New-York tribune., 1867-08-06
STATE OF PARTIES IN MEXICO-JUAREZ
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| STIIE OF BARIIES IN MEAlCU-JCdhEH
And ESCOBEDO
| Affairs in Mexico approach crisis. The war
of Intervention has terminated, or exists only
in its smoldcring embers but the political
| cauldron seethes and foams, and no one can
tell what may come of it. Two parties are
gradually forming themselves. In our case,
the Rebellion changed the political issues, and
obliterated the old party lines similar result
has occurred in Mexico II is no longer the
party of the Liberals, and the party OF the
| Church the latter, in losing its immense tenn
poral possessions, has lost also its Overshad0w-
ing power. The contest against the French
invaders, with its five years of desolation and
of suffering, has given birth to n
new party, showing considerable strength for
the momcnt-as new parties, though destined
TO be ephcmeral, are apt to debut without
any element of pcrmancnce. If Escobedo's
letter To Gomez be not a forgcry-and we have
seen no sufficient reason for doubling its au-
thenticity-thcn il is evident that the econom-
ical purchaser of Maximian availing himself
of an accident which has brought his name
prominently before the Mexican people, aspires
10 be the leader of this new party. He has
nothing in his own merits, military or poiti-
cal, on which To found a claim To be n candi
date, against Juarcz, for the Presidency and,
as all men do who have no merit of their own,
he appeals TO the prejudice of the hour as af-
foriing the best chance for office.
I'm Escobedo is exhibited malignant type
of political hcrcsy with which we, in
milder form, have been familiar He
il Mexican Know-Nothing; know
nothing alike in a political and in a literal
sense He lacks the first idea. we will not say
Of craftsmanship, but of common sense. in pub
lie affairs. He is not demagogue and barbarian
only, but fool also; for what folly greater
than that of him who imagincs, or alleges, in
this nineteenth century, that his nation to be
prosperous must rob and exile, and then ex-
clude from her territory all except her own
native citzensl So long rs one foreigner re-
"mains on our son says this would-be Presi-
dent, :" our liberty is in jeopardy BY every
means in our power we should make the
country Mexican and as all the property in
the hands of foreigners was made by our
misfortuncs, we should take H., nOw that zee
" hare he polrcr, and hunt them from the coun-
try! Ny motto now is, Death to all foreign
"crsrn IL il astonishing that even one mad
man should be found, occupying an influential
position who dares recommend such policy
il is utterly incredible that n nation,
civilized or half-civlizod, should, even in the
first moments Of Indignation for years OF
wrong and outrage, select that mailman for her
chief. Many worthless men tloated into Office
among us on tho first spring-tide of Native
Americanism; but all they proposed was to
deprive the foreigner of his political rights, not
of his property, nor of his adopted home, nor
of his life. Escobedo may have no other
chance to become Chief Magistrate of his ma
tive country than in cndcavoring to render her
the lshmael of modern nations-her hand against
every one and every ones hand against her
but in our judgment, the chance is desperate.
That he is a candidate there can, if his letter
is genuine, be no doubt. Should | by any
chance whatever" he says to Gomez be a
candidate, you understand my unaltcrable
platform. Whenever the time comes you can
make this letter public" The time, it seems,
has come.
Escobedo has but n single excuse for the
atrocty of his proposal. Having caught what
in our country has sometimes been called the
"White House fever" it behooved him to find
weak point in the record of his opponent.
Now Juarez, of the pure native blood though he
be, has, in his general policy, ever exhibited
justice and liberality toward foreigners. In a
circular addressed by his order to the Gov
ernors of the several States of Mexico before
the. French invasion, these words occur: "The
Citizen President, whose faith in the destiny
of the nation has never faltered, confides in
that you and all the inhabitants of your
State will sustain him in seeing that for
eigners shall enjoy complete security in their
persons and property" The only complaint
on this score which we know to have been
made against Juarez personally, even when the
| European interventionists were trumping mp all
possible charges, was that in February, 1862, he
authorized a tax of two per cent on all property,
ndtiUe and foreign. Our Minister (Corwin), al
liriing, in a dispatch of March 0, 1862. TO the
European protests against this, says: 81 have
carefully considered the subject, and have
come to the conclusion that American citizens
are obliged to pay this tax" Undoubtedly
he was right; foreigners residing among us
during the war of the rebellion bore an equal
share of the national expenses incident to that
war. Aside from this, the platform of the Con-
stitutional party, adopted in 1859, embraces,
among its articles, one in point. The articles
are 1. A Constitutional Government 2. Free
dom Of religion and Of the press. 0. National