Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-24
THE MEXICAN QUESTION.
THE WITHDRAWAL OF TRoOPs-OFFICIA
CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS REPORTS.

| CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS REPORTS.
The Paris Honitelr confirms the statement
| that Baron Salliard's mission to Mexico was
successful, and that arrangements for the
return of the French troops, in three di-
visions-the first in November, the next in
March, and the last in November, 1867
have been made 1t is hoped that this ar
rangement will satisfy the Washington Gov
eminent.
FRANCE DEMANDS SECURITY.
The Paris correspondent of the Observer
says that France intends occupying Vera
Cruz, Tampico, and other principal ports, as
a guarantee for the expenses of the expedi-
ton and security fer French commercial in
terests.
ANOTHER "UNPALATABLE' MESSAGE FOR
MAMMALIAN.
1t is announced that NJ. HidalgO, the
Mexican minister in Paris, the delay in
whose return was attributed the other day
to the death of NJ. Langlais, has resigned
his post. | am not surprised to hear this.
He left with an unpalatable message for
Macmillan from the Emperor Napoleon,
and / heard at the time that he accepted the
mission with reluctance. Maximiiian will
probably not last long, and he enjoys acting
the emperor, and stands upon his dignity as
much as any monarch who sits on solid
throne. 1t is rumored that the new Next
can minister will be General Almonte, the
principal agent in getting up the ill-starred
French Intervention which is now so great
an embarrassment to the Tuilleries.
NAPoLEoN's RETREAT FROM MExICo-wHAT
WILL BECOME OF MAMMALIAN?
From the Pail Mall Gazette, April g.
The Emperor Napoleon abandons his
Mexican enterprise, not, evidently, because
its work is done, but because he at last de-
spairs of doing it. 1t must have cost him
much to confess in the face of his subjects,
that they were right and he was wrong, and
to announce to Macmillan that he had
been too rash in afording patronage which
his duty to his own people might compel
him to withdraw. Events have certainly
been obstinately unkind to the two Emper-
ors. First, the secession war would come to
an end and then the Mexican Republicans
would neither fight nor yield and, lastly,
the United States would do nothing to re-
leve submission of its sting. Under these
untoward circumstances, what little can be
done to throw dignity over the retreat will
be done. The French troops will not be
withdrawn at once, but, as we announced
yesterday, in three detachments-in Novem-
Der of this year, and in March and Novem-
ber 1867. On this last date the last French
soldier will probably have quilted Mexico.
OF course, the perpetual maintenance of a
French contingent never formed part of the
imperial programme, although a conjecture
may De pardoned, whether if a French oc-
cupation had been'pleasant and profitable, but
mn ~ inhf L.
longed, like that of Rome, indefinitely.
Still it was distinctly intimated that the stay
of the French army would be determined
only by Maximilian's ability to do without
it-by the Organization Of the Mexican
army" That organization, in the sense in
which it was understood and meant is as
distant as ever, and the French, nevertheless,
are going. OF course, Macmillan is not
precluded from replacing the departing
French troops by Austrian or Belgian sub
stitutes. But the fact remains that France
was the declared protector of Mexico, and
that she now acknowledges she must retire
from the risks of the protectorate. Wehave
not the slightest wish to triumph over the
Emperor. The Americans may be trusted
to do that.
But what about the prospects of the En-
peror Macmillan? His position is certainly
hard. He loses the support of French bay
onets, and does not apparently escape the
necessity of paying for the aid which they
have only intellectually offered. The fresh
treaty which is to be substituted "fOr the
financial arrangements of the treaty of Mir
amar is to afford guarantees for the debt
owing to France, and for the French inter
ests involved in the Mexican loans" Ger
tainly, the Emperor of Mexico has a diff
cult task before him. But que diaJle faiH
dams cette gdLere9 What took him to Mex
leo? The country has been well travelled
and well described. He might have known
what to expect. A realm where within forty
years at least ten rulers (emperors or presi-
dents -Iturbide Guerrero, Bustamente, San
ia Anna, Paroles, Arista, Carrera, Alvarez,
Comonfort, and Juarez-have been violent
ly deposed, was one which could only offer
temptations to prince vulgarly greedy of
crown, or else inspired by very lofty and
self-denying ambition. Assuredly the SOW
ereign who should succeed in bringing one
of the most beautiful of the naturally rich
est region of the earth within the pale of
civilization, and convert one Of the least es-
Unable population in the world to quiet in
dustry, would be entitled to rank among the
great benefactors of the mankind. Whether
Macmillan was at all aware or not of the
difficulty of the task he was undertaking, we
do not know. But if he entered on it rashly
and ignorantly, he is at any rate endeavor-
ing manfully to carry it out. The poet bids
us prefer fifty years of Europe to a cycle
of Cathay." On the whole we should think
Cathay had the advantage in point of dqre-
mems over the Mexico of the present day
and we are half disposed to wish, in the in
terests of a well intentioned prince and his
accomplished and high-spirited wife, that
his enemies may prevail, that the wonderful
report in the American papers to the effect
that Marshal Bazaine waste be president
ad interim of the Mexican Republic" NAV
be true, and that Macmillan may shortly
follow or accompany his French allies to
the old worn out Continent which Monroe
and his countrymen have abandoned to