New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-01

Republic. For many hopes and ambitions were
founded on its ACKNOWLEDGMENT, too many hands
were extended 10 clutch the spoils, TO sit down
TRANQUILITY without any plumber Mexico will soon
be a seething caldron- she is now hopeless
bankrupt. The soldiers who devour the life oil
the country under pretense Of protecting it, have
but an empty treasury, and the money for their
immediate use and enrichment, must be robbed
from the church and charitable Institutions Like
Comes Fariss, Arista and his friends are opposed
TO the Union Of Church aRd State-this is the
right side of their creed-and want 10 despou
the church-wbich is the wrong side. They are
more than ready 10 repenish their exhausted
finances by seiZing the property OF the religious
Institutions, but they are not careful TO provide
for the hospitals and charitable asylums' founded
and supported by what is indiscriminately called
church property.
We must be excused in the United States for
not understanding this distinction between pro
perty consecrated by the church to the support OF
asylums for orphans, for the sick, the blind. aud
the lunatic and that for the priests since the Mex
leans and their Legislators do not, aud pluoder
them all alike with the same impartiallty. The
church interests, however, like the politics OF Fa
ras end Arista, have their lights and shadows
While on the one side there IS a crowd Of idle,
useless ignorant conventuals, drawing away the
income Of lands that would support in thrift and
intelligence hundreds Of valuable communities,
there ere still larger incomes devote TO the poor
hapless ones. whom IL is the unsearchable plea
sure of our Divine Father TO delegate to the care
of their favored brethren. Whenever the Par0S,
or Anti Church Psrty want n raise money they
snatch ct both classes of church property with Al
iDdiscrmnatiDg hand. Thus it is that the church,
appealing at once to the justice, the self interest,
the charity and the superstition of the masses,
for the protection Of that which sustalns their al
tars. asy lums, and religious pagoauts, never APP
peals in vain. The people see that the democra-
e. ". - hat
their charitable institutions, and the daily service
Of the altar are no more spared than the indoent
and uselessfriars.
When Arista's party drives him to make war
on the Church, the Church will recall Santa Anna,
or raise the banner for Almonte,-the able and
popular Representative OF the Mexlcaa race aud
then Arista will be driven from the Capital. His
strensth does not lay in the center aud south OF
the Republic There the Church is rich aud strong
and her numerous and excellent charities stand
in living sppeal % the people, and the people will
pronounce a. snst the plunderers Of their cherish
ed Institutions AT the North, Arsta will not feel
the opposition OF the Church, for it Is feeble aud
IMPOVERISHED, and has nothing to lose or to fear
Neither have the Priests Of these remote Provn
ces much sympathy for the ecclesiastical aris
tocracy of the cold far ofcapltal.
If therefore Arista is driven by the poverty OF
mismanaged and bankrupt Mexico, 70 press hard
upon the Church. either he will drive the South
ern States into secession irom or they wa dr'Ve
him from the City of Mexico. Ii the hrst takes
place there may be patching up of the broker
crockery, but if Arista retires from the CAPITA
Northward, it will be to erect the ripe aud i'm
patient States ofthe Sierra Madre into permanent
ndependent Government. So far from thlukins
the election Of Arlsta having averted the disrup
ton Of Mexico, believe 1851 will not die of ole
age before we learn that it has given to the Sc
cessionists the powerto make the execution o.
their long planned independence prompt eHtca
cious and permanent. CORA MONTGOMERY