New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-18
MEXICAN RRrunLlo ExrrR1MrrT.

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! 10 the founding Of the Mexican Republic the
were Incorporated two elements Of instability viii,
have been at the bottom Of all the troubles that ha
constantly vexed and periodically desolated that
fortunate country, and have Afforded to monarchis
continually prominent example to cite in proof
the unfitness Of republican form Of government f
securing the permanent sovereignty and progress of
natoa-of the incspacity OF man for selfgovernmen
Either one Of these elements would eventually prov
fatal to the harmony and prosperity, and probably
! the permanency Of 3 republicans Of them being
dominant church. an authoritatiyely recognized HE
archy; the other, the existence Of serviIe class
population not in state of bondage or controllin
vassalage.
It is proposition which will not admit counte
. argument, and will not tempt q counter argumeu
from the most ultra republican that there are ciyi
lied and semicivilized races who cannot be truste
with the dangerous power Of self government 70
instance, the civilized negroes OF America and tn
gemicivized lower classes of Mexico. In admittin
these lower classes to participation in the privilege
of individual sovereignty capital error was commit
ted which would have caused the failure of the Mexi
can republican experiment even il there had not beer
another sufficient cause for the disastrous eventual
ties which from the ay Of its institution came thicl
and fast upon it. Had they not been endowed will
these privileges, but have been placed on the ootiue
to which their natural ipferiortv entities them they
would have soon and without the ensctments of gov
eminent, become subordinate to the higher intelli
! gences Of their superiors and ultimately have be
came landed vassals BY naturally resulting conse
| quence OF their established subordination-wbich
| would have been the next best thing to reduction
TO absolute bondage that could be done with them.
1 In that condition, they would have become pro.
ductive element Of material strength to the country
instead OF, as now, being q prime eemeat OF weak
ness-s rotten plank sufficient to sink and wreck the
whole ship Of state.
They are not so ct to be entrusted with the priyi
leges Of feemsn as the negroes Of America. and are
in far greater proportion to the respectabe classes
than the former are to the whites in the South and
forcible idea Of the hopeless case OF Mexico NAV he
arrived at by imagining what the condition Of onr
Southern States would be were the negroes twice AZ
numerous as they are and that they had eoual rights
with those who are now their masters, Imagination
cannot properly picture the condition Of anarchy
which would exist-how treasonable demapoppes
insurrectionary chieftains, would marshal. to the
oyerthrowing of localized authority the ;onoront
masses whom they had stirred nm to conflict nnt
the whole country was reduced TO the wretched stota
Of civil warfare into which Mexico has been contn
ually Frustrated since her republican history had
beginning Where material force il hroncht IN l,or
in an arbitration, that side which brings nrenondar.
ating majority Of such force must tripmp over roht
and intelligence thus the small minorit, of Tho ras
pectable classes of Mexico can do notb;n, Nth ~.
ignorant and vicious masses ;nstoated bv tho Lno,a
and ambitions leaders who ara nevar lactin =; 49,
country. and whose tools thew are constantls nod
The other screw which was left loose in The fonn.
dation architecture Of the Mexican rer,h,;o 49,
one scarcely less vital to healthy and stab,a srrsr
structure than that above enlarged npon-one indeed
which has ever been ready to agerayate the evils n
the other for it is principal which makes Tho othor
its agency. This was the recognition of that dom;
nant Church which has ever been controllino to ito
ends the great power vested in the lower classes
whom superstition, ignorance and imbecilitv have
,ver made its ready instruments. This Cbnrch Wac
md is power indeed, for richly endowed from the
lrst its property, with all the losses IL has under
'one even now yields an income to the clergy greater
han the whole revenue OF the Government The in.
ONE from the church property-not the service 1nes
prests-but from its landed and other estate, now
xceeds twenty millions Of dollars per annum. With
Is jurisdiction organized under system Of church
government really more authoritative and powerful
ven in secular affairs than the civil government,
ommanding and representing more force and domin.
on by its spiritual influence and monied strength
his potent hierarchy has been the real government
II the country. Here, then, was country with two
governments the real-the church, and the nominal
-tbe secular; the one exercising and the other en-
tiled to all authority in the State OF course there
ould be no harmony both could not govern the
epublic was divided against itself and it must fall.
And fallen it has to the lowest stages Of decadence
The Mexican Republic is even now in artic,lo NOR
is and the convulsve throes of its dissolution are
ielnging the country in blood. Its term of badly
rganlzed experimental repubicanism is about ended
nd the nation must make new start But it can
ot start tsefts long exhaustion has left it none of
he modicum of stamina which suffced it to throw
Iii the SDanish woke. nnnst ha nv, ott,o,,
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lust have new organization from which all seeds of
ecay are excluded. 1t must have constitution,
barter OF organic laws, which will limit the priv.
of freemen to the classes which are competent
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