Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-15

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was to be a mere redress Of the grievances
of the foreign creditors Of Mexico, he
lured England and Spain into the under
taking. until the discovery Of its real OBJ
jects revolted the homes, instincts Of those
nations. He mex pretended that the
choice of II ruler for themselves should be
lef, to the Mexican people, but when the
time came, u scion Of the House Of Haps-
burg wa forced upon them at the point
of French bayonets. Since then. thou
sands of the best Mcxicans have been
wantonly slain. because they would not
submit TO this usurpation of their native
country by a dynasty which had no more
right to rule it than the first upstart in the
crowd. When the United States began to
protest against the outrage-this open, I'M
| provoked. cruel and Infamous assault
upon the independence of na,ions-hc was
bold enough while our civil war lasted, to
urge the recognition Of the rebels even
upon England, in the interest OF his crime;
bu, when the wal was over he prevaricat-
ed and shufied. For more than Il year
he has intima,ed his Willingness to with
draw his troops, bu, all the while has
been sending forward reinforcements.
Now, when the irmness of President
Johnson, sustained BY the almost unani-
nous feeling OF the people, has forced our
diplomacy into something like decision
and earnes,ness, he makes another an
nouncement OF his purpose to back out OF
his iniquity.
Certainly there is nothing in the words
| Of the speech TO give US much assurance.
Louis Napoleon says "that preparations
are making to withdraw the French
troops" He has said that before; but
what we want to know is not that at some
time or other he intends TO think about
devisiug. or bordering, or considering, or
cogitating a plan by which it may, will,
should, or can be possible to withdraw his
forces; but that they will be withdrawn
a, a certain day. say the Fourth Of July
next. The promise, as it now stands, may
mean tina, he will set about Withdrawing
them mex, year. or the year after, or five
years hence; but the American people are
determined 10 have the invaders out at
once. \. crime so atrocious and fragrant
as that Of ,rampling out the life OF a ma
ton. Of supplanting free republican insti-
tons by a foul ~despotism, dug out Of the
muck of European decay. is not a crime
with which we can daily. Our Govern
ment must tell the perpetrators Of it to be
of instantly, with their entire crew Of
mercensry agents.
The idea of invading Mexico was origin
ally bad enough, but its results have been
even worse han the original conception.
Do the generous, liber,y-loving French
people know that their gallant brothers in
the army have been fighting in Mexico to
force upon a free people a system Of social
government which makes all workIngmen
the slaves of their employers: F~renchmen
are not lovers Of slavery, and it will be
bitter draught for them to swallow when
they learn that their flag, and their SOL
diers, and their money, are employed to
establish slavery upon soil which has been
free for generations, and make slaves Of a
people who have not known what slavery
was, except from the tales told them by
runaway slaves from the United States, to
whom they always gave a Christian well
come.
The decree Of Macmillan, making serfs
of the greater part Of the Mexican people,
is raising u storm against him in England.
The London Times. as usual. favors the
Arch Duke. 1t is loyal to only one thing
human bondage; but the liberal jour-
nails speak out loudly. The Spectator
says:
at is not established rs a palliative, AZ a
billy road from slavery to freedom, but is
| liDDD1Cu uDOu lllCl WIN laNC OCCu llCF vi q
generation, whose children are born free, and
who have seen one OF their own number rise
to the Presidency OF Mexico. No wonder
that after this decree arrived, the Times,
which has misrepresented il, showed such re-
l~uctauce in advising Napoleon to retire from
the country he was TO redeem from anarchy.
There has not been such u victory for slavery
since the day John Brown was hanged, or
such an hour Of pleasure for the journal
which in the South, and in the West Indies,
and on the coast Of Africa, and in Mexico,
pleads always with such varied arguments
that the laboring class shall be placed per-
manently At the disposal Of the employers OF
labor. Anarchy, forsooth! Better the hu-
three-fourths OF its inhabitants, having
achieved personal freedom, should thus be
reduced once more to pass their lives in
forced labor for the benefit Of n class to which
they cannot hope 10 belong; better fifty more
years Of anarchy than that the cause OF hu.
man freedom all over the world should be
thus wilfully arrested"
We wonder if it has occurred to Mr..
Seward that when Napoleon recently re-
quested the United States to " recognise
Macmillan, the fit answer to this impu-
dent proposition was. that the United
States could not be a party to the imposi-
ton Of slavery upon a free people. He
might in turn have asked if the French
nation had sunk so low as to act the dis
graceful part Of panderer to slave dealers,
and if the French colors and arms were to
be used, in the face OF the whole world, to
establish slavery on q free soil'
Ar THE BAYASD observation-disclosures
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