New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-15
DER TRUE POLICY TOWARD MEXICO.


bonds advanced on the BourSe from 1924 francs to 4S
francs IS confines under the influence OF ruinor
that the United States Government would guarantee
their payment" The Paris correspondent OF The
London Post about the same time Nov. 3d. intmated
that the Emperor Napoleon would probably like TO
place his distant empire, thrown upon his hands,
under the guardianship OF the United States" addng
that it was obyious that France would like to con-
tract with the Washington Cabinet, rather than with
Juarez. when the troops come away"
The English papers assume that the United States
have long wanted Mexico that it is best now to allow
them to absorb it, and English bondholders are
charmed with the idea of presenting their claims anu
bonds to our Treasury at Washington. To American
spectators in Mexican bonds and contracts this pros
pect is equally charming; and intimations are being
cautiously thrown out that while the Mexican middle
is very deplorabe and true policy perhaps little
doubtful yet on the whole, are responsible Tor the
failure of the French to establish stable government
and, therefore as the Mexcans cannot govern them
seyes-a posulate which is quietly assumed-there IS
nothing left for us but to take Mexico under our pro-
lection and satisfy the world BY assuming her obga-
tiOns.
stranger might, perhaps, suppose that our present
American people with the expenses incurred by
France, or with the bonds issued by Macmillan or
Juarez, or with the reckless speoulstions o! our
iobbers in Wall-st. lie might possibly imagine
that We had business enough upon our hands IN
the reconstruction of our own household without
assuming the charge OF those of neighbors or that
we should be willing at least TO defer new
batch of foreign complications until we had harmony
and unity at homo. Such, however is not the view
which seems to prevail In the State Department, the
conduct of whose servants on both Continents tends
TO give the world an opinion that the Mexican ques'
ton has suddenly become Of the profoundest impor-
lance TO the American people 1t certainly has sue
ceeded in awakening no small degree OF excitement
from the Imperial palace in Mexico 10 the Bourse IN
Paris The spectators whose design is TO controlthe
National diplomacy they have heretofore controlled
our State legislation, Of course feverish with eI
pectstion and the quiet citizens and taxpayers OF
our country are alarmed at step that seems to
threaten at once the National Treasury and the Ma.
| tional honor.
The srrest and Imprisonment by Gen. Sheridan OF
Senior Ortega, coupled with the instructions to Mr..
Campbell, bore the appearance of direct Intervention
| in the domestic affairs of Mexico in violation OF In
ternationsl neutrality and Of most explicit pledges
| The movement against Matamoros by Gen. Sedgwick'
although promptly disayowed by the Government Ia
declared by Gen. Sedgwick, according to dispa'eh
from New Orleans to have been made under the phi
vute general instructions Of his superior officer. Aga
now the public are advised by dispatch from
| Washington that our Government has changed
its policy of intervening in favor of Juarez,
whose Ministry is alleged to have behaved treacher-
ousy in matters involving the credit Of the Mexican
Republic, end that il will probably throw all the
weight Of It's preference in favor OF Ortega IN the
restoration of law and order Whether it is TO er-
press this new preference" by locking up Juarez
and hs Cabinet officers and by selling Vera Cruz is
not stated.
OF course, oil that we have done or may do in the
way Of armed Intervention in Mexico will be done
svowedly from the purest aud most dsnterested mo-
tives precisely the French invasion was TO give to
the Mexcsns the blessings Of civilization and to form
thus ran the manifesto-"a stable and durable
! government based upon peace and morality"
Already our language resembles that Of the French
Minister NJ. Salgny, in April, 1862:
| "Mexicaus we have not come here with the object
Of taking any part in your dissensDns we have come
to put stop 70 them
| Already our armed violence against 0rtega and at
| Matamoros, points toward the same immoral policy
which, persisted in by France for nearly five years
has beeen so ignominously overthrow by the Mexi.
can people. Why at the instant Of its relinqush.
ment by Napoleon, we should wish to follow in his
footsteps would be difficult to understand were il
not that Mr. Seward stands pledged to defeat the
Constitutional Amendment and TO bring back the
! Rebel States without condition, and that nothing
could assist him more in the prosecution Of that OBJ
ect than TO divert the National attention from the
question Of restoration by involving us automatically
with Mexico and France.
The LibtT6 of Paris, in its money article quoted
| by us yesterday says:
"The great preoccupation Of the moment is the
American affair and the arrival Of the next packet is
looked for with intense anxiety. IL has been
remarked that American funds are lower NJ London,
Frankfort, and New York. The conclusion drawn is
that the relations between France and the United
States must be very delicate" &c.
The pretense that we have prevented the establish
ment OF Nsxnilians empire, and that therefore We
are bound TO establish some other government in
Mexico hes no foundation in its premise and no
reason in its conclusion.
There may be ground for tie remarl attributed to
Gen. Grant that "the French invasion was par. of
the Rebellion" and that It's became impossible
when our Republic was restored but the empire
owes rs fall not TO the remon5irances Of the State
Department but TO the heroisn Of the Mcxicap
people The fact that it was intended as menace
and On insult 10 America, as stated by Napoleon in
his letter to Gen. Forey, was always ignored by Mr..
Seward, who, in July, 1862, when all Europe was
discussing the coming empire assured Mr.. Corwin
that the idea of preparing throne in Mexico for an