The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-06

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The News from Mexico--What is to Become
of that Republic:-The New Movements to
Arizona and Southwark.
The condition of affairs in Mexico, as exhibit
ed in the news from that republic, shows that the
onward course Of anarchy there continues with
out check or change.
This state of things arises from several causes,
in which all parties are as much implicated as
any one of them. First stand the ambitious
claims of many incompetent leaders, each of
whom attains little sectional influence, and
then aims to rule the whole country, or to defend
himself against others equally ambitious and in
competent. Then comes the church, the only
remnant of conservative organization in the re.
public, striving to maintain its vast hold upon
the material aud religious elements of the coun-
try, against which the political adventures on
all sides preach crusade of the reddest repub-
licanism. Sympathising with the church as
conservative element stands the remnant of the
old military organization, battling for its anti
quated privileges of special tribunals and re-
cognized superiority to the mass of 80.
ciety, and slowly sinking in numbers
through the ravages of battle Then again
stand out the men who In other days have
been participants in the active labors of society,
their sources of honest livelihood dried up by
civil war, forced to take the road az banditti.
or to plumber the country under any of the party
cries that may serve their turn. And be-
low all, the great mass of mixed races
Indians, negroes, mestizos, sambos pintos,
mulattoes, and twenty other castles ignorant
and brutal, who one day listen to the preachings
of priestly fanaticism and another to the radi-
cal outgivings of red republicans on social
equality, the wrongs Of property, and the rights
of man.
These are the causes that have destroyed go
verrment in Mexico, broken up the bonds of So
ciety, and rendered not only a reconstruction of
authority almost improbable, but savage war
Of castles and races the most probable result of
the present confusion. In the meantime, we are
told that England and France have determined
to make forced demand on the impoverished
constitutional government at Vera Cruz for
million of dollars, and to insist on the restora-
ton of the old high tariff of import duties,
large portion of which is devoted to paying
their subjects. This is nothing more than the
bouncing of the buzzards Of Europe upon the
debris of the republic. Spain was to have been
the tool in this movement, and began with
the menacing Of Tampco; but the Presidents
message caused Spain to draw back, and look to
her own affairs. Her preparations for inter-
vention in Mexico were based on an intention TO
enforce the Spanish convention claims of 1853.
and the Tampico affair was only spirit that
| came UP in the meanwhile. Now the Spanish
Ministers announce to the Cortes that their DIFF
Gcu,tes with Mexico are settled, and Spanish
honor indicated.
While these things are passing on the Gulf
shore Of Mexico, another cloud is gathering in
her northwestern skies. Mr.. Buchanan saw it
clearly, and recommended temporary occu-
patton Of portion Of chihuahua and Sonora.
But Congress has refused to act on the wise
recommendation of the President, and so the
people are preparing to act. In the West, in
Cincinnati and st. Louis and Memphis; in the
East, in Boston and Providence and New York.
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and in
the South, in New Orleans and Texas, prepare
tons for migrations are going on. The Laws,
Colts, McCullochs, Sayles, Henningsens, and
hundreds OF others-men Of money and men Of
muscle-are preparing to make Arizona the next
great scene of speculation In lands mines. town
lots, new cities, rising States immense railroads,
and political and social gambling generally. A
boundary line drawn with red ink on a man
slowed away In some dusty pigeon hole of the
State Department, is the only barrier between
these hardy pursuers Of fame and fortune. and
the rich placers and genial plains of Sonora and
chihuahua. A few Apaches now occupy them.
with an occasional greaser ranch beyond but
in the rapid and dusty march of the pioneers Of
our Pacific empire, who shall distinguish, at rife
shot distance, between thieving Apache and an
honest greaser?
Thus does Mexico hasten to her destiny
Civil war preying on her vitals, the nayies Of
Europe blockading her ports, and the steady
tread on her northern frontier Of rough, hardy
and practical civilization, that has no sympathy
for priest or puritan, the church theories Of the
Middle Ages, or the red republicanism of to-day.
we cannot annex her with her heterogeneous
mass or mixed blood ooJ EanovJor M roaoa 49,