The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-02

ers, and that there is great excitement anu the
probability of Il difficulty in consequence.
THE ME1IGiN sITU4TI0N.
The last news brought by mail from Europe
indicate that at 1. very early day the French
Emperor will withdraw oil support from MAXI
MILAN, and that he will, in all probability, take
his departure for Europe Tie London Tines,
which seldom predicts political events unless
advisedly, says: "The year 1865, which has
been so fatal to Germanic thrones, will witness
the collapse of more modern monarchy in
the New World. It is not to be disscmbled that
the Mexican enterprise is hopeless failure,
and that the empire founded in the capital Of
the Aztecs by NAPOLEON III. has withered
away without so much as taking root in the
SOIL The Empress arrived in Europe short
time ago, and the Emperor, it is expected, must
soon follow his spouse. The country, intact,
must be abandoned by its imperial occupants,
like worthless settlement or an untenable
colony, and Mexico will once more be left at
the disposal of q population which has hitherto
exhibited an absolute incapacity for any form
of Self-govemment."
If the Mexicans have learned during period
Of foreign occupation any of the duties of
civilized men, or have qualified themselves for
becoming the citizens Of an organized and re-
sponsible State, we shall be reaay to hail the
phenomenon Of native government with all
satisfaction; but in the absence or obscurity of
any such prospect we canneot but record our re-
gret ut the failure of an enterprise which was
calculated to do good TO many, md which as
suredly did wrong to none. -Four years ago
the Emperor of the French commenced the ad-
venture which is now drawing to close. lie
did not stand alone in his opinion that the con-
dition Of Mexico was scandal to the civilized
world and that the deeds of it's rulers, if such
they could be called, had provoked the inter-
vention of European arms in the suppression of
so inyeterate nuisance. The Times remarks
that England and Spain were entirely agreed
with France in their estimate of Mexican de-
serts. We know that both powers actually
Joined in the expedition against the country,
but England; with her usual diplomatic trickery,
backed out so soon as it became o fixed pur-
pose, and Spain declared herself unwilling to
act as shareholder in the undertaking. So it
remained for the Emperor of the French alone,
and sngle-handed, to carry out the scheme, to
what it cannot be denied was its logical and
natural conclusion. If the only intention en-
tertained by the combined powers was that Of
exacting from the Mexicans q promise of better
behaviour, the expedition was useless, for q
single sloop-of-war at>any one Of the Mexican
scaports, could easily have obtained the re-
quired pledges, which had already been hun
dred times given, and q hundred times forfeited.
But the outrages committed by the Mcxicans
had been SO incessant, and their defiance Of oil
international law SO intolcrablc,,that it was
resolved to make an end to the business once
and for all, and to substitute responsible
Government Of some kind or other, for what,
during long period of years, had been nothing
but sanguinary and hopeless anarchy. So
the Emperor NAPOLEON, utter the English and
Spanish contingents had been Withdrawn, main
tanned his occupation of the country, and took
possession Of the capital.
1t would be of no great advantage, under
present circumstances, to investigate the history
of the failure of the enterprise All the con-
ditons of it turned out more or less unfayorably
to the design of NAPOLEON, although the Prince
whom he had selected for the new throne
proved, by common consent, Sovereign ot
excellent intentions and more than average ca:
pacity. But q ruler, however wise, or how
ever worthy, must have some support for llif
government, especially in q disorganizcd coun-
try, and yet, US events showed, there was nc
kind Of support to be procured in Mexico, and
no sufficient support TO be contributed from
without. 1t was thought that if there was such
things as public, and a public opinion, in
Mexico, they would be attracted to a Prince
who offered, ut any rate, government instead OF
anarchy, and law instead Of disorder But
either there were not such things or they were
repellcd by foreign dynasty, and MAMMALIAN
could reckon for active support gu the French
garrison only.
1t happened, too, hat the French people,
though SO addicted to military enterprise in
gencral, conceived Il strong aversion for this
expedition. The troops themselves dislkcd the
service, and their countrymen Mt home hardly