The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-05-09

The New Foreign Policy OF tho United
statcs-A Grand Congress OF Nations,
The capture Of Richmond, the surrender of
Lees army, the flight of JEFF. Davis az robber
and fugitive from justice, the collapse Of his
confederacy and the murder Of resident Lincoln
by a rebel conspiratof, are events which have
startled and ALARMED the Western Powers Of
Europe. England and France feA That they
are in danger Of being called to speedy set
Element Of our heavy outstanding accounts
against them, and they seem only to be doubt
full whether, with hundred and fifty thousand
Of his veteran soldiers, General Grant will first
march upon Canada or Mexico. Hence the pro-
tective alliance suggested by Louis Napoleon,
and hence the declination of England to invite
the hazards ola struggle with the great republic,
now ready for any emergency, when, by APP
pealing to our magnanimity, she may obtain
pardon and save her bordering colonies. W I
But, with the suppression of JEFF. Davis and
his Southern confedeacy, and with the resto-
ration of the substantial wealth and strength Of
the rebellious States to the Union, there are
broader and deeper causes for apprehension to
European continent than our anticipated abb
sorption of Canada and Mexico. The United
States emerge from this stupendous domestic
war the foremost military power on the globe for
defensive or aggressive warfare, on the land or
water; the first in agricultural, manufacturing
Gal situation, means, materials, advantages
and facilities, and the first in the general enter
prise intelligence and progressive spirit of our
people, compared with the masses of any other
nation But the great secret of this superiority
has been fully disclosed by the severe trials of
the strength and elasticity of our government,
of the people, are equal TO all contingent
cies. Herein lies the great danger to the
feudal aristocracies of Europe and their divine
rights Of kings. Our system of popular gov
eminent, not weakened, but immensely
strengthened, by the trial. energies from its
struggles with o rebellion which, under similar
disadvantages in the outset to the government,
would have wrecked the sioutest European
monarchy.
From this momentous triumph of the people
on this side the Atlantic The people on the
other side, from the Thames TO the Danube,
will take courage, and, with a moral power
which they have never known before, they will
renew the war Of progressive ideas and popu-
lar rights against the effete establishments in
herited from the dark ages. Let England and
France, or either of them, DRIFT into war with
the United States, and before they are out Of II
they will be shaken e their foundations by
general European revolutionary convulsion
which will far eclipse in its sanguinary strug-
giles and radical changes the twenty-five years
of wars and reconstructions which followed the
setting up Of the first French republic. The
ruling aristocracy of England and the Emperor
and his satellites of France in our late struggle,
have been against us, and have given the re-
belffon their moral and material aid to the
verge of an open alliance. They have done all
they safely could do TO secure the destruction
Of the only republic they had to fear. They
have failed. We have triumphed. How are
they to escape the consequencess tuF
President Johnson is called upon TO initiate
and establish new foreign policy, embracing
the Monroe doctrine, American rights, neutral
rights, belligerent rights, insurrectionary
rights, piratical rights, and the metcs and
bounds of all these rights, or wrongs, rather, as
construed BY England and France during the