The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-22
Our Relations with Fr.nc.-

PARIS, January 0.-There is evil
dently considerable feeling of sore
ness growing mp here toward the
Government and people of the
United States This has arisen from
the publication of the correspondence
between Mr.. Seward, Mons. Druyn
de IHuys and Mr.. Bigelow, relative
to Mexican affairs, and from the
+ pressure brought, or attempted to be
brought, by the opposition press
here upon the Government, with the
object of hurrying up its movements
IN Mexico. The dispatches of Mr..
Seward, plainly and positively affirm
ing the utter impossibility of a recog-
milton by. the United States of the
Mexican Empire and Maximilian,
astonlshed people here by the firm
ness of their tone, and the Govern
ment press has evidently received the
mot d'ord,'e to treat them as of a
character menacing to France. In
tact, this feeling seems to be growing
now that Your Government has
brought too hard pressure upon
this; and the Government press, bv
series of articles, evidently written
with very sore feeling, seem dis
posed to make it appear that France
Is being menaced by the United
States. Once let this feeling become
prevalent and the same people who
have been the most opposed to the
Mexican biunder from the beginning.
will for the 'syJoire de la France"
join hands with the Government to
save it from any anticipated "humi-
iation."
The fdtrie followed up the article
IN the Constitutional which I forward
ed you by the last mail, with one of a
similar character, facetiously closing,
as did that one, with q regret that the
United States Government, not hav-
ing entered into relations with Maxi
milan, could not apply to him for
relief, aud could not, of course, apply
to Juarez, but denying all response
bility on the part of France.
La Fr0nca, in its yesterdays issue,
publishes the following, in reply to
an article in the Steele:
We applauded the declaration in
the discourse from the throne, an
nouncing the approaching end of our
expedition and the return of our
troops, and certainly it is not we who
endeavor to excite passions in such a
manner as to render an honorable So
luton impossible.
Those are bad citizens who wo7 "a
place their country. when that coun-
try is called France, between humilia-
ton and cowardice.
Those are bad citizens who, when
the flag Of France was floating in the
field of battle, openly expressed their
symDathies for the enemies we were
fighting.
Those are bad citizens who, for
more than a year, have excited against
US. by provocations more or less dis
guised, the evil passions which are
fomented by the partizans of Juarez
i'll the United States.
We desire that France shall come
out OF Mexico, but that she shall come
out as BELTS II grand people, in obe-
dlence to the injunction or laws of no
one, and having secured all the inte-
rests, moral and material, which call
ed her to those distant shores. as
grand and Us respected in leaving as
she was on her arrival.
On Saturday last, rumors of a de-
c!dedly alarming character We're in
circulation, and it was stated that the
French Government had determined
to reply to the recent dispatches of
Mr. Seward-and it was averred that
the response would be of character
even more than firm, giving our Go
vernment to understand that France
had only its dignity and interest to
consult in its foreign relations, with
ont paying attention to any other
consideration. The publication of
the correspondence relative to Mexi
co, contalnlnga Il communication of NJ.
Dr1yn de PHuys as late as the 25th of
january, fully refutc these rumors. as
there is nothing in it OF belligerent
character. Indeed, the Constitutional,
of This morning, in an article upon
the correspondence. takes very
colean' de rose view of the relations
which exist between this Govern
ment and yours. It is probable that
the tactics of the Government and
the Government jour .als have had
for their object the excitement of n
national feeling which will tend to
calm the growing impatience relative
to the continued occupation of Mexi-
co.--L6r. Nem York Herald.
NOVEL DEMAND.-Cur readers will
remember the publication, short
time siOcn of q 1ottor ,yr;t+o,, ~