The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-17
NO NEWS FROM MExICO-A HINT FOR THE
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

| from Mexico; but we never nave any news
from that miserable and monotonous country.
1t is the old story that continues to vex the
ear. We hear merely of chronic epilepsy in
| government, of chronic revolution, of chronic
insurgency, of chronic butchery, of chronic
bandittism, of roads impossible, of industry
paralyzed, of commerce dead, of society dis
solved, Of civilization sinking into chaos of
barbarism. The persons whose names are as
ISOLATED with the more salient features of this
revolving scene of misery, infamy and horror
such persons, for example, as Juarez, Ortega,
Mendez, Rivera, Canaes, Escobedo, Cortina-
have almost ceased to be distinguishable in
jargonic mass of opprobrious applications.
| They no more serve to represent distinctive
moral or political ideas than the cards of a
pack shuffled and reshufled, stocked and re-
stocked by set of villainous gamesters.
No news is said to be good news. But
Mexico utterly bellies the adage. The reason
why we have no news in this case is that
such information as we get is uniformly bad.
1t is not even news to be told that affairs are
going from bad to worse; for that also is an
old, unchanging story.
Such is Mexico at the moment when Senior
Romero, late Mexican minister at Washing
ton, and now secretary of the state, or some
thing of that sort, to the phantasmagoric re-
public which embellishes the name of Juarez
sets sail to come back to the United States
After the atrocIous slaughter of Macmillan
and his staff at San Luis, Senior Romero, who
was before zealously employed at Washing
ton in organizing diplomatic, moral and finan-
cial aid for the Mexican faction which he rep
resented, returned to Mexico, with great
ostentation of patriotic haste, to participate
in celebrating the so-called Republican tri-
umph," and in inaugurating so-called Gre
publican reconstruction. Before starting,
however, he desired to reward Gen. Grant for
the latter's gratuitous denunciation of the ILL
starred and indiscreet, the brave and accom-
plished Macmillan. So, with charming affa-
bility, he invited the General commanding
our Armies to accompany him to Mexico;
and that remarkable intellect and profound
student in craftsmanship was eager to ac-
cept the invitation, in order to take
lessons in Mexican politics under
the able and faithful tuition of his fascinating
friend, Romero. Circumstances not uncon-
nected with reconstruction in his own conn
try caused him reluctantly to forego the
pleasure and profit of such visit, and thus
he is compelled to enter upon the work of
carrying presidential election, and securing
the government for an unpopular and des-
perate faction, without learning from personal
observation, or from the lips of Juarez, Es-
cobedo and the like Mexican statesmen, how
they get over constitutional difficulties and
electoral deficiencies in such cases in Mexico.
Nevertheless, the return of Senior Romero
will afford the general an opportunity to OBJ
tain valuable aid by comforting with SO as
tute counselor from the spot where prob
lens of this nature are solved in a trice
almost every day.
The motives which induce Senior Romero to
revisit the United States are as yet matter for
speculation and rumor. That he should will
Gngly leave his country after having returned
to it with rapture to enjoy the unexampled
glory and felicity which, according to his
theory and his predictions, were to follow the |
expulsion Of the French and the downfall of
possible that his late personal experience of |
the social and political blessings of Mexico
has added him to the number of those pa
triots whose love of country is in direct ratio
with their separation from it in point of
time or distance? Is it possible that he
now feels under the necessity of quitting his
native land, if he would preserve his patriot |
ism? If these surmises do not account for
his departure for the United States, then it |
would be reasonable to credit the rumor |
which represents him as coming on public |
mission, charged with the negotiation of
new treaty and loan of some millions to his |
government. The impudeuce of the financial
part of such project would surpass even the
mpudenee of the demand by the radical fac
lion in this country that they be intrusted
henceforth with unlimited authority, after
having ruinously abused every power which
mas heretofore been confded to them. Did |
Mexico, upon her own motion, and without
ever pay debt? Not once. She
lever missed chance to borrow dollar or to
hoot the lender. The only difference be-
ween the loans which she levies on merchants
within her limits and those which she has pro-
ured by negotiation abroad, is that the first
re forced and the second have been voluntary
The result in either case is tantamount to rob-
cry. To lend her money is worse than
hrowing it away, for it only intensifes the
the venality, the greed and cruelty
f the particular set of criminals who happen
o be in power.
But should this visit of Senior Romero sig
Iify an appeal for aid of any sort, the fact
night well suggest the importance of adopt
ng q high, defined and decisive policy
owards Mexico BETTING the position of the.
United States in respect to that country.
such policy is called for now as urgently as
was in the time of President Polk. The
Democratic party gained victory and glory by
sserting American interests, in common
With the interests of general commerce and