The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-03-27

that licenses granted BY the general government under
the Internal Revenue laws wholesale liquor dealers,
do not protect tho dealer licensed from prosecution
under State laws prohibiting the traffic in liquors Tho
Supreme Court has also again decided that the stocks of
the national banks are subject TO taxation BY the State
authorities
The treaty With the Sioux Indians has been ratified
The Indians bind themselves To withdraw from the over
land routes established through the Territories and to
discontinue all future attacks persons and property
The government Is to pay them thousand dollars
annum for ten years
The troubles Of the Texans with the Indians their
Mexican frontier has increased at such ratio that tho
Texas Convention has sent delegation Washington to
ask aid from the President while companies for local
defence have boon organized and armed.
The Emperor's New Plan-A Franco-SIex-
lean Republic.
The United States government has been in
formed, upon apparently good authority, th.t
attempt at Mexican empire and to re-estab-
lish the republic, putting Marshal Bazaine at
its head Professionally and until the people
can make another choice. Such solution
would be satisfactory to the American people.
1t would acknowledge in the broadest way the
great error committed by Napoleon in the
initiation Of the imperial scheme-the error Of
ignoring the existence and defying the power
Of this nation; for this change would be neither
| more nor less than an act of obeisance to the
American people. It would be made, purely
and simply, under the pressure Of American
public opinion, and in Difference to the popular
sentiment on the subject in the United States.
This change of policy would declare with the
emphasis of a great fact the supremacy and
reality of the Monroe doctrine, since it would
be the acknowledgment of the ablest sovereign
of Europe that even with the greatest military
people Of that continent behind him, he could
not, in defiance of the United States, determine
according to his will the destiny of the weakest
of American States, but must after four years
of trial and an expenditure Of one hundred and
ninety millions of dollars, endeavor at the last
to secure the success of his plans by giving
them . character likely to commend them 10
our favor.
The Emperor Napoleon has hitherto shown
q disposition TO accommodate his plans to this
pressure of American sentiment. His announce
ment in the speech from the throne of the in
| tention to withdraw the French troops con-
veyed this. He said on that occasion: "The
emotion produced in the United States by
the presence of our troops on the Mexican
soil will be pacifed by the frankness of our
declarations" He bowed his purpose to the
will of excited people, and now wise defe-
renee to that will becomes his guiding star.
That he should act in this spirit Is all the
country requires. The empire is failure and
| disaster, and this scheme for the establish
ment Of republic affords its author his only
opportunity to escape without humiliation from
the consequences of his error We can give
up some small points for the triumph Of our
national idea thus involved in the Empcror's
course, and to secure the freedom Of the peo-
pie in whoss behalf W, have protested agains.
the empire. II we insisted upon the very let
ter of the Monroe doctrine, 1t would protest
against European occupation of this continent
for any purpose; but since tho Emperor by
this scheme so broadly comedies the spirit of
that celebrated doctrine, we are not 80 pressed
fora cause, nor is our dignity so in danger, that
we need make trivial differences We may accept
the Franco-Mcxican republic that tha Emperor
thus boldly proposes, and even Marshal Ba.
zainc rs its provisional ruler-especially If IL
shall be shown that tho election by which the
people may choose constitutional President
will not be too positively affected by the
presence in the country of SO many French
bayonets.
Perhaps the most remarkable consequences
of this change in the Emperor's policy will be
seen in France. He acknowledges that with
all the wealth and military power of France at
his disposal, he cannot build up an empire in
defiance of the will of people. From this
the French will gather the useful lesson that, as
, empires cannot stand in defiance Of popular
! will, the empire in France also must become q
republic whenever II suits the will OF the people
to require the change. The effect will be remark
able, too, on the soldiers thus used to build up a
republic in distant land. When the French
soldi RS that assisted in our revolutionary wal
went home, they said: ave helped to make Q
: republic in America-why should we mol
| make one here ut home ~ The French Rcvo
luton was the result. And the French sol
! diers building up a republic in Mexico may
when they go home, ask themselves equall,
natural questions. and their questioning ma.
, have equally great consequences.
A WARNING TO BROADWAY PROPERTY OwN
ERs.--We deem IL important at this time Il
o warn all those who oppose the construction o
o a railroad on Broadway that there Il danger
the Legislature will be humbuggcd into allow
!. ing the grant in some shape or other. Al
!. immense amount Of money has been sent t.
v Albany for this purpose, and if money can &C
p complish the end there is no lack Of that ma
d ierial. The numerous schemes Of ovcrgroun
= ], and underground railroads arc likely to prov