The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-29

intimaton conveyed BY the American Minister
to the Court OF Vienna that the Union would
no longer tolerate the embarkation oil auxiliary
troops destined 10 support the Emperor Maxi
milan. That measure was serious one, though
II made little noiee at the time, because Austria
had her hands full Of other business, and Europe
was on the eve or contest which gave her lit
tie leisure to attend to transatlantic afaire. The
conduct Of. America was hardly deiensible on
any principle of international law as hitherto
acknowledged, as 1t interfered With the indis-
Puta0ie right 70 mutual helpof two independent
States allied with one another, with neither Of
which the republic was at war.
:. 1t was the fret practical application of the
Monroe doctrine, and revealed the recovery of
the Union from the death-throes of the civil
war, the revival of her old pretensions, and her
determination to carry everything with high
hand. The state OF things had evidently changed
from what 1t was towards the end Of the year
1854, when the republic had to put up with the
landing Of a Belgian and an Austrian legion on
the sacred soil OF the Western continent.
That intimation, however, had diGerent aim
from that which IL bore on the surface. The ad-
dress was to Austria, but the note was intended
for France. With France herself America was
In no hurry. The Emperor Napoleon had thrown
out clear hints that the French occupation of
Mexico was drawing to close. The recall of his
troops was with him less matter OF choice than
OF necessity, and America was aware of the WIS
dom of building golden bridge for a retreating
zoe. snc wished for no quarrel with France;
sne set immense store by French friendship. In
the wolst extremties of the terrible trial she
had just gone through she had always evinced
the fondest production for France, less, per-
maps, from real feeling than with view to raise
the envy and jealousy of another power to which
she was then less friendly.
Although the sympsthies OF America have
lately been engrossed by more congenial OBJ
1ect, she was not so deeply in with her new 1--we
as TO wish herself altogether off with the old
one. she was in no mood to proceed to eytreHi-
ties with her former friend, and she considered
the evacuation OF Mexico as a matter already
TboH No,1
had aleo come to that same conclusion, was
anxious for compromise to the last He
thought he could deal with Mexico as he had
done with Rome. The State which was TO he
deprived of the support OF the French trooDs
could still rely on French 'protection, and this
protection should take the shape of mercenary
legions 1t was at this iuncture that America
stepped in with her veto, by which she very
clearly signihed to France that 'she France
her place."
II there is any man who should be condoled
with an account Of the final upshot of this sorry
Mexican business, 1t is not Maximilan; it is
that other Emperor out of whose brain the idea
OF transatlantic empire sprung, like Minerva
ron the head OF Jupiter, fullgrown and armed
70 the teeth, and who, in the consciousness of
hIs failure, has not even the meagre consolation
OF sharing the blame with his advisers or abet-
tors. The subjugation of Mexico was the En-.
peror Nap0ie0n's own scheme, and it rested on
two very natural but, as events proved, very
decided mistakes-one of which was his firm
belief in the irreconclable schism in the Anne. |
rlcan Union, the other conviction that internal |
quiet in France was not to be secured without |
The diversion OF some great foreign enterprise |
In both these errors Napoleon had at the |
TIME the concurrence of ninety-nine out of |
hundred thinkers in Europe. Only it behooves
man IN his station to soar with his views
above the ken of millions, and IL is remarkable.
above all things, that he of all men, who had !
l9pe nIr Egh toY@REds % @ tamips ths
development of public prosperity giving
Use to commercial tendencies, he who had
cen how reluctantly his army had followed nun
scross the Alps IN his war for an idea, should
low have deemed 1t necessary to embark
he same people are an Infinitely more arduous
Ind hazardous undertaking-an undertaking
rom which, even under the most favorable
suspices, no practically good results could be
'xpecled. However, it is much easier to faLl |
nto an error, even of so great a magnitude as |
he building up OF Mexican empire, than to
lave the courage and magnanimity, and II is In
al probability on retrograde errand OF that |
nature that Geneeal Cas- .leneau lately embarked
or Vera Cruz,