Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-09-11
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His paper blockades the Presiden
has informed his Majesty, in i;
proper and dignifed manner, will
not be respected; if he attempts
their enforcement against the com
MERGE of the United States, he viii
find it necessary to follow his Queer
to the old continent with more ex
petition than they both approached
the new. We believe there will be
no division of opinion upon thi:
point in any portion of the countrr
There is no desire to "pick guar
rel' with the usurper, but he may
be assured that the President will as
firmly maintain the rights Of his own
nation as he will scrupulously OBJ
serve those of other nations.-Bos.
ton Post.
Nothing astonishes US that we see
in a radical paper, adds the Mobile
Tribune, except the appearance of
decency of any kind; but we are
astonished when we see such a paper
as the Boston Post, SO just in all its
views, so clear in every thing it ar
gues-we are at loss to see for
what reason it should be opposed to
the erection of stable government
| in Mexico-why it should prefer to
see the continuation there of anarchy
with its attendant train of evils, in
place Of a government that will, at
least, give security 10 life and prop
erty. We ask such question of
all sensible people who favor restora-
ton of anarchy in Mexico, merely
out of curiosity, and not from any
Partially we have for Macmillan
particularly. Since the elevation of
Iturbide in 1922, Mexico has been
in state Of continued agitation.
Iturbide held power about one year.
Then was inaugurated Federal
republic, which was soon partially
consolidated by the management of
Santa Anna-partially so, because
States at distance from the capital,
asserted a quasi Independence
Texas real one. But the cause of
the continued anarchy is to be sought
for in the character of the people-a
mixed race, ignorant, degraded, and
easily controlled by any man with
brains, wealth or reputation. They
are no more fit for self government
than the horses in one of our livery
stables, which the proprietor rides
himself or let's any body else ride for
d CoiSiutIdllou, OuCu are Lu0 lower
classes. The higher have but one
notion of country, and that is ex-
pressed in the word adudna, custom
house-''if we can only get posses
sion of the customhouse." Every
general that gathers few thousand
garlic-tainted peones at his back, sets
out for the customhouse without the
slightest scruple. What else should
we expect? How could it be ex-
pected that the American subjects of
the old Spanish monarchy, ground
into the dust through generations,
should suddenly spring up into the
form of republicans The last men
that have appeared, fit to fill that
role were born under the noble con-
stitution of England.
With a population, then, utterly
incapable of self-government, and
scourged for generations by anarchy, |
there is at last chance offered them |
Of having stable government |
vouchsafed to them by such power
as that of France. For no other |
reason that we can see, except the |
origin and name of this new govern
ment, we find men of good sense ex-
pressing an inveterate hatred to-
wards it-even preferring to see an
archy reInstated in its stead.
In regard to the paper blockade,
neither the President nor the Boston
Post should mention it without say
ing, "And that reminds us Of
naner blockade that was established |