The New York herald., 1869-04-21


OF Durango. as shown by the Consulate records IN
tins city; for those butchered IN Lower California
as lately reported In special correspondence TO tue
HERALD from La Paz; for the notorious aud shame
ful 0ufragcs on American citizens IA Monterey, ana
for other murders aud outrages that de1e and
blackcn the history OF to-day2
Second-iias Mexico government that gives
protection to life and property, and IS 1t a govern
Thiyf--is it not great moral crime that conn
try so iDexbaustiby rch IN mineral and Agricultural
lands, so delightful IN climate and 80 bes by nature
IN every respect should be mare butcher shop IN
which TO slaughter humanltyS
FonTll--ls not the conviction almost universal
that tho United States Is IN hOaOr bound TO see that
Mexico has true republican government, where la
Dor shall be encouraged and protected and human
life held sacredY
Finh-What arc the dangers awaiting the govern.
ment ana people OF the uniled states az a conse-
quence OF our false pampering 10 republican dos.
poiismf
Let us now argue and reason upon these proposi-
tons aud then tne unprcjudiced reader can giye his
verdict Win regard 10 tho first, II Is aneniaDle
and undeniaDe fact that our government has been
utterly recreant 70 is interest here and the result OF
tbis has been 10 lower the American character and
name throughout the whole country. IL las become
quite common With the ruling classes when speak
ine OF Americans to say contemporary, ''CuraIo
a Gringos-Americanl Yet When That same
class can make ANYTHING out of Americans its
amount cf mock politoness Is nauseatng. And, too
those bitter hatoTs OF every thing aud anything
American here, the so-called DutclUernan aristoc-
racy, mixture OF moneyed arrogance and intcec-
tual stupidity, turn up their noses with the venom
and veroc.iy OF a viper when one talks Of American
neutrality-suspicious. or the manifest destiny OF the
great republic OF the North. AS the American
character. both IN It's political and religious elements
IN the most liberal and best netured IN the world. II
laughs away the petty preJudices thus fubg
at 1t witl poisonous mendacity. Yet 10 Is
always better TO 30 tamo Wild beasts that tney
dare not even show their teeth. Whatever has been
our past governmental misconduct with Mexico
and the record shows II has been very grave within
the last few years-it Is now high time, both as n
matter Of justice aud humanity, That 1t should end.
1ne American name ~ too honorable and too power
full to be bywOrd for herd OF assassns and Euro
pean piunderers. With the picture already drawn
numiliatng to us In every sense-ls II tO be won
dercd that our countrymen In this free ana enight.
ened republic are eager TO know what Grant wlll say
about Mexican AFFAIRS
With regard 10 the second proposition the undenla-
bic answer ~ mo" for IN the true sense OF the word
government. Mexico has known nothing OF it. We
have only TO read the history OF the regency and The
empire under lturbide; the provisional government
under Bravo, Victoria and Negrcte the federal re-
public, lasting from 1924 TO 1887, having four dler.
ent presidents, dictators or whatever they may be
called, and some OF whom only ruled few days;
the central republic, having five chiefs In three
years; the relationships under Santa Anna,
Bravo, santa Anna and Canalizo; the second cen.
tsal republic, lasting from lSsl 10 1Sso, having Ave