The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1867-07-18
GENERAL NEWS.


foresccn the destiny Of Mexico, which
is American absorption, and that
event has only been waiting for pro-
vocation. The provocation comes in
the shape Of another revolution and
return of anarchy in Mexico, and
incidentally in the atrocious murder
of Maximilian by the sayagcs who
have overrun the land. In the opin-
ion of a large majority of our people,
the time has arrived to settle the
Mexican question. Accordingly VIC
hear of mysterious meetings of sup
posed flibusters at the New York
Hotel, and the telegraph informs us
of the breaking out Of Mexican
fever among the ex-Confcderates in
New Orleans. The Mexican question.
suddenly comes up, however, in a
more legitimate way in Washington:
If We may believe all the rumors we
hear from the capital, the President
has determined upon q policy of
armed intervention, He fancies he
can build up a popularity for his ad-
ministration by letting slip the dogs
Of war on the grelsers. The Demo
Gratis are anxious for the issue to arise,
and hope with the new battle cry,
"Mexico for the Americans" inscrib-
cd on their banners to sweep. into
power again. Elk Confederate Gene
rails and politicians are said to be
Aocking; to Washington to urge the
new policy on the President. Beaure-
gard wants to lead an army of his old
soldiers to Northern Mexico, where,
it is intimatcd, he is interested with
certain great capitalists in a prospec-
tive Southern Pacific Rail Road
Secretary Seward also has interests
in the rail roads, mines and internal
Improvements opened and inaugura-
ted by Macmillan in Central Mexi-
co. General Grant too, is dying for
an opportunity to ridehis old hobby of
Mexican occupation. Chief Justice
Chase and his clique are described by
a Herald correspondent as favorable
lockers on. Sumner, Chairman Of
the Senate Committee on Foreign At
fairs, is in the hands of the French
intriguers, and the Ministers of Great
Britain, France, Russia and Austria,
resident at Washington, are working
tooth and nail to get the United States
tointervenc in Mexico. tits the on
ly chance the French sec of coll lecting
their pecuniary claims against that
lating through the community and
filing the columns of the press. The
only opponents of an aggressive poll
cy are supposed to be the Thad. Ste
rens Radicals. They may control
Congress, but can they control the
people? I said we are but at the be-
ginning of the new furor. Itpromi-
ses to grow in intensity from day to
day. Stewards organ, the Times, is
feeling the public pulse. Even the
Tribune crys for Mexican do-somc-
thing policy. The reports are, today,
that the Impcrialists, who escaped
from the City of Mexico, previous to
it's surrender, have fought their way
into the mountains and have raised
the standard of Ortega, and that the
friends of that man (who is unques-
tionably the legitimate President of
Mexico, according to the provisions
Of the Constitution )are joining them.
The Juarezists arc spilling the blood
of their opponents plentifully. Eigh-
teen hundred prisoners have already
been slaughtered in Quetstafo since
the murder of the. Emperor. And
while chaos reigns at the capitol and
che victors are blindly plunging
through a. carnival of blood, here
comes the friends of Ortega, with the
CONSTITUTION on their side, and aided
by thevengeful Imperialists, to throw
the country into still greater eonfu-
sion.
Fhe business depression North and
South has forced thousands of men
out of active employment, and should
the President want volunteers, they
would be forthcoming to greater
extent than the occasion would need.
The conquest Of Mexico is certainly
feasible; it would be a blessing to the
unfortunate people, who have wit
messed forty revolutions in forty years,
and the cost of the job would be ON
ply repaid in the development of thein-
;ternal resources of that magnificent
land.