The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-06-11
Frosa lie Ns~ Y0sk cOuTisr and Enquirer.
ME1Ico since the Separation from
EDasn.

Mno mas since been compelled 10 abdicate
On favor OF Parailes. The CONCLUDING re.
heellons Of the writer will be read a. this
Time with peculiar interest:
Ser three centuries Spain had con.
slnIed TO reap the ill-gOlien fruits OF the
conquest Of Mexico; millions upon mil
lions OF treasure. exIorIed from an On
pressed people BY acts Of unwarrantabie
desPoilsm, we're freighIed across the Al.
laniie 10 pamPsr she luxurious habits, and
eher'ats The character Of her court and
the nation al large. or all her trans. Al.
lanilc Possessions, This was the richest.
and alIordtd the m &. abundant supply of
precious meiels. a. may appear from The
following table, showing tho whole annu.
al product OF TIE mines Of Spanish Ame-
RIGA at thu close Of the last century:
Mexico. spa. goo 600
Peru, 500 oO0
Chill, 2.t,fo ouO
Buenos Ayres, 4,s5O,OOO
Columbia, 2.gg0 Oo0
BrazIls IPorugese) $4,000
But Spain was destined soon 10 lose
the brightest jewel in her crown, and the
cup OF sorrow which she had so long com.
PEELED her American subjects to drink, was
70 be returned to her own lips with in
creased bitterness. Events in Europe has
tened the terrible but saluiary crisis; the
captivity of the royal family, and the ele-
Vaiion Of Joseph Bonapane To the Spanish
throne, in lsUS, led the way to the COM
piele emancipation OF the colonies from
The yoke OF oppression. Il is not our
purpose to describe at length the rapid Sc
RES OF events that were finally crowned
by this glorious result: our limits forbid
II. Suffice Il to say that general rising
OF the Indian population tiok place in the
month Of September, 1910, with the war
cry OF Death 10 the Gachupins !" Ia
term an sss;.,: :s sos5,ss. .@i ,l.i. G...
steps were marked by horrld excuses.
In every place they passed through, all
the European Spaniards that fell into
their HANDS were summarily massacred.
Within few days after the revolt, the In
dams had mustered force Of 10000 men,
and marching al once against the popo-
Ions and wealthy city OF Guanaxuaio: il
was speedily taken, and their leader, Hi
dalao, secured FIVE millions of dollars, be-
sides the vast amount Of plumber which
fell into the hands Of his followers, who
sacked the city and slaughtered all the
y an, ards found in il. The sacking of
the city continued for three days, and the
pIunderers were loaded with doubloons,
dollars. and ingnts of gold and silver
Toe precious metals were found in some
private houses as we'll as in the public
buildings, piled in vast heaps.
Such was the beginning of that awful
retribution which now awaited the mlser-
able Spaniards Throughout, Mexico-com-
PEELED at las. to d!sgorge to some extent
their i'll cotton treasures, wrnng from the
blood and sweat of the poor Indians, and
paying by the forfei, of their lives for the
naughty lisdain and tyrsanical oppression
they had so long exercised towards the
natives Of the country. TWAS not, how
ever. until the struggle had been contin-
ued for several years with various sue
cess, that the united forces Of the Gre
oles, Indians, and mixed races, succeeded
in roofing cut every remnant Of Spanish
authority, whose last foothold was the
strong fortress of 81. Juan de Ulloa, in
a the harbor of Vera Cruz. On the 2sth
4 If February, 1921, plan of national
independence was declared a. lnguala,
which defined the government TO he
limited monarchy and provided for the
establishment, OF general Congress, OF
: Cortes, by whom a constitution was 10 be
5 framed. 1t is well known that Gen. ltur'
brle. native Mexican, was made Empe'
: ror soon after the date of this declaration
or, as il is called. Plan Of lnguala, ant
that his power was of short duration
Seated on the throne of Monlezumas, tht
= frs, native monarch since the overthrow
of the ancient dinas,y. lturbide, forgetting
:, tina, his sudden elevation from the ranks
, of the people, surrounded with none o
that false prestige in the eyes OF his cub
iecss, which is the creates. security OF
throne. began his reign with all the air
of hereditary royalty, which soon led T.
IS his deposition, and in the end to an igno
n minious death, as traitor to bis coun
ID try.
,fI The fall of the constitutional monarc'
r was succeeded by the adoption oil fede
= raj form of government. based on tina.
st the Uu,ed States, although differing fror
it in some important respects. THIS wa
framed by new congress. elected Immt
4 diately after the deposition of lsurbld'
s. and was sworn to at the capital IN Octe
Der, 1924. amid the rejoicing Of 'he pee