Show A S 1 CESSION INCIDENT the publication or tire Con conceder feder ato arth noa by thu bov four or agoras ago las opened boulto of motion luat loii to lo thi the historian in of the war th the othor number of the llo jora i intel kon lus has an it bicle 0 oa napoleon Napo luon and tho southern confederacy Conre derAcy crac 1 b teed upon WAS ma lion ti on draun dran front from tile tha between tho the state do part mont aud and ita is i in europe A curious incident ii noted gohd in that article nishith v lillutt abeli tile tho disintegrating influences to M the ibo confider illy acy willil liuio lave been sub 40 jector if it had succeeded in ing in its independence it wasa cherished notion ol of napoleon Kapol con III to regain for franco france her lost colonial empire cio piro ho he could not reeann her west india colon colonies las without can embroiling himself with england which ho he did not wish to do but the mohican mexican expedition wal was waldo do dc signed originally to com for their loss and lie ho expect r out of alio ill troubles of the iho confederacy to got afef a fortress ii and n d i a port in florida an and somo some foot feet bold about the mouth month of tho mississippi dut but his projects went uither tito the idea was evidently cheri bed of having texas interposed as an independent republic between tho the confederacy and the new emparo under brench lion in mexico french intrigues in in that direction detected by tho the confederate government and ma made 10 tho the subject of a long letter to slidell by mr the secretary of state mr thoron 1 a french consul to texas wrote to the iho governor arnor of the iho state a letter in which ho be aked three questions first M r better iii HI the governor ls s opinion of the re publio of texas was or was not hot a rood political montt metal second bether tho the seams bion of texas and its junction to tho the 1 confederacy was or was not a wise movement third is bother there iho rc odthe old independent republic would lo be or not IL fall thor advantage to tel texal ho said eaid ile he wanted the abo views on these points to guide him in his cot coi with his big oil OH n government this letter was written ritten in ill august iwa gohei governor Gov einor nor lubbock to whom it aas as addressed immediately forwarded it to jefferson da vis president of tho the confederacy who startled by ILIA atto attempt to make maho A poi erectly logical applice application tion ortho doctrine of secession on the confederacy was ivaa founded at on once ce ordered M thoron rind and a also ho tho the French Consul lit at krichm richmond nil I 1 he bo had been t ikins a su sm niclous interest affairs to leave tho the country I 1 in the same of tho the that diary of a bublic man which has attracted so 1 atten lion is continued con tinned and reveals mr sumner representative of tho the abol ilion ion sentiment preferring disunion to war jf in the views of tho and a nd thofile eatzia land prevailed diled in an tead of thoc of the great majority by lincoln believed with Was IS ton inn that the ali union warf wag tho the fahad burn of out oui liberties anti ana m flita ith web AW ale that lilwid and union wore I 1 0 ono and inseparable thi ail tows team bucl iaci dent indicates ohp ji sol aoi I 1 of influence aich bould leayo what began aa a tho the southern confederacy into sr se and discordant nationalities ali ties aless SRI only suipto injure themselves |