New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-19
MR.. SEWARD IN MEXICO.

President JuareZ has made his usual speech
to Congress, wherein he asserts that foreigners
are amply protected, and, now that the
Tamaulipans are quoted, his cOuntrymen
enjoy peace. The President of the Congress
has replied to this assuring speech, observing
among other things. that when Mr.. Juarez
reaches the end of his term he will deposit
TRANQUILITY in the hands of his people the deli
cate charge of government. Minister Romero
has made report showing how Mexico has
reaped more than thirteen millions from her
revenues, and, TO the amazement OF those who
did not expect O sum so great has spent less.
STILL there are pronuncamentos and rum0rs OF
pronunciamentos ;fwandering cut-throats doing
business in disorder; tropc rowdies specula-
ting in revolutions as Mr.. Jaurez would say.
The country was month ago at peace, the
mutiny in Tamaulipas having gone under; but
who can calculate upon republic founded on
earthauakeS Here is San Luis POtos in state
of eruption, with an influential but desperate
ex Governor at the head of her rebels, and
again we hear that Gen. Placido Vega, who is
said to be equally in favor of secession and an
nexation, but who is probably no more brilliant
yagabond than the rest of the pronOuncers, is
threatening the State of Sinaloa. There may
be rags and tags Of revolt elsewhere, but we
doubt if they amount to anything more than
a question of police-One of the gravest and
widest character to BIO sure, but not ques-
ton of revolution.
Under these circumstances venerable states
man has just entered Mexico. He is prepared
to test for himself the value OF his policy in
years bygone, and the worth of tho people
Il "a .haN nuoha
he sustained them. He will take his slow
march through a country which the pronouncer
and the robber have made infamous with
kind of shabby romance; he will SEQ mighty
pictures and desert life, and such a show OF
bare mountains and such contrast Of wild
solitude with meager population, rs rarely comes
10 n traveller in settled countries. Withal, the
great ex-Secretary will make the acquaintance
of many kind-hearted people. and Of many
willing ones, whose highest wish is to
SEQ their country happy and at peace
upon the model of the United States.
He will probably gather increased respect
for the invincible stoicsm and firmness OF
Juarcz the fruitful energy of Romero, and the
marked astuteness of Lerdo, well-named the
Mexican Seward. He will discover much TO
study in men, much to ponder over in peoples,
much to marvel at in scenery; something to
give him satisfaction, much to cause him
melancholy. The venerable American will
find himself face to face with those twin pillars
of n mightier State than Mr.. Juarez actually
governs, Ixtaccihuau and Popocatapetl, and
in the Valley of Mexico he may behold
picture paradise, with something of the
substance of the Garden of Eden wanting
He may turn shrewd eye upon country,
the sublime freshness of whose natural morn
Ing is offset by the medieval dusk and dread
which hover over its institutions where the
free and familiar citizen of tho Republic is
tOrmented on the one hand by a slavery which
is of the Church. and on the other by liberty
which il of the Devil.
In short, Mr. Seward is about to observe in
Mexico the phenomenon of nations in the phe-
nomen0n of countries; and he will value thrice
highly institutions like our own when he re-
Allies what it costs to do without them and
how hard it ia to win them. From the man
who has already perfect map of Alaska in
his minds eye, we shall expect description of
Mexico not unworthy of Humboldt but we
shall suspect the integrity of his report if he
simply treats us to metaphors and figures, and
not to men and things. Doubtless our wander
ing statesman will ascertain for himself how
imperfectly and how incorrectly current reports
describe the condition of the country doubt
less, too, he will become familiar with the
points of the CantO case, and unravel what
Mr.. Juarez does not and what for year past
has been an exceeding mystery. Finally, we
commend our distinguished truant to o
watching Providence