Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-19
The Grounds and Character OF Interven-
tiOn in Mexico.

Sal
The letters from Mexico, to the end of
August, declare that the gloom and wretch
edness of the English in the interior are ex.
trene. The Government, while il fails to
guarantee them protection and security,
multiplies and nggravates its exactions. A
properly tax of one per cent. has been i'm
posed on all persons living in the district of
Mexico. Foreigners have been declared
liable TO, and are paying it, by the advice, it
is said, Of the British Minister, under pro-
test. Even the poor and peculiarly British
consolation of grumbling, is denied our eoun-
trymep, and Mr.. Moran, the editor of the
English newspaper in the City of Mexico,
has been arrested on the charge of publish
ing comments on the acts of the Govern
ment.
1t is impossible that we can allow Mexico
to continue thus to set at nought every obli-
CATION and defy every summons. If its Gov
eminent will not do its duty to its own peo-
pie, it must at least do its duty to us. If we
had taken no part in procuring its inde-
pendence, if we had lent it no money, we
should still have the same claim upon it for
just treatment of our citizens ss we have
upon Japan or any other country, Pagan or
Christian, to which our merchants trade.
The French have also strong interest in
Mexico, arising out of different circum.
stances. There are more Frenehmen than
Epglishmen in the Republic, the City of
Mexico alone containing three thousand, and
they have suffered with our countrymen, on
the one hand by the general disorder, and on
the other by the legalized injustice of sue
cessive Governments 1t is not, therefore,
easy to understand why some of the Paris
newspapers should take pleasure in discred-
iting the intention of the Governments to
join in measures for obtaining redress for the
wrongs which their countrymep in Mexico
have sustained, and which they still endure.
The expedition which has been announced is
necessary, and, therefore, will be carried out.
But if 1t is necessary to bring the Mexican
Government back with strong hand to the
acknowledgment of its international duties,
it is equally important to avoid any thing
like an Intervention in the domestic affairs
OF the country. Our neighbors have never
professed to hold the principle of non-inter.
vention as fixed rule of policy; but, gener.
alization apart, it is clearly for the interest of
all parties that the Mexicsns should be al
lowed to terminate their disputes in their
own way. We shall greatly assist them in
doing so five take the portion of revenue
which belongs to us, instead Of allowing it to
aliment a civil war. ~
By foregoing, or at least forbesring to en-
force, our claims, we have, in fact, been brib-
ing the factions to continue the strife. The
interests Of all parties will take new shape
when the necessity OF reckoning with foreign
powers is brought home to them. In posses.
sion Of the sea'ports, there is no gust claim
a9hich ee may not enforce upon the aGoUern-
ment. We trust therefore, that the sug-
gested military march to the interior has no
place in the intentions of the powers. Such
an occupation would give character of in
defniteness to the enterprise, would open
the path to any adventurous and speculative
policy, and prove greatly embarrassing. We
at this distance can not pretend to fix the
fortunes Of Mexico; that must be left to the
influence of events, to the pressure of cir
cumstances, and, above all, to the character
of the people. Such an occurrence as the
announced discovery of rich gold placers on
the western coast Of Mexico, will ado more
to determine the future of that State than all
the regiments that could be sent from Europe
We had better leave the country to nature
and to time. c E