Year: 1863




It is generally conceded on all hands that
Mexican affairs are assuming dangerous atti
tude. For nearly two years past Napoleon, the
gamester and demagogue, has thrown out every
possible diplomatic bait which might aid in in.
ducing the English Government to CO operate
with France in recognizing the Davis Confed-
eracy. The last and only hope of the South is
that her broken.down cause will at the last mo-
ment be sustained by protectorate WHICH shall
place her ont of the Union, thus giving her
kind OF success, based on the final dismember
ment of the States.


The deep laid scheme of the French Emperor
TO humble Mexico, aud establish the power of the
Empire on this continent, has met with partial
success. A crushed Republic on our Southern
shores is to give way to despotisa. While en-
gagged in the greatest struggle AMERICA has ever
been called to witness, we ere compelled to look
on and see the Monroe doctrine trampled under
foot by the French despot But though we are
in crippled condition just now it is far from our
belief that either Donaparte or Macmillan
will ever sit easy on Mexican throne. Ameri.
pSS'sS'N'
given European powers to understand that we as
Americans intend to settle this matter OF rebel
lion ourselves, and that any attempt on their
part to interfere viii be considered just cause for
war If il sbalI'oome TO pass that there is good
cause for doing, we hope to see the President
and his entire Cabinet say to France and other
meddlcsome foreign powers, distinctly, that
though we may have enough to do at home, there
is point beyond which their encroachments will
not go unheedcd


The scheme OF European monarchists ia to ef
feet disruption, and thus humble power which
before the rebellion, and even at the present
lime is too formidable to be safely encountered.
The enemies of liberty on both sides of the At
lantic are working increasingly to overthrow a
Government of the peoples choice, and thus
make monarchy the universal rule. Flounderi1g
on the ouicksands she has made for herself the
South now sends her emissaries with an offer to
place herself under a thing to
! accomplish the damnng scheme Of disunion-
and agrees TO modify for despotsm an institu.
ton lor WHICH she has ever demanded the most
absurd guarantees. But the effort will be a
failure, and every additional act of hers will only
make the infamy deeper and blacker, while the
hopes of final restoration OF the Union grow
hourly brighter Gnd brighter.


Why was this war initiated by the South? Was
il on the supposition that she, unaided, could ac-
c0mplish her reasonable designs? Far from it..
It was commenced with the belief that either
Fra2ce or England, or perhaps both, would, for
the sake of procuring the staple product Of the
Gulf States, recognize her at once. But the
hope vas groundless, and she will go down listen
ing to the song Of the same syren recognition
will never come Treason, both in the North
and South is failing every day, and will soou be
lost in eternal bankruptcy. Firmness and Wis
dom on the part of the Government, and uni
versal desire among the people to sustain it, are
what is most needed to carry us triumphantly
through the struggle. With the fire in the rear
at home and the seemingly combined efforts Of
enemies abroad, We haze encoanlcred dark days.
| But the worst is over, and the Union star never
Rhone more brightly than now. The great mass
Of the people are to day what they always have
| been, true lovers of Ike Union and the Govern
ment, and what is better, they mean TO defend
( Jealous e nemies abroad. The cause OF the Union,
of freedom and Of republican institutions is slow
ly but certainly marching orr Treason aud
disunion are being repudiated in the extreme
Southern, and Coppcrheadism in the Border
States. And ihe great body of the people Of the
! North indicate that however strongly they might
loyal men beset with peculiar embarrassment
they will never yield hairs breadth in COM
miseratOn for out and-Ou traitors.