The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-02-27

all through 1864. / shall thank heaven if
we can get out Of il in 1865. More delav
will be caused by the impossibility of with
drawing all our troops at once. and thus a
complete eXtrication may be an affair of
several years.
Well, then, gentlemen, / ask you, is it
prudent TO have AZ, 600 men beyond the sea
during so long a period. at time when
great events may occur; when the seas
now free, may cease TO pe SO? [Applause
from many parts.] At the same time we
shall be forever paying. We shall pay our
own army-that is natural; but We shall
have 10 pay the Mexican army also.--
tNoise.l We shall not be able to DO other
wise. The new sovereign Will not have a
plaster. The offices OF the customs, al
most the only sources Of public revenue,
are in the hands Of the English and Span
lsb. VINO will not give them up till they
have beer paid. For my part cannot un-
!erstand how sensible men can perss.
in such a course. Fresh interruption. i
An honorable member, who makes light OF
geography, has said that we occupy seven
eighihs OF the country. / say that we do
not occupy the twentieth part OF it. Out
of q population OF eight millions, two only
are subject 10 oar control. The Prince may
certainly be better off hereafter; but /
SPEAK Of the present. What revenue will
| We have? None. And we are too honest,
after having enticed him from his family
and country, 20 abandon him TO all the em-
| barrassmcnts of his position. We must,
then, help hin TO pay mis- own army, and
that vii; be some twelve or fifteen millions
more that you will have to sacrifice.
know we'll that loan has been talked of;
but if loans are easily negotiated on
French security, il will be very different
ttnp
the prospects Of the Mexican Government.
Mexico has large debts-a home debt
which she does not pay; llaughterJ; debt
to Ourselves-we give her time; and also q
foreign debt in the hands Of creditor who
is very exacting-I mean England, to
whom two hundred millions are due for
different indemnities. So that we shall
have to provide the new Sovereign with
three hundred or four hundred millions to
begin with. have not the honor ofknow-
ing Prince Maxinllian. He is said to be
very attractive; but he would require all
the sound sense of his father-in-law, King
Leopold of Belgium, to induce European
capitalists TO lend him three hundred or
four hundred millions. I know that it is
not very desirable to treat with the Indian
JuareZ; but can never give my consent
to our engaging ourselves for one or two
years more IN an enterprise like the pre-
sent. Allow me TO ask you question:
Have these creations of new States been
so very successful that we must needs re-
commence the experiment: Look at what
is passing on the banks Of the Danube and
in Greece; three great powers co-operated,
and the expense for each, about twenty
millions, was insignificant. What has
happened in Greece? The Greeks have
driven away their King, Otho, for his
wan, OF skill in ruling. and Europe has
said TO them, You viii not have King
Otho? Well, we will give you another
lLaughter.] And this time admired the
prudence of our Government in leaving
the task to England. England turned to
the Danish monarchy, so Inenaced at this
| moment, and she detached a branch to
! transplant in Greece, adding thereto a
| sacrifice which she may, perhaps, feel
| hereafter-I mean the cession of the Ionian
Islands and the fortress Of Corfu. Well,
notwithstanding these concessions, England
| is just now mucil less popular In Greece
| than France, who did not Intervene at all.
| (True, true.l Can we Erd here any mo-
tive for creating another Greece 3,O0t
leagues off?
And who are our allies? In the case OF
Greece we had Russia and England; but
the most ardent partisans of the enterprise
Will be embarrassed to say who are ouI
well -wishers in the Mexican business
| You will have, indeed. the rather sarcastic
appreciation OF England, rs expressed in
the English journals, but on condition OF
reimbursing her first from the proceeds OF
the customs. Then there is the Anglo
Saxon race which it wished TO resist. That
race will respect you At present, and with
reason for were you TO pronounce def
nitely for one or the other of the parties in
the struggle-and l commend the Govern.
ment for not having cone so-yOUr lnfiu-
ence might be decisive. The Americans o.
the North will, therefore. respect you-l
am sure that the ArchdUke himself would
| be well received Mt New York, were be t.
pass that way. But can any body believe
that, when the civil war comes To an end
the United States will remember your I'M.
par,:al;.y. or tha. they Will hep YOU At nj
| in your Mexican difficulties They viii
act .iust as they Gid in the Havana; you
will have one hundred thousand adven
ture.s, who have only 20 cross the Rio de
| Norte 10 re in Mexico; you viii have ths
inevitable hostility of America, or at ie;.s
Of All Inc fighting men, whose Occupation
| viii then be gone.
/ must now speak Of the resources o
| Mexico IN mineral wealth. We are refer
red 70 the account Of Mexico given by NJ
de Humboldt. That celebrated man has
| indeed, said that Mexico is very ricf
country ; but IN saying this he has destroy
cd many illusions. Al the close OF IN tne 81: las
century the reputation Of Mexico Tor min
eral wealth was colossal; it was though
that Spain, which then monopoiized nine
tenths Of the precious metals in circuia
ton, drew the whole from Mexico. M: ~
Humboldt dissipated this mistake, and Ia
ter travellers have dissipated many more
i A word about cotton. have been il
4 communication with Mexican merchants
and with the Director Of the School OF Agri
culture in Mexico; and he assures me tina
cotton Is grown in the lowlands, like thos
4 nf,roxas which are infected with malaria
that there are only Indians for work, AM
that hands are very scare; and that by rea
son of the rains, it often happens that tw'
or three out Of five harvests are spoiled
On the high plains cotton cannot inrlve ol
t account Of the inundatiOns and subseQuen
drought; in the valleys the crops are mag
nificent, but the difficulty lies in the deart
Of hands. NJ. de Humboldt speaks ,ssa Of tn b
, agricultural produce Of Mexico in ME ls9s; S;,n q
E it has remained; the mines produce, indeed
I l2O to lao. 600 OOC; they are rich, but requir