Mexico and the North.
We have already expressed the opinion that the consent of Mexico to the passage of Northern troops for the purpose of invading the South is a matter of no practical importance. That it was given, as assorted in the Northern papers, ‘"without qualifications or conditions of any kind, although such were tendered,"’ we do not believe. We rather incline to give credence to the suggestion that Mr. Corwin, the United States Minister to Mexico, promised the Mexican Government, as a consideration for its grant of the right of way, the restoration of Texas to the Mexican Republic. If so, Mr. Corwin like some other people, has been very liberal with that which did not belong to him, and which he has neither the right nor the ability to give. Texas achieved her independence of Mexico by her own strong right arm, and she is not less able to maintain it as a member of the Southern Confederacy than when her ‘"Lone Star,"’ without a friend or ally, floated in triumph over her colossal adversary. Of course, the act of Mexico, in granting permission for Northern troops to pass over her soil for the purpose of invading the Southern Republic, is a hostile act, and one which will, sooner or later, secure its just retribution. The protectorate which England and France, according to rumor, extend over Mexico, cannot possibly give her immunity under the law of nations to commit any violation of good faith and breach of the peace towards her neighbors which she may be inclined to perpetrate. She will be held to a rigid account for her conduct. The Southern Confederacy has no filibustering policy or passions; it has territory enough to satisfy all its wants, but it has also rights which must be respected, and the violation of which by Mexico may end in the readjustment of the Southern boundary, but not in the manner which Mexico expects.
