Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-12-25
THE CONDITION OF MEXICO.

THE CONDITION OF MEXICO.
COL RAMSAY read an interesting paper before theAme
rcan Geographical and Statistical Society Of New York.
at its monthly meeting held Tuesday evening II was
announced that this essay would be devoted showing
the best route for opening interoceanic canal through
Mexico, but the greater part of it consisted Of descrp
ton of that country the and condition Of the
people, and the position of the Government. COL
RAMSAY said:
" If there is any State which the American public
knows little it is Mexico at the present moment Since
Mexico has been in the possession Of the Spanards there
any period in which it has been in more pros
porous condition than Its mineral wealth has been
developed to greater extent and agriculture is receiving
attention from which the agrcutursts of the United
States might receive lessons and the manufactures never
known to be so productive .or prosperous. The
quantity of machinery imported into Mexico now far
passes that Of any former time The entire country has
the appearance of prosperity In the city of Mexico
the public buildings and the palaces embeshed the
churches newly painted and adorned and the streets
newly paved. Large and plazas for driving are
opened and the famous bronze horse the greatest work
of art in America has been removed from within the old
University to the plazas to the distance OF mile in order
to adorn them.
There are fewer failures among mercantile men in
Mexico, viewed in the proportion with those in the
United States The whole bane Of Mexico is that there
is person. scarcely any person residing there who
has any love for the institutions Of his country The
Mexcans patriotic they love their country much
as the Americans love the United States but they have
love for their political institutions They care nothing
for their President their Congress- their Judiciary
any executive officers The whole complaint against the
President that have heard Of that he would do
nothing in other words, that he would not violate the
constitution for he is republican and will violate
the constitution.
All that Congress does thwart the President and
pass appropriation bills. Congress is split up into
factions, and party has the ascendency If good laws
passed in Mexico it would be in prosperous cond-
ton. Mexico produce revenue Of from thirty to
forty millions without expressing the people but having
love for their institutions and Congress doing nothing
the laws without any force and very oppressive
Hence the people, oppressed by some of these laws have
taken TO rid themselves of them by what called
pronunciamentos or revolutions.
will describe the different phases Of revolutions in
that country. First objection is made against the
laws for the introduction of foreign goods and hence
they get up speculation revolution the Rio Grande.
Merchants from the United States furnishing funds
and under hurra permitted get their goods into
the country without paying duties. The thing
the Pacific, at San Bias, for instance where
have received Of dreadful revolution These
revolutions last three four days. until the object is
gained and then they die out / see they have got
voution up at Tampico and Vera Cruz. Here they COM
plain that the President will send troops suppress
it and he said he would not because he had nothing to
do with it. Our impression that 1t was directed
against the President but that In the interior
Of the country there is another reason for only is
there tariff duty foreign goods but tariff between
each Of the States Goods manufactured in Pueba for
instance taken to another State pay interior duties
and against these interior duties they have raised
lutions esewhere but these only affairs Of the
ment and soon pass away
son two three occasions they have tried give
general character TO the revolutions plan has been
made for example, that Santa Anna should head it. but
ii is never carried out for the people say, that's not
what we have assembled here for. In Pueba they go
up revolution which lasted only for day. happened
TO be in the palace at that time in conversation with the
President less subject than agricultural machinery
Presently telegraphc despatch handed TO him de-
scribng this pronuncameno and he read it, and without
remark went with his talking agricultural ma
| chinery.
g" the English newspapers in speaking of the
rbe condition of Mexico say that there churches and
muskets prevail, but cannot what influence the
church at this time In Mexico In the FIRST place
the regular clergy that the four hundred millions of
dollars have christian love for each other for they
distracted, divided, and cannot in unity and the
priests Of the villages dislike the regular clergy,
because they poor and the regular clergy
rich and the church has nothing to gain by the
revolution. Now to the muskets. Gen. Arists has
reduced that large army to two thousand mem
quenty they have regular troops and cannot there
FORE effect any revolutions These revolutions that
read of in Mexico, / compare to nothing better
than you happened 20 into the interior Of the United
States and pick up weekly newspaper which is full Of
murders and accidents and steamboat explosions which
would give you idea Of revolution in the United
States.
:" And, in fact, the published from the United
States in Mexico is actually Of that character that the
Mexican people afraid to travel through the United
States for they think in terrible state here
When the revolution broke out in Vera Cruz conducta
with millions Of dollars in silver was going round IT,
and unmolested Within the last years no rob-
berries have been committed between Vera Cruz and
Mexico II is precisely the view which the English
take about bowie knives and gougng when they to
the city Of New York"