The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-27
THE MEXICAN QUESTION.

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Leu Us only deal with the present su
the tusure, and, in doing 50, we do NJ
mean 10 be too exacting or too seven
You have set up an Emperor in Mexic
well and coed This Emperor ente
ed on bis reign nearly two years agi
We will not be too curious, and we wi
not ask you what he has done. vs.
will not inquireNRhether he has won Ia
popularity that was wansing to him a
the outset, OF If ne has lost that whicl
he found on MS entering into Mexico
| We Will not ask If he has rallied pOliti
! cal parties TO his cause, Or if he re
mains insulated in the midst Of dis
dainful or sullen factions, OF IL he get
/ on well with the heads Of the Frencl
service attached TO him. We will con
slider these matters in a more practica
/ and simple point OF view. How NAM
men do we employ in Mexico2 Whal
| IS the annual COST How long are ~
to continue for the promotion Of sn
idea, Just OF unjust, but far outside the
sphere Of our own interests, so large
an annual subsidy 10 men and money
Grant that our thirty thousand men
do not cost US more than they
would on the peace establishment in
France, with the expenses Of transport,
and that the surplus only is al the
charge Of Mexico Still, this cost, not
TO speak Of Losses by war OF by sick
ness, amounts 10 from forty 10 iifty mil
lions a year. But is il Mexico that is
really destined 10 support the extra
ordinary expenses of war! We all
know what the resources Of Mexico are,
and what its budget is. The Mexican
Government spends forty million pisst-
ers annually, while its ordinary revenue
does not aplount to half that sum; so
that there Is every year 8 dehcit Of st
least one hundred million francs. This
poor Emperor Maximihan has not the
means otfilling his treasury that we in
Europe have. lie has only one mode of
supplying this annual deficit Of one
bundled milliOns--nsmely, by borrow
ing money in stock which is subjected
70 rapid extinction. This stock he can
not get people 70 take in France, but
by system Of enormous lotteries
which are the very corruption Of credit,
and under the syoIed patronage Of
our financial administration We have.
then, not only to spend forty or fifty
millions year out of the public treasu-
~ 10 support this Mexican sdyenturer,
but we have also TO raise on French
capital in the form OF a loan, one hun
dred millions per annum for the es-
taJlishment OF the Emperor Maxi !
milan The question which the Gov. |
ernment and the Chamber will have |
10 consider is this--fOr how many |
years more are We TO persist in /
this gigantic folly, which has already 1
lasted too long By what number Of
years are We TO multiply the fifty mil
lions that Mexico costs the Treasury,
and the one hundred millions that il
Dorrows from French capitan On one
hand, the partisans Of the occupation
Of Mexico by France pretend, in our
opinion Justly, that for our undertaking 1
70 have 8 chance Of success we must
itay in Mexico until we shall have
formed a new generation to our own
those whom we have found
IS children are grown up men. On the
1ther hand, the Mexican hans hitherto
made in France have been taken by /
he public with an EfterthOught to
Fhich, as il seems to US, Il is difficult
md even unjust to give a formal con-
radietiOn. The subscribers say: After
III, we second an enterprise Of our gov
,rnment it the enterprise be unsuccess-
III, if Mexico cannot pay Us, IL is i'm
possible that we shall not obtain from
,ur own government a reasonable in
And where is the chamber
hat will not be too happy to wind up
he Mexican business by augmentng
" some millions for the benefit of the
FOLDERS Of Maximilisn stock, our pub
10 debt the day the government an
,ounces the glad tidlngs-the tidings
hat will make France sigh with pleas
re-namely, that the Mexican expert
nent is at an end, and that our soldiers
re returning to their native country
sris, December % e Correspondents London news.
There is not the least truth in the re-
.ort telegrapbed yesterday from Lon
on that the French government will
ecall the Marquis de Monthalon from
if President johnson &C
redits "A new envoy to Jusrez France
very far, indeed, from desiring TO as
ume bullying attitude towards the
Jnited States on the Mexican question,
nd will only be too happy TO second
y all means that ingenuity can devise,
he very sincere and friendly endeav-
rs of the cabinet of Washington to
ender the inevitable evacuation Of
lexico by the French army at no dis
ant period as little painful as possible
t Is true that the Secretary Of Lega-
ion az Washington has LEFT for Paris,
nd he has probably by this time arriy-
d. His friends say that, having Occa-
ion 70 come to Europe, be asked leave
D bring dispatches himself instead Of
ending them by an ordinary messen-
er. This, perhaps, may not be the
hole truth. Nothing seems more
kelly than that, in the words Of yester-
avs telegram, the Marquis de Mon
nolon st this grave crisis should de-
ire TO receive, through his first secre-
ary, more detailed Instructions from
is government than could convenient
? be sent in writing; but you may be
cry certain that France does not dream
t breaking of diplomatic relations,
luch less OF making q c4sIi 5clh upon
ny such ground as the sending an en-
Oy 10 Juarez, the only head Of the
iexican nation which the Washington
recognizes or can recOg-
ize consistently with the attitude
-hich il has assumed.