The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-20

There wasa brief telegram in the despatch.
es, yesterday, announcing the solution Of I
diplomatic difhcalty 10 proftles end of .
pet project of henephew of hisuncle, intend
ed tobe the development Of grand Imperial
co6cepdon. The telegram sad that the
French army, with BazAine, had evacuated
Mexico. And in his annual address, Nspo-
leon had stsasd the failure Of his Mexican
scheme. He puts the gloss Of words over the
project. He assures us that he acted rs the
evangel of peace he had the loveliest and
peaceablest of intentions; it was all good
vail 10 men. He wanted 10 sestnfe IN an
Gent government, and bring general svset-
ness, and the oil Of gladness unite tie Mexi-
cans. Amable Napoleon
He was disappointed. He expected the
United States to 60 under, or what is equiv.
alent to it, he wanted it to go into two pieces.
Uncle Sam had more pluck, fortitude and re-
sistance, than he had supposed, The South>
em Confederacy went under and the French
60 out of Mexico.
Gen. Curtis remarked to us short time
before his death, that there was not much
room for American Qualification over the
Mexican question, and the solution of it, SO
far a. the United States and the French EN-
peror were concerned that it was doubtless
more from Napoleon's necessities than from
any effective diplomatic management of ours
that the French troops were recalled. We
greatly think SO. In government, skill in not
doing it is the much more frequently needed
virtue than skill in doing it. 1t is high praise
in the diplomatist to be sure not to be blum
dering intermeddler. Mr.. Seward may be en>
titled to this measure of commentator, in
his management of the Mexican question.
That Napoleon's grand scheme of Mexican
imperialism should die of inanition, and 90
of into impalpable nothingness, after q sick
ly life Of four years, il much better probably
than to have taken the burden Of further war
upon US when we already staggered underth
weight of the rebellion. But let us appre-
bend the situation rightly. The American
cock didn't dnve the French cock ofthe Mex
lean dung heap. 1t went away because
there wasn't enough there to sustain life.
Not too much Growing.
1t is good thing to have kaotty matter
happily disposed Of There's room for graf
ulation that the France Mexican trouble
doesn't trouble us longer. We could have
put Max. and his Frenchmen out by force
would probably have had to do it in the
course of events, but we didn't do it. That
isn't our dead bear. The French regime in
Mexico was over when the Southern Confed.
eracy persisted. 1t was moribund from tina,
moment. With North and South govern.
ment occupying the present territory of the
Union. with the latter OF these an arstocracy
in spirit, however democratic in form, the
Emperor's scheme of Imperialism wonld have
been a success. The preservation of the
equilibrium of power between the North and
the South would have rendered that inevita,
BILE. When the effort to disrupt the Unior
failed, Imperialism in Mexico failed with it.
From the time our Government was out O.
its swaddling clothes, European powers re
spected the Monroe doctrine. 1t was not the
strength of the United States that was the pa
rent of that respect. With the element o
democracy in the home society Of every pow
er that would be likely to attempt TO extend
its jurisdiction to American shores, it ha
been patent that Imperialism must be an ex
otto to our soil, and if transported hithe
could gather no sustaining vitality. The &c
ographical and political relations Of the Nortl
and South with Mexico, in the event of di
vision of our Government, could alone hay,
made such a project at all feasible. Napo-
leon saw this, hence his course. But he il
not fool and just as soon as Southern Sc
cession failed, he saw that there had failet
all hopes for establishing European Imperial
ism on the North American continent. Hi
removal Of his soldiers from there is onl
significant of the only form of government
practicable in the Western hemisphere O
the force with which American principles g
on to work out their destiny.