The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-29
UNHAPPY MEXICO!

This distracted country, from the accounts
brought by tie schooner Lucy Ann, (which
arrived at New York on the 26th, having left
Tampico on the Sd inst.,l seems to be on the
verge of another revolution. 1t was expected
to commence at that town, the moving causes
being the non-payment of the government
troops, and the inequality of the port regula-
tons, the tariff established by the government
being fifty per cent. higher at Tampico than at
Matamoros. Though the former is one of the
best places for trade on the whole Mexican
coast, yet when the Lucy Anu left, there was
not vessel in the harbor, and SO hardly had
the regulations bsrne upon mercantile inteii
ests, that none were expected. Capt Smell, Of
the Lucy Ann, was informed by Mr.. Chase,
the nation were in desperate condition, that
the people were in state of continual agita-
ton, and that there seemed to be 10 hope of
amendment.
When resolution was introduced into the
House of Representatives many years ago by
Mr.. Clay, acknowledging the independence of
the Spanish South American Colonies, John
Randolph, who opposed it, declared that he
would as soon undertake to build a seventy
four out of pine saplings, as to make republi-
cans out of Spaniards. Time has showed that
he did not over-estimate the difficulty of
such an undertaking. The South American
States and Mexico, have long been separated
from Spain. fit were possible for their peo-
pie to learn the art of self.government with our
example before their eyes, they must neeessa-
rily have learned it long ago. But they seem
to have no idea whatever of rational liberty,
nor TO be capable of acquiring it. Wars,
bloody, interminable wars-wars ofextermina-
ton, in which the captive is murdered without
pity and without remorse-in which the aged
| and the infant, the women as well as the men,
are considered fair subjects for the bayonet Of
the soldier-have from that time to this, con-
tinaed to desolate the country which they in
habit-the fairest and loveliest portion of Gods
beautiful world. 1t has been said, that no ne-
tional crime, any more than crime perpetra-
| ted by an Individual, ever went UNPUBLISHED,
and that the day of retribution, though late,
never fails to come at last. The religious, or
even the superstitious man, (who is a very diff
ferentsort of being.) may see in the eternal ha-
tired existing, in these countries, between
brethren of the same race, a just punishment
for the monstrous atrocities committed by.
Cortez and Pizarro, and those WHO served I'M
der their banners, upon the unofending ma
tives, who were disposed not only to receive
them as friends, but to worship them as Gods,
and who received torture and death in return
for their supplemented kindness. The blood
of Guatimozen and the lncas, has long cried
TO Heaven from the grave, and Heaven seems,
at last, to have answered their prayer.
1t is impossible that a government, which
cannot protect either itself or its citizens, and
under whose auspices the people are exterlni-
mating each other, from year to year, like wild
Indians, can endure for very long time. 1t
must succumb, and the consequence must be
that its powerful neighbors will take under
their protection those whom If has been una
BILE to protect. We wish for no more terrific.
ry. We have enough, and to spare. Besides,
we dread the revival ofthe slavery question:
Yet. be the consequences what they may, we
feel convinced that few generations shall have
passed away, before we shall become owners
of all the country from the St. Lawrence to
New Grenada.