The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-03-24
A New Treaty with McxicO-A New Plan
far the Acquisition Of Cuba.

of treaties lately negotiated at Mexico, under
the auspices of President Pierce by our Minis
ter, Mr. Forsyth, has been followed up by our
present Cabinet with the draft of a new treaty
upon the simple basis of money for land. We
are further advised that the same messenger who
brought the Forsyth treaties from Mexico-Mr.
Butterfeld-has been despatched back via Mobile
to the Mexican capital with the substitute pro-
posed by our new administration.
| We are grat6ed, also, to learn that it is the
| concurrent opinion of both Mexcans and Ameri-
cans at Washington, conversant with the exigen
cies of Gen. Comonfort's government, that this
new treaty will be cheerfully accepted by him,
as it promptly meets the main object of all his
overtures-a liberal supply of ready money.
Abandoning entirely the projects embodied in
Mr. Forsyth's batch of treaties, of frontier reci-
procities and tariff concessions and securities to-
| gether with his roundabout equivalent in the
shape of loan to Mexico, the new treaty pro-
| poses the purchase of the Territories compre
hended in the Northwestern Mexican States of
Sonora, Sinaloa and Lower California, in
Guiding the great Gulf of California, which in
itself, if secured will prove to us most impor-
tant commercial and naval acquisition. In ex-
! change for this vast extent of waste lands and
waters we are to pay some twelve or fifteen mil
lions of dollars, including three millions to be
set apart for the satisfaction of claims of Ameri
as against the Mexican government, being very
properly ignored.
Another feature of the treaty is the proposed
establishment Of line of postal steamers be-
tween New Orleans and Vera Cruz, under the
American flag. In ordinary times, and under
ordinary circumstances this might justly be Goa
sidered as a business affair, in which Vera Cruz
and New Orleans would be almost exclusively
interested. Butthe extraordinary conjuncture OF
the domestic and exterior perils Of Mexico at this
crisis makes this proposed line Of steamers an
element Of diplomacy Of the highest moment to
| the civilized world. Spain threatens hostile
naval descent upon Vera Cruz. This line OF
steamers between that city and New Orleans
| will not only furnish the Mexcans the necessary
| men and munitions for a successful defence, but
will afford to our Cuban filibusters the facilities
hould the occasion serve, for hostile naval
descent from the Mexican coast upon the island
Of Cuba, under cover of the Mexican flag, and
under all the securities Of a regular war We
have no doubt that upon venture like this
twenty thousand fighting men, superior TO those
OF Walker could be concentrated from the
United States at Vera Cruz within less than sixty
days
There is peculiar force given to this con
struction Of this branch Of the treaty, from the
promptitude of our administration 10 the matter
A convention of this sort would ordinarily occu-
py our Cabinet from six to twelve months. Blu,
here, amidst all the numerous aud various pres
ing demands incident to the organization of
new executive government, we have this impor.
tant treaty with Mexico considered and arranged
within few weeks from the reception of Mr..
Forsyt tbs dispatches, and upon entirely diff
| rent basis Ia connection with this circumstance
| the Osend manifesto Of Mr.. Buchanan, aud the
forty years intense Anglo phobia Of Gen. Cas-
| loom up in bold relief. But whatever may he
| the views and Interior estimates of our Cah.let
We are assured that some of our leading CuoAu
flibusters at Washington have entered into a
correspondence with others az different points, IN
| view Of an early organization for new Cuban
| expedition via Vera Cruz, and under the pro.
tec,ing cover Of this anticipated war between
| Spain and Mexico.
We presume that the ba0led clergy Of Mexico
and the Holy Conclave at Rome, acting upon the
hereditary Catbolicity Of Spain, have forced her
into this position Of hostility TO the audacous
heresies Of the government OF General Comonfort
We suspect that should war follow, it will be
moe war Of the Church Of Rome for the re-
covery Of her lost temporal ground in Mexico,
than war Of Spain in behalf OF her trumped-up
claims against the Mexican State OF treasury.
Should the development of the future establish
these impressions, is it likely that Protestant
England will interpose or make any further sa-
cri6ces in behalf Of a government overwhelmed
| already in obligations and debts TO the English
| government and people, which 1t ha never mani
tested any disposition to pay, or which, with the
| best incnatons in the world, II never can pay
without the sacrifice Of Cuba IL were reasonable
70 conclude that in such war the sympsthies of
England would be rather with Mexico and her
allies, flibusteIs inclusive, than against them
The Catholic sympathies of Louis Napoleon, on
the other hand, would be with Catholic Spain;
tut the very probable disturbance of the security
Of France from the financial disasters which
would fall upon her people from even the antici
patton Of a rupture with the United States, WILL
IN any emergency, have their full weight in the
Cabinet councils of the Emperor.
To sum up. the provisions of this new Mexican
treaty and the extraordinary despatch exhibited
in the matter at Washington comprehend we be-
lieve all the possible contingencies to Mexico, to
| Spain and TO Cuba that We have indicated. They
point TO a solution Of the Cuban problem as novel
as il is feasible, and too fascinating to be declin.
I'd by Mexico. or by the hlibusters, or by the
principal signer Of the Ostend manifesto. The