The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-02

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Affairs ef Mexico mother Crlsis--What Ii
60 be Done!
Our last adyccs from Mexico represent the affairs
of that country, internal and external, as in the
most wretched and deplorabe condition. Over
vhenned in foreign debts. with her scanty sources
of revenue destroyed harassed by her mportunate
British creditors utterly paralysedby famine, frontier
insure ctcns, Indian invasions bands Of robbers,
assassips and internal conspracies, and ground to
the dust by q swarming, lazy, demoralized, and
greedy prizes hood the only wonder is that President
Arista has been enabled long to maintain his
position, and the semblance Of regular and rcspon
sikle administration Were he anything else than
man Of courage, energy, discretion, and OF high
neral force Of character, he would have been dis
placed ere this by audacicus usurpation, or
driven to sustain his authority by open war. As it
| is, notwithstanding the unexampled chastsement
| administered by our own government, which it
thought would exert a salutary influence upon the
authorities, the aspiring demagogues, and the peo-
! pie OF Mexico, they appear to be doomed, govern
ment and people, swift and inevitable destruction
President Arsta, upon the adjournment Of Con-
grefs, appealed for grant Of extraordinary powers
during the vacation, in order to meet the extraord
1 nary exigencies which stare him in the face. But
/ they not conceded II is siuce reported that
he eontenplates the Napoeonc method of settling
his difficulties, aud of arresting anticipated conspi
racies by n coup dedf--an assumption of the neces-
sary powers to enable him to stide all traitorous
combinations against his government. It also up
pears d at the rumOr of this projected coup detdt
had created lively sensation in the Mexican CAPT.
tai end the next intelligence may possibly be the
irupton of some enterprisng gang of fiblsers into
| the city, the outbreak Of revolution in some
| one or several of the ncghboriug departments.
Secret organizations known to exist. having for
| their object the return Of Santa Anna to power
| and the insidious agents OF the British 10
| vernment are supposed to be in base collision with
these conspraei-s. This feature Of the opposition
to Aristas administration is Intimately blended with
certain enterprises of inter. oceanic communication
the republic of Mexico ~ all which our go
vernment and many of citizens are directly con-
cerned.
1t is well known that President. Arista is DESTROYS
OF promoting the most intimate relations of amity
| and commerce between the United States ana
hexico His travels and residence in this country
have doubtless rendered him desirous as far as pos
sibe, of proftng from the advancement in all the
useful arts. and the enterprise and energy of our
| people. Hepce we may account for his friendly
/ disposition towards citizens, in their severa,
projects for opening the various Mexican overland
| routes from ocean 10 ocean Ia this spirit, we
| doubt not the contract was entered into and con-
cirded with Simeon Draper, Ramsay, and others, Of
| New York, for the practical opening of tue stage
route from Vera Cruz, across by Pueba, 10 the
| Zacatula river, and thence down that river, by
| steam, to the Pacific The contract with Captain
Levy, foI the opening of the Alvarado route mostly
| by rlver navigation. may be traced to the same
enlightened mo ives Even in regard to the Tehuan-
tepee route, ard notwithstanding the revocation of
the Gsray grant, and the sVill more extra
| ordinary rejection Of the sioe grant. by the
same route, the good intentions of Arista
| hardly be impcac he'd He simply
reached il his policy by com bination Of hostile
elements il and outside of the Mexican Congress,
! prominent among wbck we may venture to array
the Mexican clergy and the secret emi4saries of tie
British governing MT, or of the British creditors oil
Mexico.
The hostility Of the Mexican clergy to the Garay
grant after It's transfer 10 the American company is
easy Of solution. The grant eomprehended tract
Of lend sixty miles wide from ocean to ocean, along
the Iehuantepec line, OF nearly two hundred miles,
through highly fertile district, for colonization.
The Mexican clergy could rot fail to discover tho
| dar gerous Influences 10 their supremacy WHICH
would De introduced with the planting Of a colony
| OF American settlers across the entire breadth of
Mexico in stripe of sixty miles wide The same
objection, though smaller scale, applied to the
Sloo grant, when At came M for reconsideration.
| The grant to Capt, Levy and the grant % M9ssrs.
| Draper Ramsay & Company, do not involve sny
OF land for colonization, and thus there
difficulty in confirming them.
Tie objections Of British ageDts--espeeially in .he
Tehuantepec matter-Lay be traced to the indebted
ness (St0,00o,Uo0 and upwsIas) of Mexico 20 tri-
tish subjects, and to The universal policy of the
British government. in sprropriating every available
point or channel OF commerce to itself True, II
! was the British house Of Mapning, Macintosh 4 Co
! hat transferred the Garay grant to Benjamin Il
! Co., OF New Orleans; but it is nc. the policy Of
England 10 sacrifice . great national object to
large individual speculation We therefore have
! to conclude that oil the difficulties iD the Tenlan-
tepec matter may be traced to ne hostility of the
Mexicsp clergy 20 ankee colonization, and to the
conflict Of British Interests and Btitlsn policy with
the policy and interests OF the citizens and govern
raent Of the United States. Tho sixty or eighty
millions due to British creditors must be paid some-
how. IL may &c paid or made OF. o. the Tehuante
pee route; but the far greater ooject-tne control
Of a commercial passage to the Pacifc-is the pre-
dominant consideration.
Now the question arises, how is this business to
terminate? Ii is manifest that Mexico IL dropping
10 pieces lhet independent government in that
Frustrated and exhausted country cannot much
longer exist-that the entire country must soon be
reduced 20 barDarism. and the occupation Of roboer
hoIdes intapitng different districts. and preyiog
upon Zach other, with the Indians preying upon them
all, else it must ie under the prote lion OF some
power capable vi working out It's complete redemp
ton. In short, the crisis s rapidly approaching III
Mexico when we sslll be called upon TO decide