The New York herald., 1869-02-22

family OF nations she has become trouble
some subject, at only for the House Of
Correction or humane and competent
guardian. Are the immense material
resources Of that fine country, mineral, agri-
cultural and manufacturing, to continue as SO
much solid capital lying waste because, for
sooth, all this is none of our business? In
Mexico we have q spectacle Of chronic
anarchy and its demoralizations without
parallel-the spectacle Of new country, with
a genial climate and mines and lands yielding
the products of every zone, remaining nearly
stationary for fifty years on a sparse popula-
tion (some seven or eight millions), not equal
to one-tenth Of the country's capabilities.
Such spectacle is scandal to the civilized
world, and especially to the United States,
after assuming against European protec-
torates the guardianship over the country
under the Monroe doctrine.
But what is to be done? What can we do
with Mexico under the doctrine of non-inter-
vention? We can do more than we conld do
with the Cheyenne and Comanche Indians
under the same fallacy. But we must do some
thing. Had the policy been adopted which
was suggested by General Sheridan and very
broadly hinted at by General Grant shortly
after the collapse of the late Southern confed-
eracy the Mexican problem would to-day have
been reduced to mere question of territorial
sorbed republic. But Andy Johnson and his
timorous and temporizing Secretary Of
State, when they should have been set
Ting the Mexican problem, were dab
bling in the Esquinaux, the icebergs and
white bears of Alaska and in the
combustible island of st. Thomas. General
Scott, too, in his day, lost fine opportunity
in refusing the offer of the whole of Mexico as
a free gift, with q million of dollars for his
salary as Captain General; but he had the
plausible excuse that under our constitution of
that time the Mexican people could not be fused
with ours on the Mexican basis Of equal rights
to niggers.
Now the coast is clear and the occasion is
evidently ripening for the trial of General
Grants policy. IfGeneral Rosecrans is doing
nothing it is, no doubt, because his instructions
from the State Department amount to nothing.
But suppose under General Grant the Mexican
difficulty is solved by annexation, can we stop
there? BY no means. We cannot safely per-
NIT any Of the isthmus transit routes from
ocean to ocean, between Tehuantepec and
Darien, to fall into the hands Of England or
L,acoo Thoxv mo ou rooooaorry n ,o n oocu,o
the command not only of the Pacific Ocean and
the trade of Eastern Asia, but of the Gulf of
Mexico. Nor is this mere boastful and noisy
blowing of the American trumpet. These
things are among the coming events fore
shadowed in the rapidly expanding power and
public opinion of the United States We look
to General Grant, therefore, for the compre-
hensive American policy suggested, and we
are satisfied that, in properly carrying out
this programme, instead of incurring any addi-
tions to our national debt we shall gain the
resources for its easy and early extinction.
Such are our reflections upon this Mexican
news and our conclusions concerning the paci-
fication Of Mexico under General Grants ad-
ministration.
POPULAR MEETINGS IN FRANCE. g.--The denial
OF ''the right of meeting claimed by few
obscure Baptists in the Departement de lAisne
and by the promoters Of political banquets as
manifestations in favor Of parliamentary reform
was among the proximate causes Of the French
revolution of ls4s. Napoleon III. and M.
FORBADE, his Minister Of the Interior, must
have forgotten how fatal this denial of ''the
right Of meeting" proved to Louis Philippe
and M. Guizot M. FORBADE recently issued,
OF course with che sanction of the Emperor,
an order for guarding against what, indeed,
he is cautious enough to call ''an abuse of the
right OF the people to peaceably assemble; !"
and this order was put in force on Saturday
last A public meeting which was contem-
plated at Mont Parnasse, an dTrondisseDsGnt Of
Paris, was dispersed by the authorities.
Moreover, all public gatherings on Wednesday
next have been positively prohibited. 1t will
be readily understood why the ex-Prcsident Of
the French republic is averso to the public
celebration Of Wednesday as the anniversary
OF the second Inauguration Of republican gov
ernment in France. But repeated and rigidly
enforced orders to prevent popular meetings
in that country win serve only to heap up
wrath against day of wrath.
MAKE Room FOR PoMRY.-Maycr Bowen,
of Washington, in reply to an inquiry from
several inquisitive citizens Of African scent,
says that he will make no objection to the ad-
mission Of respectable ''gemmcn Of color" 10
the citizens Inauguration ball, though he does
not know what the committee may say on the
subject
SUB-DvIsIoS OF Tng STATE or TExAs.-
The closing scenes OF the Texas Convention
were fitting climax to the proceedings Of that
scandalous body. After a session Of eight
months, during which all kinds Of jobs have
been openly fostered In the shape Of illegal