The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-10-16

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n EVOLUTION IN NORTHERN MEXICO.
M the revolt in the Northern States of Mex
-, now in progress, the RIO Brdpo, published
-, Brownsville, Texas has the following notice :
The Connexions in Merieo-It will be seen
3, onr columns to day, that the States of Mex
"a bordering on our frontier are deeply agi-
.,,J bv popuar commissions. The citizens of
Guerrero on the Sd of September, and those in
~, vicinity of Camargo on the 10th, issued
.,,nc;amentos, or declarations, which our
F1odors can examine for themselves. In sub
trance both declarations agree upon the sub
;octs Of complaint, and the method of redress
;ng the evils set forth From the general SINH
Iartv of tone and expression, we presume the
norties acted, to certain extent at least, IN
Concert There have been symptoms for some
months past in all parts of Mexico, of these
movements There is scarcely State of that
Renublic in which open manifestations have
NOT been exhibited of dissatisfaction with the
Federal Government, and of FESTIVE uneasy
spirit of submission to its authority. Popular
discomfort has been everywhere manifest and
all that was needed to give vent to the confined
. flames was bold, resolute leader. to strike the
first blow
"Arista had been deserted by his feeble Cabi-
net-his treasury is empty-his scheme of sum-
moning the Governors Of the respective States
is dsgraceful failure-poverty, wretchedness
clamOrous necessity, stare him in the face on all
sides. and what can he do? He has neither
armies, money nor patriotic feeling on which
to RELY He is, politically speaking, as power.
less as an infant. On the part of the reform.
ers or revolutionists, there is zeal keen sense
of wrong and confident hopes of success
AGAINST the imbecie attacks of the Federal
Government. The chief leader, thus far, is
Colonel Carvaial, an active, enterprising and
efficient partisan captain. He knows the tenn.
ner of the people on this frontier, lac is a good
ENGLISH scholar and is well informed on the
general principles of our Government He il
admirably suited to ferret out and expose the
/ abuses and iniquities of the Mexican Govern
ment ana 90 ard in devising plans for the pre-
.,Ss4ss ~, s,r such Outrages, -
~SA WE learn mat ns mas S,me iuur or nvrs nm
dred determined men, well armed, under his
command. who are ready for any emergency
that may arise 1t will be perceived, from an
examination of the declarations published in
our columns to-day, that the causes which have
led to these movements may be reduced to three
classes TO wit:
l. The utter failure of the Federal Govern
ment to protect the Northern Mexican States
from Indian depredations.
2 The unjust, unequal system of prohibitOry
duties, which operates most destructivey on the
interests of the people of this frontier.
g. The despotic power exercised by the Fed
eral Government over the rights and represent
alton of the several States"
How much Americans have had to do with
! these revolutionary movements, is not yet ascer
tanned In an account published at New Or
4 leans, dated September %, is the following par
agraph:
4 The reyOlutionists are commanded by Gen
CarvajaL wh0 has also pith him tirO c0mpdnie
Of Teams"
An eyewitness Of the attack on CamargC
thus states the details in letter to the RIO
BaD:
The whole force under Colonel Carvajal
was three companies, amounting to three OF
four hundred men, if am rightly informed
One company from Guerrero under command
l of Don Jose Maria Canales, was placed in
front; The second mpany almost all Amerieans
uas placed in the centre, under command o.
Capt Trerphle and the third company, from
Camargo, under the command of Don Tomas
Cabazos. They were led to the main plaza by
Col Carvaal in spite of the cannon and every
other mode of defence which the Mexican
troops could adopt The houses on the plazs
which could afford them any protection wer'
soon taken, and every Mexican soldier whc
dared to make his appearance above the house
tops was Immediately shot by the Teran RITES
The Washington Union says:
Another statement made to the Picdyln
by passenger direct from Brownsville is tina
about tlDo hundred Americans under Captain
Irembte and Lecis haze joined the patriots.
The same number Of the Picayune has also the
following, referring to another movement
"'CdhfornianS IN SOnord.-The Monitor Re
publicdno of the 29th ult. contains an officia
note from the military commandment Of Toozan
in Sonora, to the Governor of that State, giving
information of forty-efght armed americans
beng in The neighborhood They say that they
came to get permission from the Executive tC
work the gold mines of Sonora The COM
mandant however, is persuaded that they are
the advanced guard of some sir hundred others
1rho are about 10 inuade that StateW
1t is well understood that on our Southwestern
frontier there have been, since the Mexican
war, bands Of adventures, ready at all times
for fight The People of Texas bordering on
the Mexican provinces have also been bitterly
complaining of the escape of their slaves across
the Rio Grande, and the impossibility Of re-
capturing them, threatening to redress them
selves by force. Add to this the fixed determi-
nation of the Slavery Extensionists to acquire
new territory, which, the Cuban scheme hay.
ing failed for the present. can find field
only in the neghboring States of Mexico, which
all lie below SO degrees 30 minutes, and ar,
adapted, for the most part TO slave labor; ant
we shall be prepared not only to believe tina
Texans have had great deal to do with th
revolt, but to understand the motives that hay,
actuated them
The following paragraph from the Iateii
gencer would convey different impression, bu
we must be permitted to doubt its CORRECTNESS
till the evidence on which it rests shall hav,
been produced
The first accounts Of the instruction tina,
has broken out in the Mexican States on ON,
border led us TO the belief that many American
citizens had taken an active part in it anc
even that bodies Of men were organizing within
our limits for that purpose Under these cir
cumstaaces, rs we learn, it was deemed pru
dent to direct our military commanders ON tina
frontier to exert themselves to prevent any in
yasion by our citizens Of the soil Of friendly
Republic But, from more recent intelligence
1t would seem that this precaution, however
proper, was unnecessary a. it appears tina
very few American citizens took part in tn,
nSurrection, and that it was planned and con
duptaI aI,noSt H., A..