The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-12

Foreign Affairs made haste 70 send word through
the palaces oil Europe that the great Republic
was in its agony, that the Republic was no more,
that a head.stone was ali that remained due by
the law of nations to 'the late Union" But 1t IS
written, Let the dead bury thelr dead" they
may not bury the living. Let the dead bury
their dead: let bill OF reform remove the worn
out government of class, and iniuse new lie
into the British Constitution by conhding right
ful power TO the people.
HIS POLICY.
But while the vitality of America is indestruc-
tible, the British Government hurried to do what
never before had been done by Christian powers
what was in direct conflict with its own exposi-
tiOn of public Law in the time of our struggle for
independence. Though the insurgent States had
not ship IN an open harbor, 1t invested them
with all the rights of beligerent, even on the
ocean; and this, too, when the Rebellion was
not only directed against the gentlest and most
benehcent Government on earth, without q
SHADOW OF iusti6abe cause, but when the Rebel
lion was directed against human nature itself
for the perpetual enslavement of a race. Aud
the effect of this recognition was that acts in
themselves piratical found shelter in British
courts of law. The resources Of British capitalists,
their workshops, their armoT1es their private
aIsenals. their shipyards, were in league with
the insurgents, and every British harbor In the
wide world became safe port ior British ships,
manned by British sailors, and armed with Bri-
Cish guns, to prey on our peaceful commerce.
even on our ships coming from British ports,
treighted with British psoducts, or that had car
Prime Minister in the House of Commons sus-
tanned by cheers, scofed at the thought that
their laws could be amended at our request so
As to pres erve real neutrality; and TO remon-
strances, now owned to have been just their
SecretafTy answered lat they could not change
their laws, dd iniinitatna
RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.
The people of America then wished, as they
always have wished, as they still wish, rieh1!!%
relations with England; and no man in England
or America can desire it more strongly than |.
This country has always yearned for good rela-
tions with England. Thrice only in all its his
tory has that yearning been fairly met; in the
days of Hampden and Cromwell again in the
first ministry OF the elder Pitt and once again in
the ministry of Shelburne. Not that there have
not at all times been Just men among the peers
OF Britain-like Halifax in the days OF James the
Second, or Granville, an Argyll, or Houghton
in ours; and we cannot be indifferent to coun-
try that produces statesmen like Golden and
Bright; but the best bower-anchor of peace was
the working class of England, who suffered most
from our civil war; but who while they broke
their diminished bread ia sorrow always en-
couraged us to persevere.
FRANCE AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
The act OF recognizing the Rebel bclligerents
was concerted with France-France, so beloved
in America, on which she had conferred the
greatest benefits that one people ever con-
ferred on another; France, which stands fore
most on the continent of Europe for the So
and generous impulses OF her sons; France,
which for centuries had been moving steadily
in its own way towards intellectual and political
freedom. The policy regarding tUrther coloni-
zation of America by European powers, known
commonly as the doctrine OF Monroe, had its
origin in France; and if it takes any mans
name, should bear the name of Turgot. 1t was
adopted by Louis the Sixteenth, in the Cabinet
of which Vergennes was the most important
member 1t is emphatically the policy Of
France; to which, with transient deviations, the
Bourbons, the First Napoleon, the House of
Orleans have ever adhered.
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND MEXICO.
The late President was perpetually harassed
by rumors that the Emperor Napoleon the Third
desired formally to recognize the States in re-
belllon as an independent power, and that
England held HIM back by her reluctance, or
France by her traditions OF freedom, or he him
self by his own better judgment and clear per-
Ception ofevents. But the republic of Mexico
on our borders was, like ourselves, distracted
by rebellion, and from similar cause. The
monarchy of England had fastened upon us
slavery, which did not disappear with ndepen-
dence; in like manner the ecclesiastical policy
established by the Spanish Council of the Indies,
in the days of CharlesSthe Fifth and Philip the
Second retained its vigor in the Mexican republic.
The fifty years of civil war under which she had
languished was due to the bgoted system
which was the legacy of monarchy, Just as here
the inheritance of slavery kept alive political
strife, and eliminated in civil war. As with us
slavery, so in Mexico there could be no pros
perity until the crushing tyranny of intolerance
should cease. Tne party of slavery in the United
States sent their emissaries to Europe to solicit
aid; and so did the party of the Church in
Mexico, as organized by the old Spanish Council
of the Indies, but with different result. Just
as the Republican party had made an end OF the
rebellion, and was establishing the best govern
ment ever known in that region, and giving
promise to the nation of order peace, and pros
perity, word was brought us in the moment
of our deepest affliction, that the French
Emperor moved by desire to erect in North
America buttress Tor Imperialism, would trans
form the Republic OF Mexico into a secundo-
geniture for the House of Hapsburgh. America
might complain; she could not then interpose
Mexico could not, with all its wealth of land,
compete in cerealIproducts with our Northwest,
nor, in tropical products, with Cuba; nor could
it, under disputed dynasty, attract capital or
create public work, or develop mines, or borrow
money; so that the imperial system of Mexico,
which was forced at once to recognize the
wisdom of the policy of the republic by adopt
ing il, could prove only an unremunerating
drain on the French Treasury for the support OF
an Austrian adventurer.
THE PERPETUITY OF REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS.
Meantime, new series of momentous oues.
tions grow up, and force themselves on the
consideration of the thoughtful. Republi.
canism has learned how to Introduce into its
constitution every element of order as well as
every element of freedom; but thus far the
continuity of its Government has seemed to
depend on the continuity Of elections. 1t is now
to be considered how perpetuity is to be secured
against foreign occupation. The successor
OF Charles the First of England dated his
reign from the death OF his father; the Bour
bons, coming back after long series OF revolu
tions, claimed that the Louis who became kinG
was the eighteenth of that name The presen
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