The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-13

narohical Europe and Seoessia. What Mexi-
can combination troupe Enter the shade o.
Maximilian:-
,Tis tfmel tits timel
FYra IWitoh (seward)-Round about the cal
Tn the poison'd entralls throw.
SUeltered venom, sleeping got,
Roll thou drstP tn charmed pot.
Chorus Of NetV orleans Rin0--Double, double.
toll and trouble
Fire burn and oaldron bubble.
Johy1son--For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like hell broth boil and bubble.
Secord-Liver Of blaspheming Jew Cotter-
s,,p,SsrGGool gH It with baboon's blood;
Then the charm is firm aud good.
Grand Democratic chorus double, double,
toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
J,arez-By the pricking of my thumbs, ..
Something wicked this way comes.
Thus the Mexican broth is cooking. On the
opposite side of the Atlantic we find Austria.
France, England, and Spain throwing all their
influence into the Government of the United
States to urge us on to Mexico. Mr.. Sumner,
Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
appears to be entirely in the hands of the for
eign ministers, who evidently think that great
diplomatic games are best played at good
dinners. Beauregard and his circle in New
Orleans, finding the national banks have no
more feathers to pluck, are bent on taking
possession of Northern Mexico, while another
ring in the same oity have interests that are
seriously jeopardized upon the arrival of the
Liberal Government in the City of Mexico
providing Mr.. Otterbourg, SO kindly detailed
for the dirty work of saving his own and
others interests in Mexican jobs, does not
protect them by some process similar to that
by which he became the agent of the empire
in Washington last fall.
Congress, it is quite certain will take up
this Mexican problem so soon as they have
disposed of the Reconstruction business. They
are little inclined to see Mr.. Johnson make
Mexico his banner cry, and thereby turn atten-
tion from the Reconstruction act. Therefore,
of all the great topics Mexico scarcely stands
second, and, from the gathering influences
brought to bear upon the Administration, is
daily taking larger proportions. We now see
the effects of Mr.. Seward's Mexican policy.
Every act of his, with reference to that country,
has been the prelude of one still more stupid.
Instead OF manly, open course, such as be-
comes great nation, he has wavered in his
imbecility until, entirely in the hands of
concession jObbers, he lets them foist upon
Mexico an imperial Austrian Jew as Minister,
who in no sense represents the United States
but rather certain circle which desires to
throw into Mexico as many elements of discord
as can be found. Then they may raise the
cry, Lo, Mexico cannot govern herselfl Know
ing that the present Government will not
dispose OF territory under any circumstances;
they now demand Ortega, who, thoroughly
unprincipled, would for a small figure move
into Yucatan, and sell the balance of the
Mexican States hence we may see this move
strongly agitated from the line Of the Rio
Grande. 1t would, however, result in the
shooting OF Ortega, now a prisoner at Monte
rey. The great feature of this Mexican news
is that almost the entire Rebel element in the
south, through the press and through their
old army leaders, are urging an invasion of our
neighbours territory as the great cure for all
their political ills. Northern Democrats also
are pouring in their petitions to the Admins
tration to make Mexico the party cry, with the
hope that the people will rally around it, as
they did in the war of 1947. Their point
gained, they hope that in the excitement of the
contest they may ride into power, and then
shape reconstruction as may best please them.
This appears to be their latest and most bril-
liant ldea and there are many powerful acces-
sories to aid them. The policy of France is
doubtless to have us take possession of Mexico
and recognize the immense war debt that she
rolled up there. They care less for Maxi
milan than they do for the payment of the
imperial bonds of the empire which flood the
French market and which are worthless so
long as the Mexican republic exists intact.
The Cabinet are not fully agreed as yet on an
aggressive pOnCy. Mr.. stanton, warm friend
OF the republic and the Liberal party, is the
glorious minority; and to carry out their plans
the plotters must have new War Secretary.
General Grant, too, stands boldly in the way,
and the greater part of Congress, also deter
mined to give Mexico a chance to govern her
self, will make a sturdy fight before they per-
NIT her overturning and the conquest of her
territory.
The proper course to pursue towards our
sister republic is what we have always advo-
Gated: give her an opportunity to see if she
can reduce her revolutionary elements to quiet.
AT present we have quite enough on hand to
demand all our craftsmanship. Were we to
enter into this mad MexicaH scheme with the
sole plea of avenging the death of a royal fill
buster, it would be the strangest one upon
which republic ever made war, and would do
more to damage republican and liberal senti-
ments all over the world than we could repair
by a century of our most progressive labors.
Mexico has won her great halt century battle
against the Church power. She has fought
out her religious war as we fought out ours in
Furope and she has overthrown by the vigor
of her nationality the European attempt to
restore the element of turmoil that lay at the
root of every revolution that Mexico has yet
seen. Were the United States now to step in
and take up the cudgel in favor of obsolete
ideas, of retrograde party, and of monarchi-
cal Europe, it would be an act at which all the
liberal sentiment OF the age might look on and
shudder.
Amateur liquidation.