The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-05-19

apply ones energies, except in rare
cases. i'm her present condition, Is the
heigth Of folly, for whatever may be
ones success. his money, stock, or. in
fact, anything he may possess, is Liable
any day to be seized for military uses
by some irresponsible faction. Nor, ex
uoptine at short intervals, have mat
ters been better since the reign OF
the Viceroys. Nor can II be better
for the reasons before given, residing |
in the character of the people them
the country are left in their own hands. |
And for this reason all plans for reor-
ganzing and putting to rights this coun-
try. through or by means OF those people
themselves, will certainly end in mlser-
able failure. and Just here rest the fault
of all the various schemes OF subsidies,
temporary protcctotates, aud foreign
rule. hatcned from time to time during
the past half century. Nopeople under
stand this better than the cultivated
people Of Mexico themselves. and they
discuss their misfortunes with the
greatest pIanness and freedom. Many
have told me they would willingly give
half their possessions for ample security
FOR the rest, and would then be much
richer than now. and | have not doubt
but the entire body Of large proprietors
in Mexico would gladly give half their
estates to - power that, to use MeKi-
can expression, should "beueiic'ate" the
remainder by u secure and stable gov
crnment.
These facts, in connection with the
Monroe doctrine. now thoroughly un-
derstood and pretty well acknowledged
the world over. reduces the question OF
McxieO's future to u single conclusion,
ana the writer does not doubt for mo-
ment that Mexico must ultimately be
completely absorbed by tho United
States, NJ natural, necessary and newt
able Nothing short OF 1t viii meet
more than n temporary want, nor neeh
this he contemplated with humiliation
or regret by the Mexicans themselves,
California and Texas are examples
with their immense strides forward. IN
both those States good MeXicans have
| gone ahead ~ in the case of the present
| Lieutenant Governor ana one 81 inc
! Judges of the Supreme Court OF iail-
| foruia. because they were good men.
Bad mon will fall because they are bad
and not because they are McXlcnns.
This event will and should come about
more from natural than political cause,
the State following rather than leading
in the movement. In the meantime the
spirit OF responsible iilibustering in our
own company should meet only with
condemnation.
Unless the Republican candidate shall
be n man Of commanding ability ana
recognized purity Of character unless
he incnrnates all that is best in the Re
publican record, and truest IN the he
publican aspiration. New York IS at
least a doubtful state, with Samuel >
Tilden in tho field as the Democratic
leader. Rochester Democrat ana
Chronicle RepD
We fail to find any whitening com
ments in our Radical contemporaries
touching the Wholesale robbery OF Miss
Ada G. Sweet Of Chicago, by lot OF
Radical officials and politicians. They
reserve oil their fire for Fitzhugh and
his celebrated letter, in which he claims
to be "as big u man US old Grant. Fltz-
hugh $ great mistake was in writing that
letter. He should have joined the Rad
zeal party and stole something. NO
Radical paper would have abused him
or ridiculed his vanity then. -lPIttsburg
Post Dcm.l
Now the old silver dollar was the unit
of account the dollar in which our
fathers paid the United States for their
lands the almighty dollar that we
celebrated Why should this dollar
have been suddenly put out OF the way
on a false pretcnse, after the war, Just
when silver was decreasing In value as
compared with gold?- Cincinnati Com,
mercial IndD