The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-16

in power, but if VDAURRI was victorious, JuAREz
would find the road to the Capital open to him. As |
we are now Informed that both of these events have
come to pass we are enabled to state, with unusual
confidence, that ZULoAGA WILL in all probability con-
come, and that JUAREz WILL with equal probability |,
be able to drive ZULoAGA Immediately into exile. |
We leave others to reconcile these contradictions.
That they are contradictions we cheerfully &C
knowledge; but the fault lies in the intelligence
transmitted over the wires and not in the deductions
drawn from it. We fear, however, that it matters
but little now, whether the victory is with the re-
actionists or the liberas-or with both as the
telegram referred to would have us believe No
mere leader of faction can ever hope to rescue
Mexico from the condition of utter DISCRIMINATION
to which she has been reduced ZULoAGA might
be put to fight tomorrow, and VDAURR1 or
JuAREz occupy in his stead the position of Provi-
sional President; but the spirit of disafecton and
the excuses that grow out of it, would still pre-
vail, and must continue to do So until the mill
tary oligarchy, which has been for so MANY wears
the curse of the Republic is efectuay suppressed,
and all power is centralized at the Capital under
the administration of an able Dictator. 1t should
matter but little to us how Mexico is governed so
that she is well governed and her people are
prosperous and contented. We may theoriZe as
much as we please upon the superior excellence
of Republican Institutions but so far as the South
American Republics are concerned, there is not
single one of them to whom the principle of popu-
lar sovereignty has not been snare and
delusion. Under the old Spanish rule, the people
of those provinces may have suffered many griev-
ances; but they were certainly happier, and more
efficiently protected in person and property than
they have been since they declared their indepen-
dence of the mother country. We may deplore
the fact; but it is fact nevertheless and it shows
how little prepared they were to appreciate the
freedom for which they fought, or to establish n
better scheme of government than the one against
which they so successfully rebelled The chronic
revolutions in Mexico have for years been growing
from bad to worse until length they have reached
point at which an absolute despotism would in
all probability, be welcomed as a relief from
anarchy. But the remedy for this terrible condi-
ton of affairs lies with the people who suffer from
this nternecine strife and if they lack the spirit to
apply it, no other nation has right to interpose.
The New York Express, however, regards it to be
the duty of the Administration to despatch body
of troops to the support of the Liberals and thus
forcibly bring the Presidency of ZULoAGA to a
close. The New York Times advocates the holder
policy of Protectorate; while the London Times,
with an eye to the pecunary interests of the Anglo
Mexican bondhoders, urges the UNITED STATES to
proceed at once to annex the whole Of Mexico. But
upon what ground could we justify such an inter
ference? If neighbor mismanages his domestic
affairs; abuses his servants and cuffs the ears of
his children have we any right to step in and fog
him into pursuing better course of conduct?
Would we be authorized, without his sanction, to
constitute ourselves his guardian? Would it be
regarded as just and proper in us, because he
is reckless, improvident and selfwied, to take
armed possession of his estate and annex it % our
own? We might advise, and counsel, or even re-
monstrate with him, and we should deserve to be
commended for doing so but beyond this we
have no right to interfere. IF suffered serious
injury by his acts or if we were subjected to per-
sonal insults, then indeed we might be warranted
in taking such steps as would indemnify US for the
damage already done, and would secure us from
similar annoyance in future. In the parallel case
of Mexico, the strife that prevails there must be
settled by the people themselves, and not by our
voluntary and unsanctoned interference; especial
ly as the grievances of which our citizens complain
are not of so serious nature as to require an ap-
peal TO arms to enforce satisfactory adjustment of
them. If it be our "manifest destiny to extend,
at some future day, the jurisdiction of the UNITED
STATES that fertile but ill-governed country,
let US wait with patience until we can do so with
safety to ourselves, and with advantage to the
Mexican people but it certainly does not comport
with our national honor to anticipate by force
event which, if we preserves 'naserly inactivity
will take place quite as early we prepared TO
accept the additional responsibilities that so large
an extension of our territory would impose.