..., France has been the Levite, who came and looked on him — and also passed by. We owe neither of these nations the slightest debt of gratitude. If England has withheld her recognition, so has France ; so has even its petty potentate, Maximilian. Our ships have been detained in the harbors of both; our institutions have been in both the subject of misrepresentation and odium. But, looking at t...