The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-21

MINlSTkATlON-MR CORWlN MISSION.-Dy our
telegrapbic adyices from Washington it will
be seen that the administration have deter
mined upon policy with regard to Mexico
which they suppose will head off any attempts
on the part of either the Southern confedera-
ton or the Texan Rangers to encroach
"area Of slavery" 1t is stated that instruc-
tons have been prepared for Mr.. COrwin,
who, it is believed, will accept the mission
which has been rendered him, looking to the
negotiation Of treaty with Mexico, by which
the United States shall guarantee the indie
pendence Of that country and the stability of
its existing rulers. The governments of Eng
land and France, it is further alleged, are to
be asked to join in this guarantee; and it is
argued that, in view Of the large Interests the
British bondholders have in maintaining the
present status of Mexico, and the repugnance
which exists in Europe to the extension in any
way Of slavery or slave territory, there will
be no difficulty in inducing them to become
active parties to the agreement With the ex
istence of such treaty it would become the
duty Of England and France to lend Mexico
all the necessary assistance to repel an in
thus the Texan Rangers or the army of the
confederation would find themselves face to
face against these European allies.
We thus see that the present weak admins
tration is rapidly fastening to the adoption of
the same policy which has preceded the de-
MI ne nd xrhi oh hoe Ia
those caricatures of governments-the Central
American States-the football of every adven-
turer who came along, and objects OF contempt
to the civilized world. In order to try and
checkmate the designs which they attribute to
the Southern confederacy, they do not hesitate
to enter into "entaDglng alliances" with the
most powerful military governments of Europe,
and TO give those governments not only an ex-
cuse but an invitation to occupy territory upon
this continent with fher armies. If the Ameri
can people can quietly submit to such de-
parture from the teachings Of the founders of
this republic, from the advice of Washington,
and in defiance of the warnings of history as
to the natural result of such policy, they de-
serve the fate that awaits them. Undeserving
of liberty, they will dwindle into the mere
serfs of military desp0tism, or revert back
again to the paternal care Of Great Britain, as
people who had not the capacity to enjoy the
liberty their forefathers had achieved, nor the
courage to defend the Inheritance they had left.
Mr.. Corwin is fit instrument. to carry out
this policy Of the administration. Distinguish
ed in ls47 as the only man who could be found
in the Senate Of the United States to lend aid
and assistance to the enemies of his govern
ment, who did not hesitate in his place to pray
that American soldiers might meet with "bloody
hands and hospitable graves" and that the flag
Of his country should be Inundated by Mexico,
be will worthily close his career by paving the
way for the occupation Of the central portion
of this continent by European soldiers, and re-
duciDg his country to the level of South Ameri-
can republics, which exist simply because of
their insignfcance, and are only tolerated from
their obscurity.