The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-17

the diota of counsel or judges, the immediate
effect of the mere appearance of judicial inter
position adverse to the law may operate disas-
trously. Apart from these proceedings the
South is evidently preparing to comply, in
good faith, with the requirements of the Recon-
struction law, under the impression that there
is no escape from the obligations it imposes
Hence the hOpe-founded upon decisions in
cases more or less analogous-that the Geor-
gia case will not be permitted to proceed be-
yond the point which tests the jurisdiction
of the Court in the premises. The admis-
sion of the right of Georgia to file the bill in
no manner anticipates the decision yet to be
rendered.
The Crisis in MexiCO-What is to FOllOwg
From the Herald.
All our recent intelligence relating to the
affairs of Mexico warrants the conclusion that
we are approaching the close OF another act
the dreary and protracted drama. The
fates are evidently with the Republican party;
the star of empire has gone down, and clouds
pregnant with peril have gathered darkly
around the head of poor Macmillan. Any
moment may put us in possession of the fact
that the Emperor - Emperor now only in
name-is helpless prisoner in the hands of
his enemies. Since the time when the first
Napoleon (to compare small things with great)
yielded himself up prisoner into the hands
of his mortal enemies, the world has not wit
messed a spectacle so humilating to royalty.
We have little doubt that the Intervention of
Mr.. Seward will be ellectual in saving the life
of Maximiliar. He has but little chance, now
that the voice Of the great republic has been
raised in his favor, to share the fate which the
laws of nations and of war have sanctioned in
such cases. The life of Maximilian will doubt
less be spared; but it may be found that Mr..
Seward has asked too much in asking Juarez
to extend equal mercy to all the Imperial
troops that may become prisoners of war.
Come what may of MaXimilian and his men,
it may safely be concluded that the Mexican
empire has lost all the little vitality which it
ever had, and we are warranted to speculate
with freedom on the probabilities of the future.
Max safely shipped for Miramar, after, per-
haps, having paid flying visit to his friends
in the United States, and with q brighter
future opening up before him in the land
which gave him birth, what is to become of
Mexico? Is the experience of the last forty
years of revolution to go on repeating itself /?
Is one of the finest countries in the world to
continue to be the hotbed of party strife We
confess that unless aid come from without we
can see for it no other future. The departure
of MaXimilian will give but new aspect to
the struggle, and factions will contend for
new names and for avowedly different pur-
poses. The history of Mexico since Spanish
domination ceased has, on the one hand,
amply illustrated the absurdity of the State
rights doctrines to which all parties have so
tenaciously clung, and on the other revealed
the utter hopelessness of the salvation of the
republic, if it is to depend on forces from
within. All the different parties in Mexico
have in turn fought their way to power, ex-
ercised their brief authority, and left the
country to their successors weaker and more
wretched than they found it. The causes
which have led to to this state of things in the
past still exist, and the moment the bugbear
of Imperialism is gone they will tell with ten
fold more force than ever. As in the past, so
i'll tn efuture, unless some strong arm inter
vene, Mexico must continue to be the prey of
contending factions, and peace or progress
there can be none.
What then is to be done? We confess we
see no cure but one. Mexico's only hope is to
shelter herself under the eagle of the republic
OF the United States. This is her inevitable
doom. Sooner or later she must merge her
fate in ours. The time may not be near which
shall witness the event; circumstances may
hinder it; but 1t must come to pass; and II
will not be for the interest of Mexico if it be
long delayed. We do not give expression to
these sentiments for the purpose of intimi-
and again said, the people of the United States
have no desire to acquire territory by the force
of conquest or to hold it on the principle that
might is right. But if it should happen, as
indeed it has happened before, that the MeX
can people express desire to be incorporated
with the people of the United States, and seek
to come with their rich but undeveloped lands
under the benign influence of the Star Spangleo
Banner it will not be for the interests of Mexico
for the interests of the United States, or fol
the interests of humanity at large, if our Gov
eminent refuse to accept such an offer. 1t IS
not without authority we say it, that with the
Church party, the property holders generally
and all who are sick of anarchy and misrule
and interested in the real preservation, the
true prosperity of Mexico, such a step would
| be by no means unpopular, and that in Ger
! tain quarters some such move is already medl
| tated. If the offer should be made, we know
| of no reason why it should not be accepted
! The objections that our territory is already
! too large, and that a mixture of races is in
compatible with the interests of the republic
are no longer of any weight. The progress
of science has destroyed the one, and recent
events have taken all force from the other
Steamboats,, railroads, and telegraphs have
done much to make distance of little account
and with the near prospect of vast improve
ment in telegraphy and the various means o
transit, the difficulty of making the centra
authority felt in remote and widely scattered
provinces is not to be thought Of Now, too
that we are about to admit the Esquimaul
and other mysterious people from tn
unknown regions of the North within the pal
of the Union, we dare not object to the aler
and high-spirited Mexicans. The fact is that