Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-12-30
Tn, breakdown c:exIeo.

The London Times, after surveying tho
present anarClicl! condition 0! A1@'cy, goes
on to say
the ordinary n;cras: which might att Gu
to q spectacle like this is materially e'aanc-
ed By two imI o-tant consid RATIOS. On tue
northern frontier u Mckee lies e formidable
neghbor already sggraLuz2l ~ Itfko ac,
QUESTIONS OF Mexican tornsory, ahd prepared
/ tor the absorption OF more. ba. Sie5 MS
contingency sill greater weigh. j. ne Let
that the internal politics OF the y J.,h Amer
can Union will be intimately affected 10y any
! further annexation towards the nth, and
| its yisest statesmen are q apiaS2D-i7e %! iA9
results which III ght ensue. Certainly. np 10
the nresent time, the G,yerp cent g.. Wash
ington has exhibited considerable i''ocaF-
aocs 10 Gca!ing with the fry7g.2-.-Hs 10
which the anarchy AID icc-ss PIcEaIIlfG
tbrou rhout Mexico have naturally gwen rise.
We haze, however, q more duec. interest 10
the matter. Eusiish capital nas bccn large
/ " invested 10 Mexican uHd'TthHhGS, ana
Enrh5h merchants haze carried t4e!E ehet-
gies 10 Mexico for tie Joint ADVANTAGE OF bota
countries together The IevgIuuon'sts IN
their suicidal folly have actually Hlsiicd with
ipdignites and penalties the foreigners woo
were contributing to the resources o.! their
State, and though EngIiehmen who lend their
money to foreign Governments do so on their
own responsibility, British subjects may
claim the protection o! British poser Iho
affairs of Mexico are nothing 10 u, bu. We are
entitled to demand that it, Government, belt
what it may, shall abst aiu from visiting our
couutrymen with injustice or wfong.
The only apparent parallel to the strange
break up, il that suggested by the case u TO
land, and hero the parallel is apparent only.
Poland, il is true, was turbulent ana I'M
quiet State with @ system OF government
which never worked eTerly, and WHICH, per
| haps, must have u!tim ately proved lrcompa-
! tble with the better organized politics on
! It's frontiers But the Poles bad nationality
which gave them strength and purpose and
which for some generations, enabled them to
extend their territoritics at the expense OF
their peighbors. They cnce parttloned Prus-
sa, and they once nearly annexed Russia,
/ Moreover, their disorg .riza'iou, extreme as
/ it was, had been in some measure aruhcia!Iy
created, aud the spirit which even 10
this hour is not extinct showed what ge-
puine vitality the nation possessed. In
Mexico there is not vestige OF rationale
ty. OF its seven or eight millions ct pop
ulation, about ono million only are wh.tes,
the rest being Indisps or Of mixed breeds;
and these Mexican Spaniards nave rot
succeeded, like the French Canadians, in
preserving the spirit which they brought
across the seas Mexico has broken up from
pure incapacity Of self-Eoycrnment. The It.
cenee which ensuel on the extinction OF ab-
solutism 40 years ago has never been ex-
changed for any regular stable AcnIaistra-
ton; so that what should have been . mere
temporary suspension OF authority has prov
ed permanent allegiance OF order. DesYot'
ism might have relieved the country, but no
Mexican has been sro"g enough Tor dcs-
pot, and affairs, therefore, base gone from
bad to worse, with intermiaablc coaVulslons,
hopeless war;, losses Of territory, and, at
length, with such absolute political dlsorgGn.
ization that no stage of decline can he more
runous, aud men are only looking to see what
NAV follow.