Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-22
something ssust be pone.

Event as we have before said hurries on,
whether official circumloeution halt or official
vigor haste. But there is time in the pro-
gress of event, when inactivity, which ere
while may have claimed the title of Tmasterly.'
becomes craven and criminal, if persisted IN.
And, this very moment. the people and the
Government of the United States should put
it earnestly to themselves if that imperions
hour has not arrived as regards the condition
of Mexico, not to say of Central America
and Cuba.
But the question of Mexico appears. at this
instant, to he the most pressing and most APP
pealing. What rueful spectacle is that rent
and blasted conntry The brush of demon
painter dipped in the dismallest colors of all
the bells of all the mytholngies and all the
theologies could scarcely form more CHASTITY
| picture of gloom and desolateness
AS an independent. self-sustaining nation
| atty. her doom. to all human appearance. is
ihevitable-her hope exhausted. her future
utterly effaced. Her brow is damp at once
with the noisome spume of domestic strif,.
carnage, lawlessness and plumber and the
angry spray of the vortex on the edge of
which she whirls ready to be engulfcd.
With regard to the actual state of affairs
in the interior Of Mexico al present we are
able 10 know little; but this fact alone at
tributable as it is to the almost total suspen-
sion Of peaceful travel and communication.
expresses hut too plainly how extreme and
desperate that state of things must he. The
, last accounts received, published to-day and
Wednesday, are somewhat confused and con-
. trad'ctory-one report representing Vidanrri.
the Liberal leader. as victorious, and another
reversing the result of battle and ascribing
victory to MiramOn, the General of the In
loaga-Church party, and defeat to Vidaurri.
But it really matters little which account is
true, or approaches to truth; the general up
shot will he the same.
Nidaurri. completely triumphant, copld not
even surprising he should meet with no af-
ter rivalry or hostility from JuareZ Zamora,
| Cara or AlvareZ-recOmbine the fragments
of nationality. and place the country upon a
stable political basis. The country is too
fatigued and wasted for that; the disease
which preys upon it is too radical and deep
for that Mexican society is worn out; the
Mexican population. corrupted by inferior adj
mixture, is unequal to the duties of self gov
ernment, and, for the most part, is only fit TO
occupy mud sill relation towards poprla-
lion of superior intelligence and civilization.
Aud until this last class of population is ac
quirfd in sufficient number, or room for its
admission is made, Mexico will languish. and
continue. as heretofore, to descend from deep
to lower deep.
On the other hand. Zuloaga, established in
central ascendency merely, can never univer-
NtiIIc HIS y, WITHOUT cSIef1Or dlu, anu
possibly. open intervention from some Eu-
ropean quarter. But that the Unit d States
is pledged to resist, and so, in any event. the
question forces itself upon us: What shall
we do with Mexico? Shall we stand by and
see one of the faircst regions in the world
wrenched from civilization and devoted to
waste and savagery? Shall we see wealth by
the hundred million daily sacrificed to glut
military brigands? Shall we see league at e.
league of cultivated ground, once rivaling
The garden of khubla Khan in beauty and
luXuriance, abandoned and fruitlcss? And
shall we see American citizens daily plum
dercd and insulted, ard often worse abused.
in that country, by every pelting, petty off
Ger who NAV choose to exalt or enrich him
self by abusing the privileges of national
weakness?
These. and similar considerations, are he
ginning to affect public opinion, not more in
this country than in Europe. Indeed. the
London Times has already said that we of the
United States ought instantly to put II stop
TO the state of things described; and some of
the most conservative journals in this coun-
try do not hesitate to recommend an Am RI
can prOtectorate over Mexico-sOme suggest
ing one mode and some another, but all
agreeing in the conviction that something
must be done. Even so; and let it be done
quickly.-N. o. Dtita.