Year: 1869

family of nations she has become trouble
some subject, fit only for the House of
Correction or humane and competent
guardian. Are the immense material
resources Of that fine country, mineral, agri-
cultural and manufacturing, to continue as so
much solid capital lying waste because, for
sooth, all this is none Of our businessa In
Mexico we have spectacle Of chronic
anarchy and its demoralizations without
parallel-the spectacle Of q new country, with
a genial climate and mines and lands yielding
the products Of every zone, remaining nearly
stationary for fifty years on a sparse popula-
ton (some seven or eight millions), not equal
to one-tenth Of the country's capabilities.
Such spectacle is a scandal to the civilized
world, and especially to the United States,
after assuming against European protec-
torates the guardianship over the country
under the Monroe doctrine.


But what is to be done? What can we do
with Mexico under the doctrine of non-inter-
vention? We can do more than we could do
with the Cheyenne and Comanche Indians
under the same fallacy. But we must do some
thing Had the policy been adopted which
was suggested by General Sheridan and very
broadly limited at by General Grant shortly
after the collapse of the late Southern c0nfed-
eracy the Mexican problem would to-day have
been reduced to a mere question of territorial
governments for the several States Of the alb
sorbed republic. But Andy Johnson and his
timorous and temporizing Secretary OF
State, when they should have been set
Ting the Mexican problem, were dab
bling in the Esquimaux, the icebergs and
white bears of Alaska and in the
combustible island of st. Thomas. General
Scott, too, in his day, lost fine opportunity
in refusing the offer Of the whole Of Mexico as
free gift, with million Of dollars for his
salary as Captain General but he had the
plausible excuse that under our constitution Of
that time the Mexican people could not be fused
with Ours on the Mexican basis Of equal rights
to niggers.


Now the coast is clear and the occasion is
evidently ripening for the trial of General
Grants policy. If General Rosecrans is doing
nothing II is, no doubt, because his instructions
from the State Department amount to nothing.
But suppose under General Grant the Mexican
difficulty is solved by annexation, can we stop
there? BY no means. We cannot safely per-
init any Of the isthmus transit routes from
ocean to ocean, between Tehuantepec and
Darien, to fall into the hands Of England or
France. They are all necessary to us to secure
the command not only Of the Pacific Ocean and
the trade of Eastern Asia, but of the Gulf of
Mexico. Nor is this mere boastfnl and noisy
blowing of the American trumpet. These
things are among the coming events fore
shadowed in the rapidly expanding power and
public opinion Of the United States. We look
to General Grant, therefore, for the compre-
hensive American policy suggested, and we
are satisfied that, in properly carrying out
this programme, instead of incurring any addi-
tions to our national debt we shall gain the
resources for its easy and early extinction.
Such are our reflections upon this Mexican
news and our conclusions concerning the paci-
fication Of Mexico under General Grants ad-
ministration.


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