The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1859.

including all the coasts, are in the hands of the
Liberals.

Why, sir, there is scarcely any black population '
in Mexico, and that is confined to the coasts ; not
a black man is to be seen in what is called the
" clergy district." Therefore, if this black popula-
tion swells one of the two partits, it is not evidently
the "Clerical party." The lower classes constitute in
Mexico the great hulk of the population, and it
may safely be asserted that out of the eight millions
of Mexicans upwards of seven belong to those lower
classes which in Mexico, as elsewhere, are the work-
ing classes ; therefore, if the Liberals are in
great numerical majority it is to them and not to
the Miramon party that belongs that large pro,
portion of the lower class which is attributed to the
latter party with a view to throw discredit upon it.
It may also be affirmed that the five provinces out
of the 28 in the Mexican republic over which the
authority of the " Clerical party" is allowed to ex-
tend, contain more population than the whole of
the other 23 ; but even supposing that not to be
the case, the question arises whom do those 23
provinces obey ? No doubt the men calling
themselves the " local authorities" in those pro-
vinces or towns, particularly on the seaboard, do
not obey General Miramon ; but when his troops
appear, and are glad to have a pretext for not obey-
ing, him, what better sounding pretext than " li-
berty," " constitution ?" &c. But it is a great mis-
take to imagine that they obey the Government of
Juarez any more than they obey the Government
of Gen. Miramon, or any further than it suits their
own private interest to obey him. It would be curi-
ous to know, for instance, how much of the money
collected by these local authorities for taxes, or
contributions, or forced loans, and chiefly at the sea-
port towns for custom-house duties, goes to the na-
tional treasury under the Juarez Government.
One of the London paper adds, that with the vast
superiority of the Liberals in point of the extent of
territory it is not surprising that the whole sea-
board should be in their possession. The writer of
the article would find it still less surprising if he
knew that the seaboard is the mulch cow of the
republic, and that those who have the good for-
tune to establish themselves there as local Liberal
authorities can, in the midst of the trouble and
confusion of civil war and anarchy, drink all the
milk with perfect impunity (except for obvious rea-
sons, the part assigned to the foreign debt), by
declaring themselves against General Miramon on
one side, and not troubling tilt it I e les about Juarez
on the other. Suppose Juarez to be victorious one of
these days, those " Liberal local authorities" would
mightily surprise the writer of the article in ques-
tion if he saw them, all of a sudden, turn " Clerical
authorities ;" but they would not surprise those who
are better acquainted with Mexican misfortunes.
And what shall we say of those sections of the
" Liberal" army headed by such generals as General
Pueblita, who wander about the country, entering
the private properties, and helping themselves, sans
futons, to horses, cattle, corn, money—all they can
get, in fact, for the sake of procuring for the coun-
try the enjoyments of "constitutional liberty ?"
Such is, sir, the real state of things in Mexico, one
of the finest countries in the world, at the end of
nearly 40 years of independence, as resulting from
the republican American institutions with which
it has been blessed

I shall close this letter by two or three questions,
which I beg to address to the London papers.
Juarez, it is said, has the great numerical majority,
and rules over 23 provinces out of 28. How is it
that with so much strength he does not crush the
" Clerical party" in 24 hours ?
Again, Juarez's rule extending over 23 provinces
out of 28, and having the great numerical majority,
how is it that he does not proceed to the election of
a President of the Republic, as his constitution re-
quires ? It has already been stated that he cannot
hold power but just the time necessary for that
election.

Lastly, how is it that he does not convoke the
Congress at Vera Cruz, or any of the other pro-
vinces ?

It will not, therefore, be amiss to observe that
Juarez, exercising power in the absence of Congress,
and not being invested by that Congress with dic-
tatorial powers, all his acts, according to the very
constitution he stands for, all his decrees, treaties,
conventions, &c., are null and void.—l remain, sir,
your obedient servant, A MEXICAN.
London, Nov. 25, 1859.