New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21

TIL. n. Y. Times appears to be good deal ruifiea
bv the comparison we have made between that pro-
te ctorate which it proposes to establish over MeAI-
co and the protectorate established and exercised
by the English over Ireland. 1t is now nearly
seven hundred years since the Epghsh, under very
much the same pretepses which The ". 1. iimes
now urges in the case Of Mexico, undertook the
protectorate, the government the CIVILIZATION OF
their neghbor island; but to the history OF this en-
tire period, with the exception of the ten years
last past. The n. Y. Times most resolutey shuts
its ewes. 1t refuses to be referred back either TO
- the middle ages and the Plantagtnet conquests,
"or 10 the Protector Cromwell and the
internal penal acts of Queen Aune'
The English Protectorate, it informs u.s.
to which it looks for anaogies applicable to the
case in point. to wit, the case of Mexico, "began
with the beginning of England's perception thai
"Ireand was misruled disorganized, and laid
waste" But Henry II. and his barons, by whom
the English occupation of ireland was set on foot,
had quite as clear perception of the mlsrule ana
disorganzation of Ireland as the N. Y. Times has
of the misrule and dsorganizatiOn of Mexico; and
try to the level of England, than The N. Y. Tim"
does for elevatng Mexico to cur level. Henry H.
as we are informed by Matthew Paris, the historian
of the expedition, devoted himself Immediately after
bis entry into Dublin to the improvement OF the po-
lice of bis new domiAiOns, which under the original
Irish system was very imperfect. This he did by
introducing English laws and customs; and the
Irish clergy as we are told BY the same author In
the acts of council held at Cashel the very year
after, confessed their obligations on this score to
their new sovereign in very strong terms, declar-
ing in so many words that before his coming into
Ireland many evil customs had prevailed there,
(which, by his power and wisdom, were now
abolished This is the very thing that it is pro-
posed we should do for Mexico, and the very thing,
too, at which the English have ever professed to
aim in their administration of Irelsnd, the Crom
wellisn settlement and the "inferual pena" acts o
Queen Anne included.
The N. Y. Times, by virtue of that prophetic
perspcacity which enables it" beyond the epoch
Z" at which the true principles of our Government
and the innate yigor of our race shall have tri-
"umphed over the perplexites that now beset
us, 10 " discern INC duVduCc vi gtuuuci uuticS,
yet to devolve upon us as the foremost power of
" the Western world may be able to descry at
the end of San Intervention with paternal force in
80 the affairs of the Mexican Republic" through
the long, dark and bloody vista of desperate and
protracted struggle, in which every evil passion
shall have had full play, in which confscation shall
have been heaped upon con6scation, and massacre
on massacre, and the antipathies of race aud
religion shall have been intlamed to the highest
ptch-and after Mexico shall have been
depopuated by frightful famine, and large part
OF her people driven to expatriate themseves-the
apparent dawn of better state of things. For
ourselves, we should prefer to wait little while
longer the results of the English experiments in
Ireland and India, before engaging in the advocacy
of undertakings Of the like kind on our part. We
admire, a. much as The n. Y. Times does, the
pluck exhibited by the English in maintaining them
selves in India; but this does not in tbe least
diminish the force of our observation, that it is
much easier, when in contact with barbarians, to
sink to their level than to raise them to ours.
Already the English seem to have exhibited all the
ferocty of the SepOys, and in point Of blood-thirst
ness, to have very little to boast OF by way of
comparison.
The Ne,e. Orleans Delta returns with zeal and
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