The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-22
BALTIMORE.
MONDAY. NOVEMBER %. 1858.

The time is fast approaching when the Cabinet
at Washington will be called upon to declare
openly the line ofpolicy It proposes to take with
regard to Mexico The warlike movement in the
uuit VIII accelerate the PRONUNCIATION of that de-
ciSon If the traditional MONROE doctrine is to pre-
VAIL there is trouble brewing for which it would be
well for us TO be prepared Spain seems about to in
teriere IN earnest in the affairs of Mexico Three
Spanish vessels of war recently made their appear
ance oil Vera Cruz with the supposed intention Of
making an attack either upon that port or upon
Tampico. Whatever the design was, it was TEN
porarlly frustrated by the prevalence of a heavy
norlher, which drove the vessels out to sea- and
"heh Tue steamship Tennessee left Vera Cruz the
9th INST, the scattered squadron had not returned
Inc danger was, however, regarded as imminent
and JuAREz who still maintains possession Of
Vera Cruz and styles himself President of Mexico,
had issued proclamation, calling upon the
mexican people 10 arm in defence of their nation
AMY He charges that the aggressive movement
on the part OF Spain has been concerted between
degenerate Mexicans and the Governor General
OF CUBA, not for the purpose as is alleged, of de-
Spanish subjects residing in Tampco, in the at
tempt to levy upon them forced loan, but for
Interior objects, and he exhorts his countrymen to
rise at once without reference to opinion party,
and unite together for the sole purpose of opposing
the common enemy. If Spain has at length de-
termined to intervene, and in the interest of
Inc ZULoAGA party, it only be temporarily
and incidentally, and because she anticipates a
more satisfactory adjustment of her own claims
from that party than at the hands of the Liberaists
AT present the prospects of the latter do not ap-
pear 10 be of the brightest. The victory achieved
by MIRAMoN over VIDAURR1 in the vicinity of San
Luis Potosi has strengthened wonderfully the
party of ZULoAGA in the Northern Departments,
and by relieving the Capital from all apprehen-
sion of attack, has released for active service a
large number of the troops at that point The
Church, too, has been actively exerting ITSELF and
by the moral and material aid it has afforded the
Reactionists, has enabled them to establish them-
selves more firmly in the Central De.
partments. But while the Liberals continue
to hold possession of the sea-ports, they
effectually deprive ZULoAGA Of his chief means of
revenue, and constran him to resort to stringent
measures for the purpose of meeting, however
inadequately, the most pressing demands upon
the treasury. As the latter is manfesty unable,
with the forces at his command, to expel the Lib
erals from the Gulf ports, his only hope is in ex-
traneous assistance, and as Spain is supposed, on
her own account, to be favorable to the Govern
ment of ZULoAGA, it may be readily under
stood what those 'uterior objects" are, of
which JUAREz stands in dread We doubt,
however, whether either he, or CoMoNFoRT, or VI
DAURRI, or CARA, or any of the Liberalist chief
tains, can re-awaken the spirit of Mexican ma
tonalty, in the event of the re-appearance of the
Spanish Fleet before Vera Cruz and Tampico.
The old fire has been crushed out of them by con-
tending factions, and the great mass of the popu-
lation would welcome any deliverer and submit
patiently to any rule that promised to give peace
to the country and protection to the industrial
classes. But will Spain, on the plea of resentng
the outrages committed upon Spanish subjects in
Mexico, interpose in behalf of ZULoAGA? A Wash
ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
VINO Is apparently either Mexican or Spaniard,
and certainly warm advocate of ZULoAGA-speaks
confidently upon this point. The writer declares that
JUAREz has drawn this hostile demonstration upon
himself, by his refusal TO recognize any settlement
of the difficulties between Spain and Mexico.
which might be made by the envoy dispatched by
ZULoAGA TO Madrid. He intimates that the war
like movements of Spain are against JUAREz and
the Liberalists, of which he is the acknowledged
chief, and will not he conducted in a spirit I'M
friendly to the Mexican people at is proper" he
says, ''lor the benefit of commerce and nations
of fba
"should be brought to a close Spain is in the
"rght. That po,ecr acW benefcently surrender
"Vera Cruz, Tampjco and other scaboard cities.
"int0 the rghuI custody Of the constituted atlori-
ute, Of the aation--a,horties acknowledged 6v the
'Joreig9 P0CcrS JUAREz must retire from the
"country. He alone is the enemy of the people and
"oF nationality" Here then we have one view
o. TIE motives which may have influenced Spain to
interDose in the affairs of Mexico 1t is key to
the proclamation Of JUAREz. The ports on the
Gulf are 20 he wrested from the hands of the
Lberalists and restored to ZULoAGA, and in return
for this timely assistance, the long pending claims
Of Spain against the Mexican government, are to
be satisfactorily adjusted. Whether this pro-
granme if contemplated, will be successfully car
ried out, viii depend, not only upon the amount
of resistance which the Lberalists are maxine.
but also, to some extent, upon the course
that may be adopted in such contingency
by our own government. 1t is true that we have
acknowledged ZULoAGA as President of Mexico.
but the popular sympathy is in favor of JuAREz
and the Liberalsts. If Spain undertakes to bonn
bard San Juan de Ulloa, have we any more right
now to interfere than we had in 1888, when that
Il. IL
called the MONROE doctrine is any doctrine
at all, and is applicable at the present time.
against Spain, it was equally applicable
thirty years ago as against France Yet we GER
tainly did not assert it in the case Of the latter
Power. Some of the New York Journals are,
however, determined to provoke, if it is possible,
quarrel with Spain, as pretext for Selling Cuba
"Our own protection" it is alleged, demands
Chat European Powers shall not break the peace
'of this Continent, and especially in our near
''neighborhood, upon fmsy grounds or dishonest
'pretexts." This is true enough, provided the
grounds are himsy and the pretexts are dishonest,
but suppose they are not, and the reasons
are such as TO justify hostile demonstra-
tion-how then? Are we TO be eternally
disputing with other Powers, because they
claim the right TO vindicate their honor on
this Continent or elsewhere? What if Brazil
should interpose in our quarrel with Paraguay?
eff says the New York Times, "the object of
"the Spanish government is to interfere and take
'side in the domestic quarrels with our neighbors,
1T is only just and proper that weshoud interpose
'and prevent such unwarrantable interference"
and it calls upon the Administration Ito take i'm
mediate TO arrive at full unders landing
''of the intentions Of Spain towards Mexico. ~
Doubtless the advice is proper enough but suppose
Spain, having an eye to the security of Cuba, was
in her turn, to interrogate our government with
regard to our intentions towards Mexico What
answer could we make? General HousToy has
proposed a protectorate, and the New York Timer
has been its most strenuous advocate, but to estab
lish a protectorate over a people who have not
solicited us to exercise any such authority, would
be quite much an ''unwarrantabe Interference,
as that of Spain in the interest of ZULoAGA. The
truth is, the Mexican question is surrounded with
and perplexties That it must be
adjusted in some way before long we admit, but
in what manner it is TO be adjusted, with out
bringing US into conflict with foreign Powers, is
the delicate and intricate problem that we have
yet to solve. little mere honesty, and a frank
abandonment of flbusteri1g cap-traps and absurd
and dictatorial preensons on the part of our
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