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Show THE REPUBLIC OP MEXICO. A voyageur, making tho tour of j Mexico, when fairly within tho con ! tines of that country, said : "If this is a specimen of national democracy, j I'll tuko tho rent of initio in an absolute , despotism." Tho gentleman alluded j to was perhaps rash in his conclusion, ; but ho was justified to a great extent in becoming disgusted with such a peo ! pie's self-government. What is Mexico? Simply a hot-j hot-j bed of hot-blooded, tempestuous, in-j in-j considerate, semi-civilized half-breeds and Indians, who, by the force of association as-sociation with the people and institu- lions of the United States, have undertaken under-taken to maintain a government there patterned after our own, whereas they have not the stability nor tho civilization civiliza-tion to mako it, even a respectable mob rendezvous. No wonder that men . who havo lived under the tranquil administration ad-ministration of a monarchy good monarch, mon-arch, become inspired with supreme contempt of republican institutions when such a specimen as Mexico is tho first they encounter ! Living iu a country in wliich, notwithstanding notwith-standing the prescriptive electoral and governmental system wliich may prevail therein, they can at least have tranquility and unmolested industry, indus-try, and hearing glowing accounts of the enhanced prosperity of their fellow-man fellow-man under republican institutions, they visit Mexico, and pronounce the whole theory of self-government a ridiculous i laree. Mankind, especially the ruder por-i I tjoti, must bo constrained to certain limits. If a band of uncultured men, I ' manipulating tho affairs of a race of I ' men, decide that the government over I which they preside shall be anli-mon-, archial. (heir unbridled arrogance, j coupled with ignorance, invariably j leads them to excesses; thoy are governed gov-erned not by reason, by humanity, nor by wisdom, but by their baser passions j alone; aud history furnishes ample . proof' that such men cannot govern ! themselves. Thus Mexico throws a shadow of disgrace over tho only real republic the world has ever had. Aping the fashions and forms of the United States, they have not the intelligence intel-ligence nor the sagacity to cope with it, and it suffers by the association. Mexico indulges in a revolution at every change of the moon. Life is unsafe, property is insecure, and mob-law mob-law generally reigns supreme. Now, republicanism is only superior to other forms of government when it conduces to the better welfare of man, fostering of art and perpetuation of civilization. Neither of these can be credited to Mexico, because she has not within her borders the elements of just government. govern-ment. The murder of Maximilian was the crowning act of her inlamy, and a staiu upon her escutcheon which even the purifying hand of annexation to America can scarcely ever obliterate. Let her establish any political system she chooses, the people will remain the same to the end of tho chapter. The Communists of France were no better they believed not in the existence of God nor the immortality of the soul I Republicanism, associated with intelligence intelli-gence and purity, is a blessing to the earth; elimiuate these principles and it produces chaos and unnoverned lawlessness. lawless-ness. Henri Rifle. |