The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-05

II Is remarked, with truth, by the New Or
leans Pieayvne, that the soil Of Mexico has
drunk u . the best blood OF Its people, and the
Country is scarcely more pepulous to. day thnn
II was when 1t threw of the Spanish yoke
In Central America, civil war Is the rule, and
peace is the exception. In South America, the
bloody role of Revolution is acted with
dreary and horrible monotony.
These statements of our New Orleans con-
temporary are the literal historical truth ana
why we would ask, is 1t sol why ! Inc
Constitutions of the Southern Republics are
almost exact transcripts OF our own tney
haxe all The forms OF liberty and law, but the
spirit IL dead IL indeed 1t ever existed. IL 10
30, IN fr,e Constitutions to create freemen; the
constitution must be the product of thechar-
.o,ar genius and customs of a race, or IL will
,srish SIS soon rs born. Our Anglo Saxon
race has been trained for centuries in the prin-
ciples and practice OF self government, and it
is this training, not the free forms-which
have grown out OF IL, and are but the symbol
Of the inward life-which has given sue.
cess thus far 10 our grand experiment of Lib
er;y and Law. What rejecting man can look
at the eternal and bloody conflicts of Mexico,
Central and South America; at the national
impoverishment and degradation of the whole
continent, with the exception of the great
monarchy of Brazil, and imagine that poIiti-
cal equality Is alike a blessing to men of all
nations, or that the capacity of self govern
ment can be conveyed by the adoption of con-
stitutional forms Republican institute
are no more fit for all people, than the same
coat is fiji for all backs, as the repeated trials
and repeated failures in Europe have often
proved, aud Will prove again 40 often as they
are attempted.
The condition o: Mexico is every day be-
coming worse and worse instead Of better
Civil war RACES through the whole length and
breadth Of that unhappy country, dividing
cities, towns, villages, aud even families ex-
hibitiug the horrible spectacle sometimes OF
father and son arrayed n battle against each
other, and brother shedding the blood of bro
Their. Deeds OF cruelty ara occasionally per-
petrated by the military commanders, which
make the blood run cold. 1t is reported that
Gen. MIRAMoN has lately whipped 10 death a
woman, and that woman in 4 situation which
the most brutal generally respect, for the Of
fence Of endeayoring to effect the escape OF
her husband from prison. If this be true, no
vengeance could be too great for such a mon
ster; yet such are the furious passions always
engendered by civil war. AS brethren Offend
ed are the most bitter Of all enemies, so civil
war is the most merciless and vindictive of
all contests. To that more than TO any other
kind OF hostilities, apply the words OF the
dramatist-
"Imltate the action Of the tiger;
Stffeu the slnews su nmon up the blGod.'
War, i'll its best aspect, is full of horrors IN
speakable. and presents lively image of the
crimes and miseries of the internal pit but it
has its glories and its consultations when un
dertaken in a just cause against a foreign foe.
Bat civil wars, like those in which Mexico is
now engaged, benefit nobody but political and
military adventures, brigands and burglars
| it's battles establish no principle and produce
no fruits, except the weeds, thorns and
brisrs which mark its crimson path; its victo-
ries are victories over itself; its garlands are
wet with fraternal blood, and its battle stains
| smell Of murder. May Heaven avert from
this country such 4 catastrophe!