The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-04
MIR. SEWARD'S ITINERARY.
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FTsm the N. Y. Tribune.
Our non-commissioned ambassador will be
home before great while. He will come to
us fresh from the enforced hospitalities of
the negro-traders in Cuba, or he will bring
us word of what the good folks of another
island are doing in the name of liberty and
annexation. To drop in upon his old friend
Baez, and to visit his ruffied neighbor Saget,
would be quite in order. An amiable looking
into Haytien or other affairs would be alto
gether in keeping with Mr.. Stewards charac-
ter as an inquisitive peace-maker, as the
soother and smoother of the wrinkled front
of grim-visaged revolution.
In the short journey which Mr.. Seward
made through Mexico, he may have seen that
picturesque country rather more in the light
of her favoring suns than of her lurid revolu-
TONS Clear skies with innumerable noun
tains to rest upon; all nature disposed to be
picture and to be looked at; all men ready to
be his entertainers, may have seduced Mr..
Seward to charming oblivion of the distress
ing apology which SO many actualities in
Mexico are to their pretensions and surround
ings 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 it's pronun-
ciamentos are certainly more common than
shocks of earthquake. When our wander
ing philosopher saw the schools of Guadaa-
lara, he loudly wondered why any one should
talk of protecting people so perfectly able
to take care of themselves. Here was
illusion number one, but not altogether
an illusion. The Mexicans are dread
| fully self-protsctive, as their innumera-
| BILE 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 Maximilian and authorizing
| the murder of Governor Patoni, it might
have been better for him, argue another class
of observers. In Spanish-American ques
tions, much may be said against both sides
IL is undoubtedly true that Mr.. Juarez has
presented the most able, the most hopeful
side of Mexican affairs but short of believ.
ing in o miracle it is scarcely possible tC
believe that he will conduct his country to
final peace. The murderer of Patoni who
declared that he committed crime which his
Government denounced by sealed orders O
that Government, is still not brought tc
trial, though his fearful crime is more than
wear old. That crime, unaocounted for
stains every act of Mr.. Juarez, kills ever,
hope for his country, and still places it befor
the world on trial for murder in the frs
degree.
Poor Mexico! Her fate has been a marve
of tribulation-we wish that her salvation
might prove one of the miracles of Provi
| dence. Her children have gone, day afte
day. into strange lands, and learned strang
language; but they are not half the aliens I
themselves that their brethren are who de
] your each other in fratricidal instructions