The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

tenalue of that au stein ; or that, wearied by its.struggle
to conquer its lib erty', the nation sighs for European
masters, or for ar.ything else than the peace which alone
it wants. Erroneous, most erroneous is this idea. In
the efforts of t'ne nation to emancipate itself from the
power otthe few, who, in good or bad faith, have en-
deavoured to rule it in their own way, its democratic ten-
dencies have acquired such a degree of intensity and
energy that to expose them, to attempt to destroy the
hopes to which they give birth, by a project such as that
advanced, would be to provoke a desperate measure ; to
endeavour to cure an evil by the means calculated to ex-
asperate h. Fascinated by the example of a nation not
.yet a century old, and which under its own government
has attained a degree of prosperity and advantages so
enjoyediby those of the old world notwithstanding their
antiquity, and the slow progress of their political sys-
tems, our republic aspires only to the management of its
own affairs, either by itself or through representatives
in whom it has confidence, in order to develop the vast
resources of power and wealth in its bosom.
This being therefore its dominant, its absorbing idea,
it would have resisted the other plan with all its might ;
and if an attempt had been made to change its direction
by the employment of foreign bayonets, it would have
flown to arms, and war would have burst forth through-
out its immense territory, renewing even more disas-
trously the bloody scenes of 1820, and the succeeding.
years. From such a state of things, the Anglo-Ameri-
can race would have derived great advantage for the
progress of its ambitious scheme, or for forming a new
republic from our interior departments, by exciting their
sympathies and gratitude for the services rendered them
in repelling a project no less injurious to itself. This
tendency, which has been excited in some departments
by disappointment from not obtaining provincial liber-
ties, which they desired, would have become general
throughout all ; and no force would have been able to
restrain them from carrying such views into effect.
On the other hand, the republic being composed for
the most part of young men, who have no knowledge of
the past, except from the sinister accounts of their
fathers, and who, educated with republican ideas, rely
with confidence on a Government eminently popular to
lead their country to prosperity and greatness--where
are the internal supports on which the monarchy pre-
sented as the means of our salvation can be founded ?
That which was has disappeared. Habits of passive obe-
dience no longer exist ; and if there remains a sentiment
of religion, time has undermined the political power of
. the directors of consciences. An influential aristocracy,
t, so necessary for the permanence of monarchies such as
. exist in old Europe, the only proper place for institu-
. Lions of that class, is not to be found, nor can it ever be

organised here. In Europe, the misery of v the
great mass of the overloaded population, which
depends on its own labour to obtain what is
strictly and merely necessary for its subsistence,
in the midst of an industry which is so severely
tasked, allows no time to the people to think of their po-
litical rights, nor means to free themselves from the

tyranny of the patrician families, on which they depend,
all the landed property being in their hands. But no
well state of things can be found' in the republic ; in
which all is uncultivated, virgin, rich, and fruitful, offer-
ing to man, in the utmost abundance, and with the
greatest facility, all that he can ask for his labour, all
that can lead to that individual independence which
favours the development of democratic instincts.
These difficulties being, therefore, of such a nature as
to render nearly impossible the establishment of monar-
chy in our country, attempts have been made, in order
to overcome them, to throw the affairs of the republic
into the greatest disorder, preventing the organisation of
its Government within, and aggravating the most serious
question of our northern frontiers with another nation.
In this manner the faction which fostered that para-
cidal project having attained the first of its endslby many
years of artifices and manceuvering, next proposed to
carry the second into effect, by provoking, in a manner
almost direct, the Government of the United States to
aggrandise itself - by taking our rich department of
rexas, and then advancing into the very heart of our
country. To involve our people in the evils of a fearful
invasion has been the last resource, in order to force
them to accept its painful alternative ; obliging them to
become the prey of Anglo-American ambition, or to fly,
for the safety of their national existence, to monarchi-
cal forms under a European Prince.
For this object it was that this party, having the con-
trol of the Chambers of 1844-45, refused to the Govern-
ment of that period the appropriations which it asked
for maintaining the integrity of the national territory,
already seriously jeopardised, It did more, it raised up
a revolution, in which the slender allowance made to the

Government for that object, on its urgent demands, were
unblushingly declared to be suppressed ; and on its
triumph, it scattered the means collected for the war, and
hastened to recognise the independence of Texas. The
chief of this revolution, who has always acted under the
influence of his own fatal inspirations, then appeared
again in insurrection at San Luis Potosi, with the force
destined for the defence of the frontier ; and withdraw-
ing that force to the capital of the republic, he there
iurte
his
sethietesmureor
.3uroopweearn, 4 began to put in opera-
tionintervention in our interior
administration, whilst the hosts of Anglo-Americans
were advancing to take possession, even of the banks of
the Rio Bravo. Having at his disposal considerable
forces in the capital and the adjoining departments, he
allowed the enemy time to advance, without resistance,
through our territory, and at length—most tardily—he
sent to Matamoros a small body of troops, needy and
unprovided with anything necessary for conducting the
campaign with success. Who can fail to see, in these
perfidious manoeuvres, the bastard desigrs of attracting
these forces of the enemy to our central territories, in
order there to propose to us, in the midst of the conflicts
of war, as the only means of safety, the subjection of the
republic to servitude, the ignominy of the country, the
revival of the plan of Iguain—in fine, to return to the
government of the viceroys.
With this object, and for this fatal moment, which
every means was employed to hasten, was a Congress
assembled, chosen, for the purpose, composed only of
representatives of certain determined classes, forming
even a sixth of our population, and elected in a manner,
perfidiously arranged, to secure a number of voices suf-
ficient to place the seal of opprobrium on the nation.
Leaving with scarcely a single representative the great
majority of the nation, the eleven bishops of our dio-
ceses were declared deputies, and our ecclesiastical ca-
bildos were authorised to elect nine others on their parts,
giving to the'bishopsithe faculty ofappointing such proxies
as they might choose, to take their places in case they
should net find it convenient to attend in person. Does
not this prove abundantly that a decided endeavour was
made to supplant the will of the nation, in order to give
some species of authority to this scheme for European
intervention in the settlement of internal affairs?
The protestations of republican sentiments, made by
General Paredes, after thesy irrefragable proofs so fully
condemning him, were only new acts of perfidy intended
to tranquillise the republic, to set its suspicions at rest,
and to arrange the occasion for carrying into effect
his base designs. He uttered these protestations in
the middle of March last, when he saw the public
discontent manifest itself against his power and plans.
But what followed? Did he not continue to protect the
Tiempo, a newspaper established in the capital itself, for
the sole object of rendering republican forms odious, and
recommending the necessity of a monarchy; advancing
every argument which could be supposed calculated to
lead astray the good senses of the nation? Did he con-
vene another popular Congress? Did he retract the
summons which he issued in January, placing the fate
of the nation at the mercy of the few men who remain
among us of the old regime? Everything continued in
the same way, and when the press was prohibited from
discussing forms of Government, it was in order to give
an amnesty to the writers in favour of monarchy, who
were then prosecuted by the judicial power, and to en-
courage them to continue their criminal publications
while silence was imposed on the defenders of the re-
publican system. Meanwhile he hastened by every
means in his power the assemblage of the Congress
destined to carry into effect his monarchical plan; he con-
centrated his forces in order to suppress all movements
on the part of the people, alarmed by the near approach
of such an unpropituous event; abandoning our frontier
to the invaders, or rather surrendering them to the
foreign enemy, by the reverses which he had prepared
and arranged at Pala Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
No, Mexicans! let there be no compromises with a
party a hose conduct has been a tissue of cruel treachery
towards our country ; have nothing to do with it, how-
esti r flattering be its promises, and whatsoever the forms
with which it may in future invest itself.
In the last convulsions of its agony, it sought to assure
its safety by its accusto:ned manoeuvres. It proclaimed
principles which it detested. It allied itself with bastard
republicans, and exhibited itself as the friend of liberty,
in order, by that means, to avoid its just punishment, to
maintain itself in power, and to continue to determine the
edifice cemented by the illustrious blood of the Hidalgos
and Morelos.
The fraudulent schemes of the enemies of our country
being thus unfolded, and the true source of its mis-
fortunes being laid open to all, the radical remedy of the
whole evil consists in putting an end for ever to the
ruinous control of minorities, by calling on the nation
honestly to fix its own destiny, and to secure its terri-
tory, its honour, and its welfare. Thus placed in
entire liberty to act, as it should be, in the midst of the
discussions carried on by the press, in the tribune, and
even in the streets and squares, it will take into
consideration the evils which surround it, and seek the
means of resisting them; and satisfied in its desired mi-
tress of its own fate, it will display the energy peculiar
to a free people, will prove equal to the conflicts in which
it is to be engaged, and will come out of them, not only
honourably, but, moreover, entirely regenerated. In
this way the administration established, resting on, and
springing from public opinion, may display all its or-
ganised forces to maintain its territory, instead of guar.
tering them in the central towns, as hitherto, under a
Government created by seditious movements, constantly
at war with the nation, and occupied solely in endea-
vouring to save itself, without regard for our external
dangers.
Fellow countrymen, never has the situation of the re-
public been so difficult as at present. Its national existence
threatened on one side, on the other an attempt has been
made to subject it to the hardest of all lots, to European
dominion. Such is the abyss to which we have been
brought by the endeavour to govern our young society ac-
cording to the system adopted in the old. This is the true
cause of the lon,, struggle in which we have been engaged
which has weakened our forces, and by which the inte-
rests of the majority have been sacrificed to the extra-
vagant pretensions of a small minority. This state of
things must be ended, in compliance with the wishes of
the nation ; and, by opposing to the former the union of
republicans of true faith, the concert of the army and the
people. By this union we shall conquer the independ-
ence of our country; thus united, we shall confirm it by
establishing peace on the solid basis of public liberty ;
thus united, we shall preserve the integrity of our im-
mense territory.
But now, with regard to the plan proposed for the
revolution, it is my honour and my duty to observe,
that by limiting the • Congress therein proclaimed