The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-23
The New Foreign Policy Of the Admiui.tra-


The administration, which has been for some
time under Cloud we have reason to believe
will soon emerge into the full blaze Of the
MONDAY sun. Experience is an exacting
teacher, but he is wise who accepts her lessons
at any cost. President johnson Is evidently
of this opinion; for we think it may be pro-
claimed as a result of the late elections that he
has resolved upon new departure that win
bring his administration again into the fore
ground and into happy accord with Congress
and public opinion on the leading national
questions of the day. Leaving the c0nstitu-
tlonal amendment for the present to take its
course, we understand that Mr.. johnson has
decided without further delay to turn over q
new leaf and open a new chapter in reference
to our unsettled accounts against England and
France. Indeed, it would appear, from the
numerous reports set afloat from Washington
on the subject, that not only has this new
departure been resolved upon, but that the
initial steps towards its execution have already
been taken.
Thus 1t is given out that in relation to our
claims against England on account OF the late
piratical depredations upon our commerce by
such Anglo-rebel buccaneers as the Alabama
and Shenandoah, positive requisition has been
sent out to our minister, Mr.. Adams, at Lon
don, TO be by him laid before Lord Stanley, her
Majesty's present Secretary Of State for
Foreign Affairs From recent speech Of Lord
Stanley and the latest views of the London
Times on this matter there is ground for the
opinion that to this alleged demand from our
government there will be satisfactory re-
Spouse. In any event, coupled with the alter
native of the seizure of the Canadas and the
adjoining Provinces the demand is a sure card
for the administration. With the recognition
and settlement of the claims, our government
will be vindicated and placed in its proper
attitude before the American people and the
world, so far as England and the controversy
of belligerent, neutral and insurrectionary
rights on the high seas are concerned. With a
fat rejection Of our demand, call for volun-
teers for descent upon the Canadas would
rally within fortnight a hundred thousand
fighting Fenians along the border, and, ac-
cording to General Sherman, six weeks by this
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With England it is the concession Of some
thirty millions of dollars, more or less, and the
maritime rights involved in the dispute or the
loss Of an empire; while to our administration
there will be the honors and the glory of q
great triumph upon either alternative.
In regard to France and the Mexican i'm
broglio the programme of settlement which, as
reported, the administration has agreed upon,
u.s. first, the retirement Of the French usurpa-
tion-tre0ps, Emperor, bag and baggage, and
the recognition by France of the republic as
recognized by the United States. Secondly,
the assumption by the United States of the
debt due to France from the Mexican republic;
and thirdly, an equivalent TO our government
from said republic in the shape Of cession Of
territory embracing the Northern frontier
States of Coahuila, chihuahua, Sonora and
the peninsula of Lower California, with the
great gulf seven hundred miles long which
separates that peninsula from the mainland.
According to this plan France will be permit
ted to retire gracefully and without serious
loss, the Monroe doctrine win be vinaicated,
the Mexican republic will be consolidated in
being Invested Of the revolutionary States
named; While the acquisition OF said States,
with their inexhaustible mines Of silver and
gold and their great agricultural and COM
mercial advantages, whether we look to a
cheap and short continental railroad or to the
command OF the Pacific Ocean, will be worth
to us hundred times over the legitimate
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This line of policy in regard to Mexico will
be as satisfactory to the country as the ultima
tum suggested in reference to England. In
both cases, il carried out, there will be glory
enough for Presiden! Johnson's administration;
provided, always, that he stands no more in
the way of the constitutional amendment.
But in behalf Of the Monroe doctrine, he may
still probably extend his new policy to the
removal OF Spain from South American affairs
and even to the reorganization of Brazil as o
republic through common alliance secured
among the republics surrounding her. Thus,
with popular governments established through
out this continent, and all combined as in .
common cause against European interven-
tons or intrigue, the United States, as the
head Of this grand American coalition, would
indeed be FIRST among the nations on the land
and the sea, at home and abroad, in trade,
wealth, power and prosperity; infinitely beyond
the Roman empire under Augustus.
Such is the magnificent prospect which is
invitingly opened before us with this new
foreign policy Of the administration. Honor,
power and glory await our government in this
direction, and lucky will Mr.. johnson be IN
boldly following the path thus marked out
II some OF the organs Of the extreme radical
faction and the extreme copperhcad faction do
not like 1t, the reason is apparent II is a
policy which threatens the overthrow ofall their
iactious schemes and the organization OF the