The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-14
TIE MEXICAN QUESTION

TIE MEXICAN QUESTION.
ENGLISH OPINION op nAx11ruLAN's ABDlt ALTON AND
AMERICAN INTERVENTION.
[FTone The London Times, November eli
The abdication Of the Emperor Maximilian, and
his retreat from Mexico to Europe, are once more
announced, and the statement is SO intrinsically
probable that need not hesitate to accept it, It
PROBABLE indeed that the necessity for this step,
ssse Is seyeaeq some time ne 9go has never been really
struggled with much tenacity against the impend-
ing extremity. He seems to have believed that he
supported but circumstances combined to render
that support impracticable, and the result could
not be evaded. The Empire Of Mexico was a
protection was withdrawn
The abandonment Of this enterprise does credit
20 me sense though 1t may do some violence to the
that the attempt miscarried, but in in tie United
states and France itself: The armed resistance OF
ernment was matter Of certainty nor was fhis
opPoslton in fact carried beyond the extent to be
anticipated The particular faction elected from
power by the advance Of the French, fell back upor
the natural alternative Of insurrection, but tile
rebellion would have proved material obstacle to
the establishment of the new administration had
the original conditions of the expedition been main
tanned. H America had been indifferent, and
France favorable to the new empire, the mere
would have been Of little consequence. Sooner or
! Later, civilization would have prevailed, but at
States, relieved
from the distractions Of their own civil war,
se 9Sa5e asn SnSa against st
fresh adherents. From 3 bafaed and despair air
ing fugitive he suddenly became successful
dnd gronnd III aoforSdn g d to
small French force in Mexico, or that he had any
chance OF actually establishing himself il the Capt.
tanned desultory strife in the remoter provinces
without material Inconvenience to the imperial
government; but the policy of President johnson
soon relieved him Of his foes. The Americans re-
CURED Of the Emperor Napoleon that he should
adhere to his avowed intention Of withdrawing the
french garrison at given time and the wishes of
direction. The French detested the ENTERPRISE. e.
ana the americans condemned it. It could have
a 6een accomplished e. no more than the calculated
would have been impossible to prosecute it against
the obstacles arising both at home and abroad.
resolution against his fate at length accepts it,
and retires from the field.
This step, if there we're no new party to the
quarrel would simply replace Mexico in that condi-
lion Of anarchy and barbarsm from which the Eu-
ropean expedition had rescued her for time. The
f fasas psopa Ro aa il est 6S 0
many Of the adjacent districts; q few Of the high
roads were really opened for traffic, and as much
as could reasonably be anticipated That more
vas not achieved vas owing, not to the strength
OF RoRny Of the il otGn but to fhe
the Americans, and the encouragement Of the i'm
gerial administration. What little, however, was
qacIly undone Abandoned III BY I'll the sel1, French, h.
Mexico would fall once into the hands fnative
comgetitors for the prize Of power. Juarez, If he
rection into Office, and those whom he dispossessed
would change places with him as afriots and
rebels We have no reason for supposng that Juarez
m 0nrQ fn1 fhoro
chief has hitherto been in similar circum instances
II he acquired power, he would do so only at the
losing it few months afterwards, and, indeed, it
tie next movement n tie affair We s are tela tSat
5usrea just as the French adopted that at q lis ad
versaries; that they will assume the protectorate
Which the French yacate and renaet the scenes
sufficient authority for the fact, but it is not i'm.
only wish the declaimers about Mexican :sinde- de-
pendence" to observe that Independence is regard
ed utterly impossible BY all parties alike. Either
the Mexicans must be left to rob and murder as
before, or some strong Power must interfere to
take up one faction and put down the other. The
French took I SP Milamo4 and fought Jqarez; the
IF any spark Of principle could be imagined as
lingering in Mexican party We might rather re-
feat q the absolutistg; bnt though the former Of
these titles lis claimed by the Juarsts and the lat
ter is attached to their opponents it has hitherto
been impossible in practice to give one Of these
factions any preference over the other. Their
rivalry was that not OF political parties, but Of
jealous briga4ds; Both gissPed at power by the
poses, nor did either of them make the least ap-
proach to the duties Of .esponsible governments.
But, though we can hardly say that the Americans
will have more respectable set of clients than the
French, they Will have far greater facilities in con-
dnchng their cause. They must needs intervene,
as the French did, and by force Of arms; but they
can do this with greater ease, to Detter purpose,
and with fewer impediments. The intervention
will be popular with the nation, instead Of un-
popular; it will be cheap, instead of costly;
it Will violate no doctrine and provoke no
protests; The American can, and probably
and would have done under more favorable cir
cumstances. They will enter the country as the
friends Of one Of its factions, they win hunt the
other down, and they will thus render civilization
possible, and transform the community into an or
ganized State. They will have this advantage, too,
IN their, oceedings-;they win seem less like in
vaders than their predecessors; they will preserve
the name and form Of Mexican republic, and pro-
badly leave native Mexican as it's ostensible head
But the measure itself will be the same as before
It will be Identical with that which all Europe saw
to be inevitable at the period of the expedition.
which we ourselves declined to prosecute, but
which France adopted, and Spain WAS ready to
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