New-York tribune., 1870-02-03
MR.. SEUARUS ITINERARY.

Our non commissioned ambassador will be
home before great while. lie VIII come to
us fresh from the enforced hospitalities of the
gro-trader5 in Cuba, or he will bring us
word of what the good folks5of another island
are doing in the name of liberty and annexa-
ton. To drop in upon his old friend Baez,
and to visit his ruflled ncighbOr Saget, would
be quite in order. An amiable looking into
Haytian or other affairs would be altogether in
keeping with Mr.. Stewards character as an in
quisitiye peace maker, as the soother and
smoother of the wrinkled.front of grim-yisaged
revolution.
In the short journey which Mr. Seward made
through Mexico he may have seen that pictur-
esque country rather more in the light of her
fayoring suns than of her lurid revolutions.
Clear skies with innumerable mountains to rest
upon all nature disposed to be picture and
to be looked at; all men ready to be his en-
tertainers, may have seduced MIR. Seward to
charming oblivion of the distressing apology
which so many actualities in Mexico are to
their pretensions and surroundings. A much
exaggerated country in more than one respect,
it is both better and worse, no
doubt, than it seems. But its revolutions
almost surpass calculation, and its pro-
nunciamientos certainly moro common
than shocks of earthquake. When our wander
ing philosopher saw the schools of Guadalajara
he loudly wondered why any one should talk
of protecting a people so perfectly able to take
care of themselves. Here was illusion number
one, but not altogether an illusion. The Mex
leans are dreadfully self-protective, as their
innumerable pronunciamentOs attest and this
is precisely what ails them. Could they obey
Mr.. Juarez, the first long-enduring President
they have ever had, it would be better for
them, argue one class of reasoners but then
they must protect themselves even from Mr.
.Juarez Could Mr.. Juarez have refrained from
shooting Macmillan and authorizing the MUIR
der of Gov. Patoni, it might have been better
for him, argue another class of observers. In
Spanish American questions, much may be said
against both sides. 1t is undoubtedly true
that Mr. Juarez has presented the most
able, the most hopeful, side of Mexi-
can affairs but short of believing in a miracle,
it is scarcely possible to believe that he will
conduct his country to final peace. The muir
derer of Patoni, who declared that he COM
mitted crime which his Government denounced
by sealed orders of that Government. is still
not brought to trial, though his fearful crime
is more than year old. That crime, unac
counted for, stains every act of Mr. Juarez,
kills every hope for his country, and still
places it before the world on trial for murder
i'll the first degree.
Poor Mexico! Her fate has been a marvel of
tribulation-we wish that her salvation might
prove one of the miracles of providence. Her
children have gone, day after day, into strange
lands, and learned strange language; but they
are not half the aliens to themselves that their
brethren are who devour each other in
fratricidal instructions. On all her institu
tions rests the mildew of suspicion. Some
thing OF her truest life has been frightened
into the Converts, and saddened into the
Church, yet around both are the shadows of
calumny and notoriety. Now comes to us
confirmation Of the report that revolution is
active in the States of Michoacan, Queretaro,
Puebla, San Luis, Guerrero, and we may have
to add Morelos. The situation seems hopeless,
remarks a Vera Cruz paper. Under these cir
cumstances, Mr.. Seward must revise his speech
TO the pyramid