The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-31 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

When Lord Aberdeen and M. Guizot, some 16
years since, were for uniting to preserve the balance
of power on the' A merican Continent, and to cave
Texas and Mexico from ;ailing, into the hands of
the ambitious Anglo-Saxon Republic, they little
thought that a time was to come when numbers of
their own countrymen would he willing, for the sake
of morality and humanity, that the incorporation
should take place, while the United States would be
incapable of the long-meditated aggression. What-
ever may be the issue of the civil war in that country
the state of Mexico must engage its early attention
on the return of peace. The hopes of conquest to
the southward, which Mr. Jefferson Davis and his
friends have cherished for so long, seem likely to be
realised should the Seceders succeed in establishing
their independence. lf, on the other hand, the
Union be re-cemented by force, the North will be
able to give a rich bribe to the slaveowners, by
allowing them to add to the Federal territory the
beautiful land which is now lapsing into barbarism.
Mexico—cursed by the occupation of a mongrel and
constantly degenerating race, superstitious, blood-
thirsty, and cowardly, ignorant to a degree scarcely
to be believed, and vet too vain to learn from its
neighbours—cannot long remain without sonic in-
terference from without. Unless England or the
United States determine to suppress the outrages
which are taking place, it will be impossible for
either to condemn any bold adventurer who shall
seize upon the Government, and shelter life and
property under his despotic power. No one dwelling
in a civilised country can have a notion of the state
of this unhappy region, where, in the neighbour-
hood of a stately capital, with theatres and concert -
rooms filled every night with brilliant audiences,
Lands of ruffians are robbing, murdering, and tor-
turing in the name of the Church and the Con-
stitution.
We are aware that the tale of Spanish-Ameri-
can revolutions is not very interesting to English
readers, who, besides their general disincli-
tion to puzzle themselves over strange names
-and .complicated events,4ave a natural impa-
tiencevf-tireste nnmea iu &AU' uggl eav Whitt -
on year after year without object or cone "-
sion. But the indignities and the irreparable in-
juries sustained by British subjects deserve more
attention. That there should be a country
four weeks voyage of our shores, bound to u by
treaties, as well as by ties of gratitude forsympathy
and valuable assistance afforded in times gone by ;
that in such a country our merchants and settlers
shOuld be openly pillaged, imprisoned, and banished,
and should narrowly escape with their lives when-
.pver a change in the fortunes of two implacable
factions takes place; and that this should go on year
after year in spite of the remonstrances of our re-
presentatives in Mexico and the Foreign Secretary
at ho'me,'all of whom are unable to exact the smal-
lest repatiation for these outrages—are matters which
would hardly be overlooked by the English public
,were it not for the great events which are passing
,in Europe, and among the Americans of our own
race.