The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-12-16
Foreign Intervention.

The oracular GuOlhe SedntOn has ever been hei
one OF thc pithcst pieces Of wisdom handed dow
to us by antiquity. In liberal English transa
the iiomoly proverb, ''3Iind your own business.
But! like many other wise SAWS a;il amci' =; il:
stances, ii is m longer considered binding i, cli
enlightened nloLerns the maxim now seems .
! be. never mind your o,.l aifars, hnt be sure L
pry ini. your nciyhbors'. We were iorcibly strucl
with ils. some time ago whcn We saw long let
ter of advice 10 the pcopi" OF the Unite. States
by JonH STUART AhLL, II. T., the renowned i-":
lis, puL;icsi, :.nj learned writer of heavy, I'M
readable books That Ir. MILL should f!Tor hi:
ignorant transatlantic cousins Wit. The light o
lis wisdom, and sugSa>. reforms and improve
,ncnta in C,r national i",'.. - c"rcc:i
wlc:, W. cgia; -: TIA; !..,;llnl ~ .ongeg a'icl
any acpe,. T.. hs l.5ors. Un;c iL;:XASiIEE. r,
needs 40 wocpneolas. ~ - asc 10 m1"c worlds
for hiin 10 ccu1a,'. .inc.ca .s iiie in:s5iaiar:
field, and when Mr.. SUMNER shall have carried his
twenty-five bills and this Continent too shall lie at
the great Hciormcrs feet, then Aclliopia tpropcrl
will stretch out her hand, and VIC hope her aaes-
ty's Government will appoint Mr.. Mill. envoy cx-
greatly err, il the learned gentleman will not find
work sufficient in that promising field to occupy
him the remainder OF his natural life
Not content with this high English authority,
the loyal Publication Society" next saddles us
with long letter, written in first-ratc Parsian
French, by Monsieur DE GAsPAnIN. and addressed
to the President of the United States; and not
being quite sure that his Exccllency studied his
Ollcndorn in C;recnville, Tenn, tho Society con-
siderate!y gets Miss MARY l.. Boorn 10 translate
the document into plain English, and places u
copy of it on the desk of every Congressman and
Senator
We have not seen this letter, but from synop-
sis of it in one of our New York French cotcmpo-
raries, the "nessager Franco -4Amc'icain, we learn
that it contains 'profound discussion of the
problems of the day on this side of the Atlantic.
''The work of Mr.. LINCOLN" says NJ. DE GAspAnIN
to Mr.. JOHNSON, 'was war, and the abolition Of
slavery. This he glor;ously accomplished Your
work, no less glorious is the reorganization of the
country, and the proclamation Of the rights be-
longing to the freed negroes" Mr.. JOHNSON, no
doubt, is highly delighted to learn further, that
the wisdom and iirmncss OF his administration,
thus far, had the sincere admiration of his French
adviser He says that "thc authority of the Presi-
dent is greater than that of the Queen Of Eng
land; but sli if tho fatc of the county depend
ed upon tho acts of Il single man, the people of
the United States would not b. Q free -peJpler'
h, Will .f rr".ident. therefore, is subordinate
to that of Congress; and it is important that the
Congress tha carried on the war should be the
forn ,,r Ip-
bcllion and slavery were one and the same thing;
AID rebellion, therefore, must have no hand III
regulating the dcstinies of slavery.
All this is very clear to this French lecturer: so,
also that tho very first step Congress must take,
is to declare universal suffrage. But now arrises
serious difficulty in his mind. He says "QaeSi-ce
que lc Congress? C'esl e pccple rereSentc ?"
'sWhat is Congress The representatives OF
the people. The assembly at Washington has
no other power, except what it holds from the
people Whatever it does or ordains, is in the
name of the people. How, therefore, can it im-
Dose on the South law which is objected to even
at the North" 2" Our learned French logician
merits some little credit for this much candor--
the more, as he attempts no answer to this knotty
question.
The political status Of the South at this moment
is not over-pleasant to contemplate, with Messrs
STEVENS, SUMNER WADE, WILSON, &c, armed
cop-a-pie with resolutions, bills and speeches, all
tonding in the same direction but to see mcddle-
some foreigners volunteering their advice, ahl
heap gratuitous insult upon our devoted head, is
q little too much for our over-axed patience. Are
there no grievances i'll England2 What of the i'll
come tax, the poor rates, the oppressed miners OF
Cornwall, and the down-troddcn, halfstarvcd Lam
cashlrc factory hands? What of China and India,
the Ionian Islands and AfIghanislan? And what
of Ireland? OF course, all is well over there I'm
til Mr. MILLS letter came over the seas i'll search
of proper field for his philanthropy, We had no
idea of the happy condition of everything English
did not know that universal suffrage was part Of
the English Constitution.
The same might he objected TO Monsieur DE
GAspAR1N, only he could give much better en-
cusc for his letter. He might say, true We have
great many grievances in this happy empire, nut
as liberty of tho press is not one Of The Naqoconic
ideas prefer Ia br ,'i,a:'| a:i huri my thln'irr-
bolts across the seat wiicrc ti,,y w; "a ~ l.. 3,
harmless tu me-
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Onnnns ru1 literary women are V,rV SID IL.