The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-15

cussion bargain was at length made by which
the Spaniards agreed to sacrifice portion OF the
whole Of the interest due, and the Mexicans
pledged their honor to pay the capital O. the
debt within a fair time
This danger thus happily removed, we earnestly
trust that Senior Comonfort wilr use the power
that is placed in his hands, and the funds he
has go providentially obtained, for the good of
his unhappy country. Mexico has long been
by-word of derision among nations Yet her soil
has not lacked fatness, nor her men virtues, nor
her position availability. She has every reason
to prosper All that she wants is an upright
government, and gradual diffusion among the
people of the duty of submission to established
authority. 1t must be President Comonfort's
business to endow her with these. We are glad
to note, as an earnest of the former, the postal
treaty with the United States, and the abolition
of the government monopoly on tobacco
The SAN Francisco VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
It will be seen, from our copious extracts from
our San Francisco exchanges, which we publish
today touching the proceedingsof the Vigilance
Committee of that city, that said Committee is
stronger and more popular than ever, and is still
actively employed in the business of thinning out
the obnoxious individual who have made San
Francisco their city of refuge.
1t may be matter of deep regret that this vi
GLANCE Committee has established itself over the
heads Of the regularly constituted authorities
that it is rebellious and revolutionary organiza
tion-that in fact, it is nothing more than sort
of Judge Lynch provisional government, under
which the citizens rights of protection, life and
property are at the mercy of selfappointed tri-
bunal, without authority or responsibility. 1t is
certainly venturing upon dangerous experiment
this thing of falling back upon the first principles
Of popular sovereignty against the established
authorities of the land ; but upon the solid plea
that desperate diseases require desperate rene
dies, we may, perhaps, find dissolution for the
people of San Francisco.
The testimony is overwhelming that the grie-
vances which the respectable citizens of that COM
munity were suffering, had become too many, too
barefaced, too atrocious and too perilous longer
to be borne with impunity. Worse than all, the
usual resource Of publication in all popular gov
enments-the ballot box-had been changed into
the gamblers watch suffers or thimble rigger's
expedient Of box with a false bottom--a cheat, a
game with loaded dice.
With confederate assassins gamblers and ruff
fans of all Sorts hus protected by frauds and
perjuries at the very fountain heads of law order
and justice, our quiet, law-abding readers, even
here in New York, will be puzzled to discover
what other alternative of deliverence there was
for San Francisco and California than popular
revolution and provisional government. In
any event, let us hope that permanent good to
the whole people Of California, and general
publication Of the politics and society Of that
State, will be the substantial and wholesome fruits
of these vigilance committees.
Meantime we would again admonish our city
fathers, who are particularly liable to become
lazy and sleepy during the heated term of July
and August, that the wedding out processes Of
these California committees have already thrown
back upon New York considerable body of
ballot box suffers, shoulder hitters, and pro-
fessional bullies, and that they have given us
already, in certain disorderly proceedings
touch Of their quality, and a warning to be
on the q,a rire. These facts should awaken
the Mayor and his police force to renewed vigil
lance and activity in their duty Of maintaining
the peace Of the city. We trust, too, that as far
as these exiles from San Francisco may be incor-
porated into the working machinery of our politi
cal parties the facts will be made known for the
Of the public. If we would guard
against the necessity of the last resort of revolu
ton, our regular authorities must agree to act as
our Committee of Vigilance. That's all.