The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-13
War with Mexico.

Tho whole course OF the Fraudulent Adj
ministration for more than a year past JUS
titles the belief that the policy OF a war with
Mexico has been fully determined on. The
authors Of such Il scheme are not likely to
show their hands to the public, and there
are always convenient methods Of making
denials without responsibility. But for
nal contradiction Of the imputed purpose
would have no weight with the country
after the receptions that have. been prac-
tised upon it by HAYES and his Cabinet.
The consciousness Of holding Office by a
barefaced fraud, consummated by perjury
forgery, and other kindred crimes, has
necessarily deprived the Administration of
all general confidence or respect Super
added to that dead weight. the weakness
of those who compose it has disguised
the people and left the concern with
out any friends in Congress, except the
trading patriots, who can always he bought
with patronage. The rewards paid to the
conspirators who organized the Fraud, and
TO their creatures in Louisiana and Florida,
who executed the orders OF their employers,
have brought into worse than contempt the
canting professions with which HAYES,
EvARTs. and SCHURZ started out
without a party, without friends and
without sympathy, the condition Of the Adj
ministration is without example in our his
tory, as its origin OF fraud is also without
precedent. While HAYES is permitted to enjoy
the honor Of playing President, Of dispens-
ing patronage, OF paradlng his mediocrity
before curious crowds, and of pocketing fifty
thousand year for salary, he is perfectly
nj ind 10 pit al ,i
holding place to which he was not elected
His vanity and his greed OF gain are salts
fed in being let alone. Having no future
he is content with the present.
Mr. EvARTs has an intense ambition to be
President and this renders him utterly blind
TO the existing situation. Because he car
sign himself Secretary of State, and Is
recognized in the conduct OF the foreign re-
lations, he affects to Ignore the crime by
which he attained this station and attempts
TO play Premier II there were no brand on
his brow visible to all the world, and even tc
aspire to still higher honor. lie thinks a
foreign war popular, even though mad,
against weak and friendly neighbor, anC
that the prospect of acquiring territory vii
always excite the lust Of II large class in tn,
United States irrespective of party
With million or moro of unemployed
hands, and another million working on hal
time; with distress prevailing in all TIN
great cities, and an outlook by no mean
cheerful, Mr. EyARTs thinks there is CRANE
opportunity to make his scheme successful
With war once declared, and the war spirI
stirred among our idle population, read
for adventure Of any kind; with contract
and jobs to excite the cupidty of politicians
and favors TO be distributed for politica
support, he dreams that conflict wit
Mexico now would rouse the old spirit tina
was called out thirty years ago, when TAl
LoR and ScoTr led conquoring hosts to tn
"halls Of the Montczumas," and were gla
10 purchase treaty subsequently at a cos
OF many millions.
Entertaining tnis Idea, the rTncsof SHAE
TEB. BULLS. and others into Mexico durin