Show taci Tf Ci tro fro from fron 1 t LOp Blon nuon I 1 MEXICO AND IND THE UNITED ay ST STATES AfES r latho lathe following articie article on the relations 0 of i france brance with II mexico exico and her possible future ra lations relations with the federal and confederate governments ghents is too interesting to consign consignee to eur our en waste basket tle the opinion nationale nationals Nati onale is ia me organ of prince napoleon we e tro gro cr about to find ourselves placed laced in mexico in a situation perfectly analogous analogous to that which we have made for ourselves at rome between the liberals who vain vainly ask nario go forward and the whom vre ire we refuse to follow in their backward course Weil the ehe clergy ergy applaud us today to day at mexico just aishe black party applauded us at rome in 1849 1840 but it if marshal forey continues to speak cf of liberty of ous oua borshi worship if he refuses to besore the property of A the contents it if he permits himself to resist the i archbishop of mexico he m must expect to see the thi party which had bad so warmly acclaimed us ti treat eat lis ua soon as we were treated at rome by the aier odis and the antonellis and then ro ap patter how little the situation in maybe a be 6 complicated we nye may calculate oo 00 gen gendral ral rai Baz bazaine alne aine who whole Is charged with the maintenance of public tranquility writing here that fifteen thousand men is too smal small laforce a force torce for mim WIM and demanding reinforcements i we do not yet know what the government of will be whether it will be mon arch ical or republican nor particularly on whal whai t broad shoulders we are going to place me the heavy burden of rehab Ii li tating a bank raitt rapt nation in tact fact what they are a little deficient in everywhere but at mexico more than anywhere else is capable men it will be tor for us to organize the army the finances public education highways and the administration we will find ourselves compelled by the dearth of materials mate nate rials to do everything by ourselves we i will have to administer a greal great empire w we e will be responsible for tor its destinies and if it success is to re redound dolind to our glory it must be admitted that by a fair return its failures will be imbued to tous us A considerable share of olt ott our r attention iii lre of our surveillance will have halve to be devoted to mexico bl exico and hence will come embarrass mints difficulties and complications the responsibility of which we will be no longer free to decline I 1 ilvain air Jit In vain vala shall we ask ourselves whether it la 13 useful or advantageous for france to go so facto seek grave cares carea to tb neglect rd its in 1 affairs its european work tor for the sake of undertaking education at a remote remt e point and of annece charging ourselves with desperate cures the answer will 1 iii lii be that it la is too late that we are engaged and that the honor of the flag does not permit us to abandon the work commenced this prospect is so much the less encouraging asit as it is plain that besides questions of interi inter 1 nal nai organization a always ways very grave and very complicated complicate ed mexico is deg del destined tined within jl alvery very few years pei pet haps months to raise for ua us grave foreign difficulties with the united states and vodraw us perhaps into an ab aura pura and most deplorable strife itis it is a curious and characteristic but incontestable C fact that in france at the PT present esat day no one knows exactly hy we have gon gone to mexico it is simply a piece picc of obstinacy that has grown serious by the ery very cry obstacles it has encountered Is it a vast pr project act maturely matu natu rely weighed to give to france ap a A merican american india to be governed and exploited ai a england governs and exploits ali all asiatic atie atle india no one can say with certainty but bat certain indications permit the supposition that this enterprise had bad in the idea that con it a certain connection difficult to define with the events that are passing in horth north america every eve eye ri one has remarked the solicitude unexpected eatough which the french govern has haa evinced for the southern confederacy and its ita ott off repeated attempts upon the english government fortunately repelled by the latter to give a united recognition to the slaveholding republic republic of which mr jofferson davis davia is t the e president opinion in IA france has not under understood stord the reason for this preference in principle the south smith is founded upon savery an institution thatis that is immoral and profoundly opposed to our liean and manners it is the south that has baa commenced the rupture with the north und undoubtedly in the point of view of the pro of cotton the south can interest us uit bit th tatt t question interests england still more thin us and yet she bas has nor noc not wished up to th a 3 tinse time to recognize the south and it is iha she who hab has stopped the impatient ardor of the french government in that direction bathe on the tha other hand and admitting that the south nay may form a parate separate sa state and that the recognition of france may a aid ad d her in ia doag dong do ng boie bole ia certain that our presence in maxico will bo still more mare disagreeable to her thad than it can be to the republic of the north in fat aba slaveholding south has only one chanca of living tiring and of resisting the hostile brt brethren thren from roa rom it seeks to separate andl anda that Is 19 ts to expand and propagate around it its domecele dorn dora estia astle institution slavery restricted will be undermined or violently overthrown by the north the south can live onis only by the offensive ol it has haa long recognized mailed that fage fagi and its efforts to acquire a i deou or cuva cuba nicaragua Moara gus gub sni ani the tho small tryAm Cen central am rican republics and the absorption of texa texas already consummated show I 1 clearly enough that the south comprehends compre henda I 1 tbt necessity that weighs upon uron it and th thai that J art alt drives it to conquest and to a ropana a d a I 1 of 01 slavery i it if therefore tb south should succeed in lit consummating its separation it is not doubtful that it would regard with the greatest disfavor the french flag floating over the soil coil 0 of i mexico and protecting it from its avowed covetousness eur our mexican establishment will then have a dangerous threatening vici nate nale so it is one of not the least aston ishmen ish ments tit provoked by this expedition that the french government should persist per in see seeking kingto to induce indice indi ce england to recognize cognize with kit it the southern republic whose attacks the french flag it if it remains in mexico At exico will in evitable evit ably have to repel if then as ia is believed and as facts appear to indicate there is a connection between our expedition to mexico and the policy pursued in pre fre respect to the southern confederacy it must be acknowledged acknowledged ledgel that thai that mysterious connect 1 tion escapes e capes all our explanations the oaly only point ludt luat remains evident is that if we remain at mexico and if the south suc succeed deed it will reau resume me its ita projects of congests that have been suspended by the civil war and we shall have to repel an inevitable invasion i if oa on the contrary the south fouth succumb and the great republic be reconstructed we cannot expect any better for tor fortune tune it will not be indeed for the purpose of sp bading slavery which it will have abolished at home that it will menace our transatlantic pupils but rat rather herfor for the purpose of repelling european influence of maintaining intact the more or i leaa authentic aut hentie 1 monroe doctrine ands andt perhaps aia ala of giving employ employment mant mOnt to the generals Gene Gent rals raJa and the five briix or six hundred thousand soldiers who have conix contracted acted the th ha haplea its lot ot war and ant whom the civil war will h aye are left without employment I 1 I 1 i we do not ngi dread war when it is 19 useful when it is justified by the successor success of a great caubo cause when the blood shed is for the redemption demp tion of a great injustice and the price of i a great step toward the normal of nations but bat realty really to provoke a certain war with north morth amer amen ca certain in both hypotheses whether of separation or recon st ruction and all for fon forthe the vainglory vain glory of weaning in an old coon colony y which our diplomats have hav mistaken for a young nation would appear to us so deplorable ao 0 senseless sen BO so perilous perlous pe rious ia opposed to tue the interests instincts and aptitudes of our country that itis ilis not hot without profound apprehension that we see our plunge without care and abid as it we teina in a fit of distraction inta this fatal course aa althis this moment a whole of contractors I 1 ls s buzzing around it kt nothing ia iii spoken oe ot but bul railroads tan taU roada and ana dantis dantas tobe built mines of gold and silver ilver to reworked be worked B but u t 1 alas I ali ail all that glitters is not si boldly and if it the government ia is wise it will hasten to profit by ther thee the temporary pacification of mexico by promptly constructing there the baat best govett ment possible and bring ng back our troops and our flag let it give advice let it lend ski ful fui men any to spare but let it not muffle iosef up in a guardianship of which the present gener goner generation atlon would not bee see the end above all let ihnot ba be seduced by the fallacious hope of reco recovering vering the expenses expense a orthe expedition otherwise it w wit it soon have expended a thousand gain lain back three hundred millions mi inong lUong it these three hundred t millions are lost EO fo much the worse letus let us pass them then ta to the he account of profit and loss and let us not engage blin biln blindfold in an unknown way at the end of which is toha toba to he be seen only a certain war with north america let us bring back our troops to europe they will not be at any loss for employment and jt jf Al mexico exico falls back again into disorder i let not france be drawn into a solidarity which nothing justifies nor be paralyzed by a transatlantic algeria which abe ahe would have to protect against enterprising 0 and forn formidable lida iida b e n neighbors beigh b ors i I 1 |