Year: 1866

power to bide It's time and take true oppor-
tunity that may well cause al the fear that
England feelss


The News from Europe-Mr. Seward ON


the Mexican Question.


The Germania arrived here yesterday with
news from Europe to the 9Th inst We see by
her advices reiteration of the statement which
appeared in the Memorial Diplomatique-a
journal that is supposed to be well informed
on foreign affairs and sometimes to speak by
authority-that Mr.. Seward has assured M.
Druyn de Lhuys that "the United States
will remain neutral towards Mexico in view of
the promised evacuation of the country by the
French troops"


We have not the text of the despatch
referred to, and cannot tell how far the Ian
guage of our wordy and willy Secretary of
State may be twisted to suit the French pub
lie and government; but we do not suppose
Mr.. Seward has made any such pledge as is at
tributed to him. If he has he will not
be sustained by Congress and the people
Of this country for any great length OF
time. The French journals seem to lose
sight of the main point in this Mexican difll-
Guilty, or, seeing il, they cheat the public. 1t is
not the French troops in Mexico, with a
view simply to redress the wrongs done
to Frenchmen and French interests, or to
obtain reparation for the same, that we COM
plain of 20 much. Every nation has a right
to make war on another for this purpose. The
cause of complaint Is that these troops went
here to subjugate neighboring and friendly
republic, to change the form Of government and
to plant q monarchy on our border in direct
opposition to our long-cherished policy. It Is
the monarchy, the empire under a European
royalist, which has been forced upon the peo-
pie by French bayonsts, that Is the real and
great offence. We feel keenly too the aggra-
waiting circumstances attending this interven-
tion. II was an assault upon republican insti-
tutions on the American continent over which
we rightly claim to be the guardians 1t was
made at . time when we were sup posed to be
weak and helpless. II was a defiant invasion
Of American policy and interests by power
of another hemisphere. This was and Is the
real offence, and IL will continue to be 30 while





main on the soil Of the Mexican republic.


Mr.. Seward knows this, and IL is the chief
point in his Official correspondence on the sub
jcct All through bis dispatches to our minis
ter at Paris and the correspondence
with the French Minister, NJ. Druyn
dc Lhuys, this is the leading question.
How, then, could the United States give indi-
rect support to the so-called Mexican empire
by pledging to remain neutral! II may not be
our policy or to our interest to aid the repub-
licans Or il may. We do not know what may
transpire to prompt US or hold us back from
such policy Upto the present time we have
been neuiral--more neutral than France was
during our war. We recognize only one gov
ernment in Mexico-tbat Of the republic
Minister is received at Washington as the ac-
credited representative OF the country We
cannot recognize any usurping European au-
thority, and we have so declared officially. All
the intriguing, misrepresentation and lodging
can not cover up the fact that il il the empire
which is the standing offence to thagovernment
and people OF the United States. We can make
no promises as TO what we will or will not do
and Mr.. Seward could hardly have acted other
wise. The dignity of the government and good
policy forbid that we should do so.


There can De but one end to this grand
Mexican adventure Of Napoleon, aia that Is the
removal Of the whole imperial establishment
That sagacious man ought to see the mistake
he has committed and make a clean job Of the
evacuation at once taking his troops away
without delay, and Macmillan with his house,
hold in the baggage wagons. The sooner this
be done the better will II be for all concerned.