The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-24
The New Foreign Policy of the Admin
tstratton.

the New Foreign Policy of the Admin
From the Herald.
The Administration, which has been for some
time under a cloud, we have reason to believe
will soon emerge into the full blaze of the noon
day sun. Experience is an exacting teacher,
but he is wise who accepts her lessons at any
cost. President johnson is evidently OF this
opinion; for we think it may be proclaimed as a
result OF the late elections that he has resolved
upon new departure that will bring his Ad-
ministration again into the foreground, and into
happy accord with Congress and public
opinion on the leading national questions of
the day. Leaving the Constitutional amend
ment for the present to take its course we un-
derstand that Mr.. job nson has decided without
further delay to turn over new Leaf and open
new chapter in reference to our unsettled
accounts against England and France. Indeed,
1t would appear, from the numerous reports set
afoat from Washington on the subject, that not
only has this new departure been resolved upon,
but that the initial steps towards It's execution
have already been taken.
Thus il is given out that in relatlen to our
claims against England on account of the late
piIatical depredatlons upon our commerce by
such Anglo-Rebel buccaneers as the Aobanea
and Shenandoah, positive requisition has been
sent out to our minister, Mr.. Adams, at London,
10 be by him laid before Lord Stanley, her
Majesty's present Secretary OF State Tor Foreign
Affairs. From recent speech OF Lord Stanley
and the latest views OF the London Times on
this matter, there is ground for the opinion that
to this alleged demand from our Government
there will be satisfactory response. In any
event. coupled with the alternative of the seizure
of the Canadas and the adjoining provinces, the
demand IS a sure card for the Administration.
With the recognition and settlement of toe
claims, our Government will be vindcated and
placed in its proper attitude before the American
people and the world, so far as England and the
controversy of belligerent neutral and insur-
With fiat rejection of our demand, call for
volunteers tor descent upon the Canadas
would rally within fortnight hundred
thousand fighting Fenians along the border,
and according 10 General Sherman, six weeks
by this process would settle the Canadian ques-
tlon. With England it is the concession of
some thirty millions OF dollars, more or less,
and the maritime rights involved in the dispute
or the loss oil an empire; while to our Admins
tration there will be the honors and the glory of
great triumph upon either alternative.
In regard to France and the Mexican i'm
broglio the programme of settlement which, as
reported the Administration has agreed upon,
is, first, the retirement OF the French usurpa-
ton-troops Emperor, bag and baggage. and
the recognition by France of the republic as
recognized by the United States. Secondly the
assumption by the United States of the debt
due to France from the Mexican republic; and
thirdly, an equivalent TO our Government from
s sala republic IN the shape OF accession OF terri:
tory embracing the northern frontier States of
Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and the penin-
sula of Lower California, with the great gulf
seven hundred miles long which separates that
| peninsula from the mainland According to
tnls plan France will be permitted to retire
SnSoe,enlly and without serious loss, the Monroe
Wc v,I1 Inc wil be yndicated, the Mexicen repub-
reyolnt,oo DS eonsoldated in being diVested OF the
tion Of sa states named; while the acuuisi-
nn;nos nf sMo Mo states, with their inevhanstihle
It'Nt vi enSer and gold, and their o,raat anI.
cultural ano commercial adSa~teos sieas t Il aSIl-
we look 10 cheap and short consss-s, Wnelher
road or TO the command OF the ppihental pal rall-
will be worth to us a hundred t,meSsi SSiae Ocean,
legitimate claims of France which Syer WH the
assume. snail
This line of policy in regard to Me zico win h0
as satisfactory to the country as the ultmatnum1 I'M
suggested in reference to ENGLAND. In both
cases, If carried out, there will be glory enough
tor President Johnson's administration; pro-
vided, always, that he stands no more in the
way of the Constitutional amendment But, in
behalf ofthe Monroe doctrine, he may still profit
ably extend his new policy to the removal OF
Spain from South American affairs, and even to
the reorganization of Brazil as a republic
through common alliance secured among the
republics surrounding her. Thus, with popular
governments established throughout this con.
tinent, and all combined as In common cause
against European interventions or intrigue, the
! United states, as the head of this grand Ameri