The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-01

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roe doctrine, in its broad and comprehensive
application; stable republican government
for Mexico, with the assistance Of the Uaiied
States; system looking to the enlargement
of our commercial exchanges everywhere, and
especially with the Independent. States Of this
continent, are subjects which may well
command the prompt and earnest attention Of
President johnson. as among the practical
measures Of his foreign policy. In the broad,
inviting fields of our financial system and our
foreign affairs he may not only recover the
ground he has lost in his conflict with Con-
gress on Southern restoration, but make his
administration one Of the most successful and
popular since the time of Andrew Jackson.
Santa Annals Dcsigns-What il 20 Follow
Maximiiian's Retreat From Mexico.
The movements Of General Santa Anna in
this country have been for some months at
tracing attention. If we are to fully credit
the latest statements emanating from his head
quarters on Staten Island, his operations are
soon to be transferred to the soil Of the Next
can republic. 1t seems that he has already
despatched an expeditionary force of two
thousand Cuban and Spanish and about six hun
dred American soldiers to make descent upon
the Mexican Gulf coast, and that before this
news can have reached Mexico the expedition
will have landed and raised the banner OF
Santa Anna as the "Liberator of the Repub-
ic." Three Mexican generals have already
been despatched with this expedition. Gene
raj Santa Anna remains behind to complete
the organization of another large expe-
dition, to be composed of discharged
United States volunteers Over one hundred
ex-United States officers for this force
have been commissioned, and five thousand
men are said to have been enlisted With
this force added to that already sailed, and
combined with such Fenians as may be in
duced to 60 and such Mexicans as will rally
round the standard Of Santa Anna, he will
have sufficient force to hasten the inevitable
retreat of Macmillan and the French.
The most interesting fact stated in the article
which we published on Saturday morning on
ence which is said TO have been carried on
between Santa Anna aud the authorities at
Washington. Are we to infer that Santa Anna
goes out backed by the moral support of the
United States to save Mexico from the confi-
sion and anarchy which threaten to follow
Maximlian's retreat? Has the government
wisely concluded to take some positive steps
TO save our neighboring republic from the
ravages of contending factions of her own
people? We have for some time been urging
the President to take such steps az would
aid the people in peaceably establish
ing their republican form Of Cover
ment; and we are not certain that
this mode is not the best that could be devised.
At any rate some action ought TO be taken.
The President should either give moral, and
the recognized chiefs OF the republic, or else
send into Mexico some peacemaker as formid-
able and sensible as Phil Sheridan, who would
insure that no blood should be uselessly shed
while the country is in its anticipated state
of transition from an empire to republic.
Let the President either send Sheridan or give
to Santa Anna or Ortega or Juarez such re-
cognition and support as would insure the
respect aud submission of the rival chieflains.
We should thus be enabled, at little expense
and with great credit to ourselves as nation,
to save sister republic which has always been
unhappy in her domestic affairs, from internal
strife and destruction. BY all means the Presi-
dent should take the steps indicated and
abandon at once the do-nothing policy which
Mr.. Seward has unwisely persuaded him to
pursue for more active and more statesmanlke
measures in foreign matters.
ELECTORAL CORRUPTION IN ESoIAND.-On the
passing Of the last Reform bill most Of the rot
ten family boroughs were cxtinguished, and
the class of demoralized and purchaseable
voters, known as freemen, were almost uni
versally DISTINGUISHED. It then became the
boast Of those who had fathered the bill that
they had struck death blow at the corruption
which had disgraced the English electoral sys-
tenn; but some facts have lately come to light
which show that their anticipations have been
grievously disappointed.
The general election of 1865 gave rise to
moro petitions on the ground Of bribery
against the members returned to Parliament
than have characterized any other since that
system Of appeal was instituted. SO common
was thepractice Of bribery found to be that
both houses concurred in the ACCESSIBILITY Of
appointing royal commissioners to be sent to
the places where the most fragrant acts had been
committed, sad invested with full power to
force from the unwilling lips Of those who were
guilty in the matter an unabridged avowsl OF
their doings. The extraordinary disclosures
which have followed at Totucs, Reigate, Lancas-
ter and Great Yarmouth, have surprised even
those who were prepared TO admit the common
existence Of bribery and intimidation, and have
exhibited to the world al large the existence Of
a system which places the assembly, whose