The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-05-13


or thirty persons-heads of bureaus and others
were sent before the Grand Jury for Indictment
The sooner the better.N
mexico-Her Evits and ,hesr Remedy.
The recent advices from Mexico leave things
there in very nearly the same state as exhibited
in the full reports which We received by the
last steamer. 1t is still a doubtful question
whether Juarez or Zuloaga viii succumb, or
whether both of them Will fall, to be succeeded
by Santa Anna, or Osollos or some new man.
temporary enthusiasm in favor of the con-
stitutionai government has been created in
Vera Cruz By the arrival there of President
Juarez and bis Cabinet from New Orleans, and
of troops for the defence of the city and castle
from Osjaca. But it is doubtful whether the
advent Of the President and his Cabinet at the
true scene Of conflict between the two govern
ments, which is the revenue giving port of Vera
Cruz, has not in reality weakened the cause Of
the constitutionalists. The supreme govern
ment has brought with it nothing but poverty
and the prestige of the defeats of Celaya, Qua
dalsjara and Colima, while it deprives La Lave
and Zamorra of the first place in the defence of
the State, which they had previously held.
Both Of these have demonstrated themselves to
be men Of energy ana decision of purpose,
while those who have come to displace them in
the public eye, if not in fact, have shown q
want of these very qualities.
But whatever may be the turn of the present
struggle-whether it be Juarez, or Zuloaga, or
Santa Anna, or Osollos, or any body else that
achieves power-the ultimate result must be
fhe same. Mexico, as federated republic, is
broken to pieces, and can never be reconsti-
tuted as nation except through aid from this
country. Her public men are divided into
cliques none Of which can be said to possess a
unity of purpose; her army is corrupt to the
core; her administration Of justice is rotten;
her revenue system is vicious one, and its col
lection is made more for the benefit Of the Gus
tom House officers than for the State, and she is
both bankrupt and defaulter. Whatever
man or systemsucceeds the present must follow
the descending path of the past, unless support
both moral and material is obtained from the
United States.
Many of her public men affect to have hope
in foreign immigration, but this is futile. The
time was when the world looked with conf
dence to the new republics of Spanish America,
and both capital and colonists flowed to them;
but thirty years of misgovernment and turmoil
have stopped this, and their present and pros
pective state of anarchy are not likely to re-
create it. Mexico cannot be colonized by an
industrious population until her government is
colonized by honest statesmen.
For this she must look to our government. No
European Intervention would be permitted for a
single moment in Mexico. Washington alone
can he the source whence the inspiration
Of the new order of things in Mexico must
come; and we have already suggested. some
days snce, and we now repeat the course which
should be pursued to bring it about As soon as
Mexico has an administration that we can treat
with, let her appoint commissioners to come to
Washington to arrange the conditions on which
we can lend her our assistance to carry out such
reforms as the liberal party may deem necessary
to the national regeneration and to the estab-
lishment of her institutions upon q sound re-
publican and Independent basis If she does
this she may soon enter upon new career of
national prosperity and progress If she neg
lects it, the process Of disintegration now going
on there will continue, until she becomes prey
to private flibuster enterprises, that will he In
vited in by desperate Adventures among her
own leaders, and which no power in our govern
ment or any other can prevent from crossing
our borders. How widespread this spirit of mill
tary adventure is among our people is wit
messed in the fact that tenders Of over $4,000
men are now in possession Of the President, to
fill the two new regiments Of volunteers for the
Utah war. And ii is not the Southern fire-eaters
and Western frontiersmen alone that seek this
service. Puritan New England stands close
alongside the hoosier West and the corn crack
ing South in the wish to send out regiment
from every city and company from every
town and village to participate in the rough
and ready service of soldiers life In this
there is Lesson for Europe as well as for
Mexico.