New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-22
AmrRicAN MrERHENTION nv MEMcO- !,

ondc9vOred to calm the apprehenSons |icA beSh 70
penade the country in regard to the commencement
OF forcblo Intervention with the domesuc concerns Of
our reighbOr into which the kilograms, runors and
Official documents from Paris on the one hand, ana
Brazo De Santiago on the other, afford evidence that
we are rapidly drifting. Bat The TtmeS avoids all
reference to the chief source OF public anxiety 1t
assures the American people that 1t VIII be no part o,
Con. Dix's mission "tO indulge in anything Ike
menace toward the French Government concerning
is course in Mexico" it declares that, he viii
mako no such concessions az his predecessor has on
more than Que occasion attempted if report be true"
but il says not syllable to negative the fast thcken'
ing rumor, that we have consented to assist the
French Emperor to wiring from The people OF Mexico
the expenses he has incurred in his bold attempt to
traNple out the Monroe Doctrine and to arrest
the career of our Republic by erecting an EN-
pire on our borders. It says not word to
discredit the positive limitations OF The Herald
that treaty has been already arranged at BiarriI,
between Napoleon and Mr.. Bigelow. for the paratlon
OF Mexico intended to be signed the part OF the
latter country either by Macmillan orby JuareS' as
might be most conVenient-a treaty by which the
United States arc to receive territory 100 miles In
length, with mixed breed Of Indians. whites, and
negroes, on condition Of paying or securing to
France the hundreds Of millions Of dollars that can
be counted up in the fraudulent claims OF Jeeker,
added to the expenses Of the war.
The Times SAYS not one word TO contradict or ex-
plain tho official documents which show that while
such a scheme for compromising our national honor
and increasing national indebtedness, and MULTI
plying and Completing national difficulties, was
reported as being framed at Biarr1 under the per-
sonal direction Of the Emperor, Gen. Sheridan had
inaugurated an armed intervention by the United
States in the domestic disputes Of the people OF Mex
leo, by arrestng Gen. 0rtegl, who claims TO be the
Constitutional President Of the Mexican Republic, and
whose dgnfed aud indignant protos. against that In
tererence by the armed forces Of the United States in
the solution of local Mexican questions appeals so d.
recty and 50 powerfully to the right feeling Of The
American people
TIE Tines in tone of perfect ftaukness gives the
country the most explicit assursnces-and the rela-
tons Of lis leading editor with the President aud Secre
tary Of State will be regarded investing that as5ur-
ance with semuiicial character. 1t says
We haze no outstanding pccoupts tosette with France N
relation % domestic efn and IS not ~ The prOha
Of the future that shall have deo. differences wh tae
could hardly be less complicated IN diplomatic sense Ihee
are no Third Iartie, ana no sle issue. 70 De an ~
S-y M defaei willie tha o. each is found to acceptable
a nj Fr pcsS,ons be abandoned aad the Trsoca troop,
withdrawn and in ordering the return o. h' army ron het
leo 10 france Napoleon has conceded 10 M the point IN dispute
In AZ dlrec manner possible for Lin 20 DO ny is
settlement Sir ard bias iiumphed IN tae greatest dpomnic
difficulty Government bas had for Two years ead le "a.
mo-coel put whole subject ia such shape That a9y re-
opening Of 10 Is next 10 Impossible
Assuming, of course that The Times means precise
" what il says even when il euogizeJ the diplomatic
ability exhibited by Mr.. Seward in the Mexican mat
ter aud the great triumph he has achieved IN Bringing
il to its present shape. the very general character oil
is language leaves room Tor probable misunder
standing az opinions may differ in regard 10 what will
be satisfactory termination Of this unsatisfactory and
welrisome business.
The French troops, 1t is said, to retire and
French protensiOns 10 be withdrawn II this IS TO I've
done without further eGactons conditions, II the
Mexican people aro TO be promptly let free TO re-
occupy their country in peace and manage ior them
selves thoir domestic matters, it will be acGuosced 10
BY the American people. however strongly some may
think that strict justice would require the French, be-
fore they Co. to reimburse the Mexican people as far
as possible for thewroug5 and miseries inflicted by the
French aud Tor all the property they have destroyed
But in regard 10 the withdrawal Of tine foreign troops
u canuo, be forgotten that when, the 18th OF Octo
Der l-G5 the French Minister Of state, NJ Drouyn de
Lhuys gave the first order for their removal TO the
Maruui. dc Moutholon the French Minister at Mex
leo be distinctly based that order the suggestion of
our Minister at Paris, that the United States would
recognize the Empire of Macmillan after their de-
parture. His language was:
In writ ing YOU this dispatch / have entered path
opened BY Nj Bselow himself several dayo In convrr
,aiou in relation other matters this Minister asked IN
his md without preudgng the opinion OF his 'ov
eminent II lid not think that the recognition OF the Mexican
Empire by the United States might facilitate and hasten The
recall Of troops The instructions which send YOU arr ia
answer 10 this question
Here qud pro ono, voluntarily rendered by the !
American Minister was promptly accepted by the !
French Emperor, and It would have been as promptly
accepted by less astute man than Louis Napoleon.
The arrangement promised him all that he desired,
and Gar more than he had dared hope for-the recog
milton of Us phantom Empire and his Hapsburg |
prince by the very Republic to whom the effort 70
establish them had been virtually ayowed by Napo-
leon himself, to be an insult and menace.
The disclosure of that nlucement to the evaoua- !
ton of Mexico made by the publication of NJ. Drouyn
dc Lhuys's dispatch in the French Documents Dipts-
,aatiqu,s has naturally tended TO awaken anxiety in
regard to the situation at this moment, WHOM rumors
are aAoat accusing our Government OF completely /
with new plot more humilating and immoral ii
that were possible than the one volunteered at Ears,
and dsapproved at Washington the recognition Of
Macmillan. |
According to The Herah which pronounees the /
rumored reaty,of Barritz 'afIedlac our Republic,
after having for years denounced the French neFven-
ton with the domestic concerns of Mexico as plain
violation of international law, and wicked invasion
OF that peoples rights has entered Into am agree
ment by which the American Government Is to be-