The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-20

tirely reversed.
News from Mexic.-TSo New Phases LA
Mexican Affairs.
We publish elsewhere to-day an Interesting
letter from our Vera Cruz correspondent which
not only exhibits truthful picture Of the condi
ton of that unhappy country, but also gives
ooreot reflex Of the general opinion among
naive and foreigners, persons in Office and out
Of as to the only remedy and hope Of that dis
tracted republic
The picture Of the condition of the country
does not differ from what has been given from
time 10 time in these columns for a long time
past. Ii may be summed up in the single ex-
preston, political, social, and moral dsintegra-
ton. On the remedy sought for we have few
words to say. 1t amounts to ths:-Contessing
our inability to reconstitute society and reOr-
ganize the nation, we call upon you, government
of the United States as Christians and neigh
bors, to put your hands in your pockets, and,
paying out several millions of dollars of
your own money, to send two or three
thousand of your soldiers here, place
President Juarez in our Presidential chair
keep your soldiers here to retain him in
place as long as he wants them, and then,
under your solemn promise-which you are ex-
pected to give when you do this alms-to take
them away again, leaving us to enjoy the fruit of
your expenditure of your own treasure and
your own blood
Sucb we are told, is the request which the
Mexican Minister at Washington is instructed to
present to our government; and we know that it
has been the view taken for some time past 10y
both natives and foreigners in Mexico of the
course tie United States should pursue 10 their
relations with the neighboring republic. In this
view the constitutional party is not alone; the
priestridden faction entertain the same views,
onl, with the difference that Instead of looking
to the United States, they look to- Isabel Segunda
or Louis Napoleon to pay the money, send the
troops, and do the handsome thing. With all
parties the grounds and reasons advanced are
precisely the same-self confessed incapacity
and poverty, and the duty of Christians and
neighbors.
Now, both the arguments and the expectations
are absurd upon their very face. They are not
only inconsistent with the duties of our own
government but they strike at the very root of
Mexican independence and nationality. Our
government is instituted tor the purpose of
taking care Of our own affairs, not for that of
medding with those of other nations Its revenues
are collected by an elaborate system of taxation
from the pockets of our own people, and cannot
be diverted from its use for their benefit without
changing the whole policy and aim Of our 60
vernment How the settlement of Mexican
politics for the advantage Of the Mexicaus, but
a. the cost of the American people, is going to
benefit the latter as people, is not so clear
1t may benefit individual Americans, but that
cur government has no power to do. AS for
Christianity and neighborhood, they confer nei-
ther the obligation nor the right Of Intervention
in the affairs Of any people. They have always
been the plea of kingcraft when it has wished to
carry out ambitious designs; but the interview
lion of foreign government in the settlement
of the domestic affairs of nation is inconsis-
tent with national existence It is the most dan
gerous principle that could be admitted, for if
it gives to one party the right to call us in to
establish free institutions, it comedies to any
other party the right TO call in France or Spain
to establish those Of an opposite tendency.
If this has been the only solution which the
Juarez government can find for the present
incapacity; and if Mr.. McLane has not been able
to impress higher truths upon its members
we believe it must be owing to the fact
of his inability to confer with them in
their own tongue, and the necessity of conveying
his ideas to them through the Dead Sea of diplo-
| matte correspondence, OF the weak alembic of
| the Inferior brain Of a mere word interpreter
We are 10th to believe that an American minis
ter in Mexico has encouraged shch weak hopes.
| But even if this aims of American treasure and
| blood could be granted to President Juarez, the
amount that he supposes would suffice would be
utterly incompetent to attain the proposed end.
| The disintegation of Mexico is already present.
| ing another phase than that of mere inability
| to reorganize the republic. The old republic is
broken up, and several new ones are already in
| germ among its fragments. Yesterday we pub
| lished news from Sonora Of Pesqueira's designs
| He governs that distant State with arbitrary
sway, and having recently conquered the adjoin-
ing one of Sinaloa from the rebellious priesthood
intends to erect the two into an independent re-
public, possibly with the addition of Lower Cali
fornia Already he has sent to San Francisco
for the materials he requires. To-day we pub
| lish in another column the official announcement
that the States Of San Luis Potos, Zacatecas,
Durango, Aguascalientes and Guanajuato have
agreed to ignore Degollsdo, the appointee of
| President Juarez, and to accept Coy. Vidaurri
as conmander-inchief of the army. Vidaurri
already governs New Leon and Coahuila, and
the present movement looks like plan to estab-
lish separate northern republic. We shall not
be surprised at any change that may take place
| in the present crisis in Mexican affairs.
/ SAN ERANCIscO SETTING A Gnnn EYAMp1 IN