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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], The expedition against Mexico. (search)
rol the destinies of the world. She must also feel a peculiar pleasure in beholding the position of the colony which thing off its allegiance to her forty years ago, and comparing it with her own: The Spanish nation seems about to renew its youth, while the apparently vigorous and prosperous colony has fallen into more than senile decrepitude. The States of the American Union, on the other hand, cannot but view the presence of the troops of France, England and Spain on the continent of North America with feelings of mortification and distrust. England, so long lectured with the Monroe doctrine, and Spain, whose fairest possessions in the New World America has so long socked on as about to become her own, have announced their intention of doing themselves justice by an armed intervention, without seeking the approbation of the United States. It is true that the convention reserves to the United States the liberty of joining with the three European Powers, and that a sort of apology
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Honest man. (search)
passing in European politics, which, in as much as we have no access to European journals, and can, therefore, base our opinion only upon a few brief extracts from English journals, is to us incomprehensible. There are three European powers who are deeply interested in the progress of events in this country. These are Great Britain, France, and Spain. The joint expedition projected against Mexico appeared to be the first step in the direction of a direct intervention in the affairs of North America. But after indicating the terms of the triple alliance, the telegraph apprised us at the last moment that England had declined signing it, and that Spain, determined to act on her own responsibility, was about to undertake the adventure single-handed, while the two other Governments in question would confine their co-operation to sending fleets of observation. "What motive or what scruple has so suddenly arrested England? Is she afraid of creating a new cause of difficulty with th