The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-22


against the rights Of the South. Such a trl-
umph of the conservative ticket in April would
be the earnest of victory in the same State
next fall; and the example of Connecticut
would have most decided influence upon all
the Middle Statep, while it would tend to re.
assure the South and calm down that danger
GUS excitement which has driven it 10 the very
verge of disunion, and may at any moment
precipitate It's crossing Of the fatal Rubicon
from which there is no return; and then woe to
Connecticut and all the New England States.
The Mexican Com plications-The True
Cause and Probable Results.
The gross neglect and inaction exhibited by
Congress in all matters regarding our foreign
relations, for the past three years, are not only
producing an extraordinary series of comph-
cations but are terminating causes that may
eliminate in the dissolution of the Union.
Such complication as that which now at
tends the Mexican question has never before
been Witnessed. An insurgent army in pos
session of the capital of that republic, violating
the rights of foreign residents, insulting our
diplomatic representative for defending our
citizens, and driving him from the country, and
now using its utmost exertions to expel from
Vera Cruz the legitimate and constitutional
authorities of the republic. Growing out OF
this state of things, and our cotermlnous re-
lations with Mexico, we have now pending
before the Senate at Washington, and ex-
posed to the blind hostility Of the black
republican Senators, the most advantageous
and important treaty offriendship and commerce
that has ever been presented to that body.
Besides these, frontier excitement has been
produced in Texas, calling for a 6libuster
movement against the neighboring republic,
the separation of Texas from the Union, and
the creation Of new confederacy, in conjunc-
ton with some of the States of Northern
Mexico; ard to complicate still further our re-
lations, we have the recent necessary landing
Of marines at Minatitlan to protect our citizens,
and now the capture Of two corsair ships in the
Gulf of Mexico, which assumed the right to es-
tablish blockades and harass the commerce OF
those seas. Coincident with these events there
| is the diplomatic Intervention at Vera Cruz Of
the British naval commander in the Mexican
waters, the Vaccinations of specializing
French Minister in the city of Mexico; and, to
crown all, the manifest connivance Of the
Spanish authorities in Cuba, in permitting
the outfit at Havana Of armed coIsairs to cruise
in the Gulf of Mexico
These extraordinary complications have
grown out of the gross and wilful neglect Of
Congress to attend to our foreign relations,
notwithstanding the urgent calls of the Presi-
dent for the last three years; and not only is
our national honor seriously compromised, and
the respect due to our flag and the safety of
citizens and their interests everywhere abroad
endangered, but our own domestic relations
are thereby disturbed, and the Union itself
PLACED in jeopardy. The insults that have been
heaped upon US by the usurping government
of Miramon in Mexico cannot be passed over
with safety or with selfrespect. If we refrain
from exactipg reparation for the past and en-
fercing security for the future, the example of
that insurgent leader will find imitators in q
thousand places, and the very name of Ameri-
can will become the synonyme of contempt
throughout the world. Suppose too, that Con-
gress refuses to rouse itself to the contempla.
ton Of the present exigencies and to apply the
remedy, and that Gov. Houston proceeds with
bis mad scheme Of taking matters into his own
hands and crossing the Rio Grande. There are
thousands upon thousands Of young, hardy
and brave men in every State Of this Union
ready to rush to the new scene of adventure,
and seek fame and fortune in the founding of
military confederacy beyond our borders.
Nor is it certain that such confederacy would
always be beyond the Rio Grande. Whoever
watches with imprisoned eye the great moral
currents that are surging through this Union
will clearly see what States now forming part
of our galaxy would seek to enter Southern
confederation.
Here are the seeds Of death to the Union,
destruction to the brotherhood Of the North
and South, humiliation to their commercial
relations, and, should the fanatic idea that now
surges through the Northern States continue to
would drench the continent in blood, and be-
fore which the petty anarchy of Spanish
America would pale to semblance of peace,
and the conflicts of the nations of Europe
would seem to be the very dictates of forbear-
ance and mercy. In this emergency Congress
must throw off its stupor, and resolve to act
The Senate must ratify the pending treaty with
Mexico, provision must be made for frequent
and constant postal communications with that
republic, and the war which Miramon and his
partisans have so long proclaimed against us
and ours must be accepted as fact, and steps
be at once taken to crush the insolent faction.
The course of the Spanish authorities in Cuba,
in violating the comfy of nations and permit
ting the outfit Of partisan corsairs, under their
very eyes, in tbe port of Havana, to vex and
plumber the commerce Of the American