The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-11-11

We were well into the fourth week OF the
present month OF October, and no news Of
civil cOmmotion, blood and death, had
reached us from Mexico we therefore had
begun 70 hope that one month for reyolu-
tions was stricken out Of the calendar Of
that unfortunate land. Since the factions
were aroused against Comonfort, and no
thwsrtcd him, that finally, TO save bis own
life and the lives Of hs family, and 10 assure
q temporary peace 70 his people, he fed :
matters bad enough in oil c0nscience then,
have gone from bad 10 worss, until the
spectator Of events now transporting there
secs nothing but saddlening spectAcies. Il
Is impossible, too, q least With any con-
fortiDg certainty, TO extract reasonable
hope that things will ever assume q better
shape there will be nothing more cheering
than war, pestiIencs aud famine, > for the
people Of Mexico, the world may be assured,
80 long as their government is without
permanent locality and an intelligent head
"a mere petty, wandering tyranny. by
the last advices from the unhappy repub.
lic,"-which were mostly embraced In the
telegraphich intelligence contained in the
Times of yesterday-the attentive reader
has learned that disturbances have broken
ont afresh that new armies have marched
into the field before contested by score OF
factions, that new battles have been fought
with various success. The almost realized
anticipation, therefore, Of chroniclDg in our
summary Of Mexican news, one month OF
comparative peace out Of the ordinary
twelve months Of human slaughter, is hope
lessly dashed
There may be salvation for Mexico in
deed, we insist that there is; but il il not
the salvation that can come up from the
hearts and be secured by the minds and
nerve Of her own people
Such Of our readers IA have perused the
very interesting and intelligent letters Of
our occasional correspondent at the city Of
Mexico, have doubtless the correct idea Of
the state Of affairs, which is styled, for
want, We imagine, Of a more appropriate
descriptive word rebellion.
But, there is no rebellion now, and has
been none since the flight Of Comonfort.
The trouble is, in the strictest sense, civil
war a combat between petty states, and,
In some instances, between petty officers OF
the same State. And this kind Of conflict
is progressing on the remote skirts OF the
republic; giving ground to aPprchend that
the conflict may be Indefinitely protracted /;
ut all events, il will continue until the con
tending bands succeed in obtaining the
mastery Of the Mexican capital. In the
meantime. feeble. cowar'lly, and OF course
insolent rule is kept in the capital by the
party into whose hands the authority passed
from Comoofort.
Such is the actual attitude Of affairs in
Mexico this day. But it is TACT that the
mass Of the American public do not under
stand the condition things are in, q few hun
| dred miles to the south Of us--in u locality,
too, adjacent 10 our own territory, in which
thousands OF our citizens have immense pc
cuuiary interests, aud where, on almost any
day, our government may be invited to
perhaps compelled to--place its Ggis. II
Mexico lay of only few miles from the
English channel, or at u convenient remove
from France, all Englishmen. or all French
men. ~ the case might be, who know any
thing Of the politics of their country, would
be able TO relate all the incidents OF the ca
recr Of that distracted State, and swift TO
calculate all the chances and all the advan
tages OF consolidation with it. There would
be no limit to the suggestion OF evils OF iso
atlon; no end. but in the accomplishment
! Of efforts TO effect annexation. And the
outside world would never say word. No
body would dream the enterprise immoral
all nations. We verify believe, would rather
applaud the act in the consummation. We,
perhaps, would raise shout 10 honor Of the
event and with these views, entertained by
ourselves, and by the world, of the supposi
,ious case, it follows that in the substantial
case before us, we adhere to the same views
only rendered much stronger by the urgent
circumstances surrounding it. We are in
favor OF keeping the eye OF the Federal
Union steadily on the main chance with
Mexico.
The American people have been educated
into too much docility. From the first hour of
their national liie, our citizens have been
taught too much in the school of,--as it is
called Performance. At one
time, il is true, II respectable American poll
cy was announced To the world; and while
the Monroe doctrine meant anything. II
commanded respect, and went far to define
American rights, and to establish the
American name. But soon, by the force
OF our education, VIZ fell from the standard
which oas own hanis had raised up, and
now We may call on the spirits OF our ances-
tors, and get no rcsponse-the undistinguish-
able ashes of the sIeepers in any Of the
Revolutionary battle-iel,is might be appeal
cd TO with as good result. We must, as a
people, reform in this respect. We need TO
be shaken AMI reused from the cthargic
condition We are ill., We have have grown
tat, sleepy, lazy have got into JUS, tbs state
u nation ough, not to be ever in. What has
done this mr this people, is entirely evident.
The wre,ched politics that have become
popular by din, Of the labor of small phil
anihropis,s and blatant demagogues. is the
prime cause OF our mbccility touching this
question of Mexico. |, is the habit. now
so much in vogue, Of exaltiug the negro into
40 much greater consideration. IN this coan'