New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-07-03
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It is not often that the radical lenders,
whether civil OF military, are in doubt what to
do with money Qtood portable property
from a cent to a million dollars, fl. .,n a pap.
spoon to piano-forte, they have. exhibited 8
1 truly marvellous combination Of inventive in
genuity and prehensile 7.sxterity. Bottled
Butler. who, bydint of eersevering and patri-
otic sacrifices in his country's cause, has be-
come the richest Ran ia New England and
Neal Dow, whose experiences in the Southwest
haye furnished him with the means of illus
trating the nnanner in which profitable aequi-
sition follows virtuous abstinence, will always
be considered models and exemplars for the
puritan youth 1t is related of a certain anx-
ious parentin Massachusetts, that he addressed
4 his son on the occasion of that hopeful scion's
setting out in life-''Now, my son, you are
going to Boston. You must never forget that
you are a descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers.
You will see a great many rich men in Boston.
There's Srnith-he failed for half million Z;
and there's Jones-he failed for 100000 I
don't say you can do as well as that, but with
honesty and industry you may, in few years,
fail for hundred thousand" Hereafter the
fond fathers of New England will have more
illustrious and conspicuous examples to hold
out for the imitation of their youthful progeny
than the Smiths and Jonses of Boston. When
Pagan pointed out the Artful Dodger to the
wondering Oliver as a model of appropriative
capacity, he doubtless greatly excited the adj
miration of that ingenious youth. But the
skill and ingenuity of the hitherto inoompar-
able Dodger would degenerate into bungling
awkwardness when compared with the prof.
cheney in prehensile art which has been at
tanned by the eminent New England masters.
Hence, we repeat that it is rather surprising
that the radicals should be at a loss what to do
with anything in the shape Of money While
the Buffers and the Dows still live, surely there
are pockets sufficiently capacous to receive
into their recesses any sum not absolutely in
finite. If the committee on foreign relations
of that extraordinary body known as the
United States House of Representatives really
do not know how to dispose of the $50, 900, 600
which they contemplate lending to Mexico
they can find plenty Of patriotic people quite
nI11144S5 w otlFG tl1G BAbJlelu 1OE Gn5Il.
But in the meantime, it is amusing to see
the difficulties and embarrassments which
stand in the way Of devoting the money to
its ostensible objects. The general purpose
of the resolution, as introduced by Mr. Ste
vens, is to place Mexico in funds in order that
she may be enabled to carry on the war
against Maximihan. But who or what is
Mexico? Is not Macmillan himself Mexico.
in the political and international sense? IF
government is q country, is not the government
which holds the capital, the coasts and two
thirds of the territory, more entitled to be CON
sidered as Mexico than government which
holds nothing and stays nowhere? But if |
Mexico is to be looked for elsewhere, how is
hat elsewhere to be found The committee, |
t is said, is very much embarrassed in irving
o find an answer to this very pertinent ques-
ion Three different plans are recommended
or adoption to recognize what is now called |
he 'Juarez usurpation : to lend to Juarez
he s2O,000,O00 in question, on his pledge to
ise it in carrying on the war against Maxi1ni-
ian to recognize Ortega as the legal and con-
tituhonal head of the Mexican republic. and
0 lend him the s20,000,oOO, taking mort
age on Lower California, Sonora and Chi
uahua to throw both Ortega and Juarez
yerboard, and take up with Santa Anna
9nding him the $20,0O0,OO0. But all of these
lans are assailed with strong objections.
ANITA Anna fooled the U. S. government once,
nd he would very likely repeat the perform
nee. He has belonged to all parties and be-
rayed all parties-his latest exploit being to
heat the Macmillan government with false
lodges Of unintended support He would
Q as much of usurper as Maximilian, and
erhaps far more dangerous. Juarez evidently
as no strength. He maintains a sort of
hantasrnal authority which, by the way, is
surped-by means of fitting about from
lace to place, in order to avoid capture by the
nperial forces. As to Ortega, nobody knows
nything more about him than that he claims to
g President, and has even less actual author
y than Juarez. These three persons would
be very willing to take the $40, 900, 600
hich the radicals seem to be so anxious to
I've away, and would doubtless succeed in
bending it in some semi-barbarous Mexican
lshion. But if the radicals really want to ,
ct rid of it in the most effeotual manner let !
lem just send for Butler or Dow or recon j
enc the Louisiana Convention, with plenary t
overs to send for whisky and cioars I