Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-09-18

NEWS FROM MEXICO.

Files of Mexican papers to the Goth OF Au
gust, inclusive, have been received at tie Navy
Department. They contain little OF interest
except the address or manifesto of Genera
Santa Anna to the people of Mexico, dated
the 10Th of August, the day of his landing at
Vera Cruz. It is a paper of some length, a.
bly, and carefully framed, and temperate IN
language and sentiments. ct has been sent
to the department in the ertri form IN which
it was published in the Spanish language. 1t
will make probably more than four columns
of the Union We may, perhaps, publish
it entire.) He commences with sort OF a
poogy for the part which he played, subse-
Quent to 1884, in forcing strong central gov
eminent upon the country, which he a1mlts
did not result in it's quiet or prosperity, and he
attributes to the discomfort OF the people, the
failure to preserve the province of Texas. He
then briefly reviews the conduct of those who
have excessively administered the govern
ment since his exile The aggressions of the
United State were encouraged, he says, by the
perfdv of the cabinet ofGeneral Herrera. Pa
/. redes, he saws, had always been an obstinate
enemy of any popular representative govern
T ment when he heardof his projected revolution
: at San Luis Potosi he hoped that his opinions
had changed but when he saw Paredes's man.
sfesto of adhesion to the plan of St. Luis Poto-
81, he found it to De rather a diatribe against
the independence of the nation, than the pat
motto address of Mexican general seeking in
good faith a remedy for the distresses of his
country; and bis sinister designs were fully
developed BY his act convoking a Congress,
and by the attempts to reconcile the people to
lie idea of a honarchy and foreign prince
He denop1ces and discusses at length the
PROPOSAL fora monarchical form of govern
nent, which he considers absurd and imprac-
tcable He accuses those in favor of a mon
alchy of having, almost in direct manner
povoked tie United States to take possession
OF Texas, and advance an army into the int.
rlor of Mexico, in order that the nation NIGH
be reduced to the alternative of submitting tc
Anglo American, domination, or adopting g
rnonarcfical form of government. 1t was with
tbs view, he says, that in 1874 and 1915
/ Wien they had the control in Congress, they
reused the aid which the existing administra
| thn asked for the purpose of defending thu
: integrity of the national territory.
, He makes no direct or earnest profession o.
az intention to prosecute the war against thu
! Uhted States, and does not speak of this coun
tyin the usual terms of vilifcaton.
Fie CoHcludeS ny dlScidnmInS any ueSlTe
intntion to exercise dictatorial power, ant
: Therefore proposes that the Congress about t.
t be assembled shall be empowered to regulat
all branches of the administration of the gov
; errlnent, and that the provisional executive
entirely under its control. He also recon-
, mends that, until new constitution be pro
t claimed, the constitution of 1924 be adopte
for the internal administration of the depart
ments
Santa Anna left Vera Cruz on the 18th @
August for the city of Mexico. The paper
give no account of his arrival there; but on
of them, the Republican,, complains of thei
waiting his arrival to forward reinforcement
to the army of the north. Santa Anna, it SAYS
), is not the nation; nor is General Taylor
nighf-errant, waiting the arrival of a ne1
champion.