The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-10
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From the n. o. Picayune, Nov. OIL

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by the Quaker City, yesterday, have news of i'm
porant of the consttutionasts of Mexico
the Pacific side The Iuoa2a government has apparently
no hold there IL the Juarez party could make head
on this side so as to show the form of government
promising to be stable there is little doubt that it would
command general and quiet adherence in the Pacific
States Whatever of public opinion thore is there is
strongly against the central rulers and would welcome
their overthrow chance of change for the better
Worse hardly be, for every account from that dis
tracted country adds proofs of tho Reorganization
which is going on, with accelerated progress and rapidly
resolving society and government into chaos of an
archy and there unhappy but slight grounds for
hope that any change of rulers will work permanent inn
provenent-wil either create government to last ca
pabe of maintaining order and raising the nation out of
its prostitution, find people capable of approaching
and sustaining such government. We would not deny
that there is in Mexico large amount Of cultivated intel
lect that there there of great capacity for public
affairs able dplomatists well good soldiers and
1t would be unjust to refuse to many who mngle
most in public affairs credit for patriotic desire to
advance the liberties and prosperity of their country and
to labor according to their lights of duty to euce
order out Of the tumultuous elements around them But
the whole national existence of Mexico has shown the
failure Of all such efforts From the date Of independ
to the present time there had been time when
there could be said to be in Mexico fixed ideas of gov
eminent society policy In the swift recurring revo-
lutions and through all the succession Of gruatng c
tions although there watohwords of party constant
ly renewed the prcdominating idea has been the want
of something unknown and untried -somcthing TO be
invented experiment of government not of gov
eminent to be organized like those which grew up in
North America, organized upon types pre- existing in the
characters and trainings and thoughts Of the people In
the struggles of the factions Of to-day the traits
prevail with little modification. There are the same
vague DESIRES with the absence of definite ideas
and tho same fatal want of the popular material to be
moulded to the shape of an organized and selfsps-
tanning government The constitutional idea-which
forms the coherent part of the code of the Juarez
administration probably the best chance Tor all
the Improvement of which social Mexico Is susceptible
rs relief for moment from the distractions of civil and
social war but mainly because il would prepare the way
for the only steps by which there is hope that Mexico
can never be saved from extinction nation amidst
the most horrible caames or kept from that fate by in
tervantions from abroad, which threaten the interests
and independence Of the United States The success OF
that party would be followed by friendly negotiations
with us, and such amcabe understandings, and such
ationa Of support the side and dependence and
tptplage on the other might strengthen Mexico Ur
splfpotection, and would certainly provide for the
cusop Of such alien influences the honor Of the United
State will not permit 70 DO exeTcise We FesYe there
fore, with welcome the news OF any event In Mexico
which gives encouragement Of the establishment of the
Juarez administration in such form would justify tho