New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-28
MEXICO.

i MEXICO now under Liberal fuie-an account
however, which we are satisfied, from Other
evidence if any other We're needed than oul
correspondents statement is strictly correct
Since the expulsion of the Tmperialists ant
the occupation of Tamaulipas by the Liberals
it has been the same old story that has beer
told Of Mexico from the first day she became
a so-called republic. Anarchy, arbitrary mill
tary rule, quarrels among officials, and forced
loans from the unhappy people, follow eact
other in quick and regular succession. L
there is any political proposition which seems
to be incontrovertibly demonstrated, it is that
the people of Mexico are unfit to have dem.
ocratie form of government.
Of the eight millions of people who inhabit
Mexico there are, according to our correspon-
i dents classification, six millions whom he
| styles 'tpassiye brutes"-men and women with
scarcely more intelligence or civilization than
the beasts of the field, more thoroughly SER
vile than ever the slaves of the Southern
States we're, and working either for unjust
task~masters or for the first military robber
and bandit that comes along. Of the remain
ing two millions, nine-tenths are the robbers,
cut-throats and revolutions who plumber the
| others, while an insignificant fraction only of
the population includes all who make any pre-
cency. That country composed of such
elements of population can ever have a sue
cessful government of the people, is absurd.
That it must constantly be the prey of ambi-
tious and inscriptions military rulers, is
manifest That the history of Mexico is a
reproach upon Republican institutions, and
has tendency to bring them into contempt,
we presume no one Will have the audacity to
deny.
| What is the present state Of the case? The
presidency Of Juarez expired by constitutional
limitation several months ago. By the terms
| Of the Constitution, in the event of a vacancy
in the presidency, the Office devolves upon an
officer corresponding to the chief justice Of
the supreme court with us. That officer was
Ortega. Yet we see Juarez. in defiance of the
law, still assuming to be president and Iexer-
eising limited authority as such, while it is
clear that if there is a republic in Mexico at
ALL Ortega is the legitimate head of it. We
see, also in the State Of Tamaulipas, COVER
nor succeeding governor with almost every
change Of the moon, or at least as often as
military force or the fckleness of the people
choose to substitute one ruler for another
Meantime, under whichever executive power
the people may happen temporarily to be, it
is the same old story Of plumber and pillage-
Of assassinations and military executions-of
robberies in open daylight, and Of contempt
for law or order not surpassed by the regula-
tors in Tennessee forty years age, or the jay
haWkers Of the present day in Kansas And
thus one of the most beautiful and productive
countries on the surface of the globe is going
to ruin, politically and socially, out Of defer
ence to the absurd opinion that any sort of
people, no matter how low down in the scale
Of civilization, are capable Of governing them
selves.
Is it not quite time for the United States
government to cease treating Mexico as a
republic? Let us assume-which is by no
means certain-that the attempt to establish
IN imperial government in Mexico is failure
Let us suppose Macmillan to be expelled the
'ountry, or that he leave it voluntarily. What
hen? The government would revert to a
epublican form, $50 called, ana the last
state of Mexico would be worse than the first
Every native adherent of Maximilian would /
De put to death or banished, and his property /
sonfiscated. The country would for time be
j Pandemonium. Tt would be torn and dis
racted by civil feuds as well as military.
There would be no security of life, no secu-
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or the future except a repetition Of
he same old scenes of anarchy, rapine and
guerrilla warfare. Yet this is the result which
t seems to us the policy Of our government is
ending to produce. This policy cannot be ]
pursued out of Difference to what is called :
he Monroe doctrine, which is practically no
doctrine at all, and is very far from meaning
Interference in the affairs of neighbor- /
ng nations. 1t is not pursued in
onsonance with, because ii is directly
n opposition to the policy laid down by
Washington Of non-intervention. It is a
,olicy which temporizes with the Mexican
question. Either let us lend the weight Of
ur influence to the permanent establishment
It Imperialism in Mexico, and thus secure a
ana quiet nelghbor instead OF the /
turbulent and troublesome one Mexico would
'e under the restoration of the Republican /
Use let us boldly intervene and establish $
'rotectorate as Sam Houston suggested or q
olonize it and take possession of it in the n
interest of American civilization. National y
luisances should be abated, as well as private
nes-and it seems clear that if Mexico be 7
ermitted to degenerate again into what the Il
eople there understand to be a republic, no ;,
ther than heroic remedy should be adopted >
J this government to prevent that country
ON becoming a scandal to free institutions
nd to civilization. il
An inquisitiye young gentleman, who read = =
paragraph copied in the CRESCENT of We'd =
esday from an exchange headed; "How to .
ave Ourselves from Drowning" puts the u
flowing questions, which we answer seria- = =
m:
l. Does mans hat remain on his head
hen he takes an unexpected plunge in twenty b
'ot water2 q
Answer That depends partly upon his i
aving such attribute to his head-whieh >
cnitrca If Ia hoe ,,oA 10 ~ 49,, = ,J.e..