The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-08

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Herewith, that payment Of the aforesaid
loan, fifty millions of dollars, with the in
terest thereon accruing to the tenor of the
said bonds, be and the same is hereby quar-
anteed by the United States ofAmerica."
The French Press on the Mexican
Situation.
From La Frame, Feb. Il.
MoNIHoLogs BAGDAD AFFAIR.
This dispatch from NJ. de Montholon
testihes that the government of the
United States is firmly disposed to
maintain and cause TO be respected the
laws of neutrality.
We stated a few days since, as soon
as the capture Of Bagdad was known,
that the acts of a handful of adyentur-
ers would not be permitted to interrupt
the peaceful relations existing between
two great nations, and TO solve in a VIC
lent manner the questions which they
hold in consideration.
In the bands of flibusters, which the
agents of Jusrez can by the hope of
plumber induce to come from the United
States to different points of the Mexi~
can frontier, we cannot in any manner
see implicated the government of the
United States. That government is in
dignant as ours is at such enterprises;
it does all in its power TO repress them;
it has caused the arrest of the pretend
ed General who was at the head of the
hlibusteTs of Bagdad; it has recalled
General Weitzel, whose attitude might
~a--, a. la-n z-a1r,-oazl NhT1 n~naIT-
ton; it has given to Sheridan the plain
est orders, intended to prevent the
repetition of such events. Decidedly
nothing more could be wished for or
demanded.
The address Of the Senate proves
that France only asks for the respect
of the duties of neutrality and interna
tional law. In America there may be
ardent passions which would like TO
enfeeble the ties which for nearly 6
century have attached the United
States and France; but it is not in the
higher regions of the government that
these passions find an echo.
The eminent men who exercise the
power at Washington now understand
two ~things-hrst, that we have our
selves marked the term of our expedi-
ton to Mexico; and second, that France
cannot come out of that country ex.
cepting at her own time, protecting at
the same time her honor and interests,
and that this situation should not be
complicated by questions of national
dignity as useless as they would be in
opportune.
The dispatch of N. de Montholon
proves to US that these truths are un-
derstood in the United States, 1t is
for this reason hat we mention them
as a testimony to the disposition, peace
full and in good faith, of the American
Government
FOREYS SPEECH.
From the Paris Opinion Rationale, Feb. II.
His speech marshal Forey's) we do
not hesitate to say it, is the antipodes
of what, in our opinion, is the true in
terest of France in this delicate and
knotty subject.
He has to; long gazed with q sol
dier's eyes upon the situation in which
we have placed ourselves in the New
World. We have undertaken a great
task there. Whether it is easy or diff
cult, whether it obtains the sympathy
of the United States or not, the Mar
shall is unwilling to abandon it. What
we have undertaken should be finished.
Right demands it, honor commands it,
and France should make q good bargain
of her pecuniary sacrifices, that the re-
proach of not having understood the
grand idea of the Emperor may not be
incurred
The Marshal is consequently of the
opinion not only that We ought to keep
the troops in Mexico which are there at
present, but that we must send new
ones
Such is the salient idea of his speech,
as may be read in the official report
We will content ourselves with add
ing, in order to give an exact idea of
the reasoning of Marshal Forey, that
in his opinion u occupation should be
limited only by the regeneration of the
Mexican people, since, according to his
idea, they must have time TO TegeneT-
ate their moral character by contact
With our soldiers, so they may acquire
a sense order and honesty, and the
courage which animates them, and
which sll are bound to respect
A beautiful roke, without question,
for our army But when will it get
through? In ten years, in twenty
years, at the end of this century, or in
the middle of the nextf
The Minister of State understood the
OOna arnpnfa snr vnnNVTRn Of Tho HTn1 aF
policy. He took care to assert-and
we are glad he did so-that the Mar
shall had expressed only his personal
opinion; that of the government re-
manned as it had been promulgated in
the speech of the throne and in the par
agraph of the Senate's address.
AS for ourselves, we deeply deplore
this way of looking at the Mexican
question, and the Marshal would have
done well TO have left to some of our
journals the privilege and the care of
defending these impossible matters in
stead of expanding them in the bosom
ofthe Senate.
The United States on this occasion
have given us an example which We
ought to follow. They have neglected
nothing which could remoye all cause
of grievance. We remember the reso-
lutions which, in republican style, were
presented in Congress. They were sent
TO the committees of each of the two
houses, but negotiations continue be-
tween the Cabinets of Washington and
the Tuilleries, and since that time no
speech has resounded within the walls
of Congress which could wound the
suscepubilities of the French Govern
ment.
Iii is worthy of remark, also, that Mr..
Bigelow, who has ever pursued a policy
of Cancellation in his mission at Paris,
has nevertheless been confirmed in his
nomination as Minister Plenipotentiary
to Paris in the session of January ~;
that is, after the publication of the diplo-
matie correspondence had put a new
phase upon the question.
The Senate Of the United States sane
toned on that occasion the policy of
Cancellation, a. fact which should not
be lost sight of in the French Cham
bers.
Paris tFeb. ~ correspondence Of he Indepen-
dsnce Belgel
The speech of Marshal Fcrey, at the /
close of the Senate's session Yesterday,
Is the topic of conversation to-day. 1t
seems without doubt, however, that
only will no new troops be sent to
Mexico, but the movement for the re-