The Arkansas advocate., 1830-04-21
From 'tae frankt6rt Ksnfuckian.

ernment. where he was placed by tho army, and Guerrero, his predecessor who after an aborti4e attempt at tas, fence, fled from the capital, has resien. ed all pretensions to the presidency. Congress has been assembled, and seems entirely subseryient to the army candj- date and faction. 1t has already declar. ed that Guerrero labored under a nor. al impossibility of governing the repuk. llies7 1t has also gone through the forms of fsitifying the plan of the arnay, z sa.stss the usurpation of Bustamente. A let. ter from Mexico, however, states that the present state of things cannot last. It says the people are all on the other side, and are only kept in subiection through their ignorance and apathy that whenever they see the real characters of the present rulers, they will rise and ef- < feet another revolution.
 According to the best information that can be obtained. it appears that the la.sss l;a.ssss. four Presidents of Mexico have been men entirely destitute of superior talents. Perhaps the quietwithwhichrevolutions have been effected, favors the statement. Pedraza and Guerrero were rival can didates. Pedraza obtained the major. l ity, was declared duly elected and en. tered upon the administration of the gov erninent. Guerrero and his party were dissatisfied, raised force and marched upon the capital and obtained the gov. ernmeHt; and Pedraza, driven from pow CT, remained quiet. In less than year the same parts are reacted. Guefrero is driven from power, resigns, and also remains quiet. in the mean time the nation is amused by hearing the army called the < republican soldiers" The inference from the whole matter is, that the inhabitants of Mexico, as was the case with the inhabitants of France dur ing the revolution, are not able to com. prehend the abstract idea that all pow CT is derived from the people, and is to be exercised for the peoples good. The French nation never doubted but that its government de facto, o,whateyer might be its form, had perfect right to send every citizen wlio opposedit, to the guil- lotine. FfenehneReould only conceive of government as supreme as unres- trietedsaye Ssbyi its own sense ofiastiee.s So in Mexcos revolutions succeed to rev. olutiohs, and the people seem not to con Esider 1t a matterin which they have any concern. Somebody must have the goy- ernment. and the nation looks upon 1t as fair booty to the victor.
 From these views is there any lesson to be drawn which may apply to our own country? There is; ard 1t is this. No nation can be secure in the enjoyment Eof rational liberty which has not an en- frightened population. This doctrine EhasbeenincuEcated by all our statesmen: Iitis inculcated by the failure of every Iattemptwe see made atfree government, Eby nations notenlightened. The rights of man, civil and religious, must be un- I derstood before they can be secured.
 The Nev-York Evening Post publish es letter from Montgomery, Alabama under date of the Sth, inst, written by a respectable citizen of New ' ork now travelling In that part of the country, giving particular account of the deten- ton of the Mail by the Greeks. It took place on the 7th. There were three. passengers in the stage-an Englishman and the two Herr Clines-one of them i the vel known performer on the tight rope. The Indian Chief Tuskenset, rode up to the foremost pair of horses and at tempted to seize the lines. In this he failed, and the carriage coming abreast with him he attempted to stab the driver, but fortunately missed his aim. The driver at that moment sprung from the box, the coach was stopped, and the pass engers got out and began to remonstrate but in vain. At this time Col. Read, who spoke alittle of the Indianlanguagey came up and persuaded the Chiefto wait until an interpreter could be seat for.
 While waiting for the interpreter one of the Clnes incautiously remarked to the driver that the Indian was madman.
 The Chief, on hearing this, darted at Cline and would have killed him oil the the spot had not Col. Read interfered, and succeeded in pacifying him.
 The stage was detained some three CT { four hours, and finally suffered to pro- ceed to the white settlement at Mont gomery, where 1t arrived on Saturday evening. Here the dispositions of the passengers were taken and legal process