New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-25
Affairs on the Rio del Norte.
Correspondence OF TIE N. Tribune.
EAGLE Pass, Rio del Norte, Nov 20. Il

EAGLE Pass. Rio del Norse, Nov. 20. 1881
The end IS not yet You have almost
forgotten by this time that there has lately bees
one of the periodical outbreaks Of military mis-
rule in Mexico, aud think. perhaps. that m OUT
eting CaryaJal the revolution is dead and the Sc
cesslon fever cured. Not at all It has not yet
fairly come up to the action poini-but 1t will
come to that before many months and that be
fore there can be law and order, or the hope Of
law and order, in this region OF crime and anaT-
chy.
The whole country this side Of the Sierra Ma
Dire s memorable IN Its contempt and deteststioa
of the Central Government few of the rich'
est and most corrupt OF the priesthood, few
more of the great landhoders, maintain from
interested motives their attachment to the sol
dier-despotism of Mexico. the priests, because
their exhOrbtant fees are secured to them ny
the laws natural to this unholy union OF Church
and State, and because they are upheld In their
luxurious and riotouS debaucheries by their
equally corrupt military compeers' the land
holders. because It is the stay OF their grinding
peon SYSTEM the most debasng Servitudc on this
continent and more cruelty enforced on the fost
| system of bondage can be made 10 bear ON the
| Africans: the enormous untaxed and-monop
oly which enables the owner OF two or three
| hundred square miles TO dictate the terms on
which the homeless, starving poor man may
| toll out his life and which reduces the laborer
| 10 sell out his blood and slnews, his mortal lie
| and his immortal hopes for the meanest shelter
and the scantiest plttance which will hold their
| existence together. Noble Brotherhood OF the
| Union well did gifted member OF your glorious
order say of corrupt governments As Free-
| dom. Home and Instruction make the sublime r'n-
tv Of political good so IS Supifude, Desttutor and
Ignorance the emil trinity Of political debssement'
Each order of the Mexican state, as II now ex.
| lists, Is eager TO sustain the dominion OF the EVIL
trinity. They are the pillars OF this temple oil
wrong now tOttering to It's foundation Inc
military power ques liberty and helps the prof.
lleate priest to stIiie expansion, while the mcfci-
| less and all.poweriul landlord staryes and beats
the very desire for better things out oil HIS ais
plrlted serf We need not go 10 Asiato ma SUI
iering heather, we have five millions AT our very
door and what Is written IN black letters against
us-loud- DICED, self pTaiseTs that we ares that
we have lust taken eighteen millions iron tho
industry OF our own honest t0llers to supply thei
tyrants with more scourges and stronger chains
We knew when we were paying all these mill
ions TO the Mexican Generals that every dsllar
! would be expended 20 the hurt OF the oppressed
workngmen of Mexico, ye, we had the audacity
TO demand that all the world should sing peans
to our magnanlmlty. In this our hypocrisy was
yet more sUperla,Ive than our absurdity
But the time has come at last IN which the
| evil is becoming its own cautery. The rich ara
| alarmed at the anarchy and insecurity OF proper
ty the better class Of priests are startled at the
| frightiul indifference OF the masses 10 the rltes
of the church caused by then being sold a! pr,-
/ ces above the common reach the soldiers hn1
| themselves hated and Illpald, and there Is no
rehedy but IN a war where they Will become
necessary; the suffering people want something
! different from their present expressions, and all
demand change Wih all this there needs bat
leader: man of name and ability who will put
himself IN the field and promise them security.
trade and no soldiers. They are narrow and IN
/ complete IN their wishes, but SD far as they can
see there is a unanimous " al for revolution. A
nlmor a faith. an expectation that Arista Will be
driven from the capital by his and their old enc
mics peryages the air. No one can tell why he
Is so thoroughly confident that President Arista
! will cone across the mountains IN deadly ieu1
with the plunderlng faction that has It's nest IN
the city Of Mexico. and take the captanship oil
the new Republic this side OF the Sierra Madre,
&c, every body seems 10 wait for that event as II
II were the appointed signal tor decisive meas
ures. When you hear OF a revolution IN MexI-
co. YOU may prepare to celebrate the birth Of an
/ other nation and get ready your arguments
/ against another act Of annexation.
Coma MONTGOMERY.