The Camden Weekly Journal

VERY GOOD ADVICE. A Texas correspondent of the National Intelligencer, referring to the proposed mediation of the United States between the belligerents of Europe, offers this good advice:

"Gentlemen; let us mind our own business, that will give us plenty to do and not expose us to ridicule. Above all, let those who would gratify Buonaparte by offering to give peace to Europe turn their thoughts and their efforts towards restoring peace and concord to their own distracted country."

This is the whole question in a nut-shell; let us "mind our own business," and not meddle with the quarrels of European nations, or involve ourselves in the cracked diplomacy which marks every step of nations endeavoring to conceal their ulterior designs under the most hypocritical pretences. The United States can have no sympathy with the objects or purposes of either party in the present war. Both are fighting for dominions over others or oppressed nationality. The party which has been making the loudest boast, inveighing against despotism, threatening to let loose the elements of revolution and give liberty to Italy and Hungary, allies itself without scruple to the hated oppressor of both. England and France in becoming the ally of Austria, the most detestable despotism of Europe, show that their high sounding praise of European liberty were mere words to delude the mass of mankind and cheat them into a sympathy which, if the real objects sought in the war had been known, would never have been accorded to them. With objects and purposes in the background which both parties are afraid to avow, the United States cannot interfere between them without getting into trouble. The duty of the American people is to act fairly and justly with all nations, preserve peace with all; endeavor to promote the growth and prosperity of their own country—and establish its institutions on a basis which the shock of time cannot overthrow. They by this course will best promote the interests of civilization and humanity. -Philadelphia Ledger.