New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-06-18
THE SITUATION IN MEXICO.


II is safe to say that no country of the world
is at present so frequently and so grossly mis-
represented in telegraphic dispatches as Mexico.
Robbers who plumber unprotected haciendas,
and highwaymen who fall upon unarmed tray
elers, are magnloquently scalled insurgents,
threatening the overthrow of the Government
Our readers cannot have failed to notice how
fully the reports of our Mexican correspondent
who has shown up these disturbers of the peace
in their true light, have been proved to be cor
rect by subsequent information. That these
disturbances of the peace are still so frequent Is
greatly to be regretted; but President Juarez
can Justly claim that under his administration
they have been suppressed with greater prompt
ness and vigor than ever before. The cOndi-
ton of society in Mexico is, unfortunately, still
far from what 1t ogght to be-far even from
what,it is in most of the Republics of South
Amerca-but we know of no administration
which has made greater efforts for the improve
ment of the country and which has raised
greater hopes than that of Juarez.
We are generally inclined to disbeheye the
sensational dispatches from Mexico sent to the
papers of the United States, and thus we dis
believe many Of the statements contained IN
the Havana dispatch which was published in
the morning papers of our city yesterday. We
do not think that the manifesto issued by Gen.
Marquee will cause any profound sensation I;
and if the Rebel Rivera has gained any ad-
vantage over tho Government troops, 1t Is
likely to be one Of very little significance. a
revolution in the capital has been so fire.
quently announced as imminent, that we pre-
fer waiting for the news of a real outbreak
before We believe in it. Nor do we attach any
importance to the reported demand by the
peope for change in the Ministry. de
mand by Congress, or q demand by the ma
iorty of the newspapers, would be matter OF
weight but before as much can be said OF a
demand by the people, we wish to know how
this demand showed itself
Beside these sensational and, in our opinion,
improbable or at least exaggerated reports, the
Havana dispatch from Mexico contains few
facts which deserve attention. Lerdo de Te-
iada, who is both Chief Justice of Mexico and
Minister of Foreign Affairs was compelled,
it is said by order of the Supreme Court, to
resign his position as Minister. We think that
in no republic any man should hold two such
positions as have heretofore been simultaneously
held by Lerdo de Tejada but that the eXeeu-
tive and judicial authority should remain sepa-
rate. If President Juarez is on this question
at variance with the Supreme Court and with
the majority of the Mexican press, we believe
him to be in error. Nothing is said in the DIS
patch of the present attitude of Congress- but
if Juarez, by insisting on the privilege Of nom
mating his own Ministers, should fall out with
the present Congress, we can only say that he
is treading on dangerous and unrepuOhcan
ground. We think the safest and most patrl-
otic course the President of any Republic can
pursue is to have no policy to enforce against
the will of the people as expressed by its
chosen representatives.
Whatever may be the nature of these con-
sttutional conaicts-and to understand them
fully we need more trustworthy information
we hope the Liberal party in Mexico may re-
main unit in cordially supporting the efforts
of President Juarez to put down insurrec-
tons against his administration, from whatever
quarter they may arise. The one thing need
full for Mexico is the suppression of anarchy
and the preservation of peace. On it depends
the salvation of the country.