The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-13
Present SIC d Mexioo.

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The effect which we long ago predicted would
he the result Of the treaty 81 Guadalupe is almost
accomplished and if it has not already taken place,
cannot be long deferred L will be recollected
that we opposed the Trist treaty because we con
sidered that it gave us no reason to hope for con-
tnued peace but rather contained within itself the
causes which would lead to a renewal of the war
We do not claim any credit for sagacity, should
our opinion prove to have been correct, for any
attentive examination Of Mexican politics and
parties would have led any one the same conclu-
sion. We said that no sooner would the American
army be Withdrawn than the administration would
find subjected to the attacks of all the factions
which distract the country each eager to grasp the
reins of government This has already occurred
and before the Vera Cruzan coast has reechoed
TO the last footsteps of our retiring army the stand
ard of revolution raised, and the country resounds
to pronuacidmientos and gritos. The pretext for
insurrecton is opposition to the treaty, and the war
cry, " Death to the North Americans :" In the
expression of these sentiments all parties jon with
the exception of that actually in power. The fede-
raliss or democrats the monarchsts and the priests
have all combined to overthrow the government of
Herrera Should they not be able to succeed alone,
they have another resource, which, although ter
rble one to contemplate, they will not hesitate to
resort TO. The Indian population is ripe for revolt
The hereditary hatred of more than three hundred
years, though long slumbering, still exists, and the
flame which has already been lighted in Yueatan
needs but little encouragement to make it spread
into the adjacent Mexican territory 1t is this pow
erful feeling Of hatred to the white race which will
he used by the ambitious factions to aid them in
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ing which caused the overthrow Of the Spanish
domination. That revolution, however, although
accomplished by the Indians, brought them no
benefit; it but delivered them to slavery, under
different masters, and by different name.
Through the long series of domestic revolutions
which has interviewed since that time, they have
always been the sufferers never the gamers.
Conscious Of their own strength, they now stand
ready, at a moments warning, to deliver them
selves from their oppressOrs They will seize the
earliest opportunity, which will be presented when
some INSCRIPTIONS chefain, DESTROYS of elevating
himself to power, socits their aid TO the accom-
plishment of his design We have good reason to
believe that such is the intention of Paroles and
Jarauta in fact, they have already called upon the
revolted Indians of the Sierra to rally round their
standard As yet they have met with little sue
cess in the attempt, because they have not tried to
excite war of castles but soon as they do this,
the indigenous population will be re-animated by
the spirit of Morelos and Eidalgo. A flame will
then be kinded which cannot be extinguished until
every European be swept from the soil of Mexico,
or till the United States nterpose to avert the threat
ened destruction Of the white race. To this, we
believe, Thrust come at last. The course of events
is manifest and inevitable, and may be regarded as
the legitimate offspring of the treaty of Guadalupe.
Worn out by civil commotion exhausted by the
fierce contests of revolutionary factions, Mexico
must necessarily come under the dominion of a
race more capable and willing to calm the tempest
uous passions of the people, and deveIope the re-
sources of the country, than that which now rules
and ruins it.