Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-20
REVOLUTIONS IN MEXICO.


Reports Of revolutions in Mexico are
rife, and according to lats adyices not
less than three are in progress in that
unfortunate country. The one at Yucca
tan, said to be instigated and directed by
Santa Anna, is only temporarily sus-
pended. There is another in TObascO,
headed by number Of maleontents in
that portion of the republic. And Or
tega is said to be organizing revolt in
Puebla'as a choice accompaniment of the
designations of Dlaz and Escobedo, two
of Juarez's best Generals in his struggle
with Macmillan Ii is but few months
since Juarez was reelected to the
Presidency of Mexico by a unanimity
which seemed to auguer something for
the stability of that country under a re-
publican government But that restless
people can not be satisfied From the pes
Rod of the establishment of a republican
form of government in Mexico, after its
acknowledgement by Spain, about half
century has elapsed. Let any one
glance over the annals Of Mexico during
these fifty years, and he will find it one
uninterrupted period of anarchy and
misrule, more than twenty different adj
ministrations having held sway in that
time Ia no one instance was an admin
istratiOn, legally and constitutionally
elected, allowed to exercise Its functions
in peace Invariably was it overthrow
by violence, and upon any frivolous pre-
text During this short period Mexico
also lost about one-third, and an exceeds
ingly valuable third, of its territory, not
merely in consequence of the grasping
ambition of its northern republican
neighbor, but more by reason Of its own
anaIchical government, which made it
exceedingly difficult for the well-dis-
posed United States to keep the
peace toward a neighbor whose
internal dissensions and bad faith made
it fit object of prey. The anarchy
which characterised Mexico for nearly
half century before the French inter-
ference in its affairs a few years ago,
seems about returning to curse that
country with its blighting influence. If
ever a people and institutions have shown
an utter incapacity for working well to-
| gether, it is shown in the present inN
stance. 1t is perfectly legitimate con-
sequence of such incapacity that institu-
tions should perish and people fall a
prey to foreign domination, and we are
now almost forced to admit that 1t was a
case of mistaken lenieney when our gov
ernmeRt threw the prestige OF its in
fuence in favor Of the restoration Of
Juarez's government when Macmillan
seemed to hold that country with
so firm a grip. The intituticns-
miserable parody upon our own
great and respected republie-deserVed
no resurrection and the people no pity.
They had fallen under a form of govern
ment to which they had for centuries be-
fore the acknowledgement of their inde-
pendence by Spain been accustomed,
and the history of that government,
short-lived as it was, shows that they
would have been far more prosperous
under it than they are likely to be under
institutions copied from our own. 1t
will require severe tutilage to make
Republicans and good citizens out of the
materials with which Juarez has to deal,
and there is good reason to fear that he
is unequal to the task of making himself
master of the situation.