The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-05-29
From. Mexico,

From Mexico.
Our last dates from the city of Mexico are up to
the 9Th of May.
Of the Departments.
In Oajaca there was revolt and in attempting
to suppress it, the Government troops have been
worsted 1t is said the spirit of disafection extends
to Tabasco.
The Presidential election begins to excite con-,
siderable interest. It is said there many as
fifteen candidates, but they are not named.
We quote from very sensible article in the
Monitor Republicans of the 9TH instant, on the
subject of the approaching election, showing the
improved condition of things in Mexico, and the
changes which have taken place within few years.
If" says the editor, 1--WE had been told six or
seven years ago, that the approaching election
would be held without the Intervention of the armed
force, nobody would have believed it for with the
exception of one or two Presidents, during the
twenty-six years of our Republican existence, all
the others have been elevated to the Supreme
Magistracy by the sovereign will of the bayonet
The same thing cannot happen at the present day.
There is no longer army to make Presidents.
The influence Of armed bodies is null-the citizens
of the Republic have resumed their rights, and are
about to exercise them for the first time in direct
manner at the approaching election"
"Rehecting little on this change, which for
two years has been going on among us, we shall
before that period people worthy in thousand
ways of better destiny, oppressed and crushed by
those to whom they had confded their defence-at
that time the law of the Mexicans was arms-their
constitution, the will of daring General"
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to their caprice, had no other connection with
society, than that which the conqueror has with
the vanquished people. So that the honored title
of citizen could be nothing else than work of
infamy, if we may be permitted so to express it
We had reached that point of debasement and
degradation, when the energy and rectitude Of
man, who, whatever may be his defects, deserved
our eternal gratitude saved us from the friglttfu
abyss to which we had been conducted by the vile
manners End unbounded ambition of cowardly
and ignorS 1t Generals. Let US pursue the parallel
Three years ago we ysre nothtng--now, we are
ALL Three years ago daring military chief disposed
of the Republic, as if it had been his own patri-
mony. AT this day no man will dare attempt it.
Three years ago the Mexicans were the mere sub
jects Of Dictator to-day they are free and res
pected in the exercise of their hts. Three years
ago the caprice of battalion sufRced to change the
face of the Republic. At this day the battalions
are the defenders OF independence and of freedom.
At that time all employments, without distinction
were occupied by military men-they now filed
by those who are called by the Constitution a~d
the Laws, etc. etc.
The Trait D; Union" French paper published
in Mexico gives sketch Of the report of the com
mission charged with the matter of colonization
In the main their principles are liberal, but they
dare not yet recommend complete religious toera.
ton in favor of emigrants. They are willing tc
allow them to be buried, and something like pri-
cate worship according to their own sect.
The general tone of the Mexican press appear
to us quite cheering to the friends of real progress
and good government. The efforts which are being
made to suppress the spirit of gambling, the besot
ting sin of the Mexicans, as hard drink is of tn
Americans, their bold vndicaton of the press, thei
open denunciation of the military influence, an
their advocacy Of liberal system of public instruc
ton, recommend them to our best sympathies
1t appears that the Legislature of Durango ha
ordered that guides shall be furnished to those VIII
may require them, to those points which formerly
belonged to Mexico, but at this time to the Unite
States of the North.
Funeral honors have been decreed by the Stat
of Jalisco, to Canedo, who was assassinated in Mex
ico No clue to the murderer appears to hav
been discovered. Our readers will remember tina
Canedo was respectable man, who had made
distinguished figure in public affairs, and who, &
the age of seventy, was cruelty murdered Will
sleeping the siesta