The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-05
Mexico aad tho United states-The Dssy Of
Congress.

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Congress.
Universal murder is the present platform Of
the dominant party in Mexico, and the appe-
lite for blood will grow as it is fed. New i'm
pulse is given to the national depravity just
now, and the people that have been always cow
ardly, always cruel, alwaysa scoundrel scum,
disgracing the name of humanity, are rising TO
drunken revel of slaughter. Maximilian's
reign is q pivotal point in Mexican history
There was chance that the change made might
be for the better; but the national tendency TO
evil was stronger than all else. and the change
is for the worse. Sustained by the moral sup
port of great Power, Mexico managed to
stand on her feet with q semblance of govern
ment till the French went out Then left with
only Macmillan and ten thousand men TO face,
she was well nigh beaten; but treachery came
to her rescue. She managed to buy for so
many ounces the triumph that her soldiers had
not the heart to win in battle. She was sue
cessful, and the world might have believed that
she was victor; but she undeceived 1t by
proving herself a stranger to those generous
sentiments that find place in a conqueror's
breast She proved that she did not know
how victors feel-that she knew nothing
Of victory but how to buy it. She
might, by wise use Of her opportunity, have
taken her place in the number of those nations,
the most worthy of the worlds admiration,
that, having won independence in glorious
struggles have come out from the fire of many
battles purged of the viler elements Of national
life-mercful, magnanimous, and too self
respecting to demoralizs a whole people by
pandering to national revenges.
But she had not been purged in the fire Of
any battles; and buying success from traitor
in the enemy's camp teaches nation no noble
lesson. Her instinct was to kill some one, and,
failing the carnage of battle. she falls upon
that of murder in cold blood. 1t would seem
that there was some desire to save Macmillan.
Juarez might have done it If he had dared.
Other members Of the government had glim-
merings that 1t was the safer course, as it was
the one urged by the United States; but the
extravagantly national party-the party really
representative of the people-headed, |. seems,
by Escobedo, could see only chance to glut
devilish thirst, and his life was given
up 10 their olamor. How distinctly the
characteristics of destructive revolutionary
progress come out in thisl II is period
Of the French Revolution reproduced In
detail. Just as Escobedo and the w0rst
elements in Mexico clamored for the life of
the Arohduke, so did the scum of France,
headed by Robespierre and the Jacobins,
clamor for the life Of Louis; more
moderate and wiser faction would have spared
Louis, just as Juarez and certain of his
adherents would have spared Macmillan: but
the moderate faction had not in either case
wisdom or courage to insist Violence pre-
vailed, and Louis and the Archduke were
victims of vindictive fury. What followed
In Francef Triumph made the blood party
supreme, and for the crime of having attempted
to save the monarch tho modorates followed
him to execution. 1t will be the same in
Mexico. Juarez will follow Macmillan, and
the extremists under Escobedo, or one of
similar tastes, will rule till their murders shall
arouse counter-revolution, and they will meet
the fate of Robespierre-sacrifced to the long
dormant instincts of humanity that must exist,
even in Mexico.
In the meantime where stands the United
States :. Is the Monroe doctrine an adjunct of
barbarism! Is ita thing invented to secure
Tree butchery and impunity for all the crimes
that a race Of demoralized mongrels can
imagine! That was hardly the idea Of its
inventor; such, however, has been its
effect in this case. Mexico would doubt
less have been reduced to-day to such
order as reigned in Warsaw but for
the attitude assumed by the United States.
Escobedo and his brutal adherents would have
been hanged, or, more likely, would have been
he servile adherents of the new system, for
.hese wretches are the readiest to take any
shape under the hand Of power. This butchery
horrible condition of society, is
directly traceable to q moral assertion of the
Monroe doctrine; and we insist upon it that
The United States has duty to perform in these
premises to which it cannot honorably close
It's eyes. II we are the champion of American
nations against Europe, and in that champion
ship deprive people Of order, security and
government, We must stand ready to give
what We will not let them tako from others
It is for our own safety and advantage that we
keep European Powers to the 9th er side the
In thus pursuing our own advan-
Eage we have put Mexico under the heels Of
butcher, and we must rescue her from that
position. It is the clear and evident duty of
Congress to move in this matter forthwith, aud
{ will not be hair-bresdth in advance of the
public sentiment II 1t calls for hundred thou
and men to 60 over the Rio Grande, under
Sheridan, and punish the insult and shame that
hese mongrels have put upon US Let it be
lone OF once, for the vindication Of our own
,onor and for the prevention of yet untold