Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1865-11-28
THE MEXICAN oUEtrIoE.
The New Orleans Times. Of tbs 5.l, 81

The New Orleans Times, of the 5th of No.
vember, makes the following remarks :
a, ;The South now wants time for recupera-
tion-time to 9rcomm6date herself to the
changes which have been madeleine fSs+E re-.
Organization and permanent improvement
But just as her faith was becoming strong and
Ter hopes high, new specks of war apriear,
above the Horizon. We are told that the
Navy Department, has ordered our irop-cI
to be prepared TOR early service. and that the
War Department has stopped the previously
announced sale OF army wagons and Other
material of transportation.
AS mere telsgraphic announcements such
rumors might be regarded as of little weight
but we have Information that we are not at
full liberty to disclose, which gives positive
corroborarion to these rurhoaS. Under the
circumstances, we hesitate not TO predict that
unless the French troops are removed from
Mexico before Christmas there Will be active
intervention On behalf Of tie Liberals of that
country, aid the Traditional policy of the
United States will be vindleated. Our des
patches this morning throw some light on the
subject. If dispute ten years ago between.
two Christlah. sects as to the right to possess
the key of a certain church in Bethlehem
brought on the terrible waE of the Crimea :;
with the loss Of half million of. lives. we
need not he surprised if the difficulties now
existing in Mexico produEe foreign complies
tions and intetventions Such a movement
might be regarded by those in authority
among us ds calculated to lave harmonizina
effect on our home difficulties, for it is but
reasonable to suppose that it would sink be-
meath the strtace the vezing issues of Sec
tional politics and bring shoulder to shoulder
In the same cause the very men who opposed
each other III our recent struggle The late
6utgivings By Secretary Seward, in his Au-
burn speech end elsewhere, are waits upon
the current OF events, and show how the tide
IL setting. Napoleon SEES bristling bayonets
en- the northern bank Of the Rio Grande and
doubtless has inquired the cause thereof
Probably the diplomatic correspondence on
the subject las not given satisfaction TO either
party, and hence the coming trouble The
principal powers of Europe got into a long
and bloody war about the custody Of church
key-a matter of but little consequence to
any OF the parties-;apd the principal power
OF America may take upon herself the right
to interfere in Mexican affairs, even at the
risk Of war, Particularly as by so doing she
would rcIicys herself of humiliating position
which has been most unwrllingly assumed
What, some will ask, is Mexico to us orwe
to Mexico? Much, very much. The two
nations are near neighbors, and arc deeply
interested in each others prosperity Itmay
be IA piece Of presumption fv- the United
States to say under what sort IF government
her nsighbors3 shall live, but Ter fixed deter
minats3n upon that subject has never been
concealed, and i il net likely that, after a
great success II Indicating her own irtce-
IIty, her national pretcnsions in that REGARD
will be abated. Having had quite cnou: II of
war for the present, the more sober Of the
Southern people are by no means auxio.E to
engage in another fight and some thcY;; are
among us Who would be by no means rawil-
ling to join in a Mexican crusade sub is
human nature. The moralists and diyinrs
have not yet succeeded in making man so
religious being that when smittcu on the
one cheek he will turn the other also"