The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-24
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Bonds.

Foreign Bonds.
The following amusing article is
from the Richmond Dispatch:
1t is anticipated that when Mr..
Blaine's resolution, in the House of
Representatives, to brand all attempts
at guaranteeing Mexican or Fenian
bonds as unworthy the dignity of
Congress, comes up again in that
body, there will be lively time.
There are said to be strong influences
at work in Washington on the Mexi-
can project. There ought to be
equally strong influences at work on
the Fenian project. The bonds of
the Irish republic present as good an
opportunity for a judicious invest
ment as the bonds of the Mexican
republic. There can be no doubt
that one is as secure and reliable as
the other, and that if Congress guar
antees both, it will afford intense sa-
tisfaction to a large and deserving
class of the community.
The Mexican republic has Pre-
sident, Cabinet and Congress, all
the forms and every quality Of an in
dependent Government, except the
possession of the country, and the
power to enforce its DEGREES. It has
no army, but neither has Prussia; it
has no money, but what is better, re-
lies on the affections of the people.
1t travels from place to place, as
the exigences of the public service re-
qulre, and in this way makes itself
acquainted with the wants, sentiments
and interests of every section. We
suppose there is scarcely II foot of
ground in the immense territory of
Mexico which Juarez has not visited,
in company with all the officers of
his Government, and exchanged
courtesies with the principle persons
of the locality. Marshal Bazaine, the
French general who courteously placed
vessel at the disposal of Santa Anna,
and requested him to go to any part
of the world, SO that he did not return
to Mexico, has, with equal benignity,
facilitated the movements of President
Juarez through the extensive regions
of the republic, placing at his dis
posal motive power in the polished
bayonets of France which, energetic
ally applied to his rear, has given an
lrresis tible impetus to his faculties of
locomotion. Where President Juarez
now is, in what sequestered valley or
mountain gorge the Mexican repub-
lie IS now browning the herbage, and
resting for moment from its inces-
SAINT travels, we have no means of as
certaining with precision. But it
would be q sublime moral spectacle
for the Congress of the United States,
with heavy debt already upon the
nation, to show that this country does
not regard its own interests when the
weak and oppressed demand its as
sistance. Even if the Mexican re-
public is o myth, if Mexican re-
publics have been Mexican anarchies
or military despotisms from the hour
of Mexican independence; even if
no sane man doubts that, were Maxi
milan to leave the country to-mor-
row, Mexico would become political
and social chaos, let us, by all means,
guarantee the bonds of the Mexican
republic:
The Fenian republic has equal
claims upon our guaranteeing philan
thropy. No one denies that the Irish
republic already exists in New York.
1t has President, a Senate and n
House of Representatives; Secre-
tary of War, Secretary of the Navy,
and other secretaries too numerous to
mention. It has an immense revenue,
having on this vital point an incom-
parable advantage of the Mexican
republic. 1t counts its income by
millions, and the fountain that sup
plies the funds is never dry. The
heart of TN Irishman communicates
directly with his pocket, and his heart
is as infammable as gunpowder His
sympathies are crystalized readily
into precious stones of immense
value. The capacious pockets of the
republic are always full Whenever
the military chest needs replenishing,
an assemblage at Jones Wood, and
an assurance that Ireland is in arms,
are more than sufficient to meet all
the wants of the occasion. In addi-
ton to the Fenians in the United
States, there is an army of 100000
lrishmen in Ireland, which Captain
Catferty declares is the best disci-
plined body of men the world ever
saw. Ii this startling proposition re-
quires any proof, we see it in the
strong curb which keeps them quiet
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