The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-16
MORNING. JANUARY l6 1866

they do not invade onrrig ght lor menace
our safety or lust influence. The real
,cause of our national diseontent Is, that
the French army which is now in Mex
leo is invading a domestic fepu blean
government thsfeSSliich was establish
ed by her people, and with whom the
United States fsympathiZe most pro-
.foundly, for the aVowed purpose. OF
suppressing it, and establ blishing upon
its ruins. n foreign smonarchial govefnT
'ment, whose presence there, so long as
it should endure, could not but be re-
garded- by the people of the United
States fas' injurious and menacing to
theifGown, chosen and endeared repubr
lieanjinstitutipfis.i .i' "a e. u " if3is'
/ admit that the United States do not
feel themselves called upon TO mako q
war of propagandism throughout the
world, or even on this continent, in the
rRepu bliean cause. We have sufficient
faith in the eventual success of that
cause on this continent, through the
operationi Of existing material and
moral causes, to. induce us TO acquiesce
in the condition of things which we
found existing here, while our own re-
public was receiving Its shape and de-
Velopment. On the other hand, we have
constantly maintained, and still feel
every State on the American continent
have a right to secure for themselves n
republican Rovernmenti if they choose,
and that Interference tbyrforeign States
TO prevent the enjoyment of such in7
stitutions deliberately established is
wrongful, and in its effects antagoniste
ical to the free and popular form OF
government existing IN the United
States. We should think 1t wrong as
we'll as unwise on the part OF the
United States, to attempt to subyert. by
force n1onarchia1 governments in Euz
rope, for the purpose of replacing them
with republican institutions. 1t seems
to us equally Objectionable that Euro
pean States should forcibly Intervene
overthrow republican institutions, and
replace them with monarchies or em-
pires.
Having thus frankly stated our posi-
sition. / leave the questions for the con-
siderations of France, sincerely hoping
that that great nation may md u com
pafible with its best interests, and its
high honor to withdraw nom 1ts ag-
gressive attitude in Mexico, wltnln
some convenient and reasonable time,
and thus leave the people of that coun-
try to the free enjoyment of the system
of republican government which they
have established for themselves, and of
their adherence to which they have
given what seems to the United States
to be decisive and conclusive, as welI
as very touching proofs. am, sir, the
more inclined to hope for such a solu-
tion of the difficulty for the reason that
when at any time within the last our
wears. the question has been asked of
any American statesman, or oven OF
any American citizen, what country in
Europe was the one which was the
least likely to experience an alienation
of the friendship of the United States,
sTNrNmnflv efvpn. France.
Friendship with France has always
been deemed important and peculiarly
agreeable by the American people.
Every American citizen deems Ii no
less important and desirable in the fu-
ture than in the past.
The President will be pleased to be
informed of the reception which the
Emperor givesto the suggestions which
have now made.
Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances
of my very high, consid deration. .
u .iS,,h w. II. SEWARD.