The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-15

High Court Of Justice President and Generals Herrera
and Pacheco his colleagues according to the constitu
army to Queretaro under the command Of General He
rers retaining only about cavalry about his person
there was no money to pay the troops the army has
have met at Queretaro has not assembled. nor has
any provisional government been installed The States
OF Zacatecas, Durango San Luis and Agusscslientes,
have met and chosen PRESIDENT but our means Of
with the interior few and uncertain,
cannot vouch for the correctness Of th. information
ring the past days Of terror when eyewitness
Of the struggle between the two different races The
Mexican soldier Is not such coward his ofcer His
conduct In the beginning Of the ht Is decidedly valor
ous but being unsupported by, and having no conf
has no In the battles Of the month
the guards behaved exceedingly we'll much better than
the troops Of the line severely checking and repusns
General Antonio de Leon from Oaxscs fell at the head
OF his division the 9Th Of this month Colonel Bslde
ras and several other staff officers also fell that day
The last battles the city have been particularly
fatal to the officers At ChspultApeo fell three generals
and five colonies, among the latter a we'll informed
young man from Yuoatsn named Csno and who had
been educated In France and Germany. Notwth-
standing these cases. which may be looked upon
'eptions, the repeated defeats Of tho Mexican tr
mics are caused by the ineficenoy Of their command
ers mere than by the cowsrdoe of the sodiers indeed
cesses would not have been inflicted by very despcbe
Sppos'ng ioree the II 600 troops with which General
IN
ished by $500 dead and wounded.
The American soldier is individually courageous be.
and thus the attack Of large BODY o. them has not that
the force which perfect alone
gives Their tactics wretched and they opposed
by enemy of any determination their personal valor
would not suffice to the miserable deficiency OF
their commanders Every witness OF the late events
who has the least idea Of warfare must be convinced
that General Scott might have gained possession Of the
capital at earlier period and with infinitely sacr
aos II he had attacked the original position of Santa
uharo ho houa kauf lat
prisoner with his whole army The conduct Of the
American troops in Mexico Is now much changed and
not calculated to the violent prejudice with
which they looked upon Contrary their promise
they continue the douane and the impost on tobacco
aSns s 70 sns city shs rsst' are
promenade, they have made the buryng ground for
their dead All the houses that had been deserted by
their owners we're taken possession of by the generals
and Others the broken open the furniture used
and destroyed and everything at all eatabs devoursd
by the soldiers, who esting-morning, noon,
and night their teeth and jaws hard at work Hun
dreds Of drunken parade the streets at night
no ones life is safe In the streets after dark The SOL
ders rob wherever there 10 opportunity and ut the
least resistance they shoot stab their opponent The
eperos invite the American soldier to q drinking bout
are days on which a. many as twelve Americans lose
life in this way. General Scott has demanded 900
pesos as q contribution from the city.
As to the future have hopes; there exists no
government with which tho Americans might even make
show of treating the irritation against Them becomes
daily greater while their number Is too small force
submission to any administration Of their own Nothing
In their power but the point which they occupy Pu-
sbla has been taken by the guerlas who have shame
fully misused tho inhabitants; 1t Is true We learned
last night that General Patterson at tho head
7sn had arrived in that city and driven out the que
believe the Mexcsns will consent to peace, even II
government formed to give the semblancs
have retreat to the coast whore they maintain
themselves with and await the course of event
whole country to the great northern republic is to-
weak to gain Its end General Paredes, who arrived Ii
sn Ss the taking Of tn
been more instrumental in bringing about than himself
communicated to his friends the fact ~ that the Eu
ropean powers were prepared to supply Mexico with
protection and-a king as soon majority of the peo
pie should demand both 1t Is to be expeotsd that &C.
neral Paroles will raise his standard somewhere In
tho interior and proclaim the plan Of Iguaa and the
Of Cordova, but 1t is quite certain that he will
ind but few followers.
American Ideas OF humanity and Justice -
In the battle Of Churubusco they took about 20
ters from their own army who had joined the Msxcans
they could not condemn to DEATH because he had
deserted from them Ia common sodier) before the be-
ginning Of the hostilitiss This branded upon
the forehead and each cheek with large d. and
when the mark one cheek did not appear distinct
enough, General Twggs caused the operation to be
who had not been shot received ATTY stripes each
similar dose being promised them once month for the
had to wait for q whole hour under the gallows thai
they might have the pleasure before their death
ing the American flag flying from the towers Of Chapul
tepec 900 Mexican prisoners shut up In build
ing in which there Is not for them lie down. AM
for ten days no one entered this prison,
the unhappy inmates allowed to leave IL, even on
moment Imagine the condition Of these wretches
guilty Of no crime
From the London Times Nov I31
From the first conception of the scheme for the an
nexstion Of Texas by the government of the United
States a. long ago as the administration Of Genera
Jackson down to the last acts Of violence and boodhst
committed by the American Generals In the course OF
the present horrible war, scarcely incident oc
which has not bssn oresesn and predicted BY
and, at the time denied by the Americans, until
its actual accomplishment rendered all further power
Of negation unsvaing Never was the sophisry OF po
itical passion consistent the sequences
CT events more unnterruptedy pursued by tho policy
Of q nation; and the deepest scheme which has ever
been devised for territorial aggrandisement and mill
tary aggression by the Cabinet OF absolute power
at the head of great army could not have been
systematically carried on than the susug.tion Of Mexico
mocratic republic in the world. We do not, in
deed suppose that this extraordinary enterprise
which may now be said to have beon In course OF
execution for more than twelve years. was deliberately
contemplated and contrved at that distant period by
american 2. Sy the S sS Psopis
Of the American Senate had foreseen all the
qoences Of the annexation OF Texas and had believed
that the year ls47 would see an American army
Cling to maintain itself within the very city OF Mexico
they would have recoed from this long series Of rapa
sna mo-. tn:
innate Of the cost Of the province which they
eager to hlch from neghborng State, even their nm
wish expenditure Of their resources ant
their blood But the solemn prediction Of these dread
full scenes which have sued the character ofthe Unes
States by the revival the passions and evils osnsv
war; disregarded though proceeded from the
eminent writer's and statesmen OF America and though
was re-echoed by the convictions Of every observer
Europe Ten years the Americans affected to deny tn
charge territorial rapscty yet they absttng tn
conversion OF Mexican province to their uses an
they eventually incorporated II with their posses
sions Three years they affected to deny the posS
bty Of war with Mexico, yet the President ordered
troops Of the Union to march into the disputed
ritory the frontier with perfect knowledge tina
| such WAS unprovoked declarations Of war
Last year the to be terminated by few DOM
bats the Rio Grsnde and certain measure was to be
observed towards the Mexican government by their for
midabs adversares but this summer all the horrors o.
war have been inflicted by the American army, the city
Of Vera Cruz has bombarded, the whole country
ovsrrun and Mexico itself occupied The Mexican Re
public 10 completely prostrate and General scott Al
much the master Of the capital as OF Texas itself But
what then Butchery and pilags cannot be the main
objects of any army in day some political purpose
must at least for pretext and the accomplish
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