowered is question
il would now be useless to discuss. That he
willing and anxious to do so in concert with England
is well known. Our cooperation being refused he
hesitatcd and lorhorc until il TOO late to accom-
plish any purpose by committing himself 10 quarrel
with the Federal Union; and thus. rejoice to think.
he threw away his only chance of seeing the exotic
system of rule he had planted root itself in Mexico.
1t will er take root All hs bayonet digging
about it, and all his devices for irrigation with blood
will fail; rs they ought to fail Juarez may be hard
pressed for season. and Egyptians, bargained and
paid for, may even cross the ocean. Lille may be
made the border trap for Belgian and other recruits
and French regiments, though decimatcd by disease
may be kept some time longer in that distant scene
ofinglorious suffering; but Maximian's dynastyw
no more be rendered permanent or safe thereby than
it is to-day"
Louis Napoleon played a bold game in the
attempt to set up his vicarious imperial toy
shop in Mexico; but his calculations were
based on the belief that Slidell would prove
true prophet, and that the Confederacy would
win. Now that it has passed away to be num-
bered with other abortions, he sees that the
MaXimilian dynasty hangs upon the suferance
Of the Government at Washington very
uncertain, precarious and doubtful tenure:
one fitted to create very obvious anxiety in
the breasts of all the godmothers and god
fathers Of the unfortunate Max.
We are not at all surprised, therefore, at
the reports that come to us of the intention of
the Emperor Of France to withdraw his army
from Mexico. Thus much is asserted by the
Paris correspondent Of the London Times:
and the same intelligence appears in the Paris
correspondence of the Independence Belge:
the writer in which journal is of opinion that
the courteous but firm representations OF the
Government at Washington begin to be needed
in Paris; while the Times is of opinion that
Louis Napoleon will withdraw his army from
Mexico by nstalmcnts; and that by Septem-
Der, 1866, the whole will have returned to
France.
What will become of the improvised Mexi-
can Empire after the exodus of the French
troops? This it is not difficult to conjecture
An empire, in the situation of Capt Scots
coon, continually aware that Uncle Sam
has only to raise his rife to his shoulder in
order to compel it to leone down" is an
object too comical to be improving even in the
eyes of its own subjects. 1t has none of the
elements Of vitality and growth. Its igno-
minious end is only question of time. Mean
while, commanding the situation as we do,
there can be no doubt that our policy for the
present is to keep quiet, and bide our oppor-
tunity That will come, in the natural course
of things, quite soon enough. Nothing could
be more illadvised than to provoke the an
tagonism of France by any hostile step on our |
part. We shall cause the Monroe doctrine to |
prevail by the ris inertiG of mastery mac
tivity. We need not even waste the powder |
needed for loading our rifle.