Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-03-29

Instructions to prevent any interruption to Ameri-
can trade in the capture by the Miramon naval
force Of any and every description placed before
Vera Cruz to obstruct access to it. That this
capture converts Us into o party de .facto IN the
contest between Miramon and Juarez is one OF
the incidents growing out of the position in which
the former has voluntarily placed himself The
United States must take the consequences, but
is no act of aggression under the circumstances,
but simply measure Of necessary defence"
Lord John Russell, in behalf Of England, has
proposed an armistice and general amnesty be-
tween the two contending parties, and recon-
mends religious liberation. Miramon, infurther-
ance of this proposition, offers to make England
France, Spain, Prussia and the United States
medators for the establishment Of peace-re-
quiring for himself, in the meantime, half the
revenue Of the government. Juarez considers
these propositions of Miramon absurd and mad
missible. Juarez regards himself as the lawful
head of Mexican affairs, and Miramon as the
leader of faction and of course the acceptance
of the overtures made by the latter, would place
him in condition of recognized equality. There
caa be no peace for Mexico, until one party
or the other is crushed out; or some plan OF
government is forced upon them by the civilized
world. There will ever be some man next in
power to the leaders of the two parties, 80 that
were Juarez or Miramon to die, their place would
be filed by another, perhaps more factious than
either of them; and thus the struggle tends ad
infnitum, both in duration and violence. In
such state of affairs, the rights of our citi.
zens on Mexican soil are held by very pre-
carious and shifting tenure. The commerce of
the United States is liable to continual insult
and embarrassment. We cannot even establish
treaties with them without recognizing one party
or the other, and thus becoming particeps crimi-
mis- in their misrule and anarchy for, if we treat
with both parties, it amounts to renunciation
of our right to think for ourselves, and to an act
of international injustice to the party which has
the highest claims to the government.
In view of these and similar facts, some a.
mongst us have thought for years, that q Pro-
tectorate by our country is the only means Of
curing all the ills to which the Mexican body
polite is heir Gen. QU1rMAN thought so. Mr.
BoYcE calls Mexico our sick man. Mr.. CoRwIN,
of Ohio, has just made a speech in Congress in
favor of the Protectorate. President BUCHANAN
throws all the weight Of his influence on that
side This is now the Mexican question. Shall
VIC take another slice Of this pie? In other
words, shall we help the sick man get we'll; or,
if be won't get well, shall we kill him off by de-
grees, and then pocket his estate? The fact is,
he is quite dead noW; and neither the people at
home nor the people abroad-neither his own
children nor his eighbors-recognize the poor
fellows corpse. Worse than that, the sick
man's'-the dead man's-body is thrown out to
the dogs; and where the carcass is, thither the
eagles are gathering together for the prey.