The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-13


gives them the opportunity, to restore
peace to an unhappy population, to open a
field for enterprise, to make the immense
mineral wealth of the country available for
the worlds purposes-all these are things
which, seemingly, can be only done by some
foreign intervention; for the men of the
Spanish or half caste races have had long
trial, and have shown themselves capable
only of bigotry, ferocity and greediness.
The case is this-Mexico has fallen into
a complete anarchy, and there is no real
Government, no system of finance, no police,
no authority which is respected or to which
the individual can appeal. The English
residents who have cast in their lot with
the inhabitants, and the traders who have
invested money 10 enterprises of the coun-
try, are in the same position as the Mexicans
themselves. How can we or any one inter-
fere but by taking possession of the coun-
try? OF whom are we to demand an ex-
PLANTATION The chief of the Republic to-day
may be fugitive in week, while his rival
steps into power and wreaks vengeance on
all the late officials.
Suppose we ask satisfaction who is to
give it? The outrage may have been COM
mitted by the other party, or by some indie
pendent rufian, hundreds of miles of, or
there may be no police to prevent repeti-
ton of the act, and no money to compensate
it. In fact, where there is no settled gov
eminent the ordinary international remedies
fail. The question whether the British
Government should interfere to save our
people and their capital from injury depends
solely on the fact whether there is posi-
bility for such an interference. We think
there is not, except by remonstrances
addressed to whichever party may happen
to be in the ascendant. A community may,
by absolute anarchy, acquire kind OF ire
sponsibility, and it seems to us that such is
not the condition of Mexico at the present
time. 1t is not until settled Government
is established that we shall find any authori-
ty which we shall hold responsible. The
only remedy at present would be a declara-
ton of war, and the occupation of the cOun-
try. But from this even the Americans
shrink, inasmuch as it would burden them
with bigoted and savage population,
ignorant to the last degree, and incapable,
as far as we can judge, of ever being raised
to the dignity of free men. We must trust
that the civil war will wear itself out, and
allow foreign capital and enterprise to do
something for this almost ruined country.
The condition of Hungary is such that
an outbreak is generally anticipated at an
early day, against Austrian rule. This is
caused by renewed acts of oppression and
tyranny on the part of Austria. The Lon
don Times says:
The Hungarians have waited patiently for
ten years the ful6llment of the promises of a
Constitution repeatedly made by the impe
rial government. 1t is not too much to say
that there never was any serious intention
at Vienna of fulfilling those engagements as
understood by the Hungarians The old
constitution was abolished in l849, and the
Government no doubt then secretly resolved
to establish in the constitutional kingdom of
Hungary the centralized system of beaurau-
cratic administration, which existed in other
parts of the empire.
But it would not do to confess this at
once. The Hungarians were therefore be-
guiled with vague promises of constitution
looming in the future. At length these pro.
misses have been fulfilled, in the formal abo-
lition of the last remnant of their ancient
system of government. The result that
might naturally have been expected has
followed. The aim of the Government in
its long delays, its arbitrary edicts, and
harsh proceedings, was to extinguish the
spirit of political freedom and national indie.
pendence which has always animated the
Hungarians.
But these harsh and misguided measures
have but kindled into unexpected ardor the
patriotic spirit which they were designed to
quench. They have strengthened the old ele-
ments of disafection and created new ones.
For the first time since Hungary was uni-
ted to Austria, all sects and parties are
united in common movement against the
Austrian Government
Hitherto there has always been a large
conservative party in Hungary attached to
the House of Hapsburg, and anxious to re-
main united to Austria. But this conserv-
alive party exists no longer. To the last
conflict there existed divisions between the
different races of the kingdom, the Croats
and Serbs joining with Austria against the
Hungarians. There were religious differ,
eHces too between the rival churches-the
Protestants, the Greeks and the Roman
Catholics. But these different clements
religious, political and carbohydrate
now all firmly united. The opening of the
Museum in Trannsylvania the other day, is
a striking illustration of this union. On the
question as to the language in which the
proceedings should be published being put,
the decision was unanimously in favor of the
Hungarian, the national, though not the 10
cal tongue. The union of the various
religious bodies is shown in the fact that the
Catholic clergy have attended the Protest
ant meetings recently held to protest against
the Imperial patent, and still more recently
in the fact that a Lutheran clergyman has
been arrested on charge of high Treason.
This is the upshot of the Austrian system of
maintaining order"
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