Marxico summation9/17/2023 ![]() ![]() The Times of September 27 declared, on the contrary, that “to dishonesty, to repudiation, to the legal and irremediable plunder of our countrymen by the default of a bankrupt community, we were steeled by long endurance,” and that, consequently, “the private robbery of the English bondholders” lay not, as The Post had it, at the bottom of the intervention. ![]() The Morning Post, in its print of September 24, announced that there would be “no territorial war on Mexico,” that the only point at issue was the monetary claims on the Mexican exchequer that “it would be impossible to deal with Mexico as an organized and established Government,” and that, consequently, “the principal Mexican ports would be temporarily occupied and their customs revenues sequestered.” The next best means was to bewilder the British elephant by contradictory statements, proceeding from the same laboratory, compounded of the same materials, but varying in the doses administered to the animal. Hence the difficulty of breaking to the public the Palmerstonian scheme. There exist in England no people desirous of an intervention in Mexico save the Mexican bondholders, who, however, had never to boast the least sway over the national mind. The transactions on these points between England and France have lasted throughout the whole of the months of September and October. In return for his fellowship in the Mexican expedition, Louis Bonaparte has obtained carte blanche for his contemplated encroachments on Switzerland and, perhaps, on other parts of the European continent. In this respect, it is a significant coincidence that The Times of November 6, in the very number in which it announces the conclusion at London of a convention for the joint interference in Mexico, simultaneously publishes a leader, pooh-poohing and treating with exquisite contumely the protest of Switzerland against the recent invasion of her territory - viz., the Dappenthal - by a French military force. Spain was cowed into adherence by the pressure of France and France was brought round by concessions made to her in the field of European policy. It is, therefore, certain, and has even been expressly admitted by The Times, that the joint intervention in its present form is of English - i.e., Palmerstonian - make. The Times had categorically asserted that “the full assent of the American President had been given to the Expedition.” All the American papers taking notice of The Times article, have long since contradicted its assertion. A semi-official paper of Madrid, while affirming Spain’s intention to meddle with Mexico, repudiated at the same time the idea of a joint intervention with England. de Thouvenel replied that the Emperor of the French had come to a similar conclusion. The Times even stated that Earl Russell had communicated to the French Government the resolution arrived at on the part of England of interfering in Mexico, and that M. 27, The London Times, Palmerston’s national organ, first broke its silence on the scheme in a leader contradicting, but not quoting, the Patrie. This statement had hardly crossed the Channel, when the French Government, through the columns of the Paris Patrie, gave it the lie direct. 24, Palmerston’s private Moniteur, The London Morning Post, first announced in detail the scheme for the joint intervention, according to the terms of a treaty just concluded, as it said, between England, France, and Spain. But, nevertheless, it is certain that the French plan was far from being matured, and that both France and Spain strove hard against a joint expedition to Mexico under English leadership. Domingo, dreams of a restoration in Mexico. It is sure that Spain, whose never overstrong head has been quite turned by her recent cheap successes in Morocco and St. It is probable that, among the many irons which, to amuse the French public, Louis Bonaparte is compelled to always keep in the fire, a Mexican Expedition may have figured. It is a contrivance of the true Palmerston make, astounding the uninitiated by an insanity of purpose and an imbecility of the means employed which appear quite incompatible with the known capacity of the old schemer. The contemplated intervention in Mexico by England, France, and Spain, is, in my opinion, one of the most monstrous enterprises ever chronicled in the annals of international history. ![]() Source: the New-York Daily Tribune, Novem Karl Marx in New-York Tribune 1861 The Intervention in Mexico ![]()
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