Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-03-01
rom the Eyenins Post, New York, February :. ls5
TIE E'REyCEA ~ ALENEG0.

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The Emperor of the French is so profound
dissenbler, has 0nce so sgnally violated his oath,
and 80 many times his word, that he will owe II 10
his own bad character il The Amo rcan people are
slow TO believe in his promises. In this Mexican
business particularly he has played fast and loose
so ofen that we shall no; rel oice III tho speech i'm
puteG to him bY our latest foreign reports, until
shall see 10y the event whether some shabby
trick or other. whether some dex.rous play upon
words, is not concealed in his remarks.
From the begiRuiRs TO the end of it this MeXi-
can expedition has been prosecuted In sinister
and disscmblirg way. Got up originally on the
pretexi that il was 10 be q mere redress OF the
grievance OF the iorei gn creditors OF Mexico. lie
lurcd England and Spain into the rndcrtak in =
until the discovery o! its real objects reyo,ed the
honsst instincts o! those nations. lie next pre-
tendtd that tie choice of a ruler for tbCmsey es
should ke cft 10 the Mexican people, but when the
time came. scion Of the House Of uspsburg
was forced upon them at the point ST French
bayontts. Since then thousands of the best Mexi
cans have been wanionly -iain because they would
not submit 10 this usu patton of their native coun-
try by dynasty which had no more right to rule
it than the first ups,art in the crowd. When the
United States began TO protest against the outrage
this open, unprovoked, cruel aud Infamous as
saut upon the independence Of natons-he was
bold enough while our civil war lasted, urge the
recognition of the rebels even upon England in
the interest Of his crime; but when the war was
over he prevaricated and >bufied. For more than
a year he has niimated his Willingness TO Withdraw
his troops, but all the while he has been sending
forward renforcements. Now, when the firmness
of President Johnson, sustained by TIE almost
unanimous feeling of the people, has forced our
diplomacy into something ike decision and earn
estness, he makes another announcement of bis
purpose to back out OF his nquity.
Certainly there is nothing in the words of the
speech to give Us much assurance. Louis Napo-
leon says "that preparations arc making to with
draw the French troops" He has said that before;
but what we want to known is not that at some
time other he intends TO think about devisng
or pOnderng, or considering. or cogitating plan
by which it may, will should or can be possible to
withdraw his forces; but that they will be with
drawn al a certain day. say the Fourth of July next
The PROMISE as it now stands, may mean that he
will set abo Withdrawing them next year, or the
year after, or FIVE years hence; but the American
people are determined 10 have the creatures out az
cnce. A crime 50 atrocious and nagrant as that
cf trampling out the life OF q nation, Of supplant
ing ice republican institutions by foul desp0,ism,
dug out Of the muck OF European decay, is rot a
crime with which daily. Our government
must tell the perpetrators OF it to be off Instant
with their entire crew of mcrcenary agents.
The idea ofiHvading Mexico was originally bad
enough, but its results have been even worse than
the original conception. Do the generous, liberty
loving French people know that their gallant
brothers in the army have been fighting in Mexico
TO force upon free people system of social gov
ernment which makes all workingmen the slaves
of their emp,oyersl Frenchmen are not lovers of
slavery, and it will be bitter draught for them to
swallow when they learn that their flag, and their
soldiers, and their money, are employed to estab-
li.h slavery upon soil which has been free for gen
erations, and make slaves OF people who have
! hat ale fror, ba
tales told them by runaway slaves from the United
States. to whom they always gave Christian
welcome. ~,
The decree of Maximilian making ssrfs Of the
greater part Of the Mexican PEOPLE, is raising a
storm against him in England The London
Times, as usual, favors the Archduke; it is loyal
to only one thing, human bondage; but the liberal
journals speak out loucly. The Spectator says:
at is not established as palliative, as a hilly
road from slavery into freedom, but is imposed up
on men who have been free fer generation,
whose children are born free, and who have seen
one of their own number rise to the Presidency OF
Mexico. No wonder thai after this decree arriv-
ed the Times which has Dsrepresentei i, show ed
such reluctance in advising Napoleon to retire
| from the country he was to redeem from anarchy.
There has not been such a victory for slavery since
the day John Brown was hanged, or such an
hour Of pleasure for the journal which in she
South, and in the West Indies, and on the coast OF
Africa, and in Mexico, pleads always with such
varied arguments that the laboring class shall be
placed permanently at the disposal OF the employ
/ ers of labor. Anarchy, forsooth. Better the hu-
man race perished cut of Mexico than three.
fourhs fits inhabitants. having achieved personal
freedom, should thus be reduced once more to pass
their lives in forced labor for the benefit of class
to which they cannot hope to belong; better fifty
more years of anarchy than that the cause OF free
dom all over the world shorld be thus wilfully ar
res ed" tro- r.
| We wonder IL il has occurred TO Mr.. Seward
that when Napoleon recently requested the United
States 10 recognize" Macmillan, the fit answer
to this impudent proposition was, that the United
States could not be party to the imposition oi
slavery upon free people! He might in turr
have asked if the French nation had sunk so low
as to act the disgraceful part Of pander to slave
dealers, and if the French colors and arms were te
be used, in the face Of the whole world, to estab
lish slavery on free soill