The New York herald., 1867-03-29

preOlcteu out our muniCipdi uudlIS nave
come to such pass that our taxpaying citi-
zens would doubtless welcome almost any
change. No change could easily be for the
worse. The proposed extension Of negro
suffrage was defeated but 1t is likely that the
Convention will make special provision for it
in the new constitution. Perhaps the advo-
Gates Of women's suffrage will also make a
dead set at the Convention for recognition Of
their claims, with what success we shall see.
Very Pretty Quarrel ms II Stands.
In q recent debate in the French Senate the
Duke de Persigny, in pleading the advantages
of a ministry which is not responsible to the
Cabinet, which is not dismissed by an adverse
vote Of the House of Representatives, and then
he turned to England, where the Cabinet is
subordinate to the Commons, and said, in
making his comparison -
TAX. the case of America during Me late ,odr The
Chambers of the North were as ardent the govern
responsible ministers had been sitting in them-do you
suppose the issue would have been the Certainly
not At erery battle lost there uoud haze been change Of
inisry apsa of the STATE and the rcat Of the Grmes
sCold haze eserded TO all nsens mind. Hear hear)
Look at the attitude of England during that struggle The
sentiments Of our neghbors were not doubtful ASSURED
~ their rshes not TOR the reet1blisms, 9 tie Union.
Neper finer occasion presened TO fire. England for
responsible ministers were there They counted the
ranks Of their adversaries-so many radicals who will
vote for the Union from political passion; SO many torie
who though they wish for the same things as the whig
will against them to turn them out Before this
calculation they stopped short inert and discouraged
Shades Of Pit and Chatham you ought to saudder for
the insment chich your hands cos one Of force has
become in those Of your successors one Of oedsness!
Now, considering that France was in the
same boat with England, and that each desired
the destruction of this great republic, this is
rather back-handed compliment Of the French
Minister Of State to his masters devoted ally.
We see what the Duke is driving at but this
illustration may lead to some curious disclo-
sures, and perhaps to serious consequences
touching the entente cordiale between France
and England. eu
In reply to this assault Of Persigny on siper-
fde Albion" the London Times is quite severe,
and is evidently desirous of clearing England
of the charges made with regard to the United
States. 1t says, "When the golden opportunity
(Which NJ Persigny refers to) lately presented
itself England shrank from aiding France to
break up the United States by supporting the
Southerners and by establishing a Mexican en-
pire." Then 1t adds that "under no government
whatever would England have marched one
foot in such desperate and gratuitous crusade"
There is an old proverb which says that when
rogues quarrel just men get their rights. We
may say that when these guilty Powers, France
and England, quarrel over their hostility to
the American republic during the war we are
likely to get at the truth. Persigny says "the
sentiments Of our neighbors (the English) were
not doubtful. Assuredly their wishes were not
for the re-establishment Of the Union" He
says this boldly before all the world, and he no
doubt knows what the wishes of England were
The fact is he has uttered an unpalatable
land by asserting that she would not enter
into such desperate and gratuitous crusade.
Now, we are aware that England declined to
enter into Napoleon's Mexican imperial scheme
at the eleventh hour; but we know that she
encouraged IT and eagerly recognised the en-
pire Of Macmillan on the earliest opportunity,
as did oil the other monarchical governments
Of Europe. Then, as to wishing to see the
Union dismembered, was not England the first
to recognize the rebels as belligerents! Was
not the sympathy Of the ruling classes in that
country openly manifested for them! No one
here has ever doubted that England desired to
see the Union broken up. France, or rather
Napoleon, was more bold afterwards in the
Mexican imperial scheme, and, we may say,
more imprudent and Quixoic, but England
was not less hostile TO the American republic.
We owe neither anything for good feeling,
and in our success and strength we can afford
to smile at their unfriendy and futile efforts to
injure us. 1t is amusing TO notice these recrimi-
naiions-the quarrel Of the delinquents over
their misconduct and folly. We shall hear,
probably, much more; for this tilt Of Persieny
and the Tines is but the beginning of the con-
troversy. BY all means let us have full con-
fession. It will be good for the soul II not for
the entente cordiale, and may be both interest
ing and profitable to us.
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