The New York herald., 1869-06-23
Our Foreign Reistions--Our New Ministers
AbrOad-IIexicO.


Our foreign relations are pacific and
promise peace with all the nations of the
world and the rest of mankind Thanks TO
General Webb. He has made it all right with
Brazil. Mr.. Motley has declared to the de-
lighted Britishers that his programme is
peace-same language, ties of blood, institu-
tions, trade, Anglo Saxon civilization and all
that. Mr. Washburne has exchanged with
Napoleon the warmest assurances of a ''happy
accord" between France and the Uaited
States, no allusion being made to Mexico or
JEFF Davis ON either side, those questions
being settled As for Russia, MI. Curtin at
st. Petersburg will meet with hearty wei
come, and he will lay before the Czar the
kindest aud most friendly Acknowledgements
from our government and people touching the
unbroken relations of good will that have
always existed between the great republic and
the great empire.
AS for Spain, Mr. Hale is awaiting at
Madrid the arrival of his appointed successor. :.
General Sickles, and the General, now in Wash
ington, is doubtless awaiting his instructions
concerning the island Of Cuba and the Ameri-
can eagle-that is, the golden eagle. Mean
time, although the Cubans and flibusters are
doing very well in reducing for Spain the
cash value of the island, Mr.. Fish, it will be
seen, can have nothing to do with them, except
to catch such outgoing filibusters as may
happen 10 fall in his way. Nor does he like
the idea of declaring belligerent rights for the
Cubans, while England's belligerent rights to
jeff Davis are mixed up with those Alabama
claims.
General Nelson, our new Minister to Mexico,
we are glad to learn, has arrived at the ''halls
of the MOntezumas" and has raised quite a
ferment among the Mexican politicians from
the prevailing report which ushered him in,
that his mission is to gObble up the
republic without ceremony and without
salt. At the same time, while General
Nelson was coming in from the Atlantic
side General Rosecrans, the retiring Minister.
was going out on the Pacific side, en-
| route to San Francisco 1t has been rumOred
that General Rosecrans had been casting about
for treaty involving the cession to the United
States of another strip of Northern Mexico, in
cluding Tamaulipas Matamoros, Coahula,
Chihuahua, Sonora, Lower California and the
Gulf of California, and that the scheme had
some connection with a certain American land
purchase in Lower California from Juarez, and
with General Fremont's Southern Pacific Rail
road; but we suppose that as such negotia-
tions, even if entered upon by Rosecrans, we're
dropped with his retirement General Nelson
will begin with new set of books.
| Here, at all events, is splendid opportunity
for General Grant to settle the Mexican ques-
ton to the satisfaction of the civilized world.
| In I847 certain Mexican officials and others,
holding in their hands at the time the power to
act in the premises, in the city of Mexico, pro-
posed to General Scott to make him Governor
General of the whole country in the name and
| in behalf of the United States, on salary Of
million of dollars q year pro tem.; but this
liberal proposition General Scott declined,
because of the difficulty of fusing the white,
Indian and negro equality Of Mexico with the
negro slavery and negro inferiority which at
that day were the corner stones of the oonsti-
tuition of the United States. Now no such diff
Guilty exists. On the contrary, with the
annexation of Mexico, in the acquisition Of
five or six millions of Mexican citizens of the
Indian race, we shall have something like q
balance of power against our four millions Of
negroes, which will not only establish q sort Of
equilibrium between our Indians and negroes.
but open the door at once to the fusion with
our voting population of all the Indian tribes
of the United States, with the simple impO-
sition of penny tax.
In this broad political view of the subject it is
to be hoped General Grant will open his Mex
lean policy; and in every view, looking to the
establishment of law, order, trade and Ameri-
can enterprise in Mexico, he is called to meet
the demands of manifest destiny