The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-02-26
BALTIMORE.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1853.

The last advces from Mexico have furnished an
other illustration, if such necessary of the
utter ncapacity of her people for self-government.
Like players, her successive rulers have their
its and their entrances" which follow in quick
succession as the rapid action of the political
drama progresses steadily towards the final and in
evtable catastrophe which shall leave Mexico, sans
government, sans law, sans power, sans every
thing. A political condition more hopeessly
wretched than that which has befallen this unhap-
py country it is difficult to conceive 1t matters
little, however, by whom the supreme power of the
state may be exercised, whether under the 'pomp
and circumstance of a sham empire or under the
forms of republic. The result is invariably the
same The fault is not in the government but in
the people The foundation is rotten, and it is not
to be wondered that sooner or later the supeisruc-
ture inevitably tottcrs to its fall
The latest mail from the Mexican capital brings
us the intelligence that after eleven days of fighting
in the streets of the city, characterized however
like most Mexican revolutions, by much greater
expenditure of powder than of blood, change has
again been effected in the administration of the
Republic This time CoMoNFoRr goes off, and
is once more temporarily shifted. In view of these
recent events, some Northern journalists have
started the idea of an American protectorate over
Mexico. That our unhappy neighbor is in want o
such guardian, it requires commission of luna
cy to determine. Whether it would be consistent
with the well-established principles of non-interven
ton, which have always controlled the foreign
,olc,- Of tho Tn;to1 Stafac for fho;r
to assume that guardianship is another and very
different proposition, upon which, the general SEN
timent of people, we opne, would he wholly
adverse to any departure from the traditional poll
cy of the Republic. But although we are thus de-
cidedly opposed TO any interference the part of
our people government in the domestic affairs of
Mexico, even though such interference be prompted
by the audabe desire to restore peace and prosper
ity to that distracted country, not shut our
eyes TO the fact that, in these passing events is
more distinctly prefgured the future, which shall
find Mexico in the embrace of the Union. 1t is her
and our manifest destiny" When the vessel of
brass encounters the vessel of clay, the potsherd
will be broken.
The progress of emigration, and the rapid ad-
vance of our pioneer settlements towards the from
tiers of Mexico will bring the two nations
into border contact. There are goodly lands lying
beyond that frontier, which will not fail to tempt
the eye and excite the cupidity of the American
settler, who will ask other patent for taking
possession than is derived from his own free will
and pleasure. With the transfer, however, of him
self and family, his goods and chattes across the
border line which may serve to designate on paper
the respective boundaries of the United States and
Mexico, there is not likely to be on his part any
corresponding change in his affections or allegi-
ance. He will deny the power of government sur
veyors to set limits to either, and will continue to
claim fellowcizenship with the friends and neigh
bors whom he has left behind on the other side of
the border, whose exact position he may, perhaps,
quite as little suspect, or care to know he would
be inclined to obey the jurisdiction marked by its
existence. If he acknowledge any government, it
will be that of President Buchanan, not of Presi-
dent Zuloaga, and any attempt on the part of the
latter, or of the Mexican officials to enforce au-
thority over him, would only serve to awaken into
action the full measure of that latent hate, which
every frontersman naturally to entertain for
the q Greasers,'' as he contemptueusly desgnates
the mongrel races of Mexico.
The history of Texas will be that of the whole
Mexican onfederacy-commencng with gradual
emigration from the United States, followed by
open and successful rebellion against Mexican su-
premacy, and ending in final absorption into the
bosom of the parent Union. The acquisition will
be made, not through the agency of govern
ment, but through the spontaneous action of
the people; not by the establishment of protec-
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territory by American citizens.