Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-08-12
The Mexican News.

the lmperlal ropes, under the title or hu'
gustin 1st, and reigned a few months, when
be was overthrown by Santa Anna, Danish
ed from the country, aud a Republic de-
clared
This second change to monarchy, how
ever, has been effected in very different
way and under very different circumstances
from the first. In the present instance, a
powerful foreign State has, by means of IN
armed invasion, obtained possession of the
Government and country, and the people,
demoralzed by the fierce and corrupt fac
tions which have been ceaselessly warning
against each other and successfully Install
ing themselves in the Executive mansion,
have, it seems, determined to place them
selves and their political destinies under
the protection and guidance Of their con-
queror. Worn down with, the Intestine
dissentions and strife by which they have
been for more than forty years distracted,
they prefer Government that promises to
be stable and efficient, to the irregulay, dis
orderly rule to which they have been sub
jected by the various military chieftains
who from time to time have figured as eph-
emeral President. This is not to be won
dered at, nor can we condemn the prefer
ence, when we consider to what condition
the people and their affairs had been redu.
ced by the wretched misrule under which
they had so long and so tamely suffered
Despairiug of all reform in the abuses of
authority, which had become chronic and
incurable, they have concluded to try the
virtue of Government strong enough to
ensure domestic tranquility, protect popu-
lar rights, and correct at all events some of
the evils arising from the civil couvulsions
by which they had been torn.
we do not understand how it was that an
Austrian Archduke came to be declared
by the Mexicans their Emperor. We ques-
ton very much the truth of this part of the
story, coming, as it does, to US through
Yankee channels. We can readily compre-
hend the vast advantages which Louis Ma.
poleon would reap from the acquisition of
so immense and rich territory. There is
no calculating their value. But to realize
these advantages he would have to retain
his conquest, or have it so held as to expe.
rience the benefit of those amelioratiug
changes expected by the people at his
hands. We can hardly suppose that after
incurring the trouble and cost of invading,
subduipg and occupying the country, he
would, as it fell into his possession, allow
it to pass into the hands of another. We
take it for granted, therefore, that he is to
be the ruler of Mexico, and that in the
change of Government that it has Just un-
dcrgone, care has been taken that French
influence is to predominant. In this view
we consider the change decidedly good
one for the Mexicaus, for they will not only
be rid of the turbulent and constant strife
of factions which has rendered Constitutions
and laws alike worthless as securities Of
their peace aud property, but they will be
permitted to enjoy, under the protection Of
the most enlightened and polished sover-
eigu in Europe, all the rights aud privi-
leges which they are qualified to appreci-
ate and exercise-all, in fact, that are
proper and necessary for the promotion Of
their individual and national welfare.
What will the Lincoln-Seward Govern
ment say to this singular and unexpected
turn of events in Mexico? We believe
that Tom Corwin is still in that country
but the declaration by the Council of No.
tables of an Empire extiuguishea the Re-
public to which he was accredited, and alcng
with it bis mission. If the old Govern
ment has been subverted, and the reported
new one established in its place, then will
Lincoln be reduced to choice between
two alternatives. Either he will be COM
PEELED to recognize the Imperial successor
of President Juarez, whoever he may be,
and thus endorse monarchy upon this con-
tinent-a monarchy, too, erected upon the
ruins of that favorite Yankee, anti-Europe-
an platform-the Monroe Doctrine. Or by
refusing to recognize it, incur the displea.
sure of France and lay the foundation of an
immediate quarrel with that power, which
would quickly result in the recognition Of
the Southern Coufederacy, and what would
be still worse for the Yankees, the loss Of
California, Oregon and the whole Pacific
coast-for, in the event of rupture be-
tween the United States and France, come
when it will, after the change which Mexi-
co has undergone, ope Of the inevitable
consequences will be the Remuneration of
California to Mexico, and as England will
pretty certainly be an ally of Louis Napo-
leon, she will help herself to the "whole Of
Oregon"
This is the picture of their future which
the Yankees now have to contemplate
Such is the way that they are likely to be
affected by the French conquest of Mexico.
Wal Lincoln recognize the Imperial Gov
ernment of .Maximilian, or whoever may be
elevated to the Mexican throne, and there
by keep up amicable relations, or rather
avoid hostile ones, with France-or will he
refuse recognition, and thus embroil himself
with power that could and would iDfict
upon him punishment little if any short
of his total and irretrievable destruction!
We shall await developments in this
Mnu; INN n,nktar rrith O rnru lively interest