The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-14
NEWS FROM MEXICO.

Files Of Mexican papers to the Goth of August
inclusive, have been received at the Navy Depart
ment. They contain little of interest except the
address manifesto Of General Santa Ana to the
people of Mexico, dated the 10th of August, the
day of his landing at Vera Cruz. It is paper of
some length, ably and carefully framed and temper
ate in language and sentiments. Ut has been sent
to the department in the extra 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 apology for the part which he played
subsequent to 1884, in forcing strong central gov
eminent upon the country, which he admits did not
result in its quiet 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 successfully administer
ed the government since his exile. The aggressions
of the United States were encouraged, h e says, by
| the perfdy of the cabinet of General Herrera Pa
redes, he says, had always been an obstinate enc
my ofany popular representative government when
he heard of his projected revolution at San Luis Po-
tosi he hoped that his opinions had changed; but
when he saw Paredes's manifesto of adhesion to the
pidii Vi ~ LUIS uC iouHu IL 10 De THtner
datrbe against the independence of the nation, than
the patriotic address of Mexican general seeking in
good faith remedy for the distresses of his country;
and his sinister designs were fully developed by his
act convoking Congress, and by the attempts to
reconcilethe people to the idea of monarchy and
foreign prince.
He denounces and discusses at length the propo.
sal for monarchical form Of government, which he
considers absurd and impracticabe. He accuses
those in favor of monarchy of having, almost in
direct manner, provoked the United States to take
possession Of Texas, and advance army into the
interior of Mexico in order that the nation might he
reduced to the alternative of submitting to Anglo
American domination, or adopting monarchical
form of government. II was with this view, he
says, that in 1874 and ls45, when they had the
control in Congress, they refused the aid which the
existing administration asked for the purpose of
defending the integrity Of the national territory.
He makes no direct earnest profession of an
intention to prosecute the against the United
States, and does not speak Of this country in the
usual terms Of villifcation.
He concludes by disclamng any desire or inten-
ton to exercise dicatoral power, and therefore pro-
poses that the Congress about to be assembled shall
be empowered to regulate all branches of the admin
stration of the government, and that the provision
al executive be entirely under its CONTROL He also
recommends that, until new constitution be pro-
claimed the constitution of 1894 be adopted for the
internal administration Of the departments.
Santa Ana left Vera Cruz on the 18th of August
for the city of Mexico. The papers give no accou mt
Of his arrival there; but of them, the Republics
no, complains of their waiting his arrival to forward
reinforcements the army the north. Santa Ana,
il saws, is not the nation; nor is General Taylor
knight-errant, waiting the arrival Of new cham
pion. ...
An official letter Of General Ampudia, addressed
to the Mexican Secretary Of War, and dated at San
Luis de Potosi, August -, speaks Of the march Of
General GGinss upon Monterey and Ampuda