Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-01-25
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General WnoCAhuE ossss
The governments OF England anu
prsnee are on the "back track" They
vusAed into positions while we were oc-
eop,ed In saving our own government
erom destruction, which they now ma
70 be exceedingly uncomfortable 7
England established rule in regard
N the fitting out and arming OF priva'
teers In her ports, to prey under the req
81 Tag upon our commerce, when
would be the most destructive rule pos
s,ble to herself In case she becomes In
yolyed in war. British commerce upon
the seas Is Britain's most important in
terest; and she is now most uncomiort-
ABLY contemplating future in which,
under her own international doctrine
and practice, privateers fitted out IN our
ports may sweep her commerce out OF
existence. We are therefore now iaVor-
ed with such expressions as this late one
from the London Times
ave still look forward to q time
when this source OF difference shall have
blown over, and q joint commission,
perhaps not limited in England and
America, shall be appointed to recast the
whole chapter of international law
which treats of neutral rights and du-
ties"
There Is no objection to that, provided
England first pays us for the damage
done by her privateers during our war.
But to allow her the benefit oil rule
all through our difficulties which was
very profitable to her and damaging TO
us, and then, without reparation, TO set
up new Interpretation OF international
law for the purpose of warding OH any
possibility that her peculiar style OF
neutrality may return with vengeance
upon herself, would be such one sided
arrangement as sharp Yankees are not
in the habit of entering into. She viz
tually confesses that her course has
been inconsistent with her obligations
as a neutral. She virtually backs
ont" But she must pay damages be-
fore she attempts to bind US to any new
rule for her benefit.
France, too, is evidently anxious tC
back out of Mexico. The crushing o.
the Southern rebellion and the re.estao
hshment of this country in its integrlt.
has not suited the calculations and plan
of the French government any NOR
than of the English. The Moniteur i
the Emperor Napoleon's official gazette
and that paper now says;
when the French government pre-
sented itself in that country, (Mexlco,
its object was solely and wholly to en-
force, as the United States themselve
had previously done, whole series Q
claims which had been treated with II
solent disregard. Circumstances whic
1t was not in the power of Napoleon Ii
to prevent obliged him to declare wa
against the government which then hel
mower in Mexico. That governmer
has fallen; another has succeeded /
sprung from universal suffrage. Franc
was naturally obliged to defend again
insurrectional attacks the administr
tion which alone could secure the repi
ration of her Just grievances. ii
French Cabinet has shown by all
acts. as by all its declarations, VIII
were the objects it pursued. 1t has
aims at conquest and it has taken not
Ing, accepted nothing it desires to
tain nothing of the vast extent Of cou
try occupied by its troops. Its occur
ton, as it is now understood in the Vi
ted States, is purely a temporary one a
will cease with the causes which Great
il"
Which, being interpreted" mea
that since the conclusion of our "
and the triumphant restoration OF
Union, Napoleon has given up the he
of being able to enforce his little schen
on this continent, and will retire at
first favorable opportunity for doing
gracefully. We have only to keep
the reserve" and the Mexican quest
will work itself out, and Napoleon Y
work himself out, in a short I'll
There Is no occasion for war.