The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-25
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The very carefully prepared memorandum
which has been published by the State Depart
ment, in reference to the seizure and imprison-
ment of SANTA ANNA, is proof that Mr.. SEWARD
intends to be very deliberate in deciding upon
the course of action which Mexican affairs are
fast forcing upon the country. 1t is clear that
the cautious and astute Secretary does not in
tend to expose himself to the charge of too
great haste in the policy of Intervention, which,
it is very plain, circumstances will before long
compel him to adopt. He is anxious that the
world shall not be too easily convinced that
the United States have excluded Europe SIM
ply to introduce themselves as the regulators
of Mexican anarchy. So far MIR. SEWARD Is
right; and even if the Mexicans see fit to bet
ter the lesson which SANTA ANNA has himself
taught them, by making him another illustra-
ton Of his own murderous practices, the Amer
ican Government need manifest no interest, and
the American people who remember the Alamo
will certainly exhibit no sympathy. Indeed, If
their revolutions were short and quick enough,
it would be comfort to Christian civilization.
and an unspeakablc blessing to Mexico, If the
dozen ferocious pretenders who are now mus
tering their banditti and preparing their pro-
nunciamentos, could succeed in turn, and shoot
each other during the period of their short
lived successes But be that as it may, the
Mexican question is upon us, and unless the
Radical Congress prefers the imitation of Mex
leo to its conquest, and the establishment OF
anarchy here, by perseverance in its schemes
of wild domestic legislation, this question will
have taken very palpable shape before another
Secretary of State shall succeed Mr.. SEWARD.
Even if Mexico is left unmolested by foreign
nations, there is no prospect of stable and
efficient government. JUAREz is not the con-
stitutional President of what they call the Re-
public. Already several military chieftains
are pronouncing" for ORrEGA, while the
more distinguished of the commanders who
sustained the Empire have escaped to the noun
tains and are longing for the vengeance which,
in their case, humanity will justify. The pres
ence of SANTA ANNA on the coast, even for
few days, developed the elements OF disaffec-
ton which, if he has been summarily removed,
can and will be used by other adventurers'
and if the accounts from the accursed country
are to be relied On, the nation seems smitten
with delirium of blood.
"I do not know" said the narrator, "what
my countrymen mean. Allthey seem to desire
is blood d-blood-blood have seen it flowing
in all the streets of Queretaro, and fairly loathed
nv land. hesitated to return to my wife and
children, whom had not seen in four years,
because knew that the capital of my country
was to be made as red with blood as was Quere-
taro."
The institutions of religion have already
been broken. up, industry paralyzed, and
system of forced loans inaugurated to sustain
this bloody anarchy. The United States can
not and will not stand by idle spectators of
this hideous spectacle; and as soon as the Gov
ernment can secure such diplomatic repre-
sentation in Mexico as will supply information
which can be depended on, we may expect
some indication of our foreign policy. Why
we have not had already proper diplomatist
at his post, it is difficult to understand. When
we think of the Importance Of having this mis-
sion Immediately filled, and the still greater
Importance of having it filled with man of
first-rate ability it is impossible even to guess
why Mr.. CAMPBELL was sent, or why, having
been sent, he did not 60. The present ap-
pointment is admitted on all hands to be utterly
unfit, and it is almost certain, will be rejected
by the Senate. The person appointed has
German name which we have forgotten, and
very probably could not spell if we remember
ed, and, if the newspaper biographers are cor
rect, was few years ago the keeper of re-
spectacle lucifer-match shop in some Western
town. He became campaign orator in the
Presidential election of 1861 and was reward
ed by consulate in Mexico, where the friction
of the revolution has exploded him, like his
own lucifers, into sudden and, thanks to the
Senate short-lived brilliancy. If it is not vio-
lating the "disfranchjsement of the Recon-
struction Act, We would venture to hope that
some one will be found to fill the post, who is
capable of discharging the most important dip
lomatic duty that has for long time been con-
6ded by the country to foreign representa-
tive.
But will Mexico be left unmolested? II is true
that European affairs are too complicated TO
leave its monarchs free to crafty their pas
sions. Shrewd and sagacous observers say
that under all the glittering pageantry of
peaceful exhibitions, beneath the costly and
ceremonious courtesy of imperial hospitality,
there are gathering the elements of vast and
fierce wars, and that this gorgeous summer
will merge into winter of darkest discomfort
But even so; it is scarcely possible that the
Emperor of Austria will be content to bargain
for the body of his murdered kinsman, and
cry quits with his murderers, when he has
celebrated in st. Stephens mass for the re-
pose of his heroic soul. Even so, it is not pos
sible that the Emperor of France, the success
sor of Louis XIV, and of NAPOLEON, con sit
in sullen subms sion under the most igno-
minious defeat that ever bafled q boastful en-
ends of France defeated-the
arms of France arrested at the threat of an
imperious republic, and the unfortunate vic
tim who went blindly to his fate, trusting in
French valor and French faith, discrowned,
his failure by-word for republi-
can scorn, and himself butchered to make
Mexican holiday.
Ii all this is patiently borne, the prestige of
is gone forever. The failure and
leath of MAMMALIAN are not merely incidents
if it had purpose, meant the recognition of
The Southern Confedcracy, and when LOUIS
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