The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-01
~oseFsi Aosscrans and tho Mexican
Question.

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The nine days wonder of the political mis-
sion OF General Rosecrans to the Virginia
White Sulphur Springs has nearly run its
course. 1t has already, In fact, ceased to be
any wonder at all. The brilliant idea seized
General Rosecrans Of sounding the leading
spirits OF the late Southern confederacy in
White Sulphur conference (supposing that
they had had enough of yellow sulphur), he
thought the matter over, and, concluding to try
the experiment, he went to the Greenbrier
Springs, held the conference suggested and
came away delighted with the results. He
found Generals Lee, Beauregard and Echols,
Alexander H. Stephens and company in an
admirable frame Of mind for peace and har-
mony in the Union as it is, provided the blacks
of the South are removed to back seats in
the political church; and "to this complexion
1t must come at last"
But White Sulphur correspondent of
Chicago paper says that General Rosecrans
had personal object in this adventure; that
1t was "to interest the rebel officers in the
Mexican schemes Of his own hackers )" that
1T is well known that Rosecrans, as profess
sional mining and military engineer, was con-
frmed in the Mexican mission through the So
licitations Of Marshall o. Roberts, George
Wilkes, Henry J. Raymond, S. L. M. Barlow
and other Mexican spectators in mines and
territory" Gncluding their territorial purchase,
we presume, of Lower California and certain
mines and railway privileges in Sonora and Chi
huahua); that, ''denials Notwithstanding, his
mission to Mexico will probably be signalized
by a more active interference in the affairs of
that republic than we have taken since 1S4S,"
when by that treaty of peace piece of terri
tory was acquired which is now cut up into the
States of California and Nevada and the Terri
tories of Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico,
with considerable slice handed over to
Texas This Chicago philosopher further says
that ''the old dream Of the South was extension
southwark" which is true-and that ''Rose-
Grams Gin this view means to grind an axe for
Seymour and one for his employers at the
same time," and that with the Southern
leaders in favor of Southern extension 'the
idea of the great party Of empire conceived in
the restless brain of W. II. Seward will then
begin its second chapter and reach for softer
Alaska"
We have had various surmises, hints and
conjectures from Washington that the instruc-
lions to General Rosecrans on his Mexican
mission Con which, he has intimated, he will
not set out before October) will embrace the
programme above suggested-a partial cession
of Mexican territory to the United States for
favors received and favors to be promised on
the Monroe doctrine-and that the schemes Of
certain spectators in Washington, New York
and elsewhere in Mexican railways, expresses,
telegraphs and other things are to be looked
after in the reconstruction Of our relations
with Juarez as the head of the Mexican re-
public. 1t is also probable that Mr.. Seward,
who seems never to have thoroughly under
stood the meaning, as applied to Mexico. of
manifest destiny" Is inclined to some such
| tinkering and patchwork as that charged upon
| Rosecrans. 1t is to be hoped however, that
President Johnson will strike out into holder
line of action. We have had enough of Next
can patchwork treaties, and Mexico has had
| enough of Mexican revolutions and revol dictionary
factions. That unhappy country will never be
quieted and her immense mineral and agri-
cultural resources will never be developed
until the manifest destiny" of Mexico shall
be accomplished with her absorption by the
United States.
General Scott in 1918 had splendid
opportunity for this absorption in the offer
| made him by powerful committee Of leading
Mexican generals and politicians, but. he
shrunk from the difficulty of fusng the negroes
and mixed breeds Of Mexico, on the basis of
civil and political equality, with our Southern
institution of negro slavery and the negro's
constitutional disabilities in the United States
That difficulty now is out of the way, and the
mixed breeds of Mexico, with the annexation
of the country, will become citizens on foot
ing of equality without any further trouble.
The Mexican States, too, once in the Union,
would naturally in politics join our present
Southern States; for their sectional interests
would be the same. Here, then, In some
thing like restoration Of sectional equi-
librium in the government, we should have
new bond of sectional harmony. In every
point of view, in fact, the true policy for
President johnson and the country is the alb
sorption of Mexico.