Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-02-23

port for British ships manned BY British
sailors aud armed with British guns to prey
on our peaceful commerce; even on our
ships coming from Britiah ports freightcd
with British pro ducts, or that had carried
gifts Of grain TO the English poor. The
Prime Minister In the House of Commons.
sustained by cheers, scoffed at the thought
that their laws could be amended at our
request. SO as to preserve real neutrality
been just, their secretary answered that
they could not change their laws al iafat- 4
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RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND. A
The people of America then wished, as
they always have wished, as they still wish,
friendly relations with England; and no
man in England or America can desire il
more strongly than T. This country has
always yearned for good relations with Eng
| land. Thrice only In all its history 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 Shel5urne. Net
that there have not at all times been just
men among the peers of Britain-like Hale
fax in the days of James the Second, on a
| Granville, an Argyll, or d Houghton in
ours; and we cannot be Indifferent to
country that produces statesmen like Cob
den and Bright; butth 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 in sorrow, always encouraged us to
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FRANCE AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
The act recognizing the rebel belligerents
| was concerted with France France SO be-
! loved in America, on which she had confer
| red the greatest benefits that one people
| ever conferred on another France, which
stands foremost on the continent of Europe
| for the solidity of her culture, as well as for
the bravery and general impulses of her
sons France, which for centuries had been
moving steadily in its ewn way towards in
| tellectual and political freedom. The pohey
regarding further colonization 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 TRrgot. 1t was
adopted by Louis the Sixteenth, in the cab
| met of which Vergennes was the most inn
portant member. Ii is empbatically the
| policy of Frauce; to which, with transient
| divisions, the Bourbons, the First Napole-
on, the House of Orleans, have ever adher.
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THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND MEXICO.
i The late President was perpetually har-
| assei by rumors that the Emperor Napoleon
the Third desired formally to recognize the
| states in rebellion as an independent power,
and that England held him back by her
| reluctance, or France by her traditions OF
freedom, or he himself by his own better
Judgment and clear perception of events
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 independence;
in like manner, the ecclesiastical policy es-
tablished by the Spanish Council of the
Il Indies, in the days of Charles the Fifth,
and Philip the Second, retained its vigor in
the Mexican republic. The fifty years of
n civil war under which she had languished,
was due to the bigoted 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 there could be no quiet but through the
end of slavery, so in Mexico there could be
no prosperity until the crushing tyranny Of
intolerance should cease. The party of sla-
very in the United States sent their emissa-
ries 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 madeah END ofthe
rebellion, and was establishing the best gov
ernment ever known in that region, and
giving promise to the nation of order, peace
and prosperity, word was brought US, inthe
moment of our deepest affiiction, that the
French Emperor, moved BY desire to erect
In North America buttress for imperial
\
into secundo-geniture for the house of
! Hapsbnrg. America might complain !; she
could not then interpose, and delay seemed
Unsuitable. 1t was seen that Mexico could
not with all its wealth of land compete in
cereal products with our northwest; nor in
tropical products with Cuba nor could it,
under disputed dynasty, attract capital,
or create public works, or develop mines
or borrow money; so that the imperial sys.
tenn of Mexico, which was forced at once to
recognise the wisdom of the policy of the
republic by adopting it, could prove only an
unremunerating drain on the French treasu-
/ ry, for the support of an Austrian adven-
turer
TIE PERPELUITY OF REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS
/ Meantime, new series Of momentous ques-
tions grows up, and forces themselves on the
consideration of the thoughtfnl Republican
ism has learned howto introduce into its Con.
stitution every element Of order, ms well as
every element of free dom; 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 il to be
secured against foreign occupation. The sue.
cessor of Charles the First of England, dated
! / his reign from the death of his father, the
Bourbons, coming back after a long series of
, revolutions, claimed that the Louis who. be-
came king was the eighteenth Of that name.
, The present Emperorlof the Frehchs disdain-,
. ing title from election alone, is called the
! third of the name. Shall republic have
less power of continuance when invading ar
mics prevent peaceful resort 60 the ballot
box? What force shall it attach TO Iinteryen.
, ing legislation? What validity to debts con-
tracted for its overthrow? These momentous
!. questions are by the invasion of Mexico
: thrown ap for solution.l.A free state once
truly constituted should be as undying MS its
people; the republic Of Mexico must rise
again. -
Il Ii was the condition of affairs in Mexico
that involved the Pope of Rome in our diff
D culties so far that he alone among temporal
} soyereigns recognized the chief of the Con-
Z 4 federate States as President, and his sups
: porters as people; and In letters to two
p great prelates Of the Catholic Church in the
United States gave counsels for peace at
/ time when peace meant the victory of seces.
sion. Yet events move as they are ordered,
! The blessing of the Pope at Rome on the
, head Of Duke Maximilfian could not revive
/ in the nineteenth century the ecclesiastical