Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-10

The Mexican QuesfIon I'm France-A
Rather Loud Murmur Against the
Napoiecnic Peficy-A French Journal
speaks IT'S Mind-The elxhf way 90
Develop and Expand the Latin Race.
H&e.
From the Paris Journal des Dcbats. Jan. 121
What will become Of Mexico? What can
become Of il? Great mystery hidden in the
depths Of the futurei We seek not to- pene-
trate it. Only we wish that Mexico had not
become such an embarrassing matter to us
and an obligation originating in false point
Of honor, and we shall hold ourselves forttl-
nate II, so far as France is concerned, our
experience, commenced with loyalty and
continued with courage, Is conducted and
ended without obstinacy. In science, mega
tive matters, patiently proved and resolutely
excepted, have as much importance az pois-
tive facts IL should be the same in politics.
We recognize, without hesitafion, the
grandeur ofthe problems which the Mexican
question originates. They are problems Of
different kinds, and all Important One
problem Of political science Il: What time
do a people, half doting and half savage
and consumed by anarchy, "A the people Of
Mexico, require 20 restore order and found
its own government -
Another problem Is: Is the Hropean
population Of Mexico sufficiently numerous
to create and sustain purely European
Government, or Is the union ofthe two races
the European race and the race Of mixed
blood--suficiently progressed 50 that this
nation, half Spanish and half Indiar, may
be capable for its part Of creating and sus-
tanning Government analogous 10 is ele-
ments? g fe Is ia ~
T-I.< III. n ...f.t.a.f atL-.s~--.. -
not less interesting. Should the Latin race
watch with jealousy the expansion OF the
Germanic race In America? Should IL seek
TO counterbalance il at every priee7 Is IL for
us-that is, France-whose origin Is half
Latin and half Germanic, to forcibly MAIN
tain this difficult equilibrium? IL the Latin
race has the same power Of expansion a. the
Germanic, let IL show il by individual efforts.
Let IL emigrate; let Il colonixe. Il Is by ac-
tivity and endurance that each nation ex-
pands and occupies a larger portion Of the
space on which the sun shines. If on the
contrary, the Latin race has not fhe gin Of
expansion; il il Is more domestic and less
adventurous, Is il 10 replace emigration By
armed expediti0ns2 Is IL 20 maze conqnesfs
in place OF col0nies7 Is it obliged 70 carry
cannon, ever and everywherr, because Il
knows not how TO manage The plowshare?
Wha. sanguinary and devastating mission
IL takes on itself And, still again, Is II for
usr-is il for France 10 be the instrument Of
this bloody vocafionG In.truth, Te are worth
more than that, ard wseannot condemn cur
selves 70 be Jannissaries Of Latinism.
They tell US Of the agsgrandizement and
ambition Of the United States, ,nd Of the
terrible and mighty shock that IS 70 occur
between America and Europe. Europe was
culpable and impolitic In not profffng by
the aid which il found IN us Besides il has
abandoned us to ourselves from shs beginning
Of the struggle.
After showing the impenitrable uneer-
tainty which hangs over the future Of Mex
ico, despite the thousand ineenious theories.
and the thousand brilliant tFTistinge given 10
il, let ns try TO see the serious and actual
dangers which threaten French policy in
America and which make "a wish thai cur
Government would take one or the ether Of
these two resolutions--eithert to boldly aug
ment our army Of occupation in Mexico in
order 70 prepare against adjacent periis, Or
10 take counsel as 20 the most suitabie and
most prompt means for the eGacnation Of \
,oantry where we are, despite ourselves,
'ubieeted 10 the alternative either u doing
everything or doing nothing az all