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Show NOT TO BE. I'll ' Major Scheibert of the Prussian array was an H unofficial attache to General Robert E. Lee and ' ' saw, personally, the campaigns of 1862-3 in Vir- ft jj t: ginia and Pennsylvania. In his recollections he 4' records a conversation with Jefferson Davis, in K ft '- which the President of the Confederacy declared i '"j 'Vl that if Napoleon the Third would break the block- M' y'M ado the South would give him a free hand in W''fB Mexico and provide troops for the conquest. f " ffl The stars were not shining auspiciously on K , . ' either Louis Napoleon or Jefferson Davis in those !'V'' I days. Had Louis Napoleon broken the blockade, $ ,vl he would have been licked, and the South would t " never had had soldiers to help on his conquest. & t jfl The lates were directing events in those days; the Sw't?H purpose was to have human slavery done away m l with in this country, and it was not to be inter- tfy f I fered with. W II fl 'ihe will of Louis Napoleon was good enough, ittV'lH but that was a stubborn Queen across the channel ff'jf ' who said "No!" and that settled it. But we may ''ITi!! speculate on what would have followed could the ,U r '! dreams of both Napoleon and Davis have been ' j-4,-' realized. Could the Confederacy have gained its i B independence and could Mexico have been taken d ' ? ) by conquest by the French and Austrians; it (4 !'j jH ould not have been long before there would have H If rifl been a clash between thoBe two powers. It was ffi ! the dream of Davis to build up a great slave em- c; ! 'IB pire and he would have needed Mexico and Cen- u tl'SB tral America in his business. Had his soldiers , i41 conquered that country, it would not have been for f if 'S France, but for the Confederacy. Ai fl Then the Monroe Doctrine would have been , 7 invoked, and the great North power of this conti- A ' 'M nent would have Insisted that no foreign sceptre j'j could be permitted to wave in Mexico, and there t'il would have been long years of war. II1, JlS But that was not the plan. The purpose was to ! do away with slavery and to exact from the people TB North and South the penalty due because of '$ ij'fl slavery. i yJB It was a fearful assessment that should em- Lfyfffl phasize the solemn fact that Justice must be done tf 'rfH for every wrong; that if it is postponed then f 19 on final settlement full interest will be exacted IS with the principal. U 'i jflH We still have the race problem in the South; w ffl we have the age of gold upon us, with its exac- g jJH tions, and still the rule holds good that every jp1 lH wrong must be righted, and if delayed then full P , 1B interest must be added to the sinister principal. yLi JB |