Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-10
RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1867.
Mexico.

Gen. Sherman arrived at New Orleans
from Matamoras, several days ago, and
now our Minister, Hon. Lewis d.
Campbell, has followed him. 1t would
be too much, perhaps, to say that their
mission had proved total failure, yet
il has evidently fallen very far short in
its results of what was anticipated
by the Administration on their depart
ure.
The political affairs Of Mexico seem to
be falling into a state of more complete
and hopeless anarchy than was ever
reached before and 1t is probably this
discovery that has sent General Sher-
man and Minister Campbell home to
await results, without having estab-
lished relations with either party. There
is no longer any harmony between Max
imillan and the French, who have alone
sustained him in power. On the con-
trary, there are evidences of feeling OF
mutual distrust, the French regarding
Macmillan as utterly incompetent, and
the whole Imperial scheme as most
expensive failure, while he thinks him
self badly used by the very power which
induced him to assume the Mexican
throne. Gen. Castelnaus mission, which
is alleged to have been to induce his alb
dication, has proved failure, his coun-
sci being overborne by that Of the
Church party and the merchants, who
seem to prefer rather to adhere to the
power which they believe will protect
them than to fall again into the hands
OF the Liberalists, with either Juarez or
Ortega at their head. The prevalent
feeling of insecurity is increased by the
indications that if Macmillan were to
withdraw, a new civil war would at
once arise between Juarez and Ortega,
it being already claimed that several Of
the leading adherents OF the Juarez gov
eminent are ready to pronounce in favor
Of the latter.
Since the failure of Macmillan to es-
tablish his government on a solid found
alton with the aid of the French troops,
it would be folly to expect him to &C
complish more after the French shall
have withdrawn. His own retirement,
therefore, would seem to be mere mat
ter Of time, even if he should outstay his
allies, unless he should be aided by the
divisions between Juarez and Ortega, at
which we have already limited. Indeed
it is not improbable that it is this pros
pect Of a civil war between opposing
factions Of the Liberal party that in
duces Macmillan to hazard the chance
Of attempting to maintain his power
after the withdrawal of the French.
In any view Of the case, the prospects
Of Mexico are anything but hopeful. If
it escapes foreign usurpation, It'll almost
certain to fall into state Of revolution
and nnarchy, in which the contest for
power will' be between factions Of the
Liberalists, instead of the Republican
and Imperial parties, as now. With all
our sympathies for the Republican cause,
we cannot consistently intervene in be-
half Of either party. Unfortunately for
the cause of republican government in
that country, the Administration per-
mitted the only occasion when it could
intervene with propriety or effect to pass
unimproved; and that was on the con-
clusion of our war, when it could have
protested against the continued occupa
ton of the country by the French. The
evils with which that country is now
threatened are the consequences Of that
mistaken step.