Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-03
From The American Statesman.
Interesting Letter.

'o'S toiNN w hhbIo CIV III tiC CuPhOiJ ~ |
Mexican Consul. He edited, while here, a
Spanish paper called the Ell Noticioso de Am
Dos Mundos. About a year ago he returned
to Mexico. 1t is supposed that he was a
sort of secret agent Of his Government, and
had a constant correspondence with Santa
Anna and Almonte. The letter shows that
the Mexicans had long expected a war with
the United States. 1t was written after the |
battle of Cerro Gordo, and got into the pos.
session Of a gentleman residing in Montgom-
cry county, Alabama. 1t was sent 20 the
New York Herald, and first published in that
paper. 1t will be read with interest:
New YoRK, May 9TH, 1914.
To his ErceHency The President, Gen. Don
.Antonio Lopez de Santa .4nna:
My MUCH VENERATED Sir: OF course
you have been duly informed of the condi-
ton of affairs in this country by Gen. AL
monte, and thus it would be superfuous for
me to say anything on that subject. My OBJ
iect now is solely to call the attention Of
your Excellency to the articles which have
been written lately in Ell Noticioso de Ambos
Mundos, not for what they are worth, but
because all | say in them is the pure truth;
and on this account they afford material for
serious reflection.
In order to know this country it is neces-
sary to be here many years, study it we'll in
all its aspects, undergo many vicissitudes,
and experience difficulties. Thus it Is that
travellers who have written about this coun-
try have only written nonsense. General
Almonte himself, with all his knowledge of
this people, can continually pick up facts
which had before escaped his notice; and I,
myself, am also learning something new a.
bout them every day.
From all that | have been able to observe,
| have obtained the thorough conviction that
this is an enterprising nation, full of energy,
which borders more on rashness than on true
courage, ambitious without bounds. and uni
ting to a childish presumption a want of all
fixed principles of Justice. The blind vani-
ty with which they are possessed causes
them to regard all other nations, and especi-
ally our race, with the greatest contempt: and
it will be only by means of some hard les
sons that reason can be knocked into these
men,, whose understandings are so far astray
in consequence of never having know adver-
sity: and in my opinion no one can learn
them these lessons better than Mexico.
To do this, it is only necessary to prepare
yourself TO maintain an endless war against
this country. The Russians burnt Moscow
and saved the empire. Moscow is now
fourishing, and Napoleon terminated his days
sadly at ST. Helena. Let the people retire
from the coasts with all their cattle and eff
fects; and let them guard the mountain pas
ses, continually surprising from thence those
who dare to land on the shores, and the eli
mate will do the rest. Let them arm the In
dams who have been thrust out on our from
tiers by these people in the most peTfidious
and barbarOus manner; arm, also, the negroes
promising them lands from those which they
conquer; proclaim, also the abolition of slave
ry, and let an army of twenty thousand reg
ular troops he planted in Texas, to sustain the
movements of the auxiliary troops, who will
act as guerrllas; let both these forces retire
to safe positions whenever the enemy adj
vance in large numbers, merely endeavoring
to fatigue them by continual marches and
co~untermarches, and then falling on them in
all security when they are thoroughly tired
out, and completely exhausted by hunger and
thirst.
Finally, in order to accomplish all this,
there is no necessity for going hastily to
. work, but we can initiate the example OF Fa-
: bus The Tsrdy, acting with the same vigil
ance that the famous Roman Consul obser-
: we'd, so that the Mexican army may be pre-
I served intact, and the war may last as long
8 as the one between the Spaniards and Moors,
whilst our privateers are securing every sea,
> and annihilating the American commerce;
i and ] will forfeit my head if they do not, on
their knees, beg a peace from Mexico before
n six years have passed, allowing her to die.
tate the conditions; for il is not killing men
which will alarm this people, but the ex-
. penses and costs which they are put to.
Beyond this, it is necessary to recollee,
o that war can also be made with the pen now
adays, and a manifesto on the part of Mexi.
CO, published in three languages Spanish,
v English, and French,) would attract towards
n her much sympathy, particularly from the
Abolitionists in all parts of the world, who
are now numerous, strong, and active; fol
which it will be necessary to settle all small
questions with the rest of the world, even
4 making temporary concessions, not perpetu-
# al ones. When these Northern and Eastern
a States see that the war is going to be a long
one, that they have TO contribute much, that
g their IN is ruined, and their funds oil
n credit Frustrated, they will soon raise the cry
against the Southern States, and an issue will
be raised which will only end with the u
Mon, and leave the Southern States alone
i And how the rest of the nations will rejoice
in the humbling of the United States! And
what glory for Mexico in being the one who
''belled the cat!'
Would your Excellency believe that, in
the contempt with which they regard Mexi'
CO, it has never occurred to these people thai
you have taken any of these measures, oil
l. would take them, until have alluded to ii ir
J. my articles. The mere hint that threw out
that Mexico, in her despair, would sell thu
CALIFORNIA; to a powerful nation, has alarmed
them in a most inexplicable manner, suppo
sing that this country is England. That ar
a iicle, which you will see in Ell N0ticiOso o
the Goth of April, was like a rocket in ava
king them, and Immediately it was copieC
; by all The opposition papers; and, withou
vanity, | must say tina. on this account, ma