New-York tribune., 1867-02-15
NEw-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Is 1867

zatiOn. and adopt means Of creating resources
for carrying on the administration Inc
Council OF State agreed to deliberate on these meas
ures, ana the Emperor consented to remain at the
head OF affairs and to labor for the regeneration or
the country. manifesto was published, addressed
to the nation. 1t is acknowledged that the Emperor
Of the French gave instructions to Marshal BaZane
10 support Maximilian's Government and plans, so
far as was consistent with the concentration OF
troops and other steps that had to be taken 70 pre-
pare Tor Their approaching evacuation OF nieAlco'
Such IS the succession of events and such the posi-
ton OF affairs which there is reason to believe the
Mexican Circular sketches more fully and IN greater
detail than has here been set down. Reading De
tween the lines shall perhaps find IN that dOci-
ment, when it shall be given TO the public, mnch
more tnan at first will meet the eye; rToDo1hH any,
thinking man ever considered it in the least prob
able that Napoleon would go to war with the
United states to maintain the Mexican Empire.
well and kindly both by Macmillan ana by the
Mexcans but events turned out differently to
his expectation and the force mGjeWe left hun no al
tentative While sparing him on account OF ms good
intentions, the Mexican lmperialists may well Wlsh
to mark their sense of the misconduct of his agents
who have acted though they desired, before with
drawing from Mexico, to deprive MaXimilian OF every
chance of maintaining himself after their departure,
by apprOptiating his last available financial re-
sources, and by behaving toward the people III way
to stimulate disafiecOn, and 10 drive them 10 swell
the ranks of the insurgents. The French Generals
have too often forgotten that in Mexico they were
not in eneInN's country and their soldiers nave
been too prone to treat the people B6d0ain 1t Is
easy to understand that little that has passed has
been revealed 1t scarcely possible that 1t should
be while the Mexican Government was IN the power
of French Generals The French papers would
naturally be closed TO complaints of the Kind alluded
to: the American papers would be mstr1sted when
treating of Mexico; Spanish papers, whether Euro
pean or transatlantic are read by few. 1t is possible
that the withdrawal of extraordinary powers from
Marshal Bazine, recently announced indicates
knowledge of things previously concealed.
Others conjecture that it is meant as satisfaction
given to Maximilian for attempts at coercion made
by Bazaine. with a view TO recover papers cOmpro-
missing the French Government. The letters IN ques
tion were not obtained. and, perhaps 1t Is now
sought TO avoid their publication. We may rely upon
il that when once the French have left Mexico. aud
when those whom they have abandoned TO most
uncertain fate have no longer the same motives as at
present to conciate or to spare them, some curious
facts will transpirc for the edfiCatOn OF the w0rd
and for the consideration of the historian who shall
hereafter treat this curious episode OF French I'M
nerial intervention in the affairs OF the Western
hemisphere.