The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-18
The Monroe Doctrine.

Our correspondent in London is,
as his letters show, gentleman of
culture and judgment. His oppor-
tunities for obtaining information on
international subjects are of q much
higher character than those possessed
by correspondents of the American
press generally. These observations
will, we presume, have occurred to
the minds of his readers; and we
make them here only for the purpose
of giving proper weight to the i'm
portant announcements which he has
made, in his letter of the Oath of last
month, touching the French policy
in Mexico
The French soldiers in the service
of Macmillan will, our London cor
respondent assures us, be withdrawn
from Mexico, gradually, after the
close of next spring or at the begin
ming of summer. But the number
which will return, under that move
ment, to France, will not include all
the men at present serving Maxi
milan in the army of occupation.
Very considerable numbers Of them
will be transferred to the service of
the Mexican throne. A much larger
proportion of the officers of the
French troops now in the country are
to receive commissions from Maxi
milan; and thus will that Prince
maintain in his employment all the
machinery necessary for working q
large army. A system of land boun-
ties is to be originated, for stimulat-
ing military emigration from Eu-
rope; and thus. while the transfers
from the French service, the impor-
tations of the foreign legion, and the
enlistments of native Mexicans, will
supply the rank and file of the army
intended to take the place of that of
Marshal Bazaine, those land bounties
will keep it at the required strength
by constant recruitments. And the
European accessions thus provided
for will, under the plan proposed for
attracting them, take their places, at
the expiration of five years, as settlers
of the country, until, in fifteen OF
twenty years, the throne of Mexico
will find, ready to its uses, q seasoned
soldiery, liable to be taken at any
time from the reins of the plow-
horse, to be belted in the harness Of
war
Our English correspondent asserts
that, making q virtue of what he
holds, under the present state of the
country, necessity, Mr.. Seward looks
on at the replacement of the French
army in Mexico with complacency
The Federal Government, our cor
respondent affir1ns, is pledged to rigi6
neutrality III reference to the affairs
of Mexico; and will enforce that neu-
trality by the issue Of proclamation
cautioning all our citizens
against its violation. This being the
fact, we can see in the plans for sup
plying the Mexican Emperor with
military material, the solution of the
Mexican question in a fashion very
comforting to the soul of Macmillan.
The recognition of that Prince by
this Government is clearly foreshad-
owed in that state of facts; but, even
though MI. Seward may have been
obliged, under the weakness of the
domestic division caused by the
Radicals, to make those concessions
to the Emperor of the French, we dc
not abandon the belief that the Ameri-
can people will refuse to give up the
Monroe doctrine for ever, in order to
keep the Republican factionists in
Office, or to glorify the negro
Ne,o York Neps.