The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-03-18
Santa Annals Letter on the SUBJ
iect of Church Property.

translates the following leltel lloAll O"h'"
ma to Senior Rejon. 1t manitests Santa Ans
mas opinion on the sale and hypothecation OF
the church property.
SAN LUIS PoTosI, Jan. I'd, 1S47.
"lEy Dear Friend Il have received your
favor of the 3Oth ultimo and am informed
with satisfaction of its contents, for the feel
ING of affection in it as well as for the decis-
ion to cooperate in furnishing resources to
the army, to whom the national defence is
confded
Ihave examined, with attenton,th means
which you propose to me, and really,l believe
there is no other resource left to furnish the
Government with the money SO urgently ne
( ce sary to sustain the independence so dan
gerously menaced by the ambition of our
neighborine Republic. A
A loan OF 90, 1000, 900, with the hypotheca-
ton Of the church property, is the only thing
which-at the present moment, should be dis
cussed in Congress; any other subject which
should be taken up now must remain unde-
cided for we have no time to lose. Ii is not
! a new affair, that the clergy should contrib
| ute out gifts property to the expenses of the
nation. In Spain, which is quite a religious
country, in that terrible epoch in which it was
attacked by the gigantic power OF Bonaparte,
the Spanish Clergy were seen, among other
numerous acts of true patriotism, to present
voluntarily even the sacred vases, to assist the
strength and need of the soldiers who sacrl-
| feed themselves for the independence Of their
beloved country
have also had my prejudices on this sub
.ject. For ten years have resisted, with all
my strength, the passage of any measure a
gainst the property ofthe clergy, and ! have
even minated several times TO the Cabinet,
that I would sooner consent that my hand
should be cut off than sign decree to dispose
of such property, but at that time circumsan-
ccs were entirely different from what they
are now the nation had then more or less
resources more or less means Of raising tandS
it was not as it is now, the fountains of our
treasury we're not exhausted, and cur nation
never found itself in the sad situation which
is now manifested, sustaining an unequal con-
test with republic that sacrifices all i'll order
to carry on the war, which is provoked in or
der to hunHiaie us, and rob US Of our country,
OF two thirds OF our valuable territory,
Under these circumstances, and for such
consideration, do not oppose any longer the
proposition to raise a loan by the means pro-
posed lately, if it should agree with the will Of
the august Congress. will sustain and sup
port it, as ! believe It the most practicable
mode ofrealizing the sum required, and that
the clcrgy'S property will be better insured,
and have no further charges to fear here
after.
lam in despair at this very moment for it
is now the I'd day Of the month, and the diff
ferent chiefs are almost mad, looking after
provisions for their men. And still there are
some writer's who will inquire, why our army
does not move.
This express has no other object than to
make known our sad condition, and if tn c
government does not send quick supplies,
cannot shy how this will end.
Try to g.tinformation as to the manifest
alton sent to-day to the Congress.
I enclose to you a petition, which adj
lrcss to the legislative h1dv, for permission
md for the means of advancing the army,
you to place it in the hands
IF the ministers, in order that it may obtain
success.
Wishing your health I am your friend and
ob'dt sev't,
'ANTONIALOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA"
BEST DEFINITION OF DRUNKARp YET. !
At a recent session Of the court, held at Brook
yn,a prisonerwas ARA gned for getting drunk c
number of witnesses had been examined 4
rot along very comfortably. At last Young !
woman was called nron the stand, who gave
A very intelligent and straitforward story, 10 G
much 80, that she was at once mal kcd, by the t
defendants counsel as very important wit
less. Upon cross examination, she was asked =
~ the lawyer how she knew the man WAS
Trunk, and when according to her notion C
he considered man drunk She straitcned
Up at least six inches in her shoes, and look
ng the lawyer straight in the eye, said she, q
Sir, | should call a man drunk when he r
ould'nt walk straight when he couldn't talk v
traight, and when he used his shirt bosom for ,
d" spit-box. ~ Z. arena.
ANDRoscoGGN AND KENNEBEC RAIL h
'oAD. Mr.. Appleton the engineer employ P
d in making the survey on this contemplated c
Dad, arrived with part OF his corps, as far as c
Winthrop village last Monday. lie reports !,
very favorable chance for constructing a II
Dad thus far. The distance on the line thus v
lrveyed from the junction with the Atlantic p
nd Montreal road at Danyille, to Winthrop, o
26 mlles.-Dfaine Farmer. u u
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. We regret TO ~
.arn that fatal accident bcfcl Mr.. Austin G,
'arnes, of Bakersfield, on the 23d ut. 1t f:
ppcars that while cutting down some forest
'ccs one lodged in an other, & in attempting =,
, disloIge it Il limb broke of and was thrown c,
,me distance, and unfortunately struck Mr. til
. which is supposed to have killed him in pc
antly, Not returning TO his house at noon,
G was anXiously sought for, as night APP n,
and found manglcd corpse by her, 81
no three short months before stood with him
the bridal altar Surely, the ways of God -
re mysterious and "dcath comes in an hour
hen we least think of"-Mes$enger. m
STATIsrICs.-A distinguished Jurist oftMs T.
tate says, that after careful estimate he ia
und that of all tavern keepers and rum sell
rs in this State during the last forty years,
ore than two thirds ofthem have died drunk