We have at last the announcement that
Maximilian has sailed for his new empire in the Western World.
It seems that the
tum fulmen of the
Yankee Congress had not the effect to deter him from coming over to assume the crown of the new empire in
North America.
The
Monroe doctrine is not one of the articles of his faith, and the fear of the
Yankees is not one of his political graces.
He no doubt feels pretty strongly befriended and fortified with such an endorser as
Louis Napoleon, and imagines that he can get along with his Government in the face of the hostility of the
Yankees, or at least without their friendship.
We shall see now what the Federal Congress will do.--They did not hazard a great deal, it is true, in their resolution declaring their opposition to the establishment of a monarchy in
Mexico by
European agency.--It was a mere declaration, backed by no measure to give it other than a moral force.
It may be inferred that it was a Yankee trick, employed with the hope that it might frighten
Maximilian; and that failing in their purpose, why they will simply let the matter drop.
It is the habit of the people the
Congress at
Washington represents to try every expedient to accomplish a purpose.
Falling, they have discretion enough not to damage themselves by any rash or impulsive act — bay, they can smile and be friendly with those they have just tried to circumvent, and will even manœuvre to get the benefit of the talent or influence they cannot defeat by joining interest with it. It is upon this principle that they are dying now to be associated again with us!
How they could flatter us!
Oh say they, what a "strong team" we would be "working together ! as firm as
Plymouth rock — immovable and irresistible ! " But we know them, and cannot be taken in. They may still try their arts upon
Maximilian, and become his friend, for the sake of peace and
trade. At all events, they are not going to be precipitate, they will drop the subject until they get the present war off their hands, and then they will act according to circumstances — a policy which rules most Governments, and beyond doubt that at
Washington.
Maximilian being finally embarked for his Government, the question of his acceptance is at rest, and the Southern Confederacy may hail the new Government as friendly, and a happy substitute for the unreliable and revolutionary one that it succeeds.
