The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-17
The fusare of Mexico.

stitutlonS ana breaking them, electno presi-
dents and getting up pronunciamentos against
them. We donbt If Mexico, though the mer-
cenaries oil Napoleon and Maximilian are dis
banded, is yet just thu country for apeaceably
disposed man to settle down in and live in a
thrifty and safe way. 1t will not do now to
swagger very extensively in any OF its way
side taverus, or make pretentious show of
gold or jewelry upon any of its great thor
oughfares Of travel. These Spanish people,
with strong democratic tendencies both in
the old world and the new, seem to have no
knack at running republics. There is
chronic imbeeility tempered with anarchy
and ferocity which charaeterizes their es-
Establishments, ON the whole disereditable to
that much-vaunted style of government
Whether it is that they have no good town
meetings, the bottom of all stable republics, or
whether the people lack that reverence for the
constable, which distinguishes us English
folk, or for both reasons, these kind of weak
ly, rickety, chronically- states
of theirs are constantly suggesting outside in
reference Other powers look at them very
much as notable house keepers look into
slovenly kitchen, which they want to put to
rights, or as good disciplinarians notice dis
orderly town school, itching to step in, and
lick the bad boys all round. ..
But we insist upon it that the way Mexico
has suppressed and punished the imperial in
vasion, which has so terribly afflicted and op-
pressed her, furnishes no occasion for any in
terierence whatever in her affairs. There is
a tremendous fuss started by the guilty con-
spirator at the Tuileries to hide his own dis
honor in this shameful business of stealing
throne. The other sovereigns OF Europe, who
are all either brothers or cousins of the i'll
starred prince who has just been executed,
out of courtesy to the noble monarch whom
they are visiting and politely to lessen bis
chagrin, do well to talk about humanity and
withdrawing all diplomatic and commercial
intercourse with barbarfane. They see the
divinity which doth hedge a king-we don't
see it. They never dethroned, banished, i'm
prisoned, executed sovereigns, military invad-
ers, and popular chieftsins; they do not re-
member of its ever having been done in en-
Iightened Europe. They have just now for
gotten Charles and Louis, and the first Napo-
con- and the Duke of Monmouth, and the
bloody assizes, and the I'd December massacres
and Karl BliLd. But what will they do about
tt? Mexico can spare a diplomacy in which
all Europe was In plot against her life as free
nation. Let them threaten. One thing they
win not do. They will not threaten any near
er than the ofing of Vera Cruz. II
they get as far as that, 1t viii
be in most imposing numbers and each
| squadron pledged not to leave the other
in the lurch. No prince win be very forward
to head the expedition, or very Jealous to
march far inland. 4. 4i4r. -t-
As for Santa Anna If the Mexicans bave had
the presence of mind to shoot him ii was well
bethought. 1t does not seem at all called for
that we should go to war with Mexico on his
account. he was an intriguing, gambling,
cock-fghting old rascal, more difficult to keep
quiet than the old woman IN the nursery
rhyme, whose diet was vIctuals and drink. He
win be quiet hereafter.
Mexico never promised so we'll as she does
now. She begins strong and prompt. In
stead of joining with her enemies, the United
States ought to stand firmly by her side. The
horror Of the flunkeys and servitors of Euro
pean courts is not that man has been legal
ly tried and put to death, but that the miser-
able rab5le-the populace, have presumed to
shed the sacred blood of king.
Let Mr.. Seward put on court mourning and
carry his coincidence to all the foreign lega-
tions in due and courteous form. The Amer
lean people have their own ideas on the mat
ter. They need not sanction the bloody ven-
geance by sister Republic, but they can and
viii support the right OF that Republic as
| sovereign nation to manage its own affairs, if
necessary By demonstration Of force.
The filibusters of New Orleans are up
They want to take advantage Of the i'll feel
ing in Europe to make free-booting raid in-
to Mexico in the Texas style. That Is no
way to fulfil Mr.. Stewards golden vision of
the next thirty years. Neither by Fenian
raids into Canada, nor by Walker-Lopez-
Houston raids into Mexico, are we to secure
our heritage of the continent. Nor yet by
Mr. Stewards sharp bargains, who, buying the
ice fields of the arctic coasts for seven mil
lions. would be forced to offer seven billions
for the forests and prairies of British Ameri-
ca, and seven trillions for the silver and gold
mountains of Mexico. Let Mr.. Seward be en-
joined by the Supreme Court against buying
any more real estate at our expense. If the
union with Canada and with Mexico shall
become mutually advantageous no equiva-
lent is due. When men make a trade bene-
fetal to both sides no boot is paid. Until it
shall become mutually advantageous for the
peoples each side of our Northern and South
ern frontier line to be under the same gov
ernment, they ought to remain as they are
The Canadians (if unmolested) will soon tire
of the cuplblous trumpery ofa make-believe
aristocratic monarchy, and OF the intrigues en-
gendered by the presence of hostile races and
hostile religions. They will envy the simple
ity, the security, and the strength OF our con-
stitution, and the thrift and prosperity ofour
commercial system. They win prefer to be
Independent states OF the American republic
to being dependant sat-upies of a deeaying
monarchy. Just SO, Mexico must be renovat-
ed with Northern blood, developed with
Northern capital, and indoctrinated
by liberal and democratic ideas.
All this before she can be or ought to be
Incorporated into the American Republic
After years of sincere, not mock friendship
for her, mot the friendship OF the butcher for
the calf) after wearying of the chronic disor-
der which seems inveterate in her system, she
will egin to demand the stability which the
Great Republic can maintain, and the pro-
lection which her own isolation will make
necessary.
A golden opportunity is offered to test our
liberal and fraternal feelings. Let us not
stigInatize as barbarians the people WHO in
the sweat and agony Of civil war, before their
hearts have. time to cool, shed the blood OF
their oppressor and invader. They did not
call us savages, when in the agony OF our
wrestle with the great rebellion we redeemed
all the summer woods of north Virginia with
the blood of thousands of our noblest
youth.
Brother Johnathan viii not look pretty
tra,psing round alter Seward and the diplo-
matte corps, with three-inch-wide black
Grape around his proverbial white hat, max