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The French In Mexico At The Close Of The Rebellion

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Day
4
Month
March
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Washington City Chronich is kiiown to be the court organ of the adiniuistnition, and ita views of public policy are, thereJore, regarded with moro i ü tere. t fclian tbey otherwise would. lts leading editorial of Suuday, 14th inst., was devotod to Mexico, and exprcBsed, in very plain tenns, wliat liad been heretorore cireulaied only iu whispers, as to wliat will beiall the Fronch so soon as the rebellioii shall have been put down. We g'ivc the coimuencemcnt and the conclusión to show ita drift and temper. - The Chronich begins by sayiog : " We feel no misgivings as to the final ïucoesses of the governiueni of t'ie United States in reasserting its authority over the rcvolted districts of the South ■ and we can, thereforo, entertain no fears that Mexico will either reniain long under European control, or that it will beeome pennanently subject to monarchial institutioMS." And eoncludes ;is follows : ''The lüiiding powers of' Europe tooit advantage of our temporary embarassment to gain a foothold on this continent ; but let the rebellion be 6uppresed, and it wül not be 'necessary to give thepi waruiag to quit. Monsieur will be bowed out as quietly as an unfortunate office seeker, and will ipologize for the tonlretemps as he retires." The meaiiing of all that fa that, on the supprcsaion of the rcbolüon, our armiea will be throwD into Mexico to drive the French out, unless they voluntarily retire. The Washington city organ of the administration says bo, Napoleon knows, therefore, whnt bo may look for from ys at the close of the rebellion. Is it likely that, with this warning and the knowledge it eominunioates, he will be an indifferent spectator of our struggle? His sympathios wül be with the Goufederates ; and if he has to fight us sometime to muintain his posession of Mexico, the likelihood is that he wül commcDce the da;ce of death bimself, and that before the rebellion is closcd. It seema to ua that such organs of the administration as the Ckronick do not only it, but the country also, great damage by its indiseretion. -' Those very stifi-necked swells; the Áustrian nobility have receutly received a heavy rap upon their noble knuckles from no less a personage than the Emperor Franois Joseph. At one of the court baile, a young officer of artillery, of plebiau birth, asked a lady of hih rank to dance with hirn. All the lady's bluo blood flushed into her fa,ee aa ghe refused with marked disdain. The Emperor, who had seen the insult offered to his puest aud his uniform, carne up aud said, " Captaiö, my mother wishes ío dance with you ! " and a minute after the gtinner was clasping the hand, and perbaps the waist, of her Imperial Highness, the Archduehess Frederick Sophia Dorothea Wilhelmina, mother of his Imperial Majesty Francis Josepli, Emperor of Austria. Artemas Ward aud Dr. Hingslon, his agent, were captured by a band of Indians while on an excursiou to Salt Like, but were released tbrough the efForte of Ooveruor Beed ao] Brigham Yoting.

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