New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-21

From ting We Infer that many Demo
Gratis yill. taste and the mutability o.
| private occupation, and leave condition
Of lease and plenty" to some of those who
are now in suffering and want"
An AMERICAN. PROTESTANT IN MEXICO
The views which had spontaneously
arisen in our mind upon tie failing o.
that incurable spileptic. Mexico, into thu
late parcxysmt Of disorder seems also te
have occurred to other and Independent
minds The Philadelphia Press, edited
by the veteran Forney, ascribse the i'm
portance of law and order is Mexico to
the character and interests of the repub.
| lcan governments of this continent.
Without relying at all on the precedente
of the old world, it is plain that nation
incapable Of taking care of its own affairs
may, like an individual under certain cir.
cumstances, be committed to some an.
thority which viii at least guard political
society from the conquerors Of political
| inability to maintain the common laws
and the common comfy Of nations. The
convention Of powers now engaged in de-
Gliding how to enforce in the empire Of
Turkey a respect for human right and in
ternational obligations, may at least be
relied on as formulating similar inquiry
on the part of the republics Of the Amer
lean continent
There is great tendency on the part of
our citizens on the frontiers of the kio
Grande and of the Pacific Ocean to extend
commercial relations with Mexico The
surplus productions Of our attitudes de-
mand an exchange against the produc-
tons Of the tropical ATTITUDES. The Mis-
sissippi and American rivers flow through
zones Of reciprocal production. Pennsyl-
yapia creates commodities required by
the Mexican States of Vera Cruz, Sinaloa
and Colima. For want of this intercourse
the farmers and mechanics Of the United
States have been driven to export their
products in competition with those of the
Danube, Of Manchester and of Paris.
Under similar circumstances European
governments have forced their way into
the respective markets Of India and China
by force of arms. +.-
We have, however, stated that the right
of moral intervention in the affairs of
Mexico arises upon other principles than
those of charging the market demand
for our surplus products. 1t has beco me
necessary to guard the lives and interests
of our citizens already vested under the
jurisdiction of this scandalous anarchy.
We are not surprised at the fact that
the attention of the Philadelphia Press
has been attracted to the deplora-
BILE condition of Mexico. The dis
tinguished editor of the Press has
been an enlightened advocate of more
expanded market for the manufactured
products of Pennsylvania. He has per-
ceived that the supremacy of New York is
to be fought by land rather than on the
sea. He has seen that the access of Phil
adelphia to the great markets of the Pac;-
fc will be secured over lower grades and
through q milder climate than those fur
nished by the Pacific roads Of New York.
He has already visited this city and the
region intermediate between Memphis
and Mazatlan and has advocated the con.
struction of the International and Texas
Pacific railroads. These great works and
this great object have been arrested by
the epilepsy of Mexico, while the division
of the government between three rival
factions, precisely as when, more than
thirty years ago. three rival revolutionary
cheiftains met ct Tacubaya and adopted
compromise, which repealed the repub-
lican constitution and founded the empire
Of Santa Anna. This cycle Of inirmities,
this recurrence Of collapse, convinces all
rejecting minds that the condition of
Mexico is hopeless and cureless. Hu-
manity and interest concur, therefore, in
demanding that a political care and
treatment proper for incurable inirmity
should be adopted in regard to our i'm
beetle and insane sister repoblic.
We do not doubt the diplomatic de-
partment of our government will be in
possession of facts which may, per-
haps, be referred to the Senate for
and counsel. The gov
of the United States has always
all governments de facto,
md will, no doubt, continue to do so,
but the commercial and personal relations
between our people and those of Mexico
nave become SO much intermixed since
he redemption of that republic from i'm
oerialism by means Of American assistance,
hat some more permanent guarantee must |
% assured our people, and some more
authority must be demanded !
% render continued diplomatic relations
nth Mexico practicable. We will await
he earliest indication Of governmental !
policy, prepared to support the policy Of |
,ur government even if it should involve |
he establishment of protectorate over
he distracted repnblic OF Mexico.