The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-27
rm FuruRr OF MEx1co.

unable to work out the programme winch
it comprised. 1t is likely he committed the
common error of mediocre statesmen, and
stopped short before the revolution was
complete, compromising the future for the
tranquility of the present. and attempting
to consolidate his power. before he had
established principle, by an amalgamation
of incongruous elements. A failure is the
result. He has effected no political or COM
mercial reform worth mentioning. though
the demand for both-trenchant and thor
ough-was the watchword of the revolution.
The Church defes him: instruction bris-
ties all around him he is on a volcano of
reaction and explosion; England presses
the claims of her citizens upon him; Spain
DULLES him, and talks about the reconquest
of Mexico; and, altogether, he is, to use an
expressive vernacular phrase, sin fix
What is he to do! What is Mexico to do
to save the remnant of civilization left it,
and to secure future of better things
We have, heretofore, pronounced the
civilization of Mexico, as at present organ
lied, Tor unorganized,) and resting upon
such social clements as now exist in that
country, to be failure, and have said that
the only regeneration for it must come
from without. The half millicn of whites
can do nothing, and are gradually melting
away in the dark tide of mongralism. The
mixed races can do nthing, for they are in
capable of progress, are every day lapsing
further into their original savagery, and
demonstrating that the most fatal blunder
in Mexican politics has been the equaliza-
ton of the Caucasian with inferior races.
Regeneration then must come from without
if it come at all. And it will come, for civ
ilzation abhors a vacuum, and the COM
merce of the nineteenth century will not
leave such an India of the West, so Opu-
geography, to lie unoccupied and undevel-
oped. But whence is this kind of regener
alton to come? 1t is a sufficient answer to
say that the future of Mexico, like the flu
ture of Cuba, is an American question.
This is not by any means new idea
with the people of Mexico. When it was
proposed, after the close of the war, to hold
that country under military sway, with
perfect organization of the municipal bo-
dies, and Gen. Quitman was called home
from his position as Governor of the
city of Mexico, to receive detailed in
structons from our own Government, the
idea found many strong supporters there.
1t is well known that after that plan fell
through by the making of the unauthorized
treaty of peace, Gen. Scott was offered
million of dollars by body of the promi-
nent citizens there, if be would remain and
organize a government. At a late date,
when the Cuban expedition was nearly con-
summated by Gen. Quitman, he was ap
preached by parties from Mexico, and an
invitation to turn his organization to that
country was held out to him. Comonfort,
therefore, in seeking the aid of our Gov
eminent, is only following il the footsteps
of former events.
ut is not at all surprising that Mexico
should look upon our institutions, and our
material progress and welfare under them,
with admiration and desire. There is in her
midst large party of conservative and or
der-loving citizens, who have ever regretted
the day when our army was withdrawn from
her borders, and who would hail with de-
light the advent of Government directed
by, and in close alliance with our own
Such an event would be TO Mexico the
the greatest possible guaral tee of liberal
rule, and the development of her rich re-
sourccs.'-N O. Delta.
A SHOCKING CIRCUMsTANCE-The
Columbus correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette gives publicity to a shocking event
which recently took place in the Ohio State
Prison, in the following words:
There is current here a shocking story of
outrage committed in the Penitentiarv.
One of the convicts, it seems, was afflicted
with weakness or soreness of the eyes, and
after being urgently importuned, allowed
physician of the institution to operate on
OuC vi 1DIlllUuGSS vi IuC organ
ensued; and when, some time ago, the
physician desired to experiment upon the
remaining eye, the convict refused to permit
him, believing that he would destroy that
also.-Thereupon the physician ordered
his refractory patient to be held, and
against his will performed an operation on
both eyes. The result is that both eyes
are now blind; and the convict, whose term
of Imprisonment expired about three
months ago, is still in the Penitentiary,
without friends or money, and deprived Of
sight forever. Inquiry into this atrocious
affair is to be made Immediately, and
justice done alike to the physician and the
patient.
Members have already taken the matter
in hand, and it will probably come before
the Legislature early in the week. The