The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-02-21

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FRANCE AHnfrHE MONROE DOCTRINE.
The act d recognizing the rebel bellge-
rents was CO.. cerfe{ with France Ffence, 80
! beloved ID america, d, which she had con-
fsrred the greatest beiisafs that one people
ever conferred on snotitf; France, which
| stands foremost on the continent Of Europe
| for the solidity Of her culture, as well as for
| the bravery a1d generous impulses of her
/ sons: Frsnce, which for centuries had been
| moving stesdily in its own way towards in
| tellectual ana political freedom. The policy
regarding further colonization of America
| by European Powers, known commonly as
| the doctrine Of Monroe, had its origin in
4 France: and i il talzes any mans name,
should ,r IS {be shame 81 furQot. Il was adop,
| ted by "a the si<teenft, Ii the Cabinet Of
which Va bnes wss Is Misrepresentation
Der It Is enphatica1l <Ize policy of France;
to which With trslI Ieiif deviations he
/ Bouroons. tie First Napoleon, the House Of
Orleans have ey1 Adhefed.
III rroz kxpol. ~ III, = xico.
resident = = 61tIIe (dSlIy harl
! asscd ~ q 0fs that fde Empe sj3oleon
the Third bred form y 53niize the
states ii i 1liorl as Is 81 ~ jIent power,
! and that Ed 3end held y a b6ok by her re-
/ luctance, OF ance by bel tfadiifions Of free
dom. 81 be Hlselfby hisz1Nn better judg-
ment snd cI5f perceptio1 of events. But
! the Republi& tf Mexico, on our borders was
| like ourselves distracted By rebellion. and
| from similaf cause The monarchy Of Eng
land had fastened upon US slavery which ii a.
not disappeaf with Independence; in Ike
manner Cid eeQesiasti teal policy established
by he Spdnis council ofthe indies in the
daysof Charles The Fifth, and Phillip the
Second, &taiped yigor in the Mexican re
| publ n Ie IA uars Of civil wa untfur'
Wild ~ languished was due
| to tn gstem which was the
! legacy of me- just as here the inheri-
lance of slal .fy &pt alive political strife.
and culminatedH{n civil war; As with US
there could beno quiet but through the end
| of slavery, 90. in Mexico there could be no
prosperity until the crushing tyranny of in
| tolerance should cease. The party of slave
| ~ in the United States sent their emissaries
to Europe to solicit aid; and so did the par
| ty of the church in Mexico, as organized by
the old Spanish council of the Indies but
with different result. Just as the Repub-
! lican party had made an end of the rebellion
and was establishing the best govern
ment ever known in that region, and giving
promise to the nation of order, peace and
prosperity, word wasbruught US, in the mo-
| ment of our deepest affection, that the
4 French emperor, moved BY desire to erect
\ in North America buttress for Imperialism,
would transform the republic of Mexico into
la secundo -geniture for the house of Haps-
bgrgh. America might complain; she could
1 not fhou interpose, and delay seemed justif-
able:s<1t was seen that Mexico could not,
| with all its wealth of land, complete in Ger
cal products with our northwest nor, in trop
ical products, with Cuba; nor could it I'M
der disputed dynasty, attract capital, or
create public works, or develope mines, or
! borrow money; so that the imperial system
of Mexico, which was forced at once to re-
cognise the wisdom of the policy of the re
public by adopting it, could prove only an
unremunerating drain on the French treasury
for the support of an Austrian adventurer.
THE PERPETUITY OF REPUBLICAN INsrTrU-
TIoNs.
Meantime, new series of momentous
| questions grows up, and forces itself ON
\ the consideration of the thoughtful. Repub-
licanism has learned how to introduce into
| its constitution every element of order, as
well as every element of freedom but thus
far the continuity Of its government has
seemed to depend on the continuity of cleo
| tons. 1t is now to be considered how per-
1 petuity is to be secured against foreign occu-
I patton The sued ssor of Charles the First
| of England dated his reign from the death
| of his father; the; Bourbons, coming back
after long series Of revolutions, claimedt that
the Louis who BECAME king was the eigh-
tenth Of that name. The present emperor
of the French, disdaining title from cleo
ton alone, is called the third of his name
| Shall a republic have less power of continu-
ance when invading armies prevent peace
full resort to the ballot-box? What force
shall it attach TO intervening legislation p
What validity to debts contracted for its
overthrow These momentous questions are
by the invasion of Mexico thrown up for so
luton: A free State once truly constituted
\ should he as undying as its people; the re-
\ public of Mexico must rise again.
THE POPE OF ROME AND THE REBELLroN.
It was the condition of affairs in Mexico
! that involved the Pope of Rome in our diff
culties so far that he alone among temporal
soyepzsns recognized the chief of the Con-
fedez$1esStates as president, and his sup
| pQlt ~ = . people; and in letters to two
Exf9 rs Of the Catholic Church in the
Til EItes gave counsels for peace at u
fine &Aen peace meant the victory of seces-
sssioH Yet events move as they are ordered.
| The Blessing IT the Pope at Rome on the
Head df Duke Maxiailian could not revive
In the nineteenth century the ecclesiastical
policy Of the sixteenth /; and the result is only
a new proof that there can be No prosperity
in the Stale without religious freedom.
THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
When It came home to the Consciousness
Of the Americans that the war which they
were wsging was & war for the liberty Of all
the nations of the world for freedom itself,
| they thanked God for the severity of the
! trial to which he put their sincerity, and
nerved themselves for their duty with an in
exorable will The President was led along
by the greatness of their selfsacriicing ex-
ample; andas6 child, in a dark night on a
rugged ReJ clses hold of the band of its
father bee and support, he chung
4 fas1 ~ hAnd pf the people and moved
cali Through he gloom. White the states
manship of Euppe was scofing at the hope
lessx<fity of their efforts, they put forth
sucE Iiraclesof energy as the history OF the
word had never known. The navy, Of the
United States drawing into the public SER
vice the willing militia of the seas, doubled
its tonnage in eight months, and established
an actual blockade from Cape Hatteras to the
Rio Grsnde; in the course qf the warit was
increased five fold in men and in tonnage,
while the inventive geniuso THE country de
yised more effective kinds ~ ordinance, and
1 new forms Of naval architecture in wood and
/ irun- There went into the field, for various