The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-06-07
From the Mobile Tribune.
Mexico.

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We publish this morning on our outside
page, enough Of the important news from Mex,
ico to show some Of the programme Of the new
President.
1t seems to indicate that Santa Anna intends
to consolidate the states, or departments, and
altogether rule with heavy hand. He is co.
pying after the, anew Emperor.of France In
controlling the press he gets rid OF an instru-
| ment, which, in all such countries as Mexico,
is not.the organ of public opinion, but ofthose
who are able to bribe it. Unrcstrained, it is,
therefore, all evil, which is constantly mterfc-
ring with aed thwarting measures essential to
the publicre repose.
The press as the follower and alder Of popu-
lar development, is an agent of vast power and
virtue. If every people were positively fitted
for high degree OF political freedom, it would
require no shackles for the popular education
! would correct its errors and restrain its dsor.
ganizing tendencies. -,
In. France, as in Mexico. there seems to be
but two great classes, those who desire power
for the government, and those who demand for
the people unlimited democracy The mode.
rate, rational, third class, composed of those
who wish to teach the people, is so small as to
be of no active influence. 1t happens, too, that
the writer's, those who control the press in these
countries, are mostly men of an undistinguish-
ed literary class, who have not the patience to
labor diligently for distinction in their province;
or who have false notions of popular capac.
ties, or who crave notoriety, or political pre-
tsferment. They fall out with the government
because they suppose the Government does
not reward them according to their merits, or
they construct their theories on the plan that
all men are equal; fit alike for the same degree
of social and political position, regardless of
past history, and faithful only to what 6uds its
chief source Of responsibility in its assumption
of nltra philanthropy. Itis this class of whom
abolitionistS are made in this country, blum
dering, unphilosophcal, unreAecting class from
the highest to the lowest. In France the press
under such writers, has done harm, because it
has demanded what is impossible, and, in its
amentable failures, has plunged the thoug
into despair, and provoked them to seek the
repose of Tyranny, rather than fall into the di.
lemma Of choosing the alternate Of license.
If twenty honest, thoughtful; experienced
and rational men had control of the French
press for ten years, with full power to utter
what is true, they would regenerate the coun.
try, and start it forward as u sound teacher
starts the pupils whose minds he would mould
into the best forms Of which their various di.
versi6ed capacities are capable.
| In Mexico, there seems to US to be no posi-
ble hope of anything beyond Santa Anna. II
lie fail, the nationality will be lost, and the
opinion which Arsta has dared to utterly
the way, not in Mexico, but after he got to
Havanna-- will become the next relief of the
discreet and annexation TO the United States
will be the remedy.
The position of Mexico just now, for this
reason, assumes new and grave form for US,
and it is the duty of our people to look into
and study it, for presently it may become the
essential prevailing element of our own ma,
tional policy.
Another thing in this news will strike the
attention of the reaecting reader Santa An,
IA 10 nursirg The preindecs against the United