TOE MONROE DOCTRINE NOT DEAD.

Otago Witness, Issue 620, 16 October 1863, Page 7

TOE MONROE DOCTRINE NOT DEAD.

(From tha San Francisco Horning Call Aug. 13.) , A dispatch from Washington conveys tho Rralifyini» intelligence tint the Administration is alive to the dangers that menace our future peace by the French occupation of Mexico. Our correspondent hints that a repeat Ontin t meeting had offi-m^l two important points : i-Tliat the permanent occupat'on ot Mexico by the Fren.-h shall not be permitted • 2ihat the entire abandonment of JNapo'eon'j policy in that country wiil bi dpmanded, even at the hazard nf war. It 13 to ba hop?! that this announcement is SLatod on i?ood authority, and that tha A. .'ministration will, at an early diy, give official assurance of a policy such as is fore ,lnd awed in the above. Th» Rebellion _is bein 9 rani.l'y closed up ; Lee and Davis are mdul^n^inau norimonlouswriespottJeßce, which betrays the weakness of the former's army and flu inability of tha Litter to atwuKthenit; Gentieunn Priap has res-qne-l m liaqmt, airl the trans-Missis-•jpin 6 tatea are _ thereby bereft of an able leader: Nor h UroJian is bec^m^ng more r-stive under the Oavis yok", and the people of Missisiioui ar, formm* secret orpmi*ationd t . hurry up peace ; Chavle^l°X? 7 Ji old w ub^ f^ d^ or weeks ' but her fate is sealed; the North Carolina, Mississippi and Tenncsw troops in Lee's army waafcti f?o home ; Bragg ai' - U and°r B ° so «»^»n the Tenneswe mou" tai-.s and Grant and Banks are oraanmn* an expedihoa from which th 3 most important result* are expected Thus we have taken a rapid glance at the situation, ani find the gigantic »^> b-corni-g. "small by d Pgi - ees and beautifully less." Before winter s^ts m we will, in all probability, so far have compassed the suppression of the ttebelhon, that our 'Jovernmsnt may, without tear ot senous domestic embarrassment, as3ert the mnolabiify of the Monroe Doctrine, even at tnc point of the sword, if necessary. Indeed fom present appearances, in less than two months the United States will have an army of two hundred thousand men <>ut of .employment, and we seriously doubt, whether they conU be usjd to bettor advantage than m showing- all Europe, especially France, that the seizure and erection into monarchies of Americaa republics by foreign power 3 is a' together inadmi^ible. Tne political destiny of this continent must bo left entirely m the hasds of Americans. European interference will not be tolerated as lons as the United States occ ipies both the position of a firstciasa hefhtm,' power and that of natural protector of her less pretentious s'ster republics. As rec-ards i'r«nce, the question arises, whether Louis Napoleon will a|-an lon his Imperial designs on Mexico when the United States fiimly insists on it It fie b3 the shrewd statesman which his friends claim, he will most assuredly do so l'ranre at the present moment is not the most p'-os-pcroug or happy empire in the world. Indeed a large proportion of the people of France are groaning under a distress as appalling as that which afflicted the operatives of Lancashire a year ago ; and the extravagance of the Government has not only bankrupted the finances of the country, but so exasperated the people that the Corps Legislatif recently elected is principally composed of members opposed to tha (invernment. How can Napoleon, under such circuimtancas, hope to carry on a war with the United Mates, especially when such a war would be on th° one side solely for the ago T andizenient of an ambitious monarch, and on the other to maiutain a principle which has been considered iusfc, and acquiwcod in CanhXS S' * I lol * ol * o * AW& «% years. Oan he lnok ior the ways and means to prosecute a T V Tnl°?Qff ma -? ltu< k whiohoa9 woaM be^»th the U mted States, &-om an oppo ition Legislature. Can he exact from a peop'e who are famishing, the means to equip, transport and maintain an army fit to cope with two hundred thousand North and a mil on of Mexicans and South Atnerioans ? Can he which the comme es of France would inevitably be swept fesrn the seas? Tho answer of a shrewd S ln n" tto/eqaatf'OM would be, unequivocilly, No ! But, ambition sometimes usurps the functions of wisdom, aud Napoleon may be so wrapped up in his own aggrandisement, that he may ioae sieht of ha true policy by which ho should h?Uutfai In that event he may plunge his nation into a war that cm only result; m the humiliation of a great and generous, but volatile people,