Year: 1867




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The blow which monarchy struck at republl
c,nism IN the New World has had a terrible
rebound in Europe. Various opinions which
we published yesterday, and which were drawn
out in the leading European journals at the re-
ceipt Of the news Of the death Of Macmillan,
indicate an intense excitement In that same
spiri! of retaliation which they condemn in a
people driven to evaporation by the dssola-
lion Of five years' invasion they now call
upon the United States to interfere in Mexican
affairs and carry on the bloody work that we
would not permit France to finish. Europe
forgets that in this appeal to the great republic
she pays the noblest tribute to the force Of
liberal ideas that she ever yet gave. She for
gets, too, that she appeals 10 US to murder o
republic in retaliation for the death Of man.
The question of whether we will be generous
10 nationality which is struggling into light
or whether we will be generous to the monar-
chical element that always denied that people
light, Is easily decided on the basil, of rigid
justice.


The London Herald, In speaking Of the
death of Macmillan, says, "Thirty mil ions Of
Americans and thirty-five millions Of French
men must divide the blame, If blanc there
be, between them" We, forsooth, must st p
in and save the reputation of those who, ac-
cord ng to the Pail Mall Gazette Of July 8,
offer d to us zone Of the keenest humiliations
and biterest insults ever inflicted upon the
United States" 1t should be well understood
that in ordering France to leave Mexico we
were not interfering in Mexican affairs; we
were simply defending ourselves aga;ns! the
avowed and we'll proven policy Of Louis Ma
poleon to make Mexico the basis of mon
archioal effort against the power of the United
States and her progress. We boldly threat
ened war, and France complied with demand
which the voice of the whole nation forced
our State Department to make, much against
its well known policy and desires. This point
gained, we had defended ourselves from the
danger that assailed US; and however tardy we
were In making France feel the just Indignation
Of our people at the blow which was 10 disin-
tegrate us, we still struck that blow entirely
for our own preservation. But our action
very wisely ceased there; for we had no pre-
tence whatever for interference in the internal
affairs Of Mexico. Had we at once stepped
across the border and assumed the direction Of
one or the other Of the political parties that
were waging war, it would have been an i'm
mediate assumption of the very position from
which we had just forced France. 1t would
have been in the eyes of Europe reversion Of
our rule-non-interferenc in the internal
to trust himself in Mexico after the departure
Of the French 1t was no affair Of ours, and we
were not bound TO step in and save the head
OF European prince who sunk himself to
the level Of retrograde partisan chief, and
headed desperate sortie at Quer6taro against
the liberal principles Of those who opposed
him. If be showed lack of intellect In
gathering around him the worst oharac-
ters that Mexico ever produced-mcn,
according to the London Daily Ne,os,
"whose outrages and atrocities the original
expedition of the three Powers was sent
out to punish"-are we to be held RESPONSE
bles Are we responsible il he was betrayed
by men whom he knew were already guilty of
treason, and in common with himself were
fighting with their heads in halter, according
to the decree Of the republic Of January rs,
1927 We had no shadow of right even to
interfere to the extent we have, by sending
the insulting message Of Mr.. Campbell, at the
order Of Mr.. Seward, to the Mexican govern
ment The question Of how they would dis
pose Of On adventurer who had made wild
work in Ave years' desperate onslaught upon
their soil was not q matter for US to decide.
1t rested with the Mexican people themselves.
We rid ourselves of the danger that threatened
US when we disposed of the French army; If at
the same time we aided Mexico, all the better !;
for 1t was friendly act due to people who
are sustaining with us q common principles;
but we cannot deny that they also had
perfect right, in the preservation of their
nationality, to rid themselves Of whatever
danger threatened them. To dispute this IL to
dispute their right to do what we do.


Several Of the leading English journals take
a very sensible view of the case, and analyze
the expedition and it's results with clear I'm
partially. On the Continent, however, all is
the opposite, and we receive much vituperation
for not picking up the Mexican Intervention
where France left 1t. II there be Q hope in
Europe that We are to solve the Mexican prob
lem for them, they are doomed to disappoint-
ment We have question Of our own on
hand which already strains our energies. We
believe, moreover, that Mexico should have
trial Of her liberal form Of government, which
she has at length succeeded in imposing upon
the country in the face of the greatest diff
culties that ever environed the progress Of
liberal principles. Civilized nations have
stirred the fires Of civil turmoil and all its at
tendsnt hatreds and desolation for the past FIVE
years within her border. They have stripped
the country Of everything that could enrich
palace at Miramar, destroy the financial credit