The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-14

the best guarantee the French Go
vernment could have that the Federal
Government would not impede the
consolidation of the new order of
things in Mexico would be the re-
cognition by the latter OF the En-
peror Maximilian.
The Governor OF Ohio Oh the Monroe
Doctrine.
Gov. Anderson, of Ohio, seems to
have Il profound contempt for the
Monroe doctrine. We quote the fol-
lowing from his recent message, as
giving his feeling on this subject:
sBut the question which really
concerns us now is, not what its his
tory or it's clap-trap name might
imply it to be, but what it is in it's
own simple nature. And, as it seems
to be now translated, it is PROPOSE
tion for our Government, entirely
without invitation to elect itself into
sort of parent or guardian for the
whose family or batch of Spanish
American Republics and peoples on
this entire continent, and to protect
them, by arms, or menace of arms,
against real or imaginary conspiracy
by all the crowned heads of Europe.
''Our first inquiry ought to be
whether, in the nature of the thing,
Or by it's word or spirit, our Constitu-
ton has in its original terms, or by
any amendment or implication Of
either, ut all endowed our National
Government with any such guardian
ship over all the imbeciles OF the con-
tinent or the globe 1t is true, this
is a domestic question, wholly be-
tween ourselves-the people and it's
Government. It is not for Europe
to make this point of objection
But, as one of the people, AM with
oat present argument, [ demand the
warrant for this doctrine or measure" ="
Again
GAS individual philanthropists, it
were as wise for rs to spend our
money and shed our blood for the
abstract right of any empty meal bag
to stand alone For the rest, if they
were worth our going to war for, they
would not need our help in war At
their distance from Europe, and amid
their other circumstances of advantage
they could easily repel all France and
Austria, much more the corporal's
guard which has subjugated them
Only compare what they have done in
this, their war, with the deeds our
own rebels and traitors in ours-reul
men. though they were following in
the example of Mexican conspiracy
and civil wars. We may thereby
discover the inutility of taxing and
drafting our people i'll their wars
And again
I'VE are not the nation, at this
time, by our precept or example, to
'que'l their disturbances and to sup
plant them by order and industry
We must first set our own house in
order, before we undertake the affairs
of all our neighbors
''1n short, one year of peaceful in
dustry by the Mexicans, Gf they could
only go back into AztecsY would be
of more money value, and of more
national honor, too, to us than de-
cades of war, with 4 century of con
quered possession Of these mines
and all their naked lands And
it must not be forgotten, in this CON
France would cost this nation, in the
loss Of its national credit and the de-
probation of its currency, more than
all Mexico is worth in fee simple.
And with its people encumbering the
ground-patriotism averts her eyes
from the horrid picture''
Once more:
cit is very trne-that neither
France nor Austria has any business
in Mexico. But the answer is very
plain-'no more have Wet Because
our Government was established for
the good of our own people 1t was
neither given to us to propagandize
liberty among the Mexicans and Hot
tentots, nor Christianity to the Sara
Gems of Jerusalem, nor the Chinese at
Pekin'
Finally:
1T is as if some old Knight of
Malta should now arise to urge upon