The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-17
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Mexico and our Government Policy.

Mexico and our Government Policy.
Efon ne Herald t|y.-T TII.
We have given additional news about the
trial of Macmillan. Justice, rigid and i'm
Martial Justice was not done to him. Mexico
has lost much in the mode of his trial; for
however well the nation was convinced Of his
euilt we are astonished that the republic
sbould have so far forgotten itself as to have
pIaced him on trial before a lieutenant colonel
and several subordinate officers. Justice
demanded a court-martial headed by a major
General with generals at the board. Lieu
tanant- Colonel Platon Sanchez, about thirty
ava wars of age, was, however, one Of the
faw officers of the Mexican regular army, in
fbe Liberal service, and received a fine educa-
zion At the military school in the city of
Mexieo. His appointment to the presidency
of the court was made by Esoobedo, whose
malignant, despotio, and unprincipled char
acter cannot be too highly condemned; for he
n the great blot upon the Liberal army. To
him is due much of the influence which was
brought to bear upon the Republican Govern
Inent to confirm the sentence passed upon the
prisoners.
Our advices also give us notice of the sue
cess of the republic in restoring quiet to the
port of Tampco. In fact, the whole country
appears to be rapidly coming under the entire
control Of the national republican party, il we
except few Indians, under Lozada, in West
ern Jalisoo, who will soon be reduced to quiet.
Thus the Mexican people enter upon new
era and the world will now watch them with
an intense interest. The future policy of the
United States with reference to Mexican affairs
is at length clearly enunciated in the final
paragraph of Mr.. Stewards long-winded COM
munication about Santa Anna. He says "that
1,o An,ya ~ NIn1
all its internal and foreign enemies, and to
have reached crisis when, if left alone, it
may be expected to restore tranquility, and to
TeOrganize itself upon permanent foundations
of union, freedom, and republican government.
Only some great national injury, wrong, or
Ofense would justify this Government in sud
denly assuming a hostile or even unfriendly
attitude towards the republic of Mexico" This
expression of opinion on the part OF the Ad-
ministration is wise and timely. 1t will at
once quiet the flibustering spirit of the coun-
try, and place the United States in that posi-
tion of dignity which she should assume with
reference to a neighboring republic whose
struggles against foreign invasion have been
heroic, and whose future is so indissolubly
linked with our own. Henceforth, then,
Mexico is to have chance to try the effect of
her great claws OF reform" and her hard
fought for and well.won Constitution of 1857.
Modelled upon our own, we are anxious to see
its rigid enforcement throughout the land that
has made so many sacrifices to reach liberty
for which they have been constantly grasping.
In her onward pace Mexico must, however,
step aside from the blood red line by which
we trace her in her modern history. No more
shooting for political offenses-no more massa-
ores like that of San Jacinto. The age demands
new and loftier action but not on her part
alone. We cannot forget that, under the
shadow of civilization which France pre-
tended to confer, were { >mmitted upon Mexi-
can soil, some of the ost horrid slaughters
that stain the history the times. In con-
demning Mexico we equally condemn those
who, boasting greater advancement, set her
such a bloody example. 1t is time that this
inhuman cruelty that blots the history of the
Latin race were laid aside, for they are entitled
to no claim to civilization if they write the re-
cord of their progress with blood. Mexico or
France France or Mexico, is equally culpable.
There is much work before the Mexican
statesmen, and we may expect some local tur-
moil before the Liberal elements which have
for fifty years been hammering at retrograde
ideas settle into quiet. We wish to give them
fair play, however; to assist them in the march
of peace; to aid them with our more practised
theories of selfgovernment; to throw into theil
country some of the cosmopolitan bone and
snew that will set their wonderful natural
resources in action to show to them the policy
of opening wide their doors to the same broad
liberalism that we show towards the oppressed
of Europe; to advise them to lay aside tina
jealousy of the foreign element that has beer
taught them by exclusive Spain, and lear1
that nation, to be great in this age, mus
proclaim to the world that it's lands, its re
sources, its political privileges belong to ever.
man who will come and partake of them
Under this broad policy Mexico may under
take rapid march towards brilliant future
Cost of RecOnstructton "A New Issu
Raised by the President.
From the Times.
In transmitting certain reports to Congress
on Monday, embodying information called 70
respecting the work of reconstruction, tn
President gives expression to views whicl
indicate am almost incomprehensible perver
sion of the scope and effect of the polio.
adopted by that body.
It seems that the $500, 900 appropriated 70
the execution of the existing acts have bee
expended, and that further sum of 81, 645, q
is required for present purposes. An inquir.
touching the amount that will probably b
needed to fulfil the ends of the law, the Presi
dent declares his inability to answer speci6
cally. He proceeds, however, to present
series of hypotheses, having neither fact no
probability to rest upon; and on this foundatio
he builds an argument which in effect charge
the National Government with the whole cos
of civil administration in the ten exclude
States.
The argument has not even the merit
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