The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-03-11
MEX C0.

| ~ in the aspect Of fallen Greece, which he
compared to dead body retaining, in the
lrepose of the shroud, q loneliness greater
than the loneliness Of life:
"'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet. so deadly fair,
We start, for life is wanting there
It would require an imagination greater
than Byron's to discover a beauty in poor
dying Mexico--for that Mexico is dying,
and has been dying for years, the victim Of
a complication Of maladies which no medi-
cine can reach. must be obvious to every
beholder. Il Is not the least mournful pc
culiarity of her case that all those circum-
stances are wanting that give dignity to a
falling State and awaken the sympathy pro-
per to death-bed. Everything around her
is squalid and repulsiye, there is nothing to
excite regret or pity; and, accordingly. a
begger dying in ditch, could not go out of
existence with clearer and stronger manifes-
tations of the worlds entire Indifference
We take it that all the signs proclaim the
fast approaching dissolution of this most
miserable republic, which has been in a
condition of anarchy, less or more complete,
from the moment of it's foundation. Nearly
every State has risen in instruction; nearly
every town has got up its pronuneiamento;'
every generates trying to form An army or
battalion, to fight. perhaps, for his own
hand; President Arista resigns his authori-
ty in despair; and in despair, for what else
could lead to such hopeless expedient:)
the people-or the politicians-ca for the
return of Santa Anna. And in the mids
of all this, the wild Indians of the north are,
as usual, burning and wasting the frontier
States, and killing Mexicans off like sheet,
who seem never to have so much courage
for fighting as when their arms are turned
against each others bosoms. There is no
sentiment of patriotism in that country
there never has been any. There is no APP
titude for self-government. or any kind of
government. There is no Unborn loyalty,
or instinct of reverence for law-no desire,
or capacity, for the restraint which secures
public order and private safety and happi-
ness. It would seem as if q nation of chill
dren were playing there at game meant to
be an imitation of national organization.
We have realization of the empire of the
pygmies, in which the serious affairs of life
and government are travestied by little
half men-vho have no real
understanding of what they are doing =
Every step has been, from the first, from
bad 10 worse. Mexico began to die the mo-
ment she began to live. She came into ex-
istence like precocious child-destined to
pass through infancy, manhood. and age.all
in the space of few years. and sink from
decripitude in the earlier period of Adde'S
cence. The little people are doing-as they
ever have been doingall they can to die
put of sight. in national way, as quickly
as possible.
Mexico is very poor, but she is, after all,
like miser in the midst of wealth,
which she is unable or unwilling to use for
Ter own advantage. She has prodigious
'esourccs, which in the hands of another
people, or under the control of wiser and
4bler rulers, would make her great and
powerful country. The miser does not die !!
Without heirs, pretended orreal. Consider
ng her demise as . catastrophe not to be
Iverted, it is matter of some interest to
question. beforehand. what is likely to be
he result of events now approaching to
risis. What is to become of Mexico when
he ruin, now topping, finally falls to pieces?
While we are talking 50 magnifccntly about
be Monroe doctrine, European statesmen
re laughing at us, or doing worse France
nd England afectionately invites US to take
ne Cuban pledge along with them, while ]
le later is as busy as she can be violating
previous pledge at the Bay Islands; and
le former reconnoitres SANTANA Bay, and
ncounters mysterious adventures among
le hills of Sonora. Can we believe none
the European Powers would like to in
crit the possessions of the departing re-
ablic? Spain might put in claim as par. i
ltal heir-at-law, the right Of an ascendant
sing good where there are no descendants;
1T we may doubt her willingness or ability
carry i successfully Through courts where
lnnon take the place Of lawyers and judg-
!. and decisions are proclaimedby the voice 4
gunpowder. England might make 4
Iow-and, If she chose. it would be /
rong one--as creditor. Who IS to pay
: Mnrican hnrads if Mexico does nnf9-