The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-27

into it's vortex every Power in Europe, and if
one shot is fired, no man can tell where it will
end, or what revolutionary earthquakes may up
heave the whole Continent and even Great
Britain herself
The Crisis I'M Mexsco-Duty OF Congress I'm
the Promises.
II will be seen by our Monterey correspon-
dence that Vidaurri has been enabled to raise
the means of bringing another army into the
field, and that during the month Of March next
he hopes to have five thousand men operating
against San Luis Potosi.
Our latest advices from Vera Cruz show that
on that line Of operations crisis is approach
ing for the constitutional government Miramon
is marching TO attack its stronghold, and if he
possesses the means for Smelling the city for
short time he may gain possession of Vera Cruz;
for though the constitutionalists are strong
enough there to resist an assault, they have
hardly force enough to drive Miramon out of the
field, and if he sets himself resolutely down
with few mortars, it is doubtful how long the
passive resistance of the garrison will last. But
the driving of the Juarez government out of
Vera Cruz does not extinguish it any more
than the driving it out of Guadalajara
and Colima by Osollos did. It can come
to the north, and, joining vidaurri, Or
ganize the whole Of the northern and
northwestern States, and, with the cooperation
of Alvarez in the south, eventually drive out
religion and privileges"
1t is stated that portion of the Anglo French
feet is to be sent from Vera Cruz to Tanpico, to
exercise upon the subordinate constitutional
government there the same power of squeezing
which it enforced on the supreme government of
President Juarez; and further advices from
Washington say that the administration seriously
contemplates recognizing the government OF
Juarez, and receiving Senior Mata as Mexican
Minister. In case Of its being compelled to
evacuate Vera Cruz, this would be valua-
bic service to the constitutional party in
Mexico. The advent of Lerdo de Teada in the
Cabinet of President Juarez has given his
government more determined political charac-
ter than it before had, and brings to a just and
popular cause the aid of known practical
craftsmanship.
The very possibility of Miramon taking Vera
Cruz should induce our government to prepare
for action. He is the legitimate successor and
representative of the government of Zuloaga,
which drove our Minister with insult from
Mexico, and plundered and outraged our citi-
zens resident there. Hitherto we had no way of
reaching it, because it held none of the seaports
of the republic But the moment Mramon takes
Vera Cruz, if be succeeds in doing 30, we should
be prepared to act. Spain, England and France
have brought their power to bear adversely on
the unrecognized and unsupported government
of President Juarez, compelling it to atone, in
part, for sins committed by others. With greater
justice, we should bring home to others the
sins they themselves have committed The
course pursued by the European Powers beto-
kens a tortuous policy on their part, and one in
nowise friendly to the interests of this country
or the establishment Of liberal principles in
Mexico. Their action has been prompt and de-
csive in its results. Ours should be 80, likewise.
Unfortunately, the power of the Executive
strong enough for oil purposes at home-is
miserably weak and inefficient for the protection
of our national honor and the interests Of our
citizens abroad. 1t cannot order gun to be
fired for the purpose of attaining the most papa-
BILE necessity of redress, except on the personal
responsibility Of the President, upon whom Con-
gress refuses to confer the power to act, and
whom it would most probably censure were he
10 act. Mr. Buchanan has recently called the
attention Of Congress to this subject and asked
it to move in the matter. Upon that body,
therefore, rests the responsibility of the disgrace
full condition of our relations with those rrespon-
sible institutions, called governments, south Of
us. In many parts of them an American citizen
is glad to call himself an Englishman, and to
place himself under the protection of the British
flag; but this does not always save his interests
from outrage or even his life from being lost,
and so the dusty pigeonholes of our State De-
partment are crowded with unredressed claims
upon foreign governments. On Congress rests
the fault Of this obloquy on the American name.
II should give the Executive the power to act
and thus save us from these accumulations Of in
suit that will eventually break our patience and
carry us into a foreign war.
The ITALIAN ExnEs-THE CASE BEFORE Con-
GREss AND THE GovERNMESr-From a tele-
graphic despatch in yesterdays HERALD, we
learn that the case Of the italian exiles expa-
triated to the United States by the King of Ma
pies lie likely TO become o subject of debate in
Congress, and to lead to correspondence be-
tween our government and that Of his Majesty of
I" the Two sicilies." The history of the case is
briefly this: The Neapolitan government, when
the heir apparent to the crown recently married,
granted an amnesty to the political prisoners