The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-24

We have already spoken of some of the
considerations that ought TO hasten General
Grants long contemplated, but indefinitely
deferred, visit to Mexico. A recent political
occurrence in that country is well calculated
to recall and strengthen ourprevious remarks
on this subject; the gist of which remarks
was, that the general, as the chief of the
party of "moral ideas, and Of extra-moral,
extra-constitutional, extra-rational, and extra
possible reforms, could not too soon avail
himself of Mr.. Romero's invitation to become
the guest of the model republic beyond the
Rio Grande, and make himself disciple of
its unapproachable craftsmanship. The event
referred to as described by a correspon-
dent, writing from the Mexican cap
ital, happened in the State of Puebla.
There were four candidates at an
election which took place not long since in
that State, and one of them, who got more
votes than all his competitors put together.
was opposed to the party in power. This
fact, as well it might in a country so far adj
yapced in political progress, worked the in
valuation of the vote in his favor. For the
legislature, faithful to the cause of the parti-
sans who composed its majority, straightway
nullifed the election so far as this obnoxious
candidate was concerned, and gave the Office
in dispute to that one of the minority can
didates who received the fewest votes, but
was reputed to be the most "trooly loil to
the dominant party. We think that even Gen.
Grant, OF Thaddeus Stevens, or Horace Gree
ley would admit, in view of this incident, that
the radicals in the United States have yet a
considerable lesson to learn from the kindred
party in Mexico.
Our own regard for the truth of history
compels us SO far to lower the pride which we
feel in the general advancement of the peo-
pie of the United States, as to confess, with
hesitation and reluctance indeed, but with
explicitness and candor, that, in respect to
political progress, the American radical,
though a clever imitation, is yet notably
behind the Mexican original. There was,
for example, in the proceeding adyerted to on
the part of the Puebla legislature, an off-hand
and direct manner of reaching the objective
point of party strategy, in comparison with
which the hocus-pocus of reconstruction, of
Impeachment, of pretended election contests
and investigations, and other favorite devices
of the radical majority in Congress, looks
Anticipated, circumlocutionary, stale, fiat and
improbable.
Something surely can be done to relieve
the United States from the injurious effects of
this comparison. If Gen. Grant, too much
preoccupied with attending to those incalcula-
BILE drafts upon his mighty intellect and his
Herculean energies, the fertilization of STAN
ton in the war Office building, the mythical
terrors of the "Kuklux Khan" in Tennessee,
and the devious loyalty and the duplex ma
tionality of Street Commissioner Baker
down here in Louisiana, is unable to pro-
coed at once to Mexico, then Congress, let us
hope, will take prompt measures for sending
to that country a special committee, charged
with the duty of reporting how they do things
there in the way of vindicating ''troo loilty'
and maintaining party ascendency. Profting
by lessons thus obtained, the radical power
in the United States would understand how
to condense into spasms of day usurpations
and revolutions that now extend, with alterna-
tions of paroxysm and syncope, through
tedious and vexatious months and even
wears