The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-01-28
of Presidential term but few DAYS over

year.
From the time of the conquest Mexico
was governed with savage oppression by
Spain and though the Mexican mobiles
we're treated with some consideration tho
people were dealt with like cattle. No con-
querors ever cut so deeply the gulf between
themselves and the conquered people; and
this policy was not even excusable on the
plea that it was necessary to insure the
safety of the conquest Great as was this
blunder the Spanish government possessed
the capacity to make one still greater
which was the assimilation of men
of Spanish race born in Mexico to
the legal condition of the Mexicans
proper. This led to deep and fierce
antipathy between Spaniards born in
the country and those from Spain, and in
this arose the primary discomfort with the
provincial condition. That fire might have
smouldered for centuries but for q favor
able occasion. Our own war Of indepen-
dence naturally affected q people subject
like US to an oppressive government be-
yond the Atlantic. But the occurrence
of the French Revolution and it's wars, and
the great discussion on the relations
of peoples to rulers, with which the
world was filed at that time, raised
the temper of this excitable people to fever
heat. and when Napoleon upset the Spanish
throne the Mexicans seized the occasion to
make themselves free. They were put down
again, but could not be kept down. Although
between the first revolt and the conquest of
their freedom there passed sixteen years Of
alternate peace and war they were SO little
agreed on primary political ideas that in the
first two years of their independence they
alternated from an emperor to president
And that has been the trouble ever since,
and incapacity to agree among themselves
MS to primary ideas and an alienation from
extremely conservative to extremely liberal
notions, which produces discord and war
whenever personal ambitions foment the dis
content which one extreme feels over the
temporary triumph of the other.
Probably the solution of all the troubles
of the neighboring Republic lies in the de-
velopment of the Mexican people proper
the eventual overwhelming of the Spanish
by the Aztec element. Upon the accession
of the Indian Juarez to the Presidency there
seemed some promise of the initiation of
policy in that direction. but it came to moth
ing, and it is scarcely probable that Diaz
will try it; yet if he is ambitious to found
dynasty it is his only hope.
Our London and Paris Cable Letters.
We suppose the truth about the impend-
ing retirement of Prince Gortschakoff will
be found somewhere between the diff
fering but not wholly irreconcilable
accounts furnished by our London
and Paris correspondents in the admirable
letters which we publish this morning.
The London man says it is because
the aged Chancellor is so sick that he
cannot hold Oh any longer to the post he has
clutched for the past twenty years, while the
Paris man says it is because the old man is
angry that the Gar will not march on Tur-
key at the double quick. One may be
wrong, but by adopting the plan which Mr..
Potts unfolded to Mr.. Pickwick, both may
be right 1t will be recollected that the
Potts plan for arriving at a full COM
prehension of Chinese metaphysics was
for one of his young men to read all
in the Encyclopedias under the letter G,
while the other read all under the
letter NJ, and then sto combine their
information" This process will give
us an imperial old Chancellor, who
is both sick and bclligerent. Q. f. +.
Like Gortschakoff's, ''only more so, are the
rumors that have agitated the Catholic
world about the health of Pope Plus, whom
every correspondent in the world has
brought to deaths door dozen times.
In his case the HERALD correspondent at
Rome came to the rescue of the HERALD
correspondent at Paris, and as n result we
have cough-cured and strain-free Holy
Father looking benignly out of our columns
this morning They combined their infor-
nation. While Gladstone is uttering
Times is grumbling over the growth
of American trade after dinner
on American beef, the London critics are
throwing themselves at the feet Of
English actresses-and admiring them.
The French critics are examining M. Sar-
dou's Dora and finding her like Dumas
Foreign Woman" in certain particulars.
Queen Victoria has been reminded of the
march of years by the coming of nge of her
grandson, future Kaiser of Germany if
present arrangements hold but it will make
good many ancient danes feel young
again to think that Nine Alboni,
who sung when they were little girls,
was not too old to marry last week.
With art, music, Arctic lime juice, mild
weather and epizootic the letters bring us
many items that will delight our readers
Post ONCE Temptations.
If Mr.. Abram S. Hewitt had been a politi